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Marshall Soules, PhD
marshall.soules at gmail.com
Recent Projects and Writing
- Cover Up! (Bleeding Edges) includes a looping video stream by Marshall Soules, and a live, improvised soundtrack by Marian van der Zon, Robin Davies, and Niel Scobie. In the repressed Canadian media state - where important news is slighted, glossed over, and framed by entrenched power - there is an unacknowledged, vibrant, and colourful counter-dialogue in the streets. The layered messages, over-writing and erasures provide glimpses of a culture seeking to find a revised way forward. In the "virtual geography of the weird media event" (McKenzie Wark), where surveillance and security are daily watchwords, a new humanism is not only called for, but prophesied. Cover Up is on display as part of DATASTREAM 4 - Proliferating Signs & Cultural Layers at the downtown location of the Nanaimo Art Gallery - 150 Commercial Street, January 12, 2012 - February 4, 2012.
- B.W.Powe & the Solitary Outlaws.
- Dr. Soules was interviewed by Laureano Ralon in December 2010 in Figure/Ground Publications.
- Anonymous Identities (Remembering Community: Digital Prints for Datastream 3 Exhibit (Machine Communities), Nanaimo Art Gallery (Downtown): Jan. 14 to Feb. 13, 2010.
- Canada-Cuba image dialogue: social commentary in the public sphere: SSHRC-funded visual ethnography research.
- Untitled, In a Foreign Tongue, Castro, McDeal. Photographs. In Cloninger, Curt. Hot-wiring Your Creative Process: Strategies for Print and New Media Designers. Berkeley, CA: Pearson / Peachpit Press, 2006.
- Cuba Demands. 2006. Online electronic edition of Editoria Politica (Cuban government) publication. 1999. media-studies.ca/cubademands/
- Urban Wallpaper: Take a tour. Click on smaller images.
- reFrame 2: Media and Leadership Conference (mrl.viu.ca/projects/reframe2/)
- The Cyborg Instructor: avatar.learnnewmedia.ca. I needed some(thing) to help me out as an instructor and with the help of some otaku built an avatar. Truly uncanny! Go ahead, ask me a question.
- Signs on the Wall: Unsanctioned Images in the Public Sphere:
mrl.viu.ca/Projects/Signs/. This collaborative project with Tricia Irish examines the related phenomena of graffiti and postering from their social context to the legislation used to regulate it, with a specific focus on municipal legislation in Canadian cities. The website includes our presentation to the Visual Culture Conference at Kansas State University on March 10, 2005, and extensive resources on the subject of unsanctioned images in urban spaces.
- Codex Machines: From Fetish to Function in the Dynamic Text:
Presentation to the Consortium for Computing in the Humanities at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May 2004.
- The Juxtaposition Engine: Recombinant Images and Emerging Narratives: Presentation (with Michael Nixon) to COCH/COSH at 2004 Congress for Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
datastream 2: Reflections on Power. 2005.
- datastream: Exhibition of photography and digital installations, Nanaimo Art Gallery, March 18-31, 2004.
- ReFrame: Video at the Crossroads: Nov. 7 & 8, 2003
- Urban Wallpaper:
The Improvised Image and the Public Sphere.
- Computer Gaming and Protocols of Improvisation: Presentation to COCH/COSH, University of Toronto, May 26, 2002.
- Animating the Language Machine: Computers and Performance: Computers and the Humanities (CHum), 2002.
- Protocols of Improvisation: Sam Shepard in B.C.: Presentation for Staging the Pacific Province Conference, University of British Columbia, Oct 10-13, 2001.
- Improvising Character: Jazz, the Actor, and Protocols of Improvisation:in The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation and Cultural Theory, eds. Ajay Heble and Daniel Fischlin. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP: 2002.
- Collaboration and Publication in Hybrid Online Courses: Connections 2001 (BC's Centre for Curriculum, Transfer and Training), Whistler, BC, May 2001.
- Eshu's Cap: Improvisation at the Crossroads of the Diaspora: Guelph Jazz Festival, September 2000.
- From Video Conferencing to the Cybercafé: Membership, Performance and Online Learning: AACE Ed-Media Conference, Freiburg, June 1998
- Protocols of Improvisation in Online Communication
- Ed-Media 95: Graz, Austria
- De-Centering Higher Education
- European Tour 1995
The photographs on this page illustrate my interest in distressed posters, graffiti, and found images. Not generally recognized as collective artistic creations, these visual improvisations speak to urban vitality, decay, and cultural values in the public sphere. An exhibition of my photographs taken in North American and European cities was on display at the Nanaimo Art Gallery in May 1997, and again in March 2004. Click on examples to the right.
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