CV – Jeremy
Owen Turner (b. Victoria, B.C., CANADA, 1974)
*Co-Founder/Curator of the 536 Arts Collective (2000-Present)
*Co-produced AVATARA DVD - Nominated for “Best Picture” –
2003 Machinima Film Awards, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York.
www.machinima.org - www.armedrabble.org/avatara
*Co-Ordinator – LIVE 2005 Vancouver Biennial of Performance Art – www.livevancouver.bc.ca
*Digital Archivist – Open Space Gallery – www.openspace.ca/outerspace
*Digital Archivist - Edgewise Electrolit Centre – www.heatherhaley.com
Artist’s Blog – http://numiami.blogspot.com
Selected International Exhibitions, Performances and Collections:
**FORTHCOMING in Spring 2006
– Solo Exhibition at Golestan Gallery. Curated by Lili Golestan.
Tehran, Iran
July 02, 2005 - The Gates (avatar performance) broadcasted via Techworlds – tribute concert for the Live8
Festival. Curated by Dominic Peters and Maxie X. Techworlds Main Server. Seattle, Washington.
www.techworlds.org/thegates.htm
December 04, 2004 - The Gates (Avatar performance) broadcast the Techworlds International Avatar
Community’s virtual Roller Disco. Curated by Dominic Peters and Maxie X. Techworlds Main Server.
Seattle, Washington. www.techworlds.org/thegates.htm
July 14, 2004 - The Gates (Avatar performance) broadcast into Meso Studios, and Aspekt1 Studios. Curated by
Saul Judd, Sebastian Oschatz and Mathias Wollin. Hohenstaufenstrasse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
http://dont-miss.net/scratchbook.html www.thegates.reset.at
June 07, 2004 – “7 Questions For Douglas Davis”. Video-chat interview/performance collaboration with
Douglas Davis. Documentation available on DVD – edited by Tanya Skuce. New York, NY.
www.douglasdavis.net Collected by the Morris and Helen Belkin Archives, University of British Columbia.
Archivist: Krisztina Laszlo.
April 22, 2004 –The Gates (Avatar performance) broadcast into the Zentralbuero and RocketShop gallery.
Curated by Laura Schleussner and Saul Judd. Berlin, Germany www.rocketshop.net www.thegates.reset.at
April 06, 2004 -“Dance Into The Fire”. The Gates (Avatar performance). “Pantiharn Electron [Supernatural]”
New Media Art Festival, Switch Media. Curated by Elisabet Nilsson and RAKETA. Chiang Mai, Thailand.
http://www.coming.nu/chiangmai2004/thegates
http://www.coming.nu/chiangmai2004 http://culturebase.org/home/swichmedia http://raketa.nu
February, 2004 – Launch of the ongoing and collaborative digital audio website www.greatestbits.com with
Janne Vanhanen. Helsinki, Finland and Vancouver, B.C.
November 2003 -Part of an online self-portrait stream curated by Saul Judd and AlphaKanal. Alphakanal
Frankfurt-Offenbach / Deutschland / Festival Junger Talente 2003, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
http://www.alphakanal.net/html/fjt/fjt_prog.html
October, 2003 -Avatar Performance in the group, THE GATES for the “Nowhere Party” curated by Elisabet
Nilsson. Webcast into Stockholm, L.A. and London. The Swedish Museum of Architecture,
Stockholm, Sweden. www.coming.nu - www.thegates.reset.at
August, 2003 -AVATARA DVD featured in the Micronations Group Show co-curated by Lars Vilks. Finlandia
House, Helsinki, Finland.
March, 2003 -Participated in the collaborative online labyrinth called “Plural maps: lost in São Paulo” curated by
Lucia Leao. This is an international collaborative VRML project on the WWW that is being shown at the 25 São
Paulo Biennial. São Paulo, Brazil. www.lucialeao.pro.br/pluralmaps
December 06-15, 2002 -Chatterbot collaboration with Artificial Intelligence (AI) programmer Paolo Valecirca for
the “Artificial Entity” component of the Medi@terra 4th International Art and Technology Festival: “New
Platforms of Spectacle, Communication and Resistance”. Athens, Greece.
www.fournos-culture.gr
November 07-Dec 10, 2002 -Automated Online Performance piece “connaarttbott01 – wittbott711” premiered at
the Liberarti Arts Festival and curated by Karen Eliot for the First Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, U.K.
www.liberarti.org
September 28-October 09, 2002 -Ladonian Parliament Group show. Curated by the founder of this online
virtual nation (Ladonia), Lars Vilks displayed the work of active Cabinet Ministers and Nobility working in the
Ladonian Parliament. This exhibition is also part of my collaboration with the Newfoundland-based New Media
Artist, Elizabeth Pickard. This collaborative project with Elizabeth Pickard has been graciously funded by the
Labrador Council for the Arts. This exhibition took place at the Gallery Tapper-Popermajer, Malmö, Sweden.
http://www.tapper-popermajer.com/3/vilks.htm & www.liztv.org/wedding.html
August-October, 2002. -“Mirror at the bottom”. Collaborative online group exhibition of self-portraits curated
by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne in conjunction with Le Musee Di-visioniste. Cologne, Germany. http://www.avirtual-memorial.org & http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
August 15-26, 2002. -“Violence”. International group exhibition curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne in
conjunction with CESTA (Cultural Exchange Station in Tabor). All work deals with the reaction to the events
following September 11, 2001. This exhibition took place at the “Violens” New Media Festival.
Tabor, Czech Republic. www.newmediafest.org/violence/index.html
August 08 2002 – Signature Digital-Audio archive CD accepted into the permanent collection of the Severina
Sars Museum Foundation. Curated, archived and maintained by Annette Kierulf in Bøvågen, Norway.
August 05-18, 2002 – Online solo exhibition of collected digital audio miniatures curated by Saul Judd for
www.dont-miss.net. Website designed by Mathias Wollin (Aspekt 1 Studios - www.aspekt1.net) and Jeremy
Rotsztain (Meso Studios – www.meso.net). Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
July 24, 2002 – “The Cyber Kitchen” online group exhibition. Curated by Jess Loseby. Portsmouth, England.
www.the-cyber-kitchen.com
June 16-23, 2002 - Exhibited an audio performance-installation throughout various public and semi-private urban
spaces with my collaborator Janne Vanhanen (from Helsinki, Finland) at the Manifesta4 festival in Frankfurt am
Main, Germany. This portion was curated by New York based curator, Sal Randolph. This included an in person
discussion of the project and an on-air interview with Sal Randolph on Frankfurt’s Radio X www.radiox.de &
www.freemanifesta.org
Performance venues included: The Main Café, Aspekt1 Studios, Radio X, and the Free Manifesta Headquarters
located in the Kunstverein, Römerberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
April-May 2002 -Guest Online artist for Mark Longbottom’s “View Outside my Door” web exhibition.
Brighton (Huddersfield), UK, http://helios.hud.ac.uk:8888/c0164797/content/list.htm
2001-Present . Featured Media Artist for www.Digitalsouls.com. Presentation featured a fabricated chat-room.
Curated by Holger (H-Ray) Heine. San Francisco, California, U.S.A and Dusseldorf, Germany.
May, 2001. Provided Audio for Karen Roff’s MFA Graduation Installation at the State University of New York
(SUNY), New Paltz, New York, U.S.A.
Summer, 2000. -Guest Online Artist for GATEways: A Transglobal installation sponsored by the Polycollege
Stöbergrasse and Alien Productions Vienna, Austria. http://alien.mur.at/gateways/partners.html
2000-Present -4 Virtual Characters produced by the artist released two cassette split-tapes as a performance
action. These audio cassette tapes were exclusively distributed by Pille Weibel via internet mail-order in
Lucerne, Switzerland http://chinchilla.widerstand.org/guerteltier.html
1998-1999 -Early internet work archived for a Digital Art Special Edition Disc commissioned by Holger “H-Ray”
Heine for www.Digitalsouls.com San-Francisco & Dusseldorf.
1998 -Guest Online Artist for www.Bazarin.com. Curated by Wagner Bazarin. São Paulo, Brazil.
1998 -Collaborated with Donald Lewis Trimble for a temporary interactive web-based project about online
aesthetics and new-media interactivity. Saluda, Virginia, U.S.A. & Victoria, B.C., Canada
SELECTED NATIONAL AND REGIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
July 22, 2005 - “”Cyclops Dreams”. Group Show curated by Owen Plummer and Jo Cook. Access Gallery.
Vancouver, B.C.
July 12, 2005 – “Uppannaki – Official Mascot of the 2012 Ascension”- agent-art project launched.
Agent programming and website design by Michael Fraser.
Vancouver and Maple Ridge, B.C. www.mascot2012.com
May 20, 2005 - “Candyland” - The Gates avatar performance in the SOIL Digital Media Suite at the “Re:mote
Regina” Symposium. Hosted by SOIL Media, Radioqualia, Techworlds and Neutral Ground Gallery.
Regina, Saskatchewan. www.soilmedia.org/remote/who.html#gates
www.radioqualia.net www.neutralground.sk.ca/ http://techworlds.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=15
February 04-12, 2005 – “The Infinity Project” Group Show. Curated by Jo Cook. Helen Pitt Gallery.
Vancouver, B.C. http://www.helenpittgallery.org/archive.htm
December 03, 2004 – “Distant Function” Group Show. Curated by Alberto Guedea. Blim Gallery.
Vancouver, B.C. www.blim.ca or the archive site - http://a--g.com/DF/
June 28, 2004 – “ESC” Group show. Curated by Shelly Bahl. A-Space, Toronto, Ontario. www.savac.net
www.aspacegallery.org
May 27-July 25, 2004 – “Psychomanteum 1: Emily Carr”. Solo show curated by Lisa Baldissera and Artist Talk
Moderated by Pierre Arpin. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV). Victoria, B.C. www.aggv.bc.ca/thelab
Febuary, 2004 – “Self-Publish or Perish”. Zine group show curated by Jo Cook. Open Space Gallery,
Victoria, B.C.
January, 2004 – “Email Art Group Show”. Curated by Alberto Guedea, Access Gallery. http://vaarc.ca
Vancouver, B.C.
November, 2003 – “Kappa Flight” – Solo Show curated by Tommy LaCroix. Ministry of Casual Living.
Victoria, B.C. www.ministryofcasualliving.org
November 2003 – “Fact/Fiction” - Mail-Art Group Show at the University of Regina, Curated by Tammy
McGrath. Regina, Saskatchewan.
September 2003 – Contributed Digital Audio to the Audiomobile Group Installation using GPS satellite tracking
systems. Curated by Matt Smith and Sandra Wintner at the Western Front.
Vancouver, B.C. www.firstfloor.org/audiomobile *Now an official member of the ARL collective.
August 2003 – VR/Avatar performance collaboration with Steve DiPaola (Tech BC – Surrey), Tanya Skuce
(Vancouver) and Liz Pickard (St. Johns, Newfoundland). Tech BC – SFU, Surrey (Vancouver).
www.liztv.org/wedding.html
August, 2003 -Email Art Group Show curated by Alberto Guedea, Comme Des Congress. Calgary, Alberta.
July, 2003 – “In Corp.” New Media collaboration with Kate Armstrong. Vancouver New Forms Festival,
Vancouver, B.C. www.katearmstrong.com
May, 2003 - Represented the 536 non-profit curatorial collective for a year long mentorship with SAVAC
(Toronto), A-Space (Toronto) and the Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A, Vancouver) with Donato
Mancini and Patrick Harrison. Curated by: Gu Xiong, Sylvia Borda and Sadira Rodrigues. Centre A
commissioned an installation and screening of a docudrama DVD taking place within avatar virtual worlds. This
show toured from Vancouver to Toronto in 2003/2004 and was screened at the Next 2.0 Conference in
Karlstad, Sweden and other TBA festivals overseas.
April, 2003 – Super-8 film short created with Tanya Skuce screened at the Blinding Light Cinema.
Vancouver, B.C.
February 25, 2003 - Digitalis2 Group show curated by James KM at the Evergreen center. Coquitlam, B.C.
October 08-November 16, 2002- “Vancouver Artists” group show curated by Mike Haller –
Fifth Parallel Gallery, University of Regina and Neutral Ground Gallery. Regina, Saskatchewan.
September 04, 2002. “Vantasy” Group exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG),
www.contemporaryartgallery.ca - Vancouver, B.C.
May, 2002 - “Principles of Occupation”. Group Exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery,
University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, B.C. www.inkvision.com/occupation
April 18-25, 2002 - Collaborative exhibition with Tammy McGrath and Jo Cook for the “Networks” online art
festival at RCAVisual in St. Johns, Newfoundland. Lectured in person on the subject of “Virtual Asia” on April
16, 2002. Travel funding supplied by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Interview televised by CBC Atlantic.
April 04, 2002 -Acted as Co-Curator/Artist for the 536 Avatar Talent Show at the Grunt Gallery,
Vancouver. B.C. www.grunt.bc.ca
November, 2001 -“Digitalis” – Digital print group show curated by James K-M at Moonbase Gallery,
Vancouver, B.C.
http://www.120seconds.com/features/020111_undergroundart/020111_undergroundart.html
August, 2001 - “Remain at a distance” group show and artist talk at Open Space Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
http://www.openspace.ca/archive%20final/archive2001.htm
May, 2001 -Collaboration with Leanne Johnson for the “SIFTED: The Read Room” CD ROM and Website.
Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver. B.C. www.artspeak.bc.ca
May, 2001 -1 year retrospective of the Notable School MP3 Kiosk showcased at “Collaboratory”. Open Space
Gallery, Victoria, B.C. http://www.openspace.ca/archive%20final/archive2001.htm
March, 2001 -Site specific exhibition at the 911 Virtual Gallery with Patrick Chan.
Vancouver, B.C.
Presented by 536.
May, 2000 – “Notables”. Solo multimedia exhibition at the Dynamo Gallery, Vancouver, B.C..
1996-2000- Chat-room performer on AOL.COM.
SELECTED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, APPEARANCES CONFERENCES,
PUBLICATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS:
September 28 – October 01 (Summit October 02-03) –
“Refresh: First International Conference On The Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology”.
Presentation: “SAT-TEL-COMP (Satellite-Telephone-Computer): Beginnings of multi-dimensional artist networks
through the connectivity of (technological) telecommunication devices and human dialogue.”
Presenting with Todd Davis and Douglas Jarvis (Open Space, Victoria). www.mediaarthistory.org
Banff, Alberta.
September, 2005 – Exclusive online audio lectures about “Transhumanist Art and Agenthood” posted online as
the virtual component of the Transvision 2005 Conference hosted by the Venezuelan Transhumanist Association.
Physical conference originally held July 22-24, 2005. Organized by Jose Cordeiro. Archived by Pablo Liendo
and Santiago Ochoa. www.transhumanismo.org/tv05/en/default.htm Caracas, Venezuela.
July, 2005 – Interview with Kim Cascone translated into German and published in Harald Wiltsche’s anthology
“Techno-Visionen: Neue Sounds, neue Bildräume”. pp. 78-83. ISBN# 3-85256-301-1
/www.intro.de/musik/magazin/1116662646 - www.folioverlag.com Graz, Austria.
May 18, 2005 - “Greatestbits on the Radio”. Radio appearance on CFRO 102.7 FM Co-Op Radio. Other
featured guests included: Donato Mancini, James Whitman, Robert Pedersen, Jean Routhier and Janne Vanhanen
(remotely from Helsinki). Soundscapes show hosted by Mark Brady. Vancouver, B.C.
www.greatestbits.com - www.coopradio.org/listen/
April 22, 2005 – “New Frontiers in Digitization”. Archives Association of British Columbia Conference 2005.
Moderator: Roger Boulet, Langley Centennial Museum. Other panel speakers: Lisa Codd & Chris Hives.
Fort Langley, B.C.
Feb 04-06, 2005 – “Interactive Futures 2005: Technology in the Life World”. New Media portion of the Victoria
International Film festival. Conference about Satellite-Art-History with Douglas Jarvis (Open Space, Victoria).
Moderated by Steve Gibson and Julie Andreyev. Laurel Point Inn Hotel. Victoria, BC.
http://www.vifvf.com/if.html
Jan 09, 2005 - Artist talk at McNair Secondary School. Curated by Kathy Tycholis. Richmond Art Gallery.
Richmond, B.C. http://www.richmondartgallery.org/
December 2004 – TRAVATARS 2004 – Online avatar conference hosted by Techworlds.org – Invited speaker.
July, 2004- “Myron Krueger Live!” - Interview with Myron Krueger (the founder of Virtual Reality)
published by www.ctheory.net - re-published in print in the “Life In The Wires: The CTheory Reader” –
www.lifeinthewires.net pp.377-383 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker (Ed.). NWP: Ctheory Books, 2004.
ISBN# 0-920-393-21-7 Originally appeared online in 2002 at www.ctheory.net
June, 2004 – “The making of AVATARA”. Online article written with Donato Mancini for trAce Online
Writing Centre – Edited by Randy Adams. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England.
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/test_article/index.cfm?article=110
May 06-08, 2004 – Participated in the CIAO (Conceptual and Intermedia Arts Online) Annual Members
Meeting. Now officially a member of CIAO as an Archival consultant for Open Space and the Edgewise Electrolit
Centre. Moderated by Jon Ippolito, Carol Stringari, Caitlin Jones, Richard Rinehart and Martha Wilson. Also,
was an official emulation evaluator for the “Seeing Double” Exhibition. Travel funded by the Canada Council
For The Arts. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. www.guggenheim.org, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
www.variablemedia.net, www.franklinfurnace.org
February 2004 – Clip from the AVATARA DVD featured in Horizon Zero –
Banff Centre for The Arts, Banff, Alberta. www.horizonzero.ca
January 2004 – “Interactive Futures 2004” – Net-Art Panel at the Laurel Point Inn. Hosted by Steve Gibson.
DVD screenings at Open Space Gallery. Part of the Victoria Film Festival. Victoria, B.C.
August 30, 2003 – Became a naturalized citizen of the Virtual Nation and the United Kingdom, Konungarikena
Elgaland-Vargaland. Citizenship endorsed by Carl Michael (CM) von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren.
www.krev.org Stockholm, Sweden.
December 2003 – “Distributed Creativity” =- Net-Art panel moderated by Jon Ippolito Eyebeam Gallery (New
York) and Still-Water (Maine). Forum will be published into print via Eyebeam Gallery.
November 2003 – “Cyberworlds 2003” –AVATARA DVD presented by Bruce Damer. Singapore.
March, 2003 – Net Artists Speaking Offline – Net Art Panel at the Surrey Art Gallery, Moderated by Liane
Davidson. Surrey, B.C.
June 10, 2002 – Present. Officially appointed Minister of Avatar Affairs by the Ladonian Parliament. Ladonia
is an internet nation created by Swedish conceptual artist, Lars Vilks. In addition to being a cabinet minister for
this virtual nation, virtual nobility has also been awarded with the title being “Count Onto Distro von Vancouver”.
As Minister of Avatar Affairs, interactive performances will commence that will enact various bureaucratic
policies throughout the Ladonian Cabinet via teleconferencing through Virtual Reality environments.
Arild, Sweden. www.ladonia.net
May 02-05, 2002- Collaborative presentation with Donato Mancini, Tammy McGrath and Jo Cook to deliver the
conference paper “Virtually Asian: TRANSRACIAL PARTICIPATION IN “ASIAN” CYBERCOMMUNITIES.” At
the “Locating Asia Symposium”. Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
September 04 & 06, 2002 – Guest lecturer for Sylvia Borda’s Digital Arts 387 and 287 classes at the
University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, B.C.. Topics discussed were “The Gradual Transition of
Online Artists from Content to Context Providers” and “The Aesthetic Limitations of Adobe Photoshop’s
Plug-In Filters”.
July, 2002 – Appointed onto the Board of Editors for Dr. Trace Reddell’s online magazine “Digital
Salvage”. University of Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Summer, 2002 – Hosted an academic presentation with Professor Steve diPaola from Simon Fraser
University’s Tech BC Institute (www.dipaola.org) on the subject of “Avatar Worlds and Interactive
Entertainment” at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
2002- Curated the Digital Pocket Gallery on behalf of the 536 Collective with the co-operation of the iKatun
collective (Boston, MA, U.S.A.) and Jess Loseby (Portsmouth, UK). www.ikatun.com/digitalpocketgallery
2002- Two articles on the subject of avatar culture published on Shift Magazine’s www.shift.com.
Toronto, Ontario.
2002- Interviews with Trace Reddell and William Selman published on Rhizome.org
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?3237
2002- Multi-participant interview with Anders Sandberg, Mark Walker, T.O. Morrow and Natasha VitaMore published on Extropy: Journal for Transhuman Solutions. The abstract for the interview was
published with the “Exponent” Monthly Newsletter for February. www.extropy.org/ideas/journal/current/0205.html
2002 – Interview with Sebastian Oschatz from the German electronic music group Oval published on his
website, www.meso.net Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
2001 – Interviews with Kim Cascone and Janne Vanhanen on the subject of Microsound Composition,
Laptop Performance and Sonic Minimalism published by www.ctheory.net
2001- Lectured with 536 at Green College Residence, UBC on the subject of “Portable Artist Run Spaces”
and “536’s Contribution to Continuing Colourbar Research from the Morris/Trasov Archive”, Vancouver.
2001- Lectured with Jason Fitzpatrick (536) and Andrew Armour (Dynamo Arts Association) to
graduating students at UBC Visual Arts on the subject of the feasibility of creating and maintaining an
artist run center, Vancouver.
2001 – Lectured with Jason Fitzpatrick to UBC visual arts undergraduates on the Continuing Colourbar
research project in conjunction with the Morris/Trasov archive, Vancouver.
2000- Regular contributor to Front Magazine, www.front.bc.ca Vancouver, B.C..
Guest Online Interviewer and website reviewer for http://www.intelligentagent.com/.
New York, NY, U.S.A.
1994-1997 Official Arts/Entertainment Critic for AOL CANADA
COMMERCIAL/RETAIL EXHIBITIONS:
September 08, 2005 – “Uppannaki - Mascot 2012 Launch”.
Solo show curated by Owen Plummer. Lucky’s Comics and Games in conjunction with the Swarm Festival..
www.luckys.ca - http://paarc.ca/swarm/mtpleasant.html Vancouver, B.C.
July 02, 2005 – “Can Con”. Group show curated by Marie-Hélène Tessier. New/Used Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
EDUCATION:
BA in Art-History at the University of Victoria {1997} – http://finearts.uvic.ca/historyinart/
Studied Music Composition with John Celona, Christopher Butterfield and John Cole at the University of
Victoria {1992-1997} – http://finearts.uvic.ca/music/composition/
CV for the 536 Arts Collective is also available upon request