Heidi May

Bio

PhD (ABD, expected 2012), Dept. of Curriculum & Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, UBC; MFA (2000), Visual Art, UBC; Honours BA (1998), Specialist in Art & Art History, Minor in Psychology, Univ. of Toronto & Sheridan College

Heidi May is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines how we understand and communicate experiences with/in socially networked spaces and digital technology, particularly interpersonal aspects of these relationships. Her practice consists of both individual projects and collaborations with artists, educators, and students. Recent works include an interactive exhibition project, reflexive manipulation of online media, and experimental videos that layer and remix media. This creative inquiry carries over into her published writings and academic research. Her PhD dissertation examines the relationship between multidisciplinary art practices and contemporary art pedagogy in postsecondary education.

An instructor at Emily Carr since 2002, she has also taught at Langara College, Simon Fraser University and UBC.

http://heidimay.ca

work

QR_U (an open school) - Questions, Responses & Unofficial Conversations

2011

QR_U can be described as a relational and networked project that intends to make visible the inside of an open school and to distribute the school's inquiry widely. Participants are presented with a series of questions about their relationship with the arts, learning and technology. 'QR’ in the project title is a play on the abbreviated form of QR code, which actually stands for Quick Response. The project creates an occasion and a setting...
Feed

2011

An experimental video that attempts to capture perceptual processes within multimedia and multitasking, stemming from the ongoing online artwork Selfpost | Postself.

*visit Selfpost | Postself
*follow Postself on Facebook
Selfpost | Postself

2010

Selfpost | Postself examines the networked self. The artist uses herself as a research subject in pursuit of a better understanding of what happens to our-selves as we form relations within Facebook (aka the social network of all social networks. Selfpost is the outing of the artist's resistant self to multiple groups within Facebook; Postself is the documentation of this...