https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0415-3544
Education
2016 - 2020 PhD in Media Art, Digital Media, Art Education | University of British Columbia
2010 – 2012 MFA in Visual Art | University of British Columbia
Conferences and Artist Talks
2022
"The Medium is the Environment: Digital Materialism, Digital Art, and the Climate Crisis." 2022 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Barcelona, Spain.
2021
"Reversal, Disconnect, and Proposition: Noise and Data Politics in the Work of Julian Oliver and Trevor Paglen," 2021 Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference (SIGGRAPH), virtual.
2020
"The Mattering of Algorithms: Reading the Media Performance of Erica Scourti through Originary Technicity," 2020 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Printempts Numerique, Montreal, Canada
"towards a Brechtian model of media art pedagogy," Canadian Society for the Study of Education 2020 Conference (CSSE), University of Western Ontario, London, Canada (cancelled due to COVID-19)
"How A!arming; Arts Based Research, is it ruining our field?," panel participation, National Art Education Association Conference (NAEA), Minneapolis, USA (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019
"as it correlates to virtuality," 2019 Electronic Literature Organization Conference (ELO), University of Cork, Cork, Ireland
"exploring 'making' in media art through digital materialism," Making - 2019 International Society of Education through Art Conference (InSEA), UBC, Vancouver, Canada
2017
"Is 'research' even the right word? Artistic methodology and its discontents," Research-Creation and Precarity, 2017 Universities Art Association of Canada Conference (UAAC), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
Artist Talks with Barb Choit, Kevin Day, and Anchi Lin, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada
2016
Artist Talk with Kevin Day, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, Canada
"Beyond Quantification: Excess and Dysfunction as Artistic Tactics in Information Capitalism," Art as Information, 2016 Universities Art Association of Canada Conference (UAAC), UQAM, Montreal, Canada
"Im/mediate Noise: Sound Art in Algorithmic Culture," Sound Art Matters, Kunsthall Aarhus + Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
2015
Interview with Kevin Day and Nathan McNinch, Alternator, Kelowna, Canada
2012
Global Landscapes and Transformations: Young Multi-Media Artists Today, North Vancouver District Library, North Vancouver, Canada
“The Democratic and The Algorithmic: Art in the Age of Post-Fordist Immaterial Consumption/Production,” Display:Consume:Respond – Digital Engagement with Art, Computers & History of Art 28th Annual Conference, London, United Kingdom
“Incommensurable Bio-Media: Protocol, Algorithm, Noise, Virus,” Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2011
“Digital Memories and Rhetorical Devices: a Temporal Analysis of the Web,” Digital Memories, 4th Global Conference, Michna Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
VISA 210 – Digital Arts, Dorothy Sommerset, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
“Digitization, Information, and Relativism: Lateralization and the Free Market on the Internet,” Future Theory, Present Praxis: Humanities as Digital Discipline, Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
“Leveling the Digital Turn: Information and Heterogeneity in the Internet Age,” In the Know: How We Evaluate, Disseminate, and Apply Research, 7th Sociology Graduate Student Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
2009
VISA 480 – Advanced Seminar I, AMS Gallery, in conjunction with tragically, rescuing his family from the wreckage of a destroyed sinking battleship, Vancouver, Canada
Solo + Collaborative Exhibitions
2023
Centre CLARK, sonic prostheses (a bar graph of users), Montreal, Canada
2018
The New Gallery, feedback loop of commensurability, Calgary, Canada
2016
Galerie Sans Nom, as it correlates to virtuality, Moncton, Canada
2015
Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, a scanner ubiquity 2.0 (collaboration with Nathan McNinch), Kelowna, Canada
2014
Arnica Artist-Run Centre, a scanner ubiquity (collaboration with Nathan McNinch), Kamloops, Canada
2012
The Crying Room, www.thecryingroom.org, Vancouver, Canada
2009
workSpace, Rorschach’s show, Vancouver, Canada
AMS Gallery, tragically, rescuing his family from the wreckage of a destroyed sinking battleship, Vancouver, Canada
Auctions
2017
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond
2012
Rosewood Hotel, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Performances
2012
Hut M-18, 1000 pieces of crumpled paper, in conjunction with IainBaxter&: Information/Location, Vancouver, Canada
North Vancouver Museum, chalk drawing until finished, IainBaxter&: Information/Location, North Vancouver, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Fantastik Lab, Under the Subway Video Art Night, Valencia, Spain
St. Nicholas Park, Under the Subway Video Art Night, New York, USA
2017
Richmond Art Gallery, eternal return, Richmond, Canada
2016
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Cultural R>Evolution, in conjunction with the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2016), Hong Kong
2015
Vancouver Art Gallery, Disruption, in conjunction with the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2015), Vancouver, Canada
Robert Lynds Gallery, camera machina, Capture Photography Festival 2.0, Vancouver, Canada
2014
Robert Lynds Gallery, Front Lines II, Vancouver, Cananda
2013
Les Territoires, Monobandes III, Montreal, Cananda
Project Gallery, architexture, Toronto, Canada
Gladstone Hotel, shifting ground, Toronto, Canada
Qubit, noise non-ference, New York, USA
2012
Gallery 1313, urban, Toronto, Canada
Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, hail to the destroyers, Vancouver, Canada
Edmund-Siemers-Allee Flügelbau West, University of Hamburg, iFormations, in conjunction with Digital Humanities Conference 2012, co-sponsored by Google and Oxford University Press, Hamburg, Germany
Brooklyn Art Library, the sketchbook project, New York, USA
Local Project Art Space, Under the Subway Video Art, New York, USA
Nanaimo Art Gallery, MayWorks Festival, Nanaimo, Canada
AMS Gallery, The Unseen, Vancouver, Canada
2011
Richmond Art Gallery, International Mail Art Exhibition, Richmond, Canada
Beaty Biodiversity Museum, IsoTYPE, Vancouver, Canada
Koerner Gallery, where nothing is in its place, lies disorder, Vancouver, Canada
Irving K. Barber Library, iFormations, Vancouver, Canada
AMS Gallery, Picturing Intuition, Vancouver, Canada
1612 Gallery, A Furtive Conundrum: Practicing the Furtive, Vancouver, Canada
2008
Winning Business Warehouse, Today’s Special, Vancouver, Canada
AMS Gallery, It’s Not That Big, You’re Just Too Close, Vancouver, Canada
Publications/Writing
2023
Day, K. (2023). The Medium is the Environment: Digital Materialism, Climate Crisis, and Digital Art as Pedagogy. International Journal of Education through Art, 19: 69-82. https://doi.org/10.1386/eta_00119_1
2022
Day, K. (2022). Playing the Race Card: Issues and Limits of Categories based on Race in Contemporary Art Discourse. In S. Han, O. Lee, M. Lim & R. Shin (Eds.), Counternarratives from Asian American Art Educators: Identities, Pedagogies, and Practice beyond the Western Paradigm. Routledge & CRC Press.
Day, K. (2022). Tactical disinformation: Interrogation of data politics through noise in interactive media installations. Leonardo, 55(4): 327-331. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02221
2021
Day, K. (2021). Reversal, Disconnect, and Proposition: Noise and Data Politics in the Work of Julian Oliver and Trevor Paglen. Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), 4(2): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3465624
Day, K. (2021). Reading the media performance of Erica Scourti through originary technicity. Proceedings from the 2020 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Montreal, Canada.
2020
Day, K. (2020). whitepages. The New Gallery. Retrieved from http://www.thenewgallery.org/whitepages
Day, K. (2020). Estranging the Device: Media Art Pedagogy via Brecht, Heidegger, and McLuhan. The International Journal of Arts Education 15(1): 11-18. doi:10.18848/2326-9944/CGP/v15i01/11-18.
2017
Day, K. (2017). Im/mediate noise: Sound art in algorithmic culture. Seismograf: Journal of Contemporary Music and Sound Art, Special Issue. Retrieved from https://seismograf.org/fokus/sound-art-matters/the-immediate-noise-sound-art-in-the-algorithmic-culture.
2016
Day, K. (2016). San-Zhi in three inadequate memory systems. Prefix Photo, 34, 1 – 6.
Day, K. (2016) Sonic Fourth Wall: a preamble to an artist statement. In M. Emme & A. Shields (Eds.), Emergent Art Education. Canadian Society of Education through Art (CSEA).
Day, K. (2016). A Discussion/Disclosure regarding Professional Development in the Arts. Simon Fraser University Our Learning Community. Retrieved from http://www.sfu.ca/olc/blog/co-op/discussiondisclosure-regarding-professional-development-arts
2014
Day, K. (2014). Digital Memories and Rhetorical Devices: Archive, Reconstruction, and Artistic Strategies. In T. Fawn (Ed.), Memory and Meaning: Digital Differences (pp. 38 - 52). Inter-Disciplinary Press.
2013
“The Persistence of Process,” Decoy Magazine, ed. Lauren Marsden. July 2013. Web. (under alias)
2012
Day, K. (2012). Digital Memories and Rhetorical Devices: a Temporal Analysis of the Web. In S. Sak (Ed.), Remembering Digitally. Inter-Disciplinary Press.
Day, K. (2012). Controlled Horizontality: Relativized Information in the Net Ecology. In A. Lauder (Ed.), IainBaxter&raisonnE. Windsor University. Retrieved from https://collections.uwindsor.ca/iain-baxterand_raisonne/items/show/4082
2011
Day, K. (2011). Screaming Alley smelled like fresh laundry: an entry on Tran’s A Way to Go. The Contemporary Art Gallery Blog, June 2011.
Bibliography
2017
Sunshine Frere, "The Objectness of Objects," eternal return exhibition essay. Richmond, Canada. Print.
2015
Samantha Newton, "Kevin Day - resuscitated algorithms," Magtear, April 2015. Vancouver, Canada. Print.
Amy Modahl, "A Scanner Ubiquity," Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art. Kelowna, Canada. Web.
2014
Wayne Egers, "Interview with Kevin Day and Nathan McNinch," Arnica Artist-Run Centre. Kamloops, Canada. Web.
2012
Dr. Claudine Moulin, “Dynamics and Diversity: Exploring European and Transnational Perspectives on Digital Humanities Research Infrastructures,” Keynote Presentation, Digital Humanities Conference 2012, Hamburg, Germany.
Amy Fung, “Hail to the Destroyers,” Post Pacific Post, 10 Sept. 2012. Web.
Louis-Alexandre Douesnard, Tarah Hogue, Toby Lawrence and Klara Manhal, "The Unseen," Exhibition Essay. Vancouver, Canada. Print.
Dr. Tara Lee, “con/text,” Hail to the Destroyers, 2012. Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery. Vancouver, Canada. Print.
Ksenia Cheinman, “Where Nothing is in its Place, Lies Disorder,” Alternative Library Spaces, 9 May 2012. Web.
Awards and Distinctions
2022
Canada Council for the Arts - Concept to Realization Project Grant
2018
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship
Canada Council for the Arts - Concept to Realization Project Grant
2017
Jeanette Andrews Scholarship in Art Education
2016
Canada Council for the Arts – Travel Grant to Media Arts Professionals
Canada Council for the Arts – Production Grant to Media and Audio Artists
2015
University of British Columbia Four-Year Fellowship
2014
Canada Council for the Arts – Production Grant to Media and Audio Artists
2012
Helene Roberts Bursary Award – presented by Routledge and Taylor & Francis
Canada Council for the Arts – Travel Grant to Media Arts Professionals
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award - Nominated
University of British Columbia Graduate Travel Grant
2011
B. C. Binning Memorial Fellowship
2010
University of British Columbia Graduate Entrance Scholarship
2008
AMS Student Initiatives Grant
2004
British Columbia Government Scholarship 2004 Passport to Education
2001
University of Waterloo’s Pascal Mathematics Certificate of Distinction
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