Research interests

4414 hotel de ville, Montreal QC

cell: 514.827.9756

dayna.mcleod@concordia.ca
RESEARCH INTERESTS

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  Performance art: artists and practices
  
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  Aging in relationship to the female body
  
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  Film and media studies: representations of female sexuality, feminism, artists, and queer bodies
  
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  Feminist and queer theory
  
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  Remix/mashup and Retrospectatorship
  

2012-present: Ph.D. in Humanities, The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montréal

MFA in Open Media, Concordia University, Montréal

Diploma in Sculpture, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary

2014 Le Prix Powerhouse, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, QC

2013 Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC)

2012 Concordia University Graduate Fellowship, Concordia University, Montreal, QC

2010 Audience Prize, “Teabagging and Other Beauty Secrets,” Reel Pride Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB

2010 Audience Winner, Best Short Film, "Ultimate SUB Ultimate DOM,” Reelout Queer Film Festival, Kingston, Ontario

2007 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Artistic Research and Creation

2006 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Travel Grant

2005 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Travel Grant

2004 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Artistic Research and Creation

2003 Canada Council Travel Grant

2002 Canada Council Travel Grant

Research affiliation: “Proof in Process: An iterative approach to experimental film and video in the age of transmedia.” Principal Investigators: Matt Soar (Concordia U), Monika Kin Gagnon (Concordia U). Infrastructure support: SSHRC Research/Creation in the Fine Arts Grant.

Collaborator: “Feeling Speculative in Digital Space: Building a Feminist and Queer Cabaret Commons.” Collaborators: Jasmine Rault (McMaster U), T.L. (Theresa) Cowan (U of Saskatchewan), Susan Brown (U of Alberta). Pilot Project for the Canadian Writers’ Research Collaboratory (CWRC). Infrastructure support: SSHRC Insight Development Grant.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2014, Fall: Part-time Professor, COMS 368 Media and Gender, Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, Montréal, QC

2014, Fall: Part-time Professor, COMS 355 Media and New Technology, Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, Montréal, QC

2014, Fall: 6-week replacement Part-time Professor, Vanier College, Visual Comminications [520-926-VA] Communications: Arts, Media and Theatre/Modern Languages

2013, Fall: Part-time Professor, Vanier College, Thematic Studies in the History of Art [520-903-VA]; Introduction to Film [530-902-VA] Communications: Arts, Media and Theatre/Modern Languages

2013, Spring Intercession: Part-time Professor, Vanier College, Introduction to Film [530-902-VA] Communications: Arts, Media and Theatre/Modern Languages, Montréal, QC

2013, Winter: Part-time Professor, COMS 570 Media Production: Intermedia, Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, Montréal, QC

2012, Fall: Part-time Professor, Vanier College, Thematic Studies in the History of Art [520-903-VA]; Introduction to Film [530-902-VA] Communications: Arts, Media and Theatre/Modern Languages

2012, Summer: Part-time Professor, Vanier College, Introduction to Film [530-902-VA] Communications: Arts, Media and Theatre/Modern Languages

2012, Winter: Part-time Professor, COMS 355 Media and New Technology, Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, Montréal, QC

2012, Winter: Part-time Professor, COMS 570 Media Production: Intermedia, Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, Montréal, QC

2012, Winter: Part-time Professor, Vanier College, Introduction to Film [530-902-VA, 2 sections] Communications: Arts, Media and Theatre/Modern Languages

2011, Fall: 6-week replacement Part-time Professor, Vanier College, Thematic Studies in the History of Art [520-903-VA]; Understanding Film Language [530-930-VA, 2 sections] Communications: Arts, Media and Theatre/Modern Languages

2011, Winter: Part-time Professor, COMS 421 Communicative Performances and Interventions, Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, Montréal, QC

2011, Winter: Part-time Professor, Digital Media I [530-DM1-AB], Creative Arts Department, The Creative Arts, Literature and Languages Program (C.A.L.L.), John Abbott College, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC

2010, Fall: Part-time Professor, Media Studies A [530- DM1-AB, 2 sections], Creative Arts Department, The Creative Arts, Literature and Languages Program (C.A.L.L.), John Abbott College, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC

2009, Fall: Part-time Professor, Digital Media I [530-DM1-AB], Creative Arts Department, The Creative Arts, Literature and Languages Program (C.A.L.L.), John Abbott College, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC

2008, Fall: Part-time Professor, COMS 570 Media Production: Intermedia, Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, Montréal, QC

2010-2012 Board Member: La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, QC

RELEVANT TRAINING

2012 16mm film hand processing and camera with Philip Hoffman at the Independent Imaging Retreat “Film Farm,” Mount Forest, ON

2008 Korsakow System Workshop with Korsakow developer and designer Florian Thalhofer, CINERG Concordia University, Montréal, QC

2007 After Effects & Flash Workshop with Tom Green, FITC, Toronto, ON

2005 Get Creative Flash Workshop with Joshua Davis, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON

2005 The Art of Directing with Patricia Rozema and Bruce McDonald, Summer Institute of Film and Television, Ottawa, ON

Society For Cinema and Media Studies

Performance Studies international

Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes

Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

2014 Co-authored with T.L. Cowan and Jasmine Rault: "Speculative praxis towards a queer feminist digital archive: A collaborative research-creation project." Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.5., 2014. <http://adanewmedia.org/2014/07/issue5-cowanetal/>

2014 “Reflections on Performing Cougar,” NOMOREPOTLUCKS, “Perform,” no. 32, Jan-Feb 2014 <http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/reflections-on-performing-cougar-dayna-mcleod/>

2012 “The Hierarchy of Photographic Truth and Dalpé’s Digital Double,” Pierre Dalpé: Personae, ed. Robert Hébert (Quebec: Les Editions Cayenne, 2012)

2011 "J.J. Levine: Queering the Heteronormative Matrix," CV Photo Magazine, Vol. 88, Summer 2011

2010 “Open Source Communities of the North, Unite,” NOMOREPOTLUCKS, “Rural,” no. 11, Sept-Oct 2010

2010 “Erika Kierulf: The Perfect Moment Collector,” NOMOREPOTLUCKS, “Mea Culpa,” no. 10, July-Aug 2010

2010 “Natural Artifice: Elinor Whidden and 12 Point Buck,” exhibition essay, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON, Jan 2010

2010 “Ally Picard and the Emotional Relay,” NOMOREPOTLUCKS, “Wound,” no. 7, Jan-Feb 2010

2007 "Straight Queerness and Alternative Models for Manhood: Paul Litherland, Absolutely Fabulous," CV Photo Magazine, "Mutations,” Vol. 75, Spring 2007

2005 “Pierre Tremblay: Portraits in a Sentence,” exhibition essay, Galerie Observatoire 4, Montréal, QC, Nov. 2005

2005 “Pierre Dalpé: Personae,” exhibition essay, Galerie Observatoire 4, Montréal, QC, May, 2005

2004 “Stretching Identity to Fit: the Many Faces of Photographer Nikki Lee,” CV ciel variable, “Persona ,” Vol. 63, Spring 2004

2002 “Tattooed innocence with post-punk appeal,” CV ciel variable, “Corps/Bodies,” Vol. 58, Summer 2002

2015 Conference Workshop Panelist: “The Unexpected and the Possible: Methods in Creating Feminist and Queer Archives,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, QC

2014 Conference Panelist: “Intimate Processes: Making Work as Feminist and Queer Collaborative Praxis,” Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes (WGSRF), Brock University, St. Catharines, ON

2014 Conference Panelist (authored with T. L. Cowan and Jasmine Rault): “The Labour of Being Studied 2.0: Collaborative Research, Digital Archives & Queer Cultural Economies,” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Association (ACCUTE), Brock University, St. Catharines, ON

2014 Conference Panelist: “Cabaret as Translocal Praxis: A Long Table,”Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON

2014 Conference Panelist: "Art as Flesh," Carleton/Ottawa Graduate Colloquium, “Under My Skin: The Politics of Flesh,” University of Ottawa, ON

2014 Conference Panelist: “Queer Remix Video: Hacking Telesexuality,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, WA

2013 Conference Panelist: "Enduring Bodies," TIme Forms: The Temporalities of Aesthetic Experience, PHI Centre, Montréal, QC

2013 Conference Panelist: "Then, Now, Then: Doing Hybrid Temporalities in Contemporary, Feminist and Queer Performance," Performance Studies International, Stanford University, California

2015 Artist Talk: Sexuality & Public Discourse, Communication Studies, Concordia University

2013 "Older, Aggressive and On the Prowl: Who is the cougar behind the leopard print?" Univeristy of the Streets Café with La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, QC. Guest Speaker.

2010 “Gossip Based/Infused Practices, and Community Building.” Colin Campbell – People like us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell. Oboro, Montreal. Presentation and Panel. Moderator: Jon Davies. Fall 2010.

2009 “Performing the Animation.” Laissez-Passer. Artist lecture series, Groupe Intervention Video, Montreal. Presentation.

2007 “Working the Perverse in Quebec and Canada.” Queerotic FAQ! Festival. 3-city (Poznan, Krakow, Warsaw) touring invited talk organized by The Centra Foundation, Warsaw, Poland.

2006 “Transgression in Canadian and Québec Queer Cinemas.” The Romance of Transgression: A symposium on Queer Canadian and Quebec Cinemas. Concordia U, Montréal. Panel. Moderator: Chantal Nadeau.

2005 Artist Talk: "Pleasure Zone." L.H.O.O.Q: Festival de Films Gays et Lesbiens de Paris. Paris, France.

2011 Artist Talk: The New School, New York, NY

2010 Artist Talk: Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montréal, PQ

2009 Artist Talk: “Laissez-Passer,” Groupe Intervention Video, Montréal, PQ

2009 Artist Talk: VIVA! Fesitval, Montréal, PQ

2007 Artist Talk: kino.LAB, Modern Art Museum, Warsaw, Poland

2007 Artist Talk: queerotic FAQ! festival, Poznan and Krakow, Poland

2004 Artist Talk, Studio Art Department, Studio Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, PQ

2003 Artist Talk, Photography Department, Studio Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, PQ

2003 Artist Talk, Nova Scotia Collage of Art and Design, Halifax, NS

2003 Artist Talk, Khyber Media Centre, Halifax, NS

Portfolio at: www.daynarama.com

RESIDENCIES

2008 Edgy Women Festival, to workshop and produce episodes 3 and 4 of Hot Hot Gossip, Montreal, QC

2004 Charles Street Video and Images Festival project, “Fear Factory,” Toronto, ON

2004 Studio 303, “The Home Show,” Montréal, QC

SOLO EXHIBITIONS/FEATURED PROGRAMME SCREENINGS/CURATORIAL PROJECTS (SELECTED)

2014 52-Pick-Up Video Screening, “De la part des vaincus,” Galerie RDV, Nantes, France

2014 52-Pick-Up Video Screening, “All Nuit Long,” Nuit Blanche, Studio 303, Montréal, QC

2013 Cougarliscious Point Final. La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, QC

2011 52-Pick-Up Video Screening, Montreal Underground Film Festival (MUFF), Montréal, QC

2011 52-Pick-Up Video Showcase, Edgy Women Festival, Studio 303: mainline theatre, Montréal, QC

2008 Episodes 1 and 2 of Hot Hot Gossip, a 6-part theatrical series, presented by The Edgy Women Festival and Studio 303, Montreal, QC

2007 queerotic FAQ! festival, Krakow, Poland

2005 Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, France: (screening featuring 5 videos)

2015 “GIV le 40e: Exposition dans le cadre de Faire des histoires,” VOX, Montreal, QC (curators: Petunia Alves and Anne Golden)

2015 “Simone de Beauvoir Institute Celebrates 40 Years of GIV,” Concordia University, Montreal, QC (curators: Mathilde Geromin, Michelle Lacombe, Viviane Namaste)

2014 2014 Powerhouse Prize Finalists Exhibition, La Centrale Gallery Powerhouse, Montreal, QC

2014 “Love is Like the Weather” OK. QUO!? Contemporary Arts Festival, Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre Sackville, NB (curator: Coral Short)

2014 “Videos de Femmes dans le Parc,” Espace La Fontaine, Montreal, QC

2014 Trasnocheo Cabaret Encuentro, presented by The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and Concordia University, Sala Rossa, Montreal, QC

2013 “Cabaret Dada – Les 1001 (Guizo-La) Nuits,” Phénomena Festival, Sala Rossa, Montreal, QC

2013 “Transmutations,” Skol Gallery, Montreal, QC

2012 “Democroscope,” Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Montreal, QC; VideoTage, Hong Kong, China (Curators: Perry Bard & Matt Soar)

2012 “J’ACTE / I ACT,” La Centrale Gallery Powerhouse, Montreal, QC (Curator: Eugénie Cliche)

2012 “FemCab,” Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON

2011 FLAMING FUNNIES, Kingston ON

2011 “THE VAULT: The Song is You,” Groupe Intervention Video, Montreal, QC (Curator: Anne Golden)

2011 "Carte Blanche for La Centrale,” DÉSORDRES Festival, Lille, France

2011 “Stand Up/Strip Down,” Theatre Ste. Catherine, Montreal, QC

2010 “Edgy Women Festival,” Studio 303: mainline theatre, Montreal, QC

2009 "Hysteria: A Festival of Women,” Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, ON

2009 VIVA! Festival, Montreal, QC

2009 “Cheap Queers,” Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, ON

2008 "Anne Made Me Gay", Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, ON (Curators: Moynan King and Rosemary Rowe)

2008 "Explicit Fantastic: Sex(y) in Contemporary Culture,” Keep Six Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, ON (Curator: RM Vaughan)

2008 Get Real Queer, Babylon, Ottawa, ON

2008 "Gender Alarm: New Feminisms In Contemporary Art,” La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, QC

2007 “CH/QC,” Swiss-Quebec Video Program exchange between Quebec and Switzerland, Maison de la Culture Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, QC (Curators: Groupe Intervention Video and Chantal Molleur)

2006 "Global Queeries: Sexualities, Globalities, Postcolonialities,” University of Western Ontario Conference, London, ON (Curator: Anthea Black)

2006 “Prairie Tales,” touring program of Alberta works organized by Metro City Cinema, Edmonton, AB (Curator: Paul Williams)

2006 “Signal and Noise: a celebration of sonic and media inspirations,” Video In Studios, Vancouver, BC

2006 “Classical/Digital: part two-new developments in animation art,” Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS

2005 "Flesh of the Word,” Ed Video, Guelph ON (Curator: Robert Brandstetter)

2004 "Hysteria: A Festival of Women,” Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, ON

2004 “Fear Factory,” Images Festival, Toronto, ON

2015 Festival du film sur l'Art - FIFA, Montreal, QC, (curator: Nicole Gingras)

2015 “Choix du Chef 4”, Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montreal, QC

2014 Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival, Kingston, ON

2013 Bimovie Film Festival, Munich, Germany

2013 Cineffable, Paris, France

2012 Antimatter: Festival Of Underground Film And Video, Victoria, BC

2012 Queer City Cinema, Regina, SK

2012 QuORUM & MIX NYC: The Personal is Revolutionary, Brooklyn, NY

2011 Inside Out, Toronto Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Toronto, ON

2011 Milano Mix Festival, Milan, Italy

2011 Strangelove: A Queer filmfest, Antwerp, Belgium

2010 FEMINA - International Women's Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

2009 Image+Nation, Montréal, PQ


2008 Winnipeg Festival Of Film And Video-Art, Winnipeg, MB

2007 kino.LAB, Modern Art Museum, Warsaw, Poland

2007 queerotic FAQ! festival, Poznan and Krakow, Poland

2007 entzaubert festival, Berlin, Germany

2006 MIX New York Experimental Film Festival, NY

2006 “Femmeuses,” Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art contemporain, Paris, France

2006 City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenija

2006 Impakt Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands

2006 European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany

2005 Festival de Experimentación Artística en Valencia, Spain

2004 Bergen International Film Festival, Norway

2004 ANIMA 04: A Canadian showcase for computer animation, Montréal, PQ,

2003 MIX Brasil Festival Of Sexual Diversity, São Paulo, Brasilia, Rio, Brazil

2003 Reeling Chicago Film Festival, Chicago IL

2003 Kombat: Queer Feminist Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden

2003 The New Festival, New York, NY

2003 Women in the Director's Chair, Chicago, IL

2003 Images Festival, Toronto, ON

2003 11a Edizione del Festival Internazionale del Cinema Lesbico, Milan, Italy

2002 Female Eye Festival, Toronto ON

2002 “5e Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique,”Champ Libre, Montréal, PQ

2002 11th Turku Film Festival, Vinokino, Finland

2002 15^th Instants Video de Manosque, Paris, France

2002 Out-In-Africa Film Festival, Cape Town, South Africa

2002 Mardi Gras Festival, Darlinghurst, Australia

2002 Oldenburger Filmtage, Germany

2001 Femme Totale: 8^th International Women’s Film Festival, Germany

2000 Cineffable, Paris, France

2000 Seoul Queer Film And Video Festival, Korea

2000 Outfest, Los Angeles, CA

2014 Lavoie, Rébecca: "Pratiques artistiques féministes et queers en art vidéo: propositions politiques post?-identitaires," Recherches féministes, vol. 27, no 2, 2014, p. 171-189.

2014 Vaughn, RM: “Women Who Run (off to the side of) the Wolves,” cmagazine, c123: “Wet” Fall 2014

2014 Drouin, Marie; Iung, Charlotte; du Bouëxic de Pinieux, Ségolène: "Trouble dans le Genre et Contestation du Phallocentrisme: La question du genre est-elle phallocentrique?" 09/06/2014 http://drouin-marie.fr/article_la_question_du_genre_est_elle_pahllocentrique.html

2014 Olivier, Marie-Claude G.: "Se suivre : une volonté artistique et féministe émancipée du mythe pédagogique," Inter: art actuel, n 116, 2014, p. 60-63.

2013 Rosen, Estelle: “The Cat's Meow,” The Question, The Charlebois Post, charpo-canada.com, February 4, 2013, http://www.charpo-canada.com/2013/02/the-question-february-4-2013.html#more

2012 Golden, Anne: “The Extraction/Fusion Apparatus: Dayna McLeod’s engaged mash-up art practice” Canadian Theatre Review, No. 149, Queer Women’s Performance, Winter 2012

2011 T.L. Cowan: “Dayna McLeod’s Post-nationalist Beaver and the Cabaret Phenomenology of Putting Out,” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Number 25, Spring 2011

2011 Mél Hogan: “Breaking Her Own Rules: Dayna McLeod Talks TV Remix” Vague Terrain, http://vagueterrain.net/content/2011/08/breaking-her-own-rules-dayna-mcleod-talks-tv-remix (August 9, 2011)

2011 T.L. Cowan: “Dayna McLeod’s Feminist Celluloid Fantasies, Queer Revisionary: Making It Better,” NOMOREPOTLUCKS, “Motive,” no. 16, July-August, 2011

2010 T.L. Cowan: “‘A One-Shot Affair’: Cabaret as Improvised Curation,” Canadian Theatre Review, No. 143, Improvisation, Summer 2010

COLLECTIONS

Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC

The Museum of New Art (MONA) Detroit, MI

Outfest Legacy Collection at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, Los Angeles, CA

Windsor Feminist Theatre, ON

Obra Social Fundación “la Caixa,” Barcelona, Spain

Private Collections