Malcolm LevyCA
08.26
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14:30_15:30
Montréal time
Conference
Malcolm Levy is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator based in Toronto. His practice encompasses visual and video art, curation, design, writing, platforms, music and interactive art. Often these influences overlap on any specific project. He is currently working as the Founder / Director of RefractionDAO. Malcolm was the Director of the New Forms Festival from 2001 – 2016, and the Curator of CODE Live, the Digital Festival during the 2010 Olympics Games in Vancouver. He was the co-Artistic Director for the International Symposium of Electronic Art in 2015. Malcolm completed an MA in Media Studies at the New School of Media Studies, and teaches ‘Contemporary Practices in Installation Art’ at the Centre for Digital Media, a combined program from Emily Carr and SFU. Further work involves the creative app Generate, the music imprint Specials Worldwide, and further independent artworks and research surrounding the Other Frames digital video / photography project. His artistic practice focuses on abstract photography, video and further contemporary image making, and has shown his work internationally, selected exhibitions include Transfer Gallery (NYC), BAF (Vancouver), Supermarkt (Berlin), Next Wave (Melbourne) and ISEA (Sharjah), the Artist in Residence at Summit on Powder Mountain. In 2021-22 he has been active with all the main NFT platforms, selling over 50 works and collecting in the artist run creative world of the future in Web 3.