Ellen Moffat
Ellen Moffat | |
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 Performance at PAVED Arts in November, 2011 | |
| Born | 1954 |
| Education | |
| Known for | Media Artist, Sound Artist, Installation Artist |
| Website | ellenmoffat |
Ellen Moffat (born 1954)[1] is a Canadian media artist who works in sound, image and text in installation and performance. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she now resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Education
[edit]Moffat obtained a BA in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the University of Regina.[citation needed]
Artwork
[edit]As an artist, Moffat has exhibited her work throughout Canada and internationally and has completed a number of artist's residencies. These include residencies at Video Vérité (now PAVED Arts) in Saskatoon, The Dunlop Gallery in Regina, CARFAC Saskatchewan in Prince Albert,[2] and the Canada Council for the Arts' Paris Residency in 2012.[3]
Moffat has also been involved in many art organizations as a cultural worker and as a board member and has worked as a sessional instructor at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina.[2]
Language and speech have been ongoing subjects of exploration for Moffat. The installation entitled "COMP_OSE" exhibited in a national tour in 2008 and 2009, included two interactive interfaces - one creating language as sound, the other as text. These "instruments" engaged gallery goers in collaboration.[4] These artistic concerns extend to include the slippage that occurs in translation, as in the work "she i her" exhibited at The Dunlop Gallery in 2015.[5] In 2017, she was commissioned to create Small Sonorities: Material Signals, a four-minute, multi-screen video as part of the Remai Modern Art Gallery web commission project.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ellen Moffat". MutualArt. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
- ^ a b Warland, Betsy (2004). BLOW: ellen moffat. Saskatoon, SK: Mendel Art Gallery. ISBN 1-896359-41-8.
- ^ Lau, Yam (2014). "A Case In Physiognomic Reading". BlackFlash Magazine.
- ^ Lovrod, Marie (July 2009). "Sounding Capacities for Co-Creation: Ellen Moffat's COMP_OSE". Fuse Magazine. 32 (3): 42–43.
- ^ Fornwald, Blair (Summer 2015). "On Language and the Limits of Legibility". At the Dunlop.
- ^ "Remai Modern: March Web Commission by Ellen Moffat". Galleries West. 2017-02-28. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
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