Andrew James Paterson,
408 Queen St. W., # 7,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5V 2A7
Tel 416-703-2236
andrewjamespaterson@gmail.com www.andrewjamespaterson.com(www.fringeonline.ca)
Born: Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1952
Education: General Arts B.A., University of Toronto,
London University U.K. (English Lit. and Philosophy)
CURRICULUM VITA MEDIA ARTIST
DISTRIBUTION
V/TAPE 401 Richmond St. W., # 452, Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
VIVO 1965 Main St., Vancouver, BC V5T 3C1
WORKS IN DISTRIBUTION
2018 Agora Phobia, colour, 4.5 min. dist.V/Tape
2018 Governmentality, colour, 4.5 min. dist.V/Tape
2017 2 2 2 2 2, colour, 4 min. dist.V/Tape
2016 Narrative, colour, 7.5 min. dist.V/Tape
2015 Time Line, colour on white, 4 min. dist. V/Tape
2014 Floating, (collaboration with Kevin Dowler for musical ensemble ‘Derwatt’), , 3.5 min., dist. V/Tape
2014 More or Less, colour, 3 min., dist. V/Tape
2013 Passing, colour, 6 min. dist. V/Tape
2012 Seven Segments, B&W Super 8/video, 29 min. dist. V/Tape
2011 Roman Spring Leakage, colour, 7 min. dist. V/Tape
2010 Trophy Life, B&W, 2 min. (silent) , Super 8/Mini-DV , dist. V/Tape
2009 A Typical Morning for Green and Blue, colour, 8 min. dist. V/Tape
2008 12 x 26, colour, 6 min. dist. V/Tape
2008 The Enigma of S.A.P., colour, 10 min. dist. V/Tape
2007 AIDS Has Not Left the Building, colour, 1 min. dist. V/Tape (available in silent
and musical versions)
2007 Damned and Forgiven, colour, 4 min. dist. V/Tape
2006 Rectangular World, colour, 9 min. dist. V/tape (in conjunction with Trinity Square Video in Toronto, commissioned for Fraternite residency/compilation)
2005 D.O.A./Remake/Remodel, B&W, 3 min., Super 8/ Mini-DV, dist. V/Tape
2005 Damn That Eternal Basement, colour, 3 min. , Super8/Mini-DV, dist. V/tape
2004 Eating Regular, colour, 8 min. dist. V/tape (in conjunction with Trinity Square Video, commissioned for Eat residency/compilation)
2002/2003 The Headmaster’s Ritual, B&W, 3 ½ min. , Super8/Mini-DV, dist. V/Tape
2001 Snowjob, colour, 3 min. dist. V/tape (commissioned by Pleasure Dome of Toronto’s Blueprint programme)
2001/1999 The Walking Philosopher, B&W, 4 ½ min. , Super8/Mini-DV, dist. V/Tape
1999 Cash and Carry, colour, 5 min. dist. V/Tape (commissioned by Ed Video of Guelph, Ontario’s Don’t Bank On It programme
1994 Controlled Environments, colour, 33 min. dist. V/tape
1993 Pink in Public, colour, 19 min. dist. V/Tape and VIVO
1990 Who Killed Professor Wordsdworth?, colour, 20 min. dist. V/tape and VIVO
1987 Immortality, colour, 27 min. dist. V/Tape
1985 Hygiene, B&W/colour, 45 min. dist. V/Tape and VIVO (collaboration with Jorge Lozano)
1984 Trio, colour, 22 min. dist. V/tape and VIVO
1981 How Many Fingers?, colour, 8 min. dist. V/tape and VIVO (collaboration with Alan Fox)
OTHER MEDIA-ART WORKS
2010 Halfway Home Comfort Zone, B&W, Super-8, silent
2006 Rods and Mockers, colour, 2 min. (2-channel installation collaboration with Chandra Bulucon, for Digifest at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto)
2005 Modernist Kodak, colour, 45 sec. (for Prefix Gallery compilation Sales Performance)
2001 Motion Purveyor, B&W, 3 min. super-8, silent
2000 Missing Equations, Missing Words, web-project for Paul Petro Fine Arts, Toronto
1995 Name the Speaker, Toast the City, colour, 31 min. Western Front, Vancouver, (collaboration with Eric Metcalfe)
1989 Because of the Weather, colour, 5 min. for video compilation Diderot 2: Television and the Channels of Culture, United Arts Media Studies, Toronto
1984 Passports of Love, colour, 20 min. Western Front performance documentation
1983 Instafeed, colour, 45 sec.
COLLECTIONS
Trinity Square Video (Toronto), National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario), Art Metropole (Toronto and Ottawa), Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Queens University (Kingston, Ontario)
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2018 Hearing Video, V/Tape, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2018 Collection Correction Book Launch & Screening, Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2018 Live Music! Movies! Book Launch!, Printed Matter, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
2017 Focus : Andrew James Paterson, Festival International du Film sur l’Art (Le FIFA) , Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2017 Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries Film and Video Festival, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2016 Festival Canadian Contemporary Media Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 I Stand Collected Corrected, Collection Correction Book Launch, Kunstverein Toronto at Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2016 Collection Correction Book Launch, Kunstverein Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Collection Correction Book Launch, Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
2016 Time Form Scene, Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2016 Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2015 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF), Winnipeg. Manitoba, Canada
2015 The Man With No Movie Camera, LOMAA, London, Ontario, Canada
2015 V/Tape Collection, Dazibao, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2015 "Layering", Queer City Cinema, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2014 More or Less Minus Plus, DOORED, DoubleDoubleLand, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2014 Auntie Salon, VideoFag, Toronto
2014 The City’s In Flame, Fort York Branch Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2014 Queer City Cinema, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2014 Undefined, Bar Radio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2014 Media X, Whitewater Gallery, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
2014 Media X, VideoPool, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2013 Short Sentences, VideoFag, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2013 Media X, gallerywest, Toronto
2013 S.A.P., gallerywest, Toronto
2013 Off and Free International Expended Cinema and Art Festival, Seoul, Korea
2013 Festival International du Films s’ur L’Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2013 International film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2013 Separation Penetrates, Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2012 Mountain Standard Time Performance Art Festival, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2012 DaDaReboot, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2012 Reelout 12 Queer Film + Video Festival, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
2011 Uber Satze (Trans Literate) 28th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
2011 This is Paradise, MOCCA (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art), Toronto
2011 From One Side to Another, Exposition Collective, Caen, France
2011 Panorama de la video quebecoise + canadienne, Festival International du film Sur L’art, (FIFA), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2011 Pleasure Dome New Works Show, Toronto
2011 The Ghosts of Home Entertainment, Trinity Square Video, Toronto
2010 Not Found on eHarmony, MIX 23: New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York, N.Y, U.S.A.
2010 Mid-Life Shelf-Life, V/Tape/Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto
2010 TAIS Animation Showcase & Aqua Jam, Toronto Animated Image Society
2010 Hold Still Wild Youth: The Gina Show Archives, Or Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2010 One Take Super-8, Images Festival, Toronto
2009 Siting Cinema, Images Festival at Experimenta, Bangalore, India
2009 Multi Levels, aluCine Festival, Toronto
2009 Siting Cinema. Images Festival at EXIS (Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul), Seoul, Korea
2009 Des Fleurs Pour Decorer, Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto
2009 Inside Out Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Toronto
2009 Eating Irregular, Available Light Collective, Ottawa
2009 The Communism of Forms: Sound + Image+ Time ¾ The Strategy of Music Videos, Red Bull 381 Projects/Art Gallery at York University/Images Festival, Toronto
2009 Siting Cinema, Images Festival, Toronto
2009 Festival International du Film sur Art (FIFA), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2009 Pleasure Dome New Works Show, Toronto
2009 8 Fest, Toronto
2008 HIV Exposure ¾ Exposure: Edmonton’s Queer Arts and Culture Festival Bathhouse, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2008 Queer City Cinema VII, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2008 Mono Logical (Luminato version), self-curated survey of film/video selections with per formative monologues, Queen Street Celebration, Luminato, Toronto
2008 24 Flames a Second, Inside Out Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Toronto
2008 First Feridays, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario
2008 Camera-Free Film and Video, Video Pool/Cinematheque, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2008 Mono Logical, Available Light, Ottawa
2007 Des Fleurs Pour Decorer, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A.
2007 Big Gay Canada, Ed Video, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
2007 What’s Up Doc? ¾ Search and Deploy, V/Tape (Curatorial Incubator), Toronto
2007 Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF), Toronto
2007 Sales Performance, PREFIX, Toronto
2007 Pride Video, Toronto
2007 That 80s Show ¾ Test Signal, V/Tape (Curatorial Incubator), Toronto
2006 Fraternite, Trinity Square Video, Toronto
2006 Fraternite, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal
2006 Anti-Matter ¾ Experimental Film & Video Festival, Victoria, B.C., Canada
2006 Mono Logical, Murder City Media City, Cinematheque, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2006 Video Barf, Available Light Collective, Ottawa
2006 Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Toronto
2006 Mods and Rockers, Case Studies, Digifest, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
2006 Pleasure Dome New Works Show, Toronto
2006 Mono Logical (academic version), Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, Ontario
2005 Eat the Food, Gallery 1313, Toronto
2005 Splice This (at Toronto Alternative Art Fair ¾ TAAFI), Toronto
2005 Mono Logical, Mountain Standard Time Performance Art Festival, Calgary, Alberta
2005 Toronto Video Art Orientation Survey, Art Gallery at York University, Toronto
2005 Splice This ¾ Super-8 Film Festival, Toronto
2005 Blueprint, Pleasure Dome at Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2005 Pleasure Dome New Works Show, Toronto
2004 CineFest, Picton, Ontario
2004 Blueprint, Pleasure Dome at Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
2004 EAT, Trinity Square Video at CineCycle, Toronto
2003 Mono Logical, Pleasure Dome, Toronto
2003 The Michael Jackson Project, Zsa Zsa, Gallery Toronto
2003 Fabulous Fringe Film & Video Festival, Durham, Ontario
2003 Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Toronto
2002 Splice This, Toronto
2002 Tongue-in-Chic, SPIN Gallery, Toronto
2001 Festival de Nouveau Cinema, Montreal
2001 Video Primer ¾ Masquerade, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2001 Splice This, Toronto
2001 Inside Out Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Toronto
2001 Blueprint, Pleasure Dome, Toronto
2001 Pleasure Dome New Works Show, Toronto
2000 Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Toronto
2000 Images Festival, Toronto
2000 Paul Petro Fine Arts, Toronto
1999 Don’t Bank On It, Ed Video/Bookshelf Cinema, Guelph
1999 Splice This! Super-8 Film Festival, Toronto
1999 Culture Slash Nation, Definitely Superior Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
1997 The Independents, Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto
1995 Media City, Windsor, Ontario
1995 Culture Slash Nation, Gallery TPW, Toronto
1995 Trinity Square Video Purchase Collection, Toronto
1994 Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works Show, Toronto
1994 YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto
1994 Outing/Out, Ed Video, Guelph
1993 Negotiating the Stigma, Video In, Vancouver
1993 Atlanta Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Atlanta, Ga, U.S.A.
1993 Peggy’s Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1993 Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Toronto
1993 Images Film & Video Festival, Toronto
1993 Celebrating Canadian Film and Video, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1992 In The Face of Death, Video In, Vancouver
1991 Critical Perspectives, Trinity Square Video, Toronto
1991 Recent Acquisitions, Art Metropole, Toronto
1991 Trinity Square Video Purchase Collection, Toronto
1990 VIP Film ‘90, Berlin, Germany
1990 YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto
1990 Images Film & Video Festival, Toronto
1988 Trinity Square Video Purchase Collection, Toronto
1988 Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
1987 YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto
1987 Western Front, Vancouver
1987 Ed Video, Guelph
1986 Videographe, Montreal
1986 New Work Show, Toronto
1986 EM Media, Calgary
1985 A Space Gallery, Toronto
1985 Video Culture Canada, Toronto
1985 United Media Arts Studies (UMAS), Toronto
1984 Western Front, Vancouver
1984 New Museum of Art, Brussels, Belgium
1984 Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal
1984 New Work Show, Toronto
1983 Chromaliving, Toronto
1983 WNET/PBS, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A.
1983 Recent Canadian Videotapes, Cork. Ireland