Myfanwy Ashmore – AOCA, MFA
Education
Graduate
1998 Master of Fine Arts, Department of Visual Arts, York University, Toronto
Undergraduate
1996 Associate of the Ontario College of Art, Ontario College of Art, Toronto
Graduate of the Sculpture Installation Program
1991 Foundation Studies, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
Academic Awards
1998 Research Costs Award York University, Toronto
1997 Dunsmoor Award for Sculpture York University, Toronto
1996 Friends of OCA Scholarship Ontario College of Art, Toronto
1995 Louis Odette Sculpture Award Ontario College of Art, Toronto
Honours
Awards
2014 One of Eight Canadian Finalists for the Glenfiddich Residency Award
2003 Nominated & Short listed for the K.M. Hunter Award, Ontario Arts Council
1999 InterAccess Emerging Artist Award, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre,Toronto
Grants
2018 Grants to Media Artists, Level 2, Toronto Arts Council
2014 Grants to Media Artists, Level 2, Toronto Arts Council
2014 Travel Grants for Artists – Canada Council for the Arts
2012 Exhibition Assistance Grant – Ontario Arts Council
2012 Travel Grant – Mid Career – Canada Council for the Arts
2012 Media Arts Grant – Mid Career – Canada Council for the Arts
2009 Spotlight Festival Collective Grant – Ontario Arts Council
2008 Grants to New Media Artists – Mid Career, Canada Council for the Arts
2008 Exhibition Assistance Grant – Hamilton Artists Inc. and Ontario Arts Council
2008 Interarts Collective Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2007 Media Arts Grant– Mid Career, Ontario Arts Council
2007 Interarts Collective Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2004 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Mercer Union & Ontario Arts Council
2003 Travel Grant for Artists, Canada Council for the Arts
2003 Media Arts Grant, Emerging Artists, Canada Council for the Arts
2002 Visual Arts – Emerging Artist Grant Ontario Arts Council
2002 Grants to Media Artists, Level 1 Toronto Arts Council
1999 Quest Grant Canada Council for the Arts
1998 Exhibition Assistance Grant YYZ Gallery and Ontario Arts Council
Misc.
2010 Critical Glitch Artware Winner @ Blockparty & Notacon: Cleveland Ohio. 2003
Work Experience
2019-Present Managing Director, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto
Winter 2023 RTA501 – Studio Practice, New Media Program, RTA, Metropolitan Toronto University, Toronto
Winter 2022 RTA501 – Studio Practice, New Media Program, RTA, Toronto Metropolitan University. Toronto
Fall 2021 RTA103 -Sec. 052 Digital Media Production 1, RTA, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
Fall 2021 RTA103 – Sec. 062 Digital Media Production 1, RTA, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
Winter 2021 SART2710 – Digital Media II, Fine Arts Department, Guelph University
Winter 2021 RTA501 – Studio Practice, New Media Program, RTA, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
Winter 2020 RTA501 – Project Development, New Media Program, RTA, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
Fall 2019 RTA82 – Thesis, New Media Program, RTA, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
Winter2019 SART2710 – Digital Media II, Fine Arts Department, Guelph University
Winter2019 RTA501 – Project Development, New Media Program, RTA, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
Winter2018 RTA501 – Project Development, New Media Program, RTA, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
2018-2019 Exam proctor, University of Waterloo
Fall 2014 Poetry In Motion: Game programming workshop– ISEA2014, Zayed University,Dubai
Winter 2013 Workshop: Mouse Hacking – creating new interfaces, Zayed University, Dubai (UAE) In preparation for ISEA 2014
Winter 2013 Workshop: Mouse Hacking – creating new interfaces Zayed University, Abu Dhabi (UAE) 1 In preparation for ISEA 2014
Winter 2011 MPM27(A) – Artistic Applications for Interaction Design, FCAD- Image Arts Department, New Media program, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
Winter 2011 MPM27(B) Artistic Applications for Interaction Design, FCAD- Image Arts Department, New Media program Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
Fall 2010 FPN545–Media Studies: Multimedia Workshop, FCAD- Image Arts Department, New Media program Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
Winter 2009 MPM27B – Artistic Applications for Interaction Design, FCAD- Image ArtsDepartment, New Media program Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
FPN545 – Media Studies: Multimedia Workshop Image Arts Department, FCAD Fall 2008 MPM27A – Artistic Applications for Interaction Design, FCAD- Image Arts Department, New Media Program Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
Winter 2008 FPN545 – Media Studies: Multimedia Workshop, FCAD- Image Arts Department, New Media program, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
Winter 2007 FPN545 – Media Studies: Multimedia Workshop, FCAD- Image Arts Department,New Media Program, Toronto Metropolitan University,Toronto
Winter 2007 DD123 Digital Illustration– Graphic Design Program, The Art Institute of Toronto
Fall 2006 AA111 Drawing & Anatomy, Animation & Game Art Program, The Art Institute of Toronto
Fall 2006 DD123 Digital Illustration (2 sections) Graphic Design Program, The Art Institute of Toronto
Fall 2006 AA201 Structure/Perspective, Animation & Game Art Program, The Art Institute of Toronto
1999-2006 Academic Computer Centre Technician – Ontario College of Art and Design
1998- 1999 Teaching Assistant- Academic Computer Centre – Ontario College of Art and Design
Winter 1998 FA/VISA 3080 6.00 Drawing: Teaching Assistant, York University
Winter 1998 FA/VISA 1000 3.0 Critical Issues: Teaching Assistant:,York University
Winter 1998 FA/VISA 2033 3.00 3-Dimensional Construction – Graduate Assistant, York University
Fall 1997 FA/VISA 3080 6.00 Drawing: Teaching Assistant, York University
Fall 1997 FA/VISA 1000 3.0 Critical Issues: Teaching Assistant:, York University
Fall 1997 FA/VISA 2033 3.00 3-Dimensional Construction – Graduate Assistant, York University
Fall 1996 Assistant to Sculpture Technician – Fall & Winter, Graduate Assistantship, York University
Graduate Studies Supervision
2023 External Guest Artist/Critic, Masters of Visual Studies, University of Toronto
2016 Invited External Examiner. MFA Thesis defense, OCADU
2013 Invited External Examiner. MFA Thesis defense, University of Guelph
1998 Graduate Studies Applications Committee, York University
Invitational Lectures
2015 Rutgers Media Studies Conference: Extending Play Gender Play / Playing with Gender.Organized and Sponsored by the Rutgers Women and the Arts
2013 Lecture & Presentation, Interdepartmental Multimedia course, Metropolitan Toronto University
2013 Lecture & Presentation, Digital Futures Initiative Program (DFI), OCADU
2013 Lecture & Presentation, Department of Art & Design Zayed University, Dubai (UAE)
2012 Artist talk, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg
2011 Lecture, Department of Communication & Multimedia, McMaster University
2009 Lecture & Presentation, 1st year studies, Visual Studies, University of Toronto
2008 Artist Presentation, Artcade – Canzine, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2008 Lecture & Presentation, Earl Haig High School for the Arts, Toronto
2007 Artist talk, Paved Arts Media Arts Centre– Saskatoon (CA)
2006 Presenter, The Box – invited by Louise Bak, The Rivoli, Toronto
2006 Presenter & Speaker, London Games Festival Fringe, Cybersalon, London(UK)
2006 Presenter, CGSA – Canadian Games Symposium, York University
2006 Presenter, CopyCamp – an unconference, Metropolitan Toronto University
2006 Visiting Artist Lecture, MADT Department, Alberta College of Art & Design
Invitational Panel discussions
2022 Tiff Next Wave Young Creators Co-lab
2021 Sheridan College Animation Industry Panel discussion
2021 Bridges Festival: Animation Industry Panel discussion
2019 imagineNATIVE, animation panel, Artscape Sandbox
2015 Rutgers Media Studies Conference: Extending Play Gender Play / Playing with Gender. Organized and Sponsored by the Rutgers Women and the Arts Collaborative
2014 ISEA2014 Panel Discussion: Women and Technology
2004 Salon discussion on gaming and hacking with Myfanwy Ashmore, (CA) Joe McKay (NYC) Sandy Plotnikoff (CA) facilitated by Jim Munroe (Eye Magazine) at weewerk Gallery
1998 On Interactivity with Keith Piper (UK) and Doug Back (Canada), Integrated Media and Sculpture/Installation program, OCAD
1998 Radio Discussion on collaborative processes with Johanna Householder, Art on Air CKLN
1998 Radio Discussion, The Emerging Phenomena of DIY Storefront Galleries with Chandra Bulucon for Art on Air –CKLN
Juries
2021 The Doug Wright Award: The Pigskin Peters award for best small or micro-press book
2020 Giraf16: Giraf Festival of Independent Animation: Giraf16 Awards jury
2017 Media Arts Granting Jury, Ontario Arts Council
2016 Media Arts Granting Jury, Toronto Arts Council
2016 ISEA 2016 (International Symposium of Electronic Arts) International Program Selections Committee
2014 ISEA 2015 (International Symposium of Electronic Arts) International Program Selections Committee
2013 ISEA 2014 (International Symposium of Electronic Arts)International Program Selections Committee
2012 Jury Panel – Earl Haig High School – Claude Watson School of the Arts, Toronto
2011 Jury Panel – Earl Haig High School – Claude Watson School of the Arts, Toronto
2009 Jury Panel – Earl Haig High School – Claude Watson School of the Arts, Toronto
2003 Invited Juror for 3rd and 4th year Sculpture & Wood Scholarships at OCAD, Toronto
Community Workshops
2016 InterAccess Atari Punk Console at MakerFest, Toronto
2008 Workshop: Water& Art & Activism – Turn on to Water, Audio hacking for collaborative water themed installation, Stratford School Board, Stratford, Ontario
2009 TDSB Workshop: Hawthorne II Alternative Bilingual school BEAM bots workshop, Grade 4 students, Toronto
2007 Snack ‘n Hack Workshop: Reverse engineering objects & interfacing food.PAVED ArtsSaskatoon
2006 Snack ‘n Hack Workshop: Reverse engineering objects & interfacing food, ACAD, MADT, Calgary, Alberta
Invited Artist Residencies
2013 Artist Residency -Don Blanche Residency & Open house, Shelburne, Ontario
2007 Artist Residency – Paved Arts Media Arts Centre – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CA
Professional Activities
2013-2016 ISEA: Invited Member for the International Programming Committee
1999-2004 Member Interaccess Media Art Centre
2006 Committee, Academic Staff Review- OCAD
2005-2006 OCADFA Board Representative, OCAD Faculty Association elected board member
2005 Toronto Dorkbots: people doing strange things with electricity: member
2005 Member of OCAD Pure Data users group – weekly group meetings to facilitate & participate in using Pure Data: an open source midi programming environment
2004-2005 Juried Artscape Studio Member
2003-2004 Member Mercer Union Artist Run Centre
1999-2005 Member of OCADFA – Ontario College of Art & Design Faculty Association
1999 OCAD Web Radio event – organized & facilitated students, faculty web based radio broadcast
Curatorial Activities & Artist Collectives
2013-2015 Collective XX, collective of women visual and media artists, exhibiting, mentoring and outreach
2010-2014 SLHack Lab initiative , collaborative laboratory of women working with technology
2007-2014 Hermione Presents, collective of dancers, visual artists, composers and operatic singers.
2004-2007 Bossy Bitches, collective of outspoken women artists
1999 Collaborative organizer, Sensebus project, Interaccess Media Arts Centre
1998 Collaborative Organizer, Truck stop 12: Mobile Art in Vans
1996-1998 Co-Founder and Exhibitions Coordinator, .in/attendant.Gallery
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2000-2007 “mario_battle_no.1” Year01.com – , www.year01.com/mario Hacked Super Mario game rom
2003 missing machines: missing you Fly Gallery, Toronto Interactive phone & video installation using ringdown circuit, microcontrollers, video & Max/Msp
2000 Soma/Somo The ArtFirm, Toronto, Communication device to interact with “Rotting Grapefruits”
1998 Pixel Love-IDA Gallery, Toronto, – MFA Thesis exhibition Interactive electronic artworks-both analogue and digitally controlled
1998 Webwork: http://www.chewable.com/myfanwy/pixellove.html (now defunct)
1998 You Suck-.in/attendant. Gallery, Toronto, -Television rabbit and computer animation
Curated Local Group Exhibitions
2014-2015 This Area Under 24 Hour Video and Audio Surveillance, Curated by Yan Wu, Jackman Humanities Institute, c/o Justina Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, including works by Kim Adams, Myfanwy Ashmore, Katie Bethune-Leamen, Diane Borsato, Shane Krepakevich and Elif Saydam, Gwen MacGregor and Lewis Nicholson, Kelly Mark, Ahmet Ögüt, Roula Partheniou, Vincent Trasov, VSVSVS, Lee Walton
2013 Telling: An audio survey of Parkdale curated by Tara Bursey & Phil Anderson, Gallery 1313
2013 Vector Festival: Game & Art Convergence, Toronto curated by Katie Micak,Christine Kim, Clint Enns, Skot Deeming
2012 Backyard curated by Elizabeth Fearon, a backyard exhibition on Carlaw Avenue, Toronto
2011 medium_massage 2.0 :: the infinite inventory: Year01.com curated by Michael Alstad with works by Kate Armstrong, Myfanwy Ashmore, Jeremy Bailey, David Jhave Johnston, Mouchette, Cheryl Sourkes, Donna Szoke, KD Thornton
2011 The Message curated by Phil Anderson, Gallery 1313, Toronto
2011 Paradise Lost, Fly Gallery, Toronto, curated by Tanya Read and Scott Carruthers
2006 Mods Vs Rockers, Digifest, collaborative video with Lorna Mills Habourfront Gallery Vitrines, Curated by Sally McKay, Toronto
2006 Transmedia 29:59 – Zombienation v1.2, Yonge & Dundas Square Public Video Screens, Toronto
2006 Controller: Artists crack the game code – with Alex Galloway, Tasman Richardson, Yumi & Co, RSG, Interacess Media Arts Centre
2004 Play – organized by Heather Corcoran & Germaine Koh, Weewerk Gallery, Toronto
2004 0.001 Percent Volume- Curated by Dave Dyment Mercer Union, Toronto
2002 Rhizome Remix Event Rhizome.Org + Dataland at iMAGES Festival of Independent Film and Video
2001 Overtime@Workplace And Other By Products of Employment : Instant Coffee, Toronto
2000 Endnotes: The Cameron House : Book Launch, Toronto
2000 Endnotes: Articule : Book Launch – Montreal, Quebec
2000 Bad Planet- Live electronic music at The Rivoli, Toronto
2000 Moneyhouse: Show me the green – curated by Jinhan Ko at Moneyhouse, Toronto
2000 LifeSpan curated by Elizabeth Fearon, Meg Gallery: Toronto
1999 Tactile Video – Images Festival – Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre – Toronto
1998 Works for the Ideal Home– curated by Roger Bywater & Luis Jacob, Art Metropole,Toronto
1998 Cottage Life – Gallery 1313 Toronto
1998 Loose curated by Judy Marquis & Dana Holst, The Meg Gallery – Toronto
1998 MFA group exhibition IDA Gallery, Toronto
1997 PlunderPalooza performances by John Oswald, Mark Hosler from Negativland, Sook Yin Lee, Princess Superstar, Sucking Chest Wound and others, Lee’s Palace, Toronto
1997 The Lomo Project: Toronto is Neighbourhood – A-Space Gallery, Toronto,
1997 MFA group exhibition-IDA Gallery, Toronto
Curated National and International Group Exhibitions
2024 Digital Portraiture: Empathy In Virtual Worlds, with Cory Arcangel & Paper Rad, Angela Washko, JODI, Brody Condon, Eddo Stern, and others, curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight, Is it This Gallery,[Senne] Brussels, Belgium
2018-2019 Show #32: Video Game Art 1970-2005, curated by Paul Slocum Including work by Cory Arcangel, Myfanwy Ashmore, John Horton Conway, JODI, Joan Leandre, David Maynard, Penn and Teller, and Michael Smith, plus rare games on loan from the Supercade collection and a set of Commodore 64 crack intros curated by Beige Records and Radical Software Group
2017 Hacking/Modding/Remixing as Feminist Protest, Curated by Angela Washko, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University
2016-2017 Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 (Ways of Something: Lorna Mills) The Whitney Museum of American Art
2017 HACKING/MODDING/REMIXING AS FEMINIST PROTEST, Curated by Angela Washko, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University
2017 “Paper Automatons that won’t be part of the singularity)”,Gallery Stratford
2016 Third Thursday: REMIX, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh PA (Ways of Something: Lorna Mills)
2016 Ex Art Foundation, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (Ways of Something: Lorna Mills)
2016 Art Athina Film, Athens Greece (Ways of Something: Lorna Mills)
2016 North West Film Forum, Seattle (Ways of Something: Lorna Mills)
2016 Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel CH (Ways of Something: Lorna Mills)
2015 Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago (Ways of Something: Lorna Mills)
2015 ISEA2015: Disruption. Exhibition. Vancouver, BC
2015 PlayGrounds: curated by Cortney Stell & Ruth Bruno, RedLine Gallery Denver, Colorado
2014 Poetry in Motion: Tasgheer Gallery, ISEA2014, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
2012 Reset: Post-Consumer Gamer Culture: curated by Scot Deeming , Platform Gallery,Winnipeg
2011 Videoholica: International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
2011 Terraforms, Babycastles, An exhibition dedicated to game artists and their radical reconfigurations of traditional gamescapes.Curated by Sarah Brin and Zach Gage, NYC
2010 Game Show: Art Gallery of Surrey, curated by Jordon Strom
2009 Zerogamer, curated by Corrado Morgana, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales
2009 Spotlight Festival – Collective performance presentation, Stratford, Ontario
2008 Avatar Curated by Malcolm Smith, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
2008 Bad Artists Copy, Good Artists Steal -Dance Dance Evolution screening, Contemporary
Video Art Screening Series, Gallery Lambton & Blackwater Cafe, curated by Chris Cowan & Lisa Daniels, Sarnia, Ontario
2007 ZeroGamer: London Games Fringe Festival, London, UK, curated by Corrado Morgana, HTTP & Furtherfield.org
2006 Artful Gaming –London Games Festival/Science Museum Dana Centre- Cybersalon, London UK
2006 Perform.Media – video games as performative media, Bloomington, Indiana
2006 Mawa group exhibition curated by Skawennati Tricia Fragnito, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2004 Poster Project: hello! nurse! curated by Elizabeth Fearon, Seoul, Korea
2004 “Open” with Robert Gober, Paul McCarthy, Micah Lexier, Liam Gillick, Sol Lewitt, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Ivan Jurakic Myfanwy Ashmore and others. Co-curated by Sandra Firmin and Richard Torchia Arcadia Art Gallery, Philadelphia, in conjunction with the ICA’s “the Big Nothing”
2003 Playboy with Gameboys – Curated by Alex Cechetti, SmartProjectSpace, Amsterdam, Holland
2003–present mario battle no.1 Runme.org: Runme.org is an online software art repository profiled at various festivalsincluding ArsElectronica, Readme Festival –
2002 Dataland, net.art exhibition, Ed Video Guelph
1999 Norm White and Myfanwy Ashmore, Deadtech Gallery: Chicago Illinois
Independent Group or Collective Exhibitions
2013 Proto: CollectiveXX, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto
2010 Mobius Rings: performance, Factory 101, Stratford
2008 43o40’22.60” N 79o26’04.80” W a collaboration: Myfanwy Ashmore and Michael Sharpe: Local garage rooftop & Google Earth intervention
2007 LabCab Festival: mellowdrama – video projection and contemporary dance
2007 Have We Forgotten? The Hope Project – St. Marys, Ontario – Group project funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, 7 Artists – performers, dancers, singers.
2006 Mean Mamma – Bossy Bitches Collective exhibition, Lennox Contemporary Gallery,Toronto
2005 Novel Amusements: – Games & Shame DVD zine published by Nomediakings, distributed at CANZINE
2005 Sweet Shit exhibition, Bossy Bitches collective, Lennox Gallery, Toronto
2005 911 1⁄2 Art Attack: organized by Deborah Wiles, 911 1⁄2 Gallery Toronto
2004 RedHead Gallery Fundraiser: Redhead Gallery, Toronto
1999 A-space Gallery Fundraiser, Toronto
1998 7a-11d Performance Art Festival – Samhain in the Wasteland, Toronto
1998 Truck Stop 12 – mobile art in vans, Toronto
Collections
And/Or Gallery: mario battle no.1(Edition) Private collection of Paul Slocum, Pasadena California
The Whitney American Museum of Art, NYC, Ways of Something: Episode 4 (Clip 20), Lorna Mills
Private collection, Brussels, Belgium, mario trilogy videos (Edition)
Private collection, Brussels, Belgium, mario battle no.1 (Edition), mario is drowning, mario doing time,
Private collection, Brussels, Belgium, gameover zombienation(Edition), video
Private collection, Brussels, Belgium, hohm (Edition), video
Private collection, Brussels, Belgium,Grand Theft Love Song (Edition), machinima video,
Private collection, Brussels, Belgium, Mobile Poems, Nintendo DS poems (Edition)
Catalogues, Books and Peer Review
Books
2014/15 Works of Game: Artgames, Game Art, and Aesthetic Perspectives on Games, John Sharp, Parsons School of Design, MIT Press
2012 Game Art: The Book, Mathias Jansson
2012 Insert Art to Play: Interviews and Essays about Game Art by Mathias Jansson.
2011 How to Do Things With Videogames, Volume 38 of Electronic Mediations Series Ian Bogost, University of Minnesota Press, 2011
2005 The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto By Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, Johnny Dovercourt
2000 Endnotes: Projet d’artiste * Pages: 72 * Cote: 51.22 END Auteurs: Rebecca Anweiler, Myfanwy Ashmore, Sylvette Babin… Artistes sujets: H. Coulis, M. Ashmore, L. Deanne-Smith…
Catalogues & Reviews
2024 Resident Aliens: A Brief History of Videogames and Fine Art, by Tiffany Funk, ArtReview
2016 Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art exhibition, The Whitney Museum of Modern Art
2013 Proto, exhibition brochure, Virginia Eichorn, curator Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound
2010 Teachers Guide: Surrey Art Gallery: Game Show and Harun Faroki Deep Play
2007 Indie Gaming Revolution Indie games and the rise of DIY mod culture, Broken Pencil, by James King
2006 ARTcade: A Canadian Game Studies Association Symposium Vignette Cindy Poremba, Concordia
2006 Artists Crack the Game Code, Broken Pencil, By Erin Bell
2004 “Open” Robert Gober, Paul McCarthy, Micah Lexier, Liam Gillick, Sol Lewitt, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Ivan Jurakic, Myfanwy Ashmore…Exhibition Catalogue
2004 0.001 percent volume: curated & essay by Dave Dyment, Mercer Union
1998 Truck Stop 12 zine: zine style self published catalogue with essay by Gary Michael Dault
Peer Review/Academic Journals
2016 Review: The Wrong Biennale, by Ben Eastham
2012 Michelle Kasperzak, Buses, Babies, Temporary Tattoos: Social Media and Art Collide, C Magazine
2006 Laetitia J. Wilson, Encountering the unexpected: play perversion in the political art- game and game-art, University of Western Australia
2003 Code: The language of our Time – Ars Electronica + Runme.org
2002 Adam Pawley, Words are words on the page on the screen- what’s the difference?
Published Paper for MA in Electronic Media at Oxford (Brookes) University, UK
1999 Mix Magazine – Truck Stop 12, Review, Truck Stop 12 show, Winter issue (CA)
1998 Lola Magazine – Truck Stop 12, Review, Winter issue (CA)
1999 C Magazine – Works for the Ideal Home, Review & image of Art Metropole show (CA)
Interviews
Dec 2013 Research Interview, Zania Sovijärvi-Spape for Professor Jacucci’s University of Helsinki research team on the topic of interactive art
August 2011 Interview: Myfanwy Ashmore, hacker, artist, gamer, Gamescenes.org
April 2, 2006 Myfanwy Ashmore: Interview, Little Mathletics, Adelaide, Australia
Feb 2006 CBC Radio One (National) “The Arts Tonight”, interview (February 22, 2006)
Feb 2000 Carla Garnet & Elizabeth Fearon: Lifespan exhibition, Art on Air CKLN (February 10 2000) interview/ review, Toronto (CA)
Newspapers
June 2012 Steven Leyden Cochrane, Press ‘start’ to continue : In PLATFORM Centre’s most recent group show,‘game over’ is just the beginning,UPTOWN, (Winnipeg)
June 2012 Alison Mayes, Cool art shows a great way to escape stifling summer nights,Winnipeg Free Press
June 2012 Leah Hansen, Reset: Post Consumer Gamer Culture: The Manitoban (June 20, 2012)
Sept 2010 Playful Artwork by Black Press, Surrey North Delta Leader (September 26, 2010 )
Aug 2006 Joshua Ostroff, Videogames: The Gaming Arts, Exclaim Magazine (August 24, 2006)
March 2006 Ian Daffern,Technology: The fine art of video games – Creative minds put on a show of mashing up game images, Eye Magazine (CA) (March 23, 2006)
Feb 2006 Raju Mudhar: Creating a new form of art: Two shows celebrate video game art But some artwork hacks into others, Toronto Star (CA)(February 25, 2006)
April 2004 Jim Munroe: Pleasure Circuit – Read Only Memories Eye Magazine( CA) (April 15, 2004)
March 2004 Catherine Osborne: Reflections on Nothingness and Being Artists, The National Post (CA)
March 2004 Thomas Hirschmann: All and Nothing Now Magazine (CA) (March 09, 2004)
Feb 2004 Sarah Milroy: Percent Volume Globe and Mail ( CA) (February 28, 2004)
July 2000 Lucia L’amour: soma/somo review – Lola Magazine (CA)
Feb 2000 Mordecai Richler: Why is earning valued above learning (Montreal)The Montreal Gazette
Feb 2000 An art apart: Funds for talking to rotten fruit The Chicago Tribune (US)(February 24, 2000)
Feb 2000 David Ljunggren: Des subventions pour étudier les culs plats Montreal Alouettes: – Reuters
Feb 2000 Arts groups uneasy grants row spotlight Toronto Star (CA) (February 17, 2000)
Feb 2000 Minister seeks funds for move to remote location, signed Jane (CA)The National Post
Feb 2000 Civil disobedience film, gum and bum win grants The National Post:(CA) (February 15,2000)
Feb 2000 Arts Grants Smell Rotten to Reform Ottawa Citizen (CA) (February 15, 2000)
Feb 2000 Arts Grants wasted on the wacky: Reform The National Post (CA) (February 14, 2000)
Feb 2000 The Seven Sisters Writing Group: Reform takes aim at wacky arts grant(CA) (February 14, 2000)
Feb 2000 Gary Michael Dault: Lifespan exhibition The Globe and Mail (CA) (February 12, 2000)
Oct 1998 Works for the Ideal Home at Art Metropole The Globe and Mail
Oct 1998 Andrew Zealley: Home Alone: Domesticity never looked this fun (October 9, 1998)
X-tra Magazine – Review of Art Metropole show (CA)
Oct 1998 Miriam Sanati: Artists Take their works to people friendly mall The Globe and Mail(October 12, 1998)
Online newsgroups + Websites + RSS feeds + Blogs
Sept 2010 4by4 Every collaboration is the result of a sin at Payne Shurvell Part of ADF (September 13th 2010)
July 2009 Six New, Free Games From Artsy Games Incubator, Gamesetwatch.com (Thursday July 16th, 2009)
Sept 2008 Ed Halter I’m On The Computer, Rhizome.org (September 15th, 2008)
Sept 2008 PADDINGTON – “AVATAR THE NEW YOU” http://www.hustlerofculture.com/
March 2008 Ian Bogost, Persuasive Games: Video Game Pranks Gamasutra.com (March 18, 2008)
Feb 2008 Rob Peters, Game Over: consoles killed the video arcade star, nowpublic.com (February 19, 2008)
Oct 2009 Matt Brown The Games You Won’t Find On Retail Shelves: Fringe Fun,, The Londonist.com
Sept 2006 ‘Artful Gaming’ at the London Games Festival Fringe. Selectparks.com (September 28, 2006)
Oct 11, 2006 Lisa’s report of Artful Gaming, Lisa Devaney, We Make Money not Art.com (October 11, 2006)
July 2006 Square’s Art Spike: NowToronto.com (July 20, 2006)
April 2006 Matthew Kumar Gamasutra: Feature: ‘Event Wrap Up: Controller: Artists (April 7, 2006)Crack the Game Code’, by gamasutra.com
April 2006 Ron Nurwisah, Damn You Dundas Square, Censorship article, ClearChannel and Transmedia 29:59, Torontoist.com (April 05, 2006)
April 2002 Allistair Wallis, Little Mathletics: Myfanwy Ashmore Interview, littlemathletics.com
March 23, 2006 Ian Dafferin, The fine art of video games – Creative minds put on a show of mashing up game images, Now Magazine (April 02, 2006)
July 2005 The Design Weblog: Mario battle no.1 design.weblogsinc.com, Review (July 25, 2005)
July 2005 Steve Parsons, Mario for Pacifists,Joystiq.com (July 25, 2005)
July 2005 Alex Grahmann, Myfanwy Ashmore Makes Mario Even Mo re Harmless,Playfeed (July 25, 2005)
Jan 2005 Matthew Hawkinson: “dead mario walking” FORT90.com (US)
July 2004 Ancil Anne:“a tangent on womyn’s ludological work” on Dessgeega.com (US) (July 11, 2004)
Apri 2004 AvantGaming: Challenging the status play – “But what is it???” (US) (April 23 ,2004)
April 2004 Jim Munroe: Pleasure Circuit – Read Only Memories Eye Magazine( CA) (April 15, 2004)
April 2004 Jim Munroe: Pleasure Circuit – Read Only Memories – republished (April 15, 2004) NOMEDIAKINGS.ORG
April 2004 Erin Bell: Ludonauts: Just Go For A Walk: Non-Competitive Gaming (CA) (April 02, 2004)
Oct 2003 Eduardo Navas: on Net Art News (NetArtNews.net) (October 09, 2003)
July 2003 “The Mario Battle no.1, videogame da passeggio.” Neural Magazine (ITALY)New media art, Electronic music, Hacktivism (July 16, 2003)
July 2002 Echo Magazine: Review of Dataland – (Guelph, CA)
April 2002 “Where memories are data and behaviours are code..” Neural Magazine: New media art, Electronic music, Hacktivism. Dataland review (ITALY) (April 19, 2002)
Feb 2000 Shirley L. Thomson Director, Canada Council for the Arts (CA) A nation of artists: Canada Council grants support our artistic dreams
Feb 2000 “Canadians pissed off about THE ROCK getting artwork”
Newsgroups
Feb 2000 rec.sport.pro-wrestling(February 15, 2000) February 15, 2000 Canada Council Arts grants smell rotten to Reform newsgroup: soc.culture.canada
Feb 2000 Canada Arts Funding Newsbyte and Challenge newsgroup: soc.hist.what-if
Feb 2000 And you get money for that? The Carneadesian (US) (February, 18, 2000)
Canadá patrocina obra de arte com chiclete e frutas podres Brazil Online Television & Radio (February 17, 2000)
Reviews
March 2024 Art Review, Resident Aliens: A Brief History of Videogames and Fine Art, by Tiffany Funk
Spring 2006 Much Music: Artists Crack the Game Code, Interaccess Media Arts Centre
April 1999 CBC Radio – Tactile Video, press coverage of Tactile Video exhibition (CA)
July 1998 CBC Television – Cottage Life, Press coverage of Gallery 1313 show
Fall 1998 City Tv – Truck Stop 12 – Mobile art in vans
Sept 1997 Much Music -Plunderpalooza:artists plunder from culture, event, Press Coverage & audience. Guest appearance David Bowie
Spring 1995 Much Music – Some Assembly Required – coverage of group exhibition