{"id":7692,"title":"Jillian McDonald","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/jillian-mcdonald","version":"708081715dd61228b3c94727448d9959bf475f9f962bf40ed4c514fd968bca60","modified":"2011-06-18T00:00:26+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Jillian","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"McDonald","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Jillian McDonald.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/jillian-mcdonald.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7692.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":2157},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":769}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"I teach art at Pace University in New York City, where I also curate and co-direct the Pace Digital Gallery. My critical writing focuses on performative art in temporary or unexpected places, and curated projects include Ebay: Buy or Sell or Buy, an online exhibition whose works intervene in the online auction house and invite visitors into momentary relationships with the artists. \u0022My conscious exhibition strategies engage an audience comprised of a very general public that is not necessarily expecting art or gathered in established arts venues. I interrupt the flow of quotidian public exchange, inviting strangers into momentary relationships. I create websites that infiltrate and participate in online fan culture, offer advice to strangers from storefronts, and find reasons to enter into the homes of strangers. Sylvie Fortin (Art Papers Magazine, Sept / Oct 2005) writes of my practice, \u0022relationships are her medium, fleeting encounters her material\u0022.\u0022 My work has been shown recently at The Whitney Museum\u0027s Artport; Year Zero One in Toronto; Manifestation d\u0027Art Internationale de Qu\u00E9bec; 404 International Festival of Electronic Art in Argentina; BananaRAM in Italy; The Sundance Online Film Festival in Park City, Utah; The Cleveland International Performance Art Festival; La Biennale de Montr\u00E9al; ISEA 2004 in Talinn, Estonia; and the Centre d\u0027Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie in France. Recent solo and two-person shows included vertexList in Brooklyn, TPW (presented at The Drake Hotel) and YYZ in Toronto, Video Pool in Winnipeg, and Edge Media in Newfoundland. I have received grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, Soil New Media, Turbulence, The Gunk Foundation, NYSCA, The Experimental Television Center, Thirdplace.org, and Pace University. I have lectured in North America and Europe about my work and have attended numerous residencies including DAIMON, Sagamie, and La Chambre Blanche in Qu\u00E9bec; Em-Media in Calgary; and Harvestworks in New York. Recently, I have happily discovered playing music, backpacking, rock climbing, and running half marathons with Beckley Roberts. Some of my favourite people are strangers.","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":2157,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}