artist cv
EXHIBITIONS | SCREENINGS | PERFORMANCES
Transformation World Expo 2010, Canada Pavilion, Shanghai, China
Son Image Images Festival, WARC Gallery (solo), 2006, Toronto, Ontario
Surveillance Leonardo Electronic Almanac Global Crossings Online Exhibition, 2006, USA
Lifelines Island Art Film & Video Festival, 2005, London, UK
VideoDictionary La Casa Encendida, 2004, Madrid, Spain
Pause … Perchance to Hear 2004 Biennale of Electronic Art, Le Musée Divisioniste, Perth, Australia
The Connections Project Images Festival, 2004, Toronto, Ontario
I-Highway: Net Art in Canada Java Museum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art, 2003, Germany
Donisi EuCue’s XXI New Music Concert Series, Oscar Peterson Hall, Concordia University, 2002, Montreal, Quebec
PUBLIC ART | PRIVATE COMMISSIONS
Transformation Eva James Memorial Community Centre, City of Ottawa, Finalist, 2003
First Breath Christine Switzer Photography, Toronto, Ontario, 2002
FILM SCORING CREDITS
Mutant X (Sci-Fi syndicated television series – Fireworks Entertainment), additional music cues for Episode 309 (No Exit) & Episode 310 (Brother’s Keeper)
China Saucer (16mm, B&W, 8min) Director: Henrietta Veerman; Theatrical Premiere: National Arts Centre (Ottawa), 1998; Broadcast Premiere: WTN (1999)
GRANTS & AWARDS
Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grants to Media Artists, 2004
Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artists: Film & Video Production Grant, 2003
Corel Endowment Fund for the Arts Award, 2003
Guild of Canadian Film Composers Apprentice/Mentorship Bursary Award, 2003
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
Invited Speaker – 3rd Annual GPRC Arts Symposium: Crossing Boundaries, Douglas J. Cardinal Theatre, Grande Prairie, Alberta, March 2007
Invited Artist Talk – Images Festival, WARC Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, April 2006
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Ontario Arts Council Juror – Media Arts Festivals Projects Program, November 2008
Ontario Arts Council Juror – Emerging Artists: Film & Video Grant Program, March 2006
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
Sessional Lecturer, Carleton University, School for Studies in Art & Culture, 2005-2006
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Siddiqua, Naeema. “Third Annual Artists Symposium set for GPRC” Daily Herald Tribune, March 15, 2007.
Han, Jacqueline. “Sound, Image & High-Tech Come Together in New Art Show” Sing Tao Daily, April 19, 2006.
TheVideoArtFoundation. Foreword by Enrique Bernadez. Curated by Jorge Bravo. Video Dictionary Exhibition Catalogue, August 6, 2005.
MacMillan, Rick. “Learning from the greats – Mentor program a boon for budding film composers” Words & Music SOCAN, Summer 2004 issue, Vol.11 No.2, p.30
T’Kenye, Caddie. “An interview with Alison Chung-Yan: Composer, Sound Designer, Media Artist and … Engineer!” iDEa Digital Eve Canada’s Webzine, Spring 2004.
“Come view art for Eva James Memorial Community Centre” Kanata Kourier-Standard, p.11, July 4, 2003.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/le Front des artistes canadiens)
SOCAN (Society for Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada)
GCFC (Guild of Canadian Film Composers)
COMPUTER | TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
Operating Systems: Windows, MacOSX, UNIX
Audio / Video / Web: Logic Studio, Final Cut Studio 2, Flash CS4, Actionscript3, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, HTML, CSS
Programming: Max / MSP / Jitter, MIDI, DMX, C++, Pascal, Perl, Matlab, Maple, Javascript, PHP, SQL
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
GCFC Apprentice/Mentorship Program, Apprenticeship with Donald Quan, QMusic, Inc., 2004
Canadian Screen Training Centre, Summer Institute for Film & Television, The Sound of Music – Film Scoring Workshop with Tim McCauley, 2002
EDUCATION
D.S.D., Diploma in Sonic Design (New Media Program), Carleton University, 2002
B.A.Sc. (Honours), Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 1996
