Animation Certificate Launch with Frances Leeming

Animation Certificate Launch with Frances Leeming

Media artist Frances Leeming’s performance, film and installation projects explore the relationships between gender, technology and consumerism. Her work has been presented across Canada, Québec, the U.S., Britain, Poland and Italy. Her feminist satire animations The Orientation Express (1987) and Genetic Admiration (2005) have been widely seen via the Festival of Festivals, Toronto; Festival de Cine y Video Joven Cubano, National Gallery of Cuba, Havana; the National Gallery of Canada; the Women’s Television Network; PBS, Channel Four (UK); and SBS (Australia). Genetic Admiration was awarded The Grand Prize for Best Canadian Media Work, Images Festival, 2005 and was featured in Jackie Stacey’s The Cinematic Life of The Gene, (Duke University Press,2010). Leeming’s animated installation works include Endeavour,2010 commissioned by the Media Gallery, Concordia University. and the double channel video installation “We Did Everything Adults Would Do, What Went Wrong?”( with Johanna Householder), A Space, Toronto, 2015.   Frances has taught in the Communication Studies Department at Concordia University, Montreal and in the Department of Film and Media, Queen’s University, Kingston (2000-2020). Frances continues to research media and gender issues in her practice.

Artist Talk and Presentation of her work. Event will take place in 222 at 1:00-230.