Nancy Paterson (artist)

Nancy Evelyn Paterson (1957–2018) was a Canadian artist and writer known for her work in new media.[1][2][3] She was an associate professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University from 1990 to 2018, and was Facilities Coordinator at Charles Street Video, a non-profit, artist-run centre providing production and post-production facilities for digital video and audio.[4][5]

Nancy Paterson
Born
Nancy Evelyn Paterson

1957 (1957)
DiedNovember 2018 (aged 60–61)
Toronto, ON (Sunnybrook Hospital)
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Toronto, York University (PhD, 2009)
OccupationArtist, writer
Years active1980s–2018
Known fornew media art and writing
Notable work
"Cyberfeminism" (1996)

Paterson was considered an important contributor to the cyberfeminist movement[6][7][8] and to the discussion of the role of gender in electronically mediated experience.[9][10]

Paterson was also known for her electronically-based artworks. Her 1998 work Stock Market Skirt connected the physical height of a skirt hemline with the real-time movement of the stock market.[10][11] Her 1989 work Bicycle TV placed the viewer on a bicycle facing a video screen as the viewer cycled, then controlled their movement through scenes of the Canadian landscape projected before them.[12][13][14]

Paterson curated the group show Disembodied at InterAccess Gallery in Toronto in 1997, which was one of the earliest exhibitions in Canada to include an online component.

Early life and education

Paterson was born in 1957. She attended the University of Toronto, beginning her education at Victoria College without the intention of becoming a media artist.[15] While ultimately graduating with an honours degree from Victoria College in 1985, Paterson decided to interrupt her academic studies to pursue a four-year program at the Ontario College of Art.[15] During this time, Paterson teamed up with fellow artists Derek Dowden, David Andrews, Graham Smith, and Ed Mowbray to found the Artculture Resource Centre, Toronto's first media gallery, in 1979.[15]

Exhibitions

In 2018, Paterson's work was the subject of a retrospective entitled, The Future: Before, at InterAccess gallery in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Shauna Jean Doherty, surveyed Paterson's 30 year contribution to media art in Canada and internationally.

References
  1. "Artist/Maker Name "Paterson, Nancy"". Canadian Heritage Information Network. Government of Canada. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  2. "Nancy Paterson". The Canadian Art Database. The Centre for Canadian Contemporary Art. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  3. "Nancy Paterson". Archive of Digital Art. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  4. "Nancy Paterson, Facilities Coordinator". CSV. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  5. "Nancy Paterson, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Graduate Studies". OCAD. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  6. Susan Hawthorne; Renate Klein (1999). Cyberfeminism: Connectivity, Critique and Creativity. Spinifex Press. pp. 4–. ISBN 978-1-875559-68-8.
  7. M. Merck; S. Sandford (13 September 2010). Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone. Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 75–. ISBN 978-0-230-10999-5.
  8. Karen Ross (2013). Gendered Media: Women, Men, and Identity Politics. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 37–. ISBN 978-0-7425-5407-8.
  9. Stephen Wilson (2002). Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. MIT Press. pp. 670–. ISBN 978-0-262-73158-4.
  10. Margot Lovejoy (2 August 2004). Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age. Routledge. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-1-134-39729-7.
  11. Amy Bingaman; Lise Sanders; Rebecca Zorach (16 December 2003). Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis. Routledge. pp. 239–. ISBN 978-1-134-53756-3.
  12. Judy Malloy (2003). Women, Art, and Technology. MIT Press. pp. 235–. ISBN 978-0-262-13424-8.
  13. "Nancy Paterson, Bicycle TV, 1989". Daniel Langlois Foundation. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  14. Simon Penny (1995). Critical Issues in Electronic Media. SUNY Press. pp. 48–. ISBN 978-1-4384-1581-9.
  15. Media works. Surrey Art Gallery. 2001. p. 10. ISBN 9780920181522.
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