Alumni Sharon Switzer attended the Media Lab in 2006 and was part of the team that created Things Left Unsaid. She is founder of the Toronto Urban Film Festival which is currently accepting submissions.
www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com
Bio
Sharon Switzer (b. 1966, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)
An artist and curator, Switzer has been exhibiting her media art since the early 1990’s. She regularly produces and curates public art festivals and exhibitions to massive audiences through her work with Art for Commuters. Switzer has also twice been contracted by Pride Toronto to commission and produce a series of video artworks for their festival, entitled ‘Video Art is Queer’. The first curatorial collective that she formed, Clamorous Intentions, was active in Toronto during the early 1990’s, producing 3 large-scale, multi-media public events in 2 years. Switzer is an instructor at OCAD, and is actively involved in the Toronto arts community, presently serving as President of Gallery TPW’s Board of Directors. Her video work traveled to museums across Canada as part of ‘18 Illuminations,’ and a catalogue of her work was produced by McMaster Museum of Art. Sharon received her B.F.A. from Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, her M.F.A. from The University of Western Ontario, and is a Graduate of the CFC Media Lab at the Canadian Film Centre. She is represented by Corkin Gallery in Toronto, and her work can be found online at www.corkingallery.com, www.circuitgallery.com and www.sharonswitzer.com.
As Founder and Executive Director of Art for Commuters, Switzer initiated and continues to produce 3 large-scale public art projects each year on the Onestop network of over 270 LCD screens in Toronto’s subway system, to a daily audience of 1.3 million people. Scheduled to coincide with CONTACT, ‘Contacting Toronto’ is an annual, month-long photography exhibition, curated through invitation and open-call. Scheduled to coincide with the Toronto International Film Festival, the ‘Toronto Urban Film Festival’ is an annual 10-day public film festival. The only one of its kind in North America it features a different urban-themed program of silent, 1-minute films each day. ‘Words Travel Fast’ is an annual project scheduled to coincide with Toronto’s Nuit Blanche that pairs poets and animators. This unique collaborative project seeks to expand the possibilities for how both poetry and animation can be integrated and newly experienced. Other smaller projects include Station Portraits, an ongoing series of TTC photos by local photographers, and screening curated videos during Pride Week and Luminato. www.art4commuters.com, www.contactingtoronto.ca, www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com
ALUMNUS: ANITA DORON
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