Subtle Technologies: Symposium

Presenters for 2004:

Stephanie Andrews

Christopher Bailey

Joanna Berzowska

Shushil Bhakar
and Eric Hortop

Cliff Burgess

Paulo Chagas

Dennis Dollens

Dan Falk

Sarah Filley

Ivette Fuentes-Guridi

Lila Kari

Narendra Pachkhede

Chris Salter

Chelsea Smock

Clara Ursitti

Derek van der Kooy

Yon Visell

Fabian Winkler

Panel Discussion

Symposium, 2004

Panel Discussion: Art/Science Funding Opportunities
Moderator: Nichola Feldman-Kiss

Moderator Nichola Feldman-Kiss will present a brief overview of the federal ecosystem of funds to researchers and practioners of art / science. Following, the panel will discuss the similarities and differences in the art / science funding mechanism, and look for ways artists and scientists can collaborate to secure research and creation funds.

Biography:

Nichola Feldman-Kiss is an Ottawa based artist working with performance databases, imaging technologies and tangible media. Her research about human subjectivity examines the relationships between skin, garments and technologies of the body. She is also an independent new media policy consultant and former officer for new media and audio at the Canada Council for the Arts. In this position she developed the program guidelines for the New Media Initiative, a collaborative program with the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council. She organised and chaired the Canada Council National Round Table on New Media Art Research and co-authored the summit's summary recommendations. Nichola designed the Canada Art Grid, a proposal for a network organisation serving the new media art research community. In collaboration with the Virtual Museum of Canada, Creative Disturbance, and Critical Media, Nichola initiated the Canada Digital Culture Map, a database of national and international resources available to the digital arts community. From 2000-02, Nichola was a guest worker with the National Research Council's Institute for Information Technology. There she produced /project molly/, an interactive net.art performance of real-time social interactions streamed live using a wireless wearable computer, and began /mean body/, an ongoing series of body shape studies applying advanced 3D image acquisition, processing and output tools. Nichola earned her MFA in photography and critical studies from the California Institute for the Arts (Cal Arts) in 1996.