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“Fabric of Celluloid” at San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design

SFMCD Curatorial Director Ariel Zaccheo invited me to give a public talk in connection to the museum’s VIDEO CRAFT exhibition(Feb – Aug 2026). Five artists in this exhibition were also featured in my exhibition Interlaced: Animation & Textiles. Both exhibitions began from our shared interest in media art and textiles, and but developed in distinct directions and approaches.

My talk “Fabric of Celluloid” focused on the material history of celluloid, following the kinship between textiles and moving images from early synthetic fabrics to camerlass animation on filmstrips, hand-inked cel animation, and contemporary artists who quilt and weave with cellulose acetate and polyester.

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“Ohhh, Canada… Joyce Wieland’s Erotic Citizenship” (exhibition review)

My review of the luscious exhibition Heart On: Joyce Wieland was published over the holidays in PUBLIC Journal online here. Below is a version of the review that includes my documentation of the exhibition.

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Book Publication – “Interlaced: Animation & Textiles”

Celebrating the global launch of Interlaced: Animation and Textiles (2025), a lavishly illustrated print catalogue that documents and critically expands on the popular exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre. This book explores the relationship between animation and textiles across over a century of media art, from early cinema experiments to contemporary algorithmically generated images. Curator Alla Gadassik’s deeply researched text is accompanied by captivating exhibition photographs, high-quality reproductions of all artworks and additional archival materials, and a Director’s foreword.

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Exhibition: “Interlaced: Animation and Textiles” (Dec. 7, 2024 – Apr. 27, 2025)

The culmination of my curatorial residency at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, this is the first major exhibition dedicated to the reciprocal relationship between animation and textile art. Transforming the centre into a series of gallery and cinema spaces, Interlaced: Animation and Textiles brings together moving-image works fashioned from textile forms and materials alongside fibre works inspired by animation. Artists featured in the exhibition explore ways of embroidering with projected light, quilting celluloid films, and weaving digital tapestries.

 ARTISTS:
Faig Ahmed (Azerbaijan), Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (UK), Jon Michael Corbett (Canada), Kelly Egan (Canada), Sione Faletau (Aotearoa, Tonga), Footprints Studio (UK), Sabrina Gschwandtner (USA), Marguerite Harris (France), Len Lye (Aotearoa), Aubrey Longley-Cook (USA), Jodie Mack (USA), Huw Messie (USA), Lindsay McIntyre (Canada), Miracle de Mille (France), Ng’endo Mukii (USA), Kate Nartker (USA), Ishu Patel (Canada), Pathé Studio (UK), Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof (Canada), Harry Smith (USA), Caitlin Thompson (Canada), Vaimaila Urale (Aotearoa, Samoa), Jennifer West (USA), Jordan Wong (USA), Shaheer Zazai (Canada), Studio Zeitguised (Germany)

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