Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
Dr. Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof is an artist-scholar whose research interests are interdisciplinary and probe the intersections of art, body, and technology. She is an award-winning media artist, and her films have been included in over 150 public presentations at major international film festivals, art museums, and centres, including Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sundance Film Festival, Guggenheim New York, Centre Pompidou, ZKM, and the Moving Image Museum. (For details and to view these works, visit https://vimeo.com/izabellapruskaoldenhof). Izabella is a co-founder of two successful artist collectives, Loop Collective (1996–2016, https://www.loopcollective.com/index.html) and The Decameron Collective (2020–present, https://www.decameroncollective.com), and her interest in collaborations between artists and scientists resulted in a co-authored book with Dr. Robert K. Logan (a physicist and media ecology scholar) titled A Topology of Mind: Spiral Thought Patterns, the Hyperlinking of Text, Ideas and More (Springer International, 2022).
Recent publications
Books
Robert K. Logan and Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof. A Topology of Mind: Spiral Thought Patterns, the Hyperlinking of Text, Ideas and More. Mathematics in Mind series. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Book Chapters
Robert K. Logan and Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof. “The Topology of Mathematics in the Mind and Its Interaction with Verbal and Written Language.” Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math Cognition. Marcel Danesi ed. Springer International Publishing, 2019. Pp. 195-212
“Loïe Fuller’s Serpentines and Poetics of Self-abnegation in the Era of Electrotechnics,” Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies. Edited by Douglas Rosenberg. New York, NY: Oxford University Press Anthology Publication, 2016. 45-62.
“Loïe Fuller and the Poetics of Light, Colour, and Rhythm: Some Thoughts on the Making of fugitive l(i)ght,” Motion Pictures: Dance’s Duet with Camera. Edited by Ruth Barnes and Telory Davies. Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2016. 97-117.
Journal Publications
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof and Robert K. Logan. “The Spiral Structure of Marshall McLuhan’s Thinking,” Philosophies Vol. 2, no. 2 (2017): 15 pages.
‘Man as the Medium’: McLuhan, Etrog, and Spiral Archetype,” Ultimate Reality and Meaning Journal (Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding) Vol. 34, No. 3-4 (2015): 257-266.
Sample of supervised ComCult projects:
SUPERVISIONS PhD
2020 – present - Azadeh Monzavi; research-creation (co-supervisor with Dr. Monique Tschofen)
2022 - present - Cody Rooney; research-creation
2023 - present - Shawn DeSouza-Coelho; research-creation
SUPERVISIONS MA
2012 - Dana Svistovitch; Project: Moments Under Dark: The Experience of The City at Night
2013 - Michelle Hannah; Project: In the Woods: Pathways of Perception
2013 - Cassandra Poley; Project: Sexually Transmitted Communication: Getting Between the Sheets with Technology
2014 - Lisa Hoffman; MRP: Coding for the Commons: The Emergence of Free and Open-Source Software for Disaster Relief
2014 - Peter Unwin; MRP: ‘The Black Liquor’ a Techno-poetics of Ink
2014 - Julia Gingrich; Project: From Here to There: Mythmaking and Cartographies of Quilting
2014 - Rekha Ramachandran; Project: Inter-Action: An Intermedia Representation of Self in Multicultural Environments
2014 - Paula John; Project: Joyce Wieland’s Gendered Nation: The Nation as Feminine versus Country as Masculine
2015 - Kathleen McLeod; Project: The Hand of a Dead Woman: Textile Illuminations and the Invisible Hands of Women in Late Nineteenth Century Astronomy and Culture
2015 - Vanessa Del Carpio; Project: Between Women and Fashion: Theorizing Forty-One (Her)stories of Female Pleasure, Experience, and Subjectivity in Dress
2016 - Katrina Orlowski; Project: Searching for Chaudière
2016 - Maria Cassasfranco; Project: Family Faces: Family Engagement in the Development of Tablet Applications for Facial Expression and Emotion Recognition for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
2017- Sara Edwards; Project: Both Sides: Archiving the Found Family Photo
2019 - Nene Brody; Project: Mind & Matter: A Durational Performance Using Visualized, Sonified and Other Data Translation from Portable EEG Technologies in Mental and Physical Training
2022 - Isabel Inclan; Project: Raising Their Voices: Latin American Women in Canadian Politics
2022 - Nikole McGregor; Project: The Depths of a Story: Hyper-Haptic Immersion in a Volumetric Documentary
COMMITTEE MEMBER
Committee Member PhD
- 2012 - Kelly Egan (dissertation)
- 2015 - Zorianna Zurba (dissertation)
- 2017 - Alya Naumova (comps and dissertation)
- 2020 - Kyler Zeleny (comps and dissertation)
PhD Qualifying Examination (Comps) Committee Only
- 2015 - Alanna McKnight (comps)
- 2016 - Walter Lai (comps )
- 2016 - Nathaniel Brunt (comps)
- 2020 - Craig Fahner (comps)
- 2020 - Andrey Miroshnichenko (comps)
In Progress
- Rawan Al-Wakeal (comps) 2021 - present
- Kristen Tollan (comps and dissertation) 2022 – present
- Alissa Novitchkova (comps) 2023 - present
- Blair Miller (comps) 2023 - present
- Iowyth Witteman (comps) 2023 - present
Committee Member MA
- 2010 - Jessie Koh; Project
- 2012 - Dan Browne; Project
- 2012 - Jessica Thorpe; Project
- 2012 - Lisa Dobbin; MRP
- 2013 - Tesni Ellis; Project
- 2013 - Victor Cirone; Project
- 2015 - Sasha Smith; Project
- 2016 - Frederique Bournot; Project
- 2016 - Amanda Wong; Project
- 2016 - Mahshid Rafiei; Project
- 2016 - Nathaniel Brunt; Project
- 2017 - Laura Flanagan; Project
- 2017 - Vanessa Ciccone; Project
- 2017 - Ivona Jozinovic; Project
- 2017 - Tatyana Terzopoulos; Project
- 2017 - Laura Fox; Project
- 2018 - Emma Sharpe; Project
- 2018 - Joel Benard; Project
- 2019 - Sula Sidnell; Project
- 2019 - Rawan Al-Wakeal; Project
- 2020 - Deepa Venkatesan; Project
- 2020 - Preethi Jagadeesh; Project
- 2020 - Lucy Wowk; Project
- 2020 - Cody Rooney; Project
- 2021 - Meng Jian; Project
ComCult Teaching Activities
- CC9904 – PhD Perspectives in Communication and Culture
- CC8960 – Advanced Communication Technology
- CC8987 – Topics in Technology in Practice: Making Culture Public & Private
- CC8906 – Communication and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Approach
- CC8982 – The Body and the Culture of Modernity
- CC 8903 – MA Seminar: Research and Practice
- CC 8836 – Topics in Media and Culture: The Body as Medium
- CC 8900 - Core Issues: Cultural Studies