Janine Marchessault

Janine Marchessault is Professor at York University where she was the inaugural Director of Sensorium, Centre for Digital Arts and Technology. She is the author of Ecstatic Worlds: Media, Utopias, Ecologies (forthcoming MIT Press). Recent co-edited publications include Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67 (McGill-Queen’s Press, 2014); Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban (McGill-Queen’s Press, 2013); and 3D Cinema and Beyond (Intellect Press/University of Chicago Press, 2013). She has been involved in curating large-scale site-specific public art exhibitions in heritage locations that seek to develop layered vernacular histories of place utilizing old and new forms of human and non-human embeddedness—the most recent was Land|Slide: Possible Futures in a 25 acre heritage Village in Southern Ontario.