Donna Szoke

Assistant Professor and Visiting Artist

Office: GLN 278

Telephone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 4116

E-mail:donna.szoke@gmail.com 

Donna Szoke is a Canadian artist whose practice includes video, animation, writing, installation, sculpture and experimental collaboration. Her video and installation exhibits internationally, and her writing has been published in experimental forms, including a billboard. She holds a BA in Theatre and Writing, a BFA in Visual Art and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art. She was awarded a City of Vancouver Public Art Commission for 2011, and a BC Arts Council Grant in Media Art for 2009/2010. 

www.donnaszoke.com

Research:

PUBLIC ART:
Canoe CBC Georgia Street, Site-specific outdoor video installation, City of Vancouver Public Art Program “Platforms” Commission, July 12 – October 2, 2011
Off-site Site-specific HD video installation, St. Catharines On, March 28 – April 2, 2011
Transmedia 29:59 (media art in public urban space) Site-specific video installation, Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto, Jan 1-31, 2006

COLLABORATION:
Paradis / Paradise. Commission and collaboration: video projection for dance and live noise music, Alvin Erasga Tolentino (Choreographer/Dancer) Emanuel St. Aubin (Noise Composer) Premiere Vancouver International Dance Festival March 25, 2008, France tour May 2008, Canada tour 2009
The Road to Kashgar Live media environment for concert performance, (with The Orchid Ensemble) (Canada Council Media Arts Commission) Sept., 16, 2005, Roundhouse, Vancouver
and all watched over by machines of loving grace, site-specific, responsive installation created via Max/MSP+Jitter with Ricarda McDonald. SWARM (Art Festival), Vancouver, BC, Sept 9, 2004

RESIDENCIES:
Blérancourt Residency, (Paradis Collaboration) Open studio process residency with a performance and discussion, Blérancourt, France. Jan 26 to Feb 2, 2008
Hungarian Multicultural Centre, Artists Residency, Csopak, Hungary, June 18–July 11, 2007
Sound & Vision Residency: Banff Centre for the Arts, May 23 – July 1, 2005

PUBLIC LECTURE:
From Aniconism to Bliss: Media Art Shows its Islamic Roots, March 19, 2010, Niagara Artist-Run Centre, St. Catharines ON

EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS – SOLO:
Donna Szoke CRAM Gallery, St. Catharines ON, March 30 – April 27, 2012
Donna Szoke Factory Media Art, Hamilton ON, Feb 2 – March 3, 2012
The subtitle series. Brock Centre for the Arts, Brock University, Jan 7 – Jan 29, 2009
The Road to Kashgar, (c-prints), Roundhouse, Vancouver, Sept. 10 – 24, 2005
buried treasure: media residency, Alternator, Kelowna BC, October 1 -24, 2004
galatea loop, Galerie Du Nouvelle Ontario, Sudbury, ON. Feb 27 - April 5, 2003
galatea loop, Capilano College Library, North Vancouver, 2002

EXHIBITIONS - TWO PERSON:
Richmond Art Gallery, (with Ricarda McDonald) Jan. 18 – Feb 28, 2008
Maple Ridge Art Gallery, fleshy, (with Terri Foster) June 23 - July 18, 2002
Alternator Gallery, Kelowna BC, flesh, (with Ben Neilsen) April 27 - May 31, 2001

EXHIBITIONS – SELECT GROUP SHOWS:
Medium_Massage 2.0, Curated by Year01, Toronto, September 2011
Small Feats, Niagara Artist Run Centre, St. Catharines ON, April 2, 2011
Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2008
Show + Tell, Gallery 1C03, U of Winnipeg, Sept. 7 – Nov 2, 2007
Congress Centre, Balatonfured, Hungary, August 7 – September 7, 2007
Connexus, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Jan 19 – March 25, 2007

VIDEOGRAPHY – SELECT SINGLE CHANNEL:
Mary. 7 min, 2007.
PNN, 6 min, 2006, with Maki Yi.
Cascadia, 3 min, 2006, with Chris Grigor.
the bell , 2 min 45 sec, 2005.
the album, 4 min 30 sec, 2005.
cat + mouse, 3 min 20 sec, 2005.
like, 4 min, 30 sec, 2005 with Isabelle Noël.
bad person, 1 min, 45 sec, 2005, with Ben Mikuska.
buried treasure, 4 min, 30 sec, 2004.
How To Make Love in an Earthquake, 6 min, 2001.
a smell... video poem, 4 min, 2000.

VIDEO/FILM EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS:
Kurye International Video Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2-12, 2009
See The Voice: Visible Verse @ Pacific Cinémathèque Van. 2006, Nov 6, 2008
Screening Night at the Helen Pitt Gallery Artist-Run Centre, Oct. 24, 2008
Vancouver Feminists: Chainletter DVD Release, Pacific Cinémathèque, Oct.20, 2008
Video Art Festival, Harvestworks Digital Media Centre, Soho, New York, September 24 – 26, 2008
Montreal Underground Film Festival, May 15 – 17, 2008
Doxa, (Documentary Festival) Vancouver, May 27 – June 1, 2008
The Lotus Eaters: New Vancouver Video, Western Front Van., Oct 25, 2007
See The Voice: Visible Verse @ Pacific Cinémathèque Van. 2006, Nov 16, 2006
Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, Toronto, Nov 9 – 18, 2006
Antimatter: Underground Film Festival, Victoria BC, Sept 22 – 30, 2006
herland Film + Video Festival, Calgary, Alberta, May 1 – 7, 2006
hi / lo Film Festival, San Francisco and Oakland, USA, April 6 – 9, 2006
Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival, France, (Can. Council Program) Jan 30 2006
Tall Grass Film Festival, Wichita KS, October 22, 2005
Vancouver International Film Festival, Sept. 29 to Oct. 14, 2005
Regina Festival of Cinematic Arts, Sept. 16 – 18, 2005
Signal & Noise, Vancouver, March 27 - 30, 2003
roARaToria (Recontres Internationales # 5, Paris & Berlin) Spring 2002
signal and noise: festival of video and sound, Video In, March 21-24, 2002
Vancouver Videopoem Festival, Pacific Cinémathèque, Nov. 11, 2001
“In Video Out", Pacific Cinémathèque, Van, Sep 24, 2001
roARaToria (Recontres Internationales Berlin # 4) June 6, 2001
"Revers mondains et amities urbaines", Strasbourg, France, April 5, 2001
roARaToria (Recontres Internationales Paris # 4) March 14-15, 2001
Image du Nouveau Monde, Quebec City, March 11, 2001
Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival, Feb 2-11, 2001
Electro-Lit Video poem Festival, Pacific Cinémathèque, Nov. 4, 2000

RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS:
Brock University, Humanities Research Institute, Research Award, (SSHRC 4A), 2011
City of Vancouver Public Art Program, Platforms Video Commission 2011
Brock U, ORS Fed. Indirect Funds Grant (with D MacDonald) 2011
Brock U, Experience Works, Research Assistant Wage Subsidy, 2011
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance, Site-specific Video Installation, Fall 2010
B.C. Arts Council Production Grant (Video), Fall 2009
Brock U, ORS Fed. Indirect Funds Lab Upgrade Grant (with J Bridge & D MacDonald) 2009
SFU, MFA Candidate Project Grant, Spring 2007
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (MFA Research), 2006
B.C. Arts Council, Scholarship, Fall 2006
Canada Council Travel Grant (Media Arts), June 2006
Canada Council Travel Grant (Media Arts), May 2006
SFU, MFA Candidate Travel Grant, Spring 2006
SFU, MFA Candidate Project Grant, Spring 2006
B.C. Arts Council, Scholarship, Fall 2005
SFU, MFA Fellowship, Fall 2005
The Banff Centre for the Arts, Scholarship, Summer 2005
Canada Council, Media Arts Commission for Orchid Ensemble, 2004