Speaker Series: Nichola Feldman-Kiss

Nicole Feldman-Kiss is an Ottawa-based artist. Since 2001, she has been a guest worker at the National Research Council’s Institute for Information Technology where she is developing Mean Body, a study of the variability of human geometry. Nichola’s new media initiatives include the Information Technology Association of Canada, a resource to foster greater collaboration between the new media arts and the IT industry in Canada; and the Canada Art Grid, a Canada Council for the Arts’ feasibility study to network Canadian new media artist centres via the CANARIE CA*net. Feldman-Kiss’ network interventions and a new media works examine technology as a mediator of the psychosocial dynamics that tie identity to a discursive body. These network performances include: Feedback, 2002; project molly, 2001; and the reliquarium, 2000.

The Speaker Series (1989–2006) was a programme of visiting artist talks and lectures. From 2000–2006, talks were co-organized with the Art Now course at ECIAD.