This site represents my interests across many fields of inquiry. I am an independent artist-scholar with a strong commitment to critical theory, research-creation, and scientific knowledge production. Regardless of the form the work takes, it is always grounded first and foremost in practices of doing, making, and being/becoming, in the classroom, studio, laboratory, or archive. Forms include laboratory produced scientific data, animations and sculptural objects, academic and creative texts, and presentations at conferences and exhibitions. As a racialized, trans/queer, immigrant-settler, I must acknowledge that the majority of this work has taken place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh, and that I currently reside on the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississaugas.
CURRENT PROJECTS
I am currently working on a book project tentatively titled Materializing the conditions of scientific knowledge production that dissects academic scientific knowledge production, demands and describes other ways of thinking, working, and being in the sciences, and demonstrates what is possible when science is freed from capital and colonial instrumental goals and instead embraces ambiguity and multiplicity.
UPCOMING
Transmute III screening at the Fluxus Experimental Film Festival, co-produced by Hamilton Artists Inc., Factory Media Centre, and the School of the Arts, McMaster University. September 20-22, 2024, Hamilton, ON
Science in the Undercommons: towards a trans/queer art/science, roundtable presentation at the University Art Association of Canada annual conference. October 24-26, 2024, London, ON
RECENT
Transmute ([5.19:11.20] ∆ [7.22:2.23])/[5.23:6.23] screening in collaboration with Things that do not come by the road, curated by Melanie O’Brian. Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, BC, May 5 – June 4, 2023
Title Unknown screening, curated by Whess Harmon. Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, Vancouver, BC, March 1 – August 31, 2023
MakeShift: handmade, homemade, and remade productions, AHVA Graduate Symposium. AHVA Gallery, Vancouver, BC, March 1 – 31, 2023
The Living that Took Place: An Interview with Chelene Knight by The Generous Imaginary. The Ex-Puritan. Issue 59: Fall 2022
Baliga VB, Armstrong MS, Press ER (2021). pathviewr: Tools to import, clean, and visualize animal movement data in R. R package version 1.1.7
Development of optogenetic tools in the optic flow circuits of birds, comparative physiology seminar series. Zoology department, University of British Columbia, 2018