Janine Marchessault is a Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization at York University. She is the Co-Founder of Future Cinema Lab, a research facility devoted to ‘new stories for new screens’ as well as the Director of the Visible City + Archive, a comparative study of public art and architecture in 21st century cities. She is the author of Ecstatic World: Media, Humanism, Ecology (The MIT Press forthcoming) and Marshall McLuhan: Cosmic Media (Sage 2005) and is the (co) editor of several collections including Cartographies of Place (forthcoming), Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema (University of Toronto Press 2007) and Locating Migrating Media (Lexington Press 2010). She is a past President of the Film Studies Association of Canada. She has (co)curated several large scale site specific art exhibitions including The Leona Drive Project (2009); Museum for the End of the World (Nuit Blanche 2012); and Land/Slide: Possible Futures (2013) and has produced several art videos which have been screened internationally.

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