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Michelle Kasprzak is a Canadian curator and writer based in [[Amsterdam]], the Netherlands. She has appeared in Wired UK, on radio and TV broadcasts by the BBC and CBC, and lectured at PICNIC. She founded one of the world's leading art curating blogs, Curating.info. She has written critical essays for Rhizome, CV Photo, Mute, Spacing, and many other media outlets.
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'''Michelle Kasprzak''' is an artist, writer, curator, and educator. Currently she is a Guest Curator for the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2023, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences).
  
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In 2006, she was awarded a curatorial research residency at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, in 2010 she attended the Summer Seminars for Art Curators in Yerevan, Armenia, and in 2011 was a guest of the BAM International Visitor’s Programme in Flanders. She has a BFA in New Media (Ryerson University, 2000) and MA in Visual and Media Arts (Université du Québec à Montréal, 2006).  
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As a curator, Michelle has produced exhibitions across North America and Europe, at V2_ Institute for Unstable Media, Future Flux Festival, Dutch Electronic Art Festival, ZERO1 Biennial, Cornerhouse, New Media Scotland, and others. She has written critical essays for HOLO, C Magazine, Volume, Spacing, CV Photo, Public, Mute, Blackflash, and several online journals on a wide range of subjects in the realm of contemporary culture. She has written for many exhibition catalogues, most recently contributing an essay on the work of Canadian artist Peter Flemming for a catalogue published by Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. From 2006-2015, Michelle was Editor-in-Chief of a leading blog on the subject of curating contemporary art, Curating.info. She is currently co-editing Commissioned Critique, an essay series for the Sandberg Instituut.
  
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The results of her curatorial work have appeared in venues worldwide. Most recently, she co-curated Constellations with Karen Gaskill, an exhibition featuring artists Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kitty Kraus, Katie Paterson, and Takahiro Iwasaki at Cornerhouse in Manchester, UK. She has also been appointed as part of the curatorial team for the 2012 ZER01 Biennial in San Jose, California.
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Michelle’s art practice spans video art, performance, photography, and digital media works. She most recently exhibited her work in the group show “Materializing the Internet” at MU (Eindhoven), and has benefited from the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Creative Industries Fund NL.
  
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Michelle is currently Curator at [[V2|V2_ Institute for Unstable Media]], Project Director at McLuhan in Europe 2011, and a member of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art).  
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Michelle is a sought-after moderator and event host, working most recently with the Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam), Leiden University, and The New Institute (Rotterdam).
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In 2020, she obtained her PhD with the UT Austin|Portugal CoLab, University of Porto. Her dissertation, ''Curating-with: Artistic Methodologies for Social Innovation and Community-focused Acts of Care, Maintenance, and Repair'', was supervised by Sandra Silva (U Porto) and Chris Csíkszentmihályi (Cornell). [https://michelle.kasprzak.ca/blog/about (2022)]
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* Eva Kekou, [http://4humanities.org/2012/12/interview-with-artist-and-curator-michelle-karszpak/ "Interview with Artist and Curator Michelle Kasprzak"], ''4Humanities'', December 2012.
  
 
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* Eva Kekou, [http://4humanities.org/2012/12/interview-with-artist-and-curator-michelle-karszpak/ "Interview with Artist and Curator Michelle Kasprzak"], ''4Humanities'', December 2012.
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* [[Mastodon::https://post.lurk.org/@mk]] (Mastodon)
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Revision as of 20:08, 2 December 2022

Michelle Kasprzak is an artist, writer, curator, and educator. Currently she is a Guest Curator for the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2023, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences).

As a curator, Michelle has produced exhibitions across North America and Europe, at V2_ Institute for Unstable Media, Future Flux Festival, Dutch Electronic Art Festival, ZERO1 Biennial, Cornerhouse, New Media Scotland, and others. She has written critical essays for HOLO, C Magazine, Volume, Spacing, CV Photo, Public, Mute, Blackflash, and several online journals on a wide range of subjects in the realm of contemporary culture. She has written for many exhibition catalogues, most recently contributing an essay on the work of Canadian artist Peter Flemming for a catalogue published by Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. From 2006-2015, Michelle was Editor-in-Chief of a leading blog on the subject of curating contemporary art, Curating.info. She is currently co-editing Commissioned Critique, an essay series for the Sandberg Instituut.

Michelle’s art practice spans video art, performance, photography, and digital media works. She most recently exhibited her work in the group show “Materializing the Internet” at MU (Eindhoven), and has benefited from the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Creative Industries Fund NL.

Michelle is a sought-after moderator and event host, working most recently with the Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam), Leiden University, and The New Institute (Rotterdam).

In 2020, she obtained her PhD with the UT Austin|Portugal CoLab, University of Porto. Her dissertation, Curating-with: Artistic Methodologies for Social Innovation and Community-focused Acts of Care, Maintenance, and Repair, was supervised by Sandra Silva (U Porto) and Chris Csíkszentmihályi (Cornell). (2022)

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