SPEAKERS

BAL, Alex
BARDINI, Thierry
CHATONSKY, Grégory
CONESA, Jean-Claude
COTE, Mario
CZEGLEDY, Nina
DANIELS, Steve
DUBOIS, Jean
ELDER, R. Bruce
EPOQUE, Martine
FISCHER, Hervé
FLEISCHER, Alain
GARDNER, Paula
JOOSSE, Angela
LaBELLE, Guillaume
LANGILL, Caroline
MATHIEU, Marie-Christine
NOLAN, Jason
OUELLET, Pierre
PALMIERI, Christine
PAPON, Frédéric
POISSANT, Louise
POULIN, Denis
PRUSKA-OLDENHOF, Izabella
RODIONOFF, Anolga
SLOPEK, Edward
SNYDER, Don
TREMBLAY, Pierre
VAN ALSTYNE, Greg

Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
Ryerson University, School of Image Arts, Sessional Instructor,  and PhD candidate, York University/Ryerson University, Communication & Culture

- Conference Video

Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof is a graduate of the Media Arts Program at Ryerson Polytechnic University (B.A.A.) and of the Communication and Culture Program at York University (M.A.). She is an award winning experimental filmmaker whose works have screened at numerous film festivals, museums and artist run centres in Canada and abroad, including: Toronto International Film Festival; Rotterdam International Film Festival; New York International Film Festival; San Francisco International Film Festival; Edinburgh International Film Festival; Sundance Film Festival; Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, Austria; ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie) Karlsruhe, Germany; Museum of Moving Image in Astoria, United States. During her studies at Ryerson, she co-founded the interdisciplinary film collective the Loop Collective, which she is continually trying to expand by organizing innovative contexts in which to present experimental cinema. She has contributed to the Toronto arts community in various capacities: as a filmmaker, as an administrator, and as a member of several arts organizations. Izabella is currently working towards her Doctoral degree in Communication and Culture at York University in Toronto while teaching part-time at the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University.

Experience, Real Bodies, Real Space
The following panel (Elder, Josse, Pruska-Oldenhof) consists of three coordinated presentations that work together and subject some of the themes of recent writings on virtual space and telepresence to critical scrutiny. Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof will talk about the phenomenology of spatial experience, site specific work, the body, and nakedness