Artengine and Vague Terrain are pleased to announce Rhiannon Vogl as our first ever Critical Blogging Resident. Rhiannon will start her year long residence with Artengine and Vague Terrain with a trip to the cutting edge Elektra Festival in Montréal. She will be posting daily from the festival, from Thursday May 6th through Sunday May 8th, so for updates and reviews you can read her at artengine.ca/blog and here at Vague Terrain.
Over the course of the year Rhiannon will be using the Artengine and Vague Terrain blogs as creative spaces for critical discourse around the media arts and creative technological expression. If you want to get in touch please feel free to email her at critical@artengine.ca.
More About Rhiannon Vogl
Rhiannon received her Master of Arts in Art History from Carleton University, Ottawa in 2007. Since then, she has held the position of Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Her writing has appeared in three catalogues produced by the NGC – Nomads (2009), Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer (2008) and Real Life: Ron Mueck and Guy Ben-Ner (2008); Breathing Under Water: Glynis Humphrey, produced by Axenéo7, Gatineau (2008) as well as Canadian Art Magazine, Paroles Gelées: UCLA French Studies Journal, Dharma Arts Online, Vernissage Magazine, and The Ottawa Xpress. Most recently, she co-curated Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, which will tour beginning in 2011. Rhiannon currently sits on the Board of Directors at gallerie SAW gallery, and has presented her research internationally at conferences in Los Angeles, Vancouver and Kingston, Ontario.
