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Founder and Editor-in-Chief:
Michelle Kasprzak is a Canadian curator and writer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is also a Curator at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Project Director at McLuhan in Europe 2011, and a member of IKT, the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art.
Michelle has exhibited and lectured across North America and Europe. She has appeared in publications such as Wired UK and on radio and television broadcasts on the BBC and CBC. Most recently she has delivered lectures at PICNIC (Amsterdam), transmediale festival (Berlin), and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh).
In 2006, she was awarded a curatorial research residency at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, and in 2010 she attended the Summer Seminars for Art Curators in Yerevan, Armenia. She has written critical essays for CV Photo, Public, Mute, Blackflash, Spacing, and several online journals on a wide range of subjects in the realm of contemporary culture. Her writing has appeared in anthologies and exhibition catalogues in both Canada and Europe.
The results of her freelance curatorial work have appeared in venues worldwide, most recently as a series of six new commissions across Toronto as part of In-Site Toronto; Canada House (London, UK); Federation Square (Melbourne, Australia); and the Virtual Museums of Canada/Gallery TPW (Toronto, Canada). She is currently co-curating an exhibition with Karen Gaskill for June-September 2011 at Cornerhouse (Manchester, UK).
Editorial Team:
Katerina Gkoutziouli is an emerging Greek curator and writer living and working in Athens, Greece. She holds an MA in Visual Culture from the University of Westminster, London (2009) and a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Athens (2007). Her research focus has been on art collectives and artistic interventions in public, media and networked space. She has co-curated exhibitions in Athens and has contributed as a writer to art projects and publications.
Mikhel Proulx is an itinerant cultural producer working with art, performance and historical fiction. His artworks, texts and curated projects have been shown in Canada, the UK and Central and Northern Europe. He holds a BFA in drawing from the Alberta College of Art & Design, and is currently in the graduate programme of Concordia University's Art History department.
April Steele is an emerging independent curator and writer based in Toronto, Canada. She recently graduated from the University of Toronto's masters program in art history where her research focused on applications of the sublime in contemporary painting and photography. During her undergraduate studies, April studied abroad in Florence, Italy, and also interned at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Recently curated exhibitions include Liminal Place at Artspace, Peterborough; Maidens, Spindles, and Mothers-of-all at Forest City Gallery, London; and The Luminous Body at the Art Gallery of Peterborough.
Past members of the editorial team: Sophie Williamson
Disclaimer: All opinions expressed on this site are the personal views of the credited authors - which means they have no relation to the views, policies, or practices of the current or past employers and collaborators of those authors.
Photo of Michelle Kasprzak by Beth Darbyshire. Photo of Mikhel Proulx by Adam Kaplan.
Images on this site: Images used on this site are either taken by a member of the Curating.info team or have been sourced as Creative Commons images. Image credits: ajari, Dawn Endico, yomi955, moriza, Yusuke Kawasaki, anaulin, ***claire***, Irish Typepad, aloshbennett, terren in Virginia, Rachie Lea, Jonathanb1989, EssjayNZ, tinkernoonoo, silkegb, Kaela4, nattynattyboom.
Posted by Michelle Kasprzak • 2012-01-11
Founder and Editor-in-Chief:
Michelle Kasprzak is a Canadian curator and writer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is also a Curator at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Project Director at McLuhan in Europe 2011, and a member of IKT, the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art.Michelle has exhibited and lectured across North America and Europe. She has appeared in publications such as Wired UK and on radio and television broadcasts on the BBC and CBC. Most recently she has delivered lectures at PICNIC (Amsterdam), transmediale festival (Berlin), and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh).
In 2006, she was awarded a curatorial research residency at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, and in 2010 she attended the Summer Seminars for Art Curators in Yerevan, Armenia. She has written critical essays for CV Photo, Public, Mute, Blackflash, Spacing, and several online journals on a wide range of subjects in the realm of contemporary culture. Her writing has appeared in anthologies and exhibition catalogues in both Canada and Europe.
The results of her freelance curatorial work have appeared in venues worldwide, most recently as a series of six new commissions across Toronto as part of In-Site Toronto; Canada House (London, UK); Federation Square (Melbourne, Australia); and the Virtual Museums of Canada/Gallery TPW (Toronto, Canada). She is currently co-curating an exhibition with Karen Gaskill for June-September 2011 at Cornerhouse (Manchester, UK).
Editorial Team:
Katerina Gkoutziouli is an emerging Greek curator and writer living and working in Athens, Greece. She holds an MA in Visual Culture from the University of Westminster, London (2009) and a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Athens (2007). Her research focus has been on art collectives and artistic interventions in public, media and networked space. She has co-curated exhibitions in Athens and has contributed as a writer to art projects and publications. Mikhel Proulx is an itinerant cultural producer working with art, performance and historical fiction. His artworks, texts and curated projects have been shown in Canada, the UK and Central and Northern Europe. He holds a BFA in drawing from the Alberta College of Art & Design, and is currently in the graduate programme of Concordia University's Art History department.April Steele is an emerging independent curator and writer based in Toronto, Canada. She recently graduated from the University of Toronto's masters program in art history where her research focused on applications of the sublime in contemporary painting and photography. During her undergraduate studies, April studied abroad in Florence, Italy, and also interned at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Recently curated exhibitions include Liminal Place at Artspace, Peterborough; Maidens, Spindles, and Mothers-of-all at Forest City Gallery, London; and The Luminous Body at the Art Gallery of Peterborough.Past members of the editorial team: Sophie Williamson
Disclaimer: All opinions expressed on this site are the personal views of the credited authors - which means they have no relation to the views, policies, or practices of the current or past employers and collaborators of those authors.
Photo of Michelle Kasprzak by Beth Darbyshire. Photo of Mikhel Proulx by Adam Kaplan.
Images on this site: Images used on this site are either taken by a member of the Curating.info team or have been sourced as Creative Commons images. Image credits: ajari, Dawn Endico, yomi955, moriza, Yusuke Kawasaki, anaulin, ***claire***, Irish Typepad, aloshbennett, terren in Virginia, Rachie Lea, Jonathanb1989, EssjayNZ, tinkernoonoo, silkegb, Kaela4, nattynattyboom.
