Hector Canonge is a New Media artist who lives in New York City where he studied Literature, Film and Interactive Media Technologies. He is the recipient of the 2007 AIM Residency Program at the Bronx Museum of Art where he presented IDOLatries, a New Media Installation exploring feminine iconography on food products through the use of barcode technology. Expanding the use of such technologies, he is at the present working on MUTANATURe, where methods of food production, harvesting, and commercialization are presented in a series of locative interventions. His new site-specific installation, MurosDistópicos / DystopicWalls, was commissioned by the Queens Museum of Art for the exhibition Corona Plaza: Center of Everywhere, on view at Western Union, Corona, through October 2007.
In 2006 he was nominated for the Rockefeller Fellowship in New Media, received a Harvestworks Scholarship, and presented 200mm3, a New Media Installation that incorporates video, laboratory equipment, commercial scanners to present stories about people with HIV/AIDS. The same year, he screened LAVENDER INK, a multimedia project that presents the experiences of gay and lesbian elders, their memories of NYC, and growing up "queer" in America; and ECOscapes, experimental 2 Channel Video that treats the relationship of remembrance and the environment inspired by Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.”
In 2005, he organized and participated in URBAN INTERFACES V.1, a program that explored the use of open source communication technologies, and presented SONIC BYTES, a psychogeographic collaborative sound-mapping conceptual project, and QUADROLOGYA, a series of experiments dealing with the effects that street intersections have on the perception of the city.
In 2004, his mobile Web based interactive, open source project, CIUDAD TRANSMOBIL was featured at the Queens Museum of Art Biennial, Queens International. He was a guest speaker in the CUNY 2004 Media Conference: Journalism, Media and the Big City, and a presenter of Documentary Intentions in the Age of New Media organized by SUNY, Buffalo, and CUNY, Hunter College (2003).
He has been featured on the Web with projects like CUBOT, MEXICANISMOS, HCVTR, and his video documentary work, GO BOYS, and fiction film, FEAR, have been presented in various national and international film festivals where he received awards and honorable mentions.
He is an adjunct instructor of multimedia at The City University of New York; and teaches part time in the Film & Media Program at the New School University. He has taught media production at Brooklyn Community Access Television; Stop Motion & Visual Animation at Bronx River Arts Center, was an educator-digital game consultant at the Museum of the Moving Image, and conducted a workshop series in 3D Design & Modeling Architecture at the Bronx Museum of The Arts. He is presently leading the ecoMedia Summer Program at BRAC, and working in the development of an online LGBT History Archive with SAGE\Queens. As part of his community initiatives, he started the film program CINEMAROSA -queens only queer film series, funded the non-for profit organization QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development; and is in the process of creating a joint venture for Queen’s First Media Lab.
In 2006 he was nominated for the Rockefeller Fellowship in New Media, received a Harvestworks Scholarship, and presented 200mm3, a New Media Installation that incorporates video, laboratory equipment, commercial scanners to present stories about people with HIV/AIDS. The same year, he screened LAVENDER INK, a multimedia project that presents the experiences of gay and lesbian elders, their memories of NYC, and growing up "queer" in America; and ECOscapes, experimental 2 Channel Video that treats the relationship of remembrance and the environment inspired by Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.”
In 2005, he organized and participated in URBAN INTERFACES V.1, a program that explored the use of open source communication technologies, and presented SONIC BYTES, a psychogeographic collaborative sound-mapping conceptual project, and QUADROLOGYA, a series of experiments dealing with the effects that street intersections have on the perception of the city.
In 2004, his mobile Web based interactive, open source project, CIUDAD TRANSMOBIL was featured at the Queens Museum of Art Biennial, Queens International. He was a guest speaker in the CUNY 2004 Media Conference: Journalism, Media and the Big City, and a presenter of Documentary Intentions in the Age of New Media organized by SUNY, Buffalo, and CUNY, Hunter College (2003).
He has been featured on the Web with projects like CUBOT, MEXICANISMOS, HCVTR, and his video documentary work, GO BOYS, and fiction film, FEAR, have been presented in various national and international film festivals where he received awards and honorable mentions.
He is an adjunct instructor of multimedia at The City University of New York; and teaches part time in the Film & Media Program at the New School University. He has taught media production at Brooklyn Community Access Television; Stop Motion & Visual Animation at Bronx River Arts Center, was an educator-digital game consultant at the Museum of the Moving Image, and conducted a workshop series in 3D Design & Modeling Architecture at the Bronx Museum of The Arts. He is presently leading the ecoMedia Summer Program at BRAC, and working in the development of an online LGBT History Archive with SAGE\Queens. As part of his community initiatives, he started the film program CINEMAROSA -queens only queer film series, funded the non-for profit organization QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development; and is in the process of creating a joint venture for Queen’s First Media Lab.
