Ed Sinclair
Ed Sinclair received a BFA from York University in 1993. He has been working in film, video and related media since 1985. His work includes four collaborative videotapes with Karen Kew including Chasing The Dragon, 1993 and Ohm: dance through an electric eye, 1999. He has directed for video and theatre including "Chaired", a production at the 1998 Fringe Festival Toronto. His video work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in festivals, galleries and was purchased for the collections of the Universities of Sydney (Australia), McGill University, and York University. Sinclair was a board member of Trinity Square Video from 1997 to 1999, where he fostered the implementation of non-linear technology.
Sinclair has worked as an editor for Canadian and international multi-media artists such as Vera Frenkel, Nancy Nicol, Colin Campbell, Richard Fung, Michael Balser and Andy Fabo, Kinga Araya, John Marriott, Janieta Eyre, John Greyson, Andrew J. Paterson and British artist Sharon Morris. He served as a location camera operator on the production of Vera Frenkel's 1992 installation ...from the Transit Bar, which was the Canadian entry at documenta 9 in Kassel, Germany. Sinclair then created a half-hour documentary based on the inner workings of that exhibit.
Artist Code: 458
Videography
Ohm dance through an electric eye
1999, 21:06 minutes, colour
1997, 03:00 minutes, colour
1995, 23:00 minutes, colour
The Internal World of Cherry Chan
1994, 08:30 minutes, colour, English
1993, 22:00 minutes, colour, English
Critical Writing
by . Xtra!, June 10, 1994, no. 251.