I saw a bio on a well known author’s page, something to the effect that they last updated their bio on X date and if it was later than that to get in touch with them. Well, this bio (and website) is super out of date. If you need something more current let me know. Thx. Contact page.
Deanne Achong is an artist who works across disciplines, including digital and lens-based projects, installation and public art. She has a daily drawing habit, one which acts as a counterpoint to her digital practice, playing with the boundaries of domesticity and technology. She has sat on the board of several artist-run centers, including Other Sights for Artists’ Projects, and has taught sessionally at ECUAD. She has exhibited her work in Canada, the US, the Caribbean, and Europe. Pier D, a public art project that combines photography and a QR code to re-imagine Vancouver in 1938, was commissioned by the City of Vancouver, 2016. In 2015, she exhibited The Obsolescence Project at the Vancouver Art Gallery for the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) and presented a beta version of her iPad app at the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) conference in Bergen, Norway.
Deanne is currently based in Ktaqmkuk, known as the island of Newfoundland, home to the Mi’kmaq peoples. She was in Vancouver, BC, for a long time and still maintains strong connections there. Vancouver is on the unceded and ancestral homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation).
[La version en français se-trouve ci-dessous]
@deanneachong | Insta
(bio n’est pas mise à jour) Deanne Achong vit et travaille à Ktaqmkuk / Terre Neuve. Sa pratique qui se déploie dans divers médias, incluant la photographie et les projets médiatiques, puise dans l’histoire, la littérature et la culture numérique. Elle a siégé à plusieurs conseils d’administration de centres d’artistes, dont Other Sights for Artists’ Projects, et fut chargée de cours à Emily Carr University of Art & Design. Ses œuvres ont été exposées au Canada, aux États-Unis, aux Caraïbes et en Europe. À l’automne dernier, elle a présenté Pier D, une installation photographique et médiatique réalisée dans le cadre d’une commande d’art public éphémère de la Ville de Vancouver, à la Canada Line au centre-ville de Vancouver. En 2015, elle exposait le projet Obsolescence à la Vancouver Art Gallery à l’occasion du Symposium international d’art électronique (ISEA) et présentait son application (iPad) lors de la conférence de l’Electronic Literature Organisation (ELO) à Bergen, en Norvège.
