Group Exhibitions (solo shows marked with an *)
2011
Paris, France. MAISON DES ARTS CRETEIL.
EXIT festival Créteil 10- 20 th March 2011
VIA festival Maubeuge 24 March- 3rd April 2011
Lille Gare St Sauveur 13th April - 14 August 2011
Certified Copy. VERBEKE FOUNDATION - Belgium. Nov 20 2010 - March 4 2011
2010
Niet Normaal Amsterdam dec 16 2009 - March 7 2010
2009
ARS Electronica 2009 Linz, Austria. Human Nature. September 2-8
2008
Microwave New Media Arts Festival 2008 - Project room. Genpets. Nov 7-23. Hong Kong
Meat After Meat Joy, curated by Heide Hatry. 16 October - 15 November 2008
Daneyal Mahmood Gallery - New York
2007
It's Alive: A Laboratory of Biotech Art Montserrat College of Art Gallery - Feb. 16- April 7, Beverly, MA
2006
Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel Switzerland - November 11, 2006 - November 11, 2007
Mezco Toys - New York - October 31 - November 14, 2006
Nuit Blanche. Paul Petro Contemporary Art Sept 29- Oct 3 2006, Toronto.
Lucky Loft Gallery - Hamburg, Germany Sept 14, 2006
Wallpaper II Aug 26 -Sept 10 Xpace Gallery, Toronto
V-Gallery Basel Switzerland June 17 - Sept 9, 2006
Drowning in Ink Hinton, Alberta June 23 - September 20, 2006
OCAD Graduate Exhibition May 5-7 (juried)
Myocad06: Uncancelled April 21 - April 28 Xpace Gallery, Toronto.
2005
TAFFI (Toronto Alternative Art Fair International) Gladstone, Toronto Nov 3-7 (Catalogue)
Iodine and Arsenic (cross promoted at Queen West Art Crawl) Sept 11 – October 2, 2005 (*)
Interaccess Gallery - Emerging Artists Show July 8 - August 6, Toronto. (Juried)
Xpace Gallery Cute but Cynical, June 14-26, Toronto
B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, OCAD, May 5-8
Gallery 61 April 22-24.Part of 'Go West' Toronto. (Juried)(Catalogue)
Press (selected)
Print
Globe and Mail May 20, 2008 - The cost of cloning Fluffy: $148,000 by LISAN JUTRAS. Life section - L3
The Daily Athenaeum. January 29, 2008 - By Brittany Franklin, A&E Writer - Section: Arts & Entertainment Section. pg 1 and pg 5
Book - "
Biotech Pioneers" Author: Ellen ter Gast 2007. pg 153-157
EIKONES (Weekly greek magazine) "GENETIKH" Author: Tania Markoutsa October 2007 pg 30
Cosmos Magazine (The Science of Everything) Austrialia, pg 32-33 issue 15 June/July 2007
Boston Globe Art from the science lab: It's weird, but to what effect? y Ken Johnson, Globe Staff March 14, 2007
Chicago Tribune "Bio-artists bridge the gaps between arts and sciences" March 8th 2007
Eagle-Tribune Montserrat comes 'Alive' with a new show melding science and art,
By Rebecca Schoonmaker Feb 16, 2007
The Phoenix (Arts section) "Must Warn Others" Randi Hopkins Feb 6, 2007
Beverly Citizen "It’s Alive! Or is it?" By Dan Mac Alpine. Beverly, MA. January 31, 2007
Shock Magazine January 2007 pg82 1/3rd page
Maxim Magazine (UK) October 2006
Maxim Magazine (Czech Edition) pg.31 October 2006
Plain Dealer Clevland Ohio, "Tech-savvy sculptor says pet project is satire", Frank Bentayou. Wednesday, September 27, 2006. Edition: Final, Section: Arts & Life, Page E1 Zone All
The Varsity UofT Toronto newspaper "Spawning the Genpet generation". Jennifer Bates, Issue date: 9/21/06 Section: Science.
AdBusters September/October Issue (Flesh Shoe Submission)
Baslerstab (Local newspaper Basel Switzerland) "Genpets in Basel". Sarah Kuhni , August 8, 2006. Page 14
The London Free Press (Front Page) "Genpets create uproar. A former Londoner's creature sculptures spark a furor over bioengineering". Jennifer O'Brien, July 4, 2006
Zoo Magazine (UK) July 4, 2006.
The New York Times June 24, 2006. B5 "Artistic Pet License" Dan Mitchell
The Times (UK) June 20, 2006 "Gene genies" Martin Waller
HUMO Magazine (Belgium) June 20, 2006
Delete Zine Issue 02 "Fear and Phobias" June 2006.
AI and Society Magazine (Jan-Mar, 2006 . publisher, Springer)
QUO magazine (www.quo.es), Nº121 Page 30, October 2005 (Spain)
20 Minuten, August 31, 2005 (Germany) Author: Jan Graber
DOSE Magazine - Published Tuesday August 9, 2005 in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, and Ottawa. (Title - Art Attack! Pet Peeves – Adam Brandejs’s Genpets attack bioengineering trends.) (author Christie Tucker).
National Post, "The Big Picture 41" R.M. Vaughn, Saturday, July 23, 2005
NOW magazine, Issue 1226 VOL.24 NO. 46 Pg 84, July 14-20, 2005.
Video
Bravo! News /
CityPulse24 /
CityTV, Toronto. (Same clip played numerous times) (Date: on and around June 16 2006, they gave me the VHS tape, but no dates...)
BBC News 24 - Sat (sept 16) 20:30, Sun (sept 17) 04:30 & 16:30, Mon (sept 18)00:30
A short version during BBC Breakfast is shown on: BBC News 24 & BBC One - Sat 06:45 BBC News 24 & BBC Two - Sun 07:30. Program called "Click" talked about Genpets for a few minutes, displayed the website, etc.
G4TechTV June 14 2006 7pm EST Genpets Featured on "Attack of the Show"
TELEMADRID, Originally aired 20:30 (local time - Madrid) September 29, 2005
Spanish language. Gema Silván + Jorge Asunción.
Radio
98 PXY in Rochester NY around 7:45 AM on Friday, July 14, 2006 (Talked about Genpets)
B101 FM Philadelphia, PA. June 21, 2006 AM (talked about genpets for about 15 minutes) Hosted by Chris and Tiffany.
98 Rock Tampa Bay, Florida. June 20, 2006 (morning show with Big Rig and Pat Largo)
Web
Outside Left - flesh shoe
Wired Magazine blog. A Whirligig Tour of Biotech Art By Brandon Keim - June 19, 2007
Canoe.ca Exhibit mixes science, art by JAY LINDSAY
The Scientist Magazine March 9th 2007
USA TODAY Buying genetic pets; Exploding sap trees; Non-blinking cows
Posted 2/26/2007 11:51 AM ET
MIT Technology Review Feb 15, 2007
WikiPedia (Genpets)
The Sydney Morning Herald Blog (Australian newspaper) Next Generation Pets July 11, 2006
Make Zine June 27, 2006
ThirdWay Brand Trainers June 22, 2006
TrendHunter Magazine June 21, 2006
Digg.com Get your genetically engineered pets
BBC Collective web column June 16, 2006
Adressa.no (Norway) Norwegian online newspaper June 13, 2006
Thisway magazine October 2005
We make money not art July 31, 2005
Plus Core77, Snopes, Ebaums world, Ogre, MonkeyFilter, RocketBoom, Gigazine, and a thousands of other websites, forums and blogs and news sites around the world. (Some about Genpets, some about other work)
Awards & Scholarships
2010
Globe & Mail Young Lions Advertising. Silver Medal.
Nora E. Vaughan Award ($500)
Spoke Club Membership Prize ($1200)
Dr. Eugene A. Poggetto Award ($500)
Carmen Lamanna Scholarship ($1300)
401 Richmond Career-Launcher Prize ($9000)
DeviantART -Daily Deviation award for Genpets Series 01.
DeviantART -Daily Deviation award for Flesh Shoe.
Related Work Experience
2010
Zulu ALpha Kilo - Advertising - April 2010 - present. Web Developer for Bell Marketing.
2010
LOWE ROCHE Advertising - Sept 2007-Feb 2010. Web Developer for Audi, Bel Cheese, Mackenzie Financial, Hockey Canada, O.B., Boston Pizza, Miele, ALS, Society, the Toronto Zoo and Purina.
2007
Immature Host creature model for the Host ARG Magnolia Pictures 2007 release of the feature film 'The Host'
2006
Stop motion animation film dir. by Ania Smolenski. - SFX and Prosthetics, fabricated and utilized a fake chest, a zipper prosthetic to be worn on the actor, as well as 8 feet of intestine to be pulled from the actors stomach.
Intern: MDCN (Mobile Digital Commons Network) Montreal + Toronto. A project working on developing interactive immersive live action games for cellphones. MDCN is a joint project between OCAD and Concordia University amongst others.
2005
Electronics Studio Monitor, OCAD
3 Autonomous Animatronic Hearts that pumped blood for LAL Music Video 'Brown Eyed Warrior'. Produced by 90 Second Films. Directed by Jeff Bai.
16mm short film 'Audrey' dir. by Angela E. DeCrecenzo. - SFX and Prosthetics, in charge of fabricating and utilizing a slit throat prosthetic that poured blood as well as small misc effects.
2004
Mould making Studio Monitor, OCAD
2003
Web Design, Michael Wiercinski, Toronto ON (Worked with digital media and designed websites for various clients) 2003-2004
2002
Graphic Design, Original Kids Theatre London, ON (Created detailed 3D animated poster content) 2002-2003
Sculpture Instructor, Beyond the Fridge Door London, ON (Taught Children ages 5-13 how to work with, and model clay)
Education
2006
B.F.A. Integrated Media - Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto (Program medal winner)
2003
Interactive Media Programme - Tampere Polytechnic school of Art and Media, Tampere, Finland.
2002
Intermediate 3DS Max (instructor: David Feltham)
Technical Abilities (Technical Expertise, Technical Skills)
2010
Sculptural/SFX
Metal (Tig + Acetylene welding)
Bronze (Cold Cast + Lost Wax)
Wood
Plastics (vacuum forming, various resins, acrylic)
Latex and foam rubbers
Silicon/urethane/plaster mould making
Clay/plastalina
Prosthetics
Animatronics |
Graphic/Web
Flash Actionscript, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, HTML, Javascript, CSS, RSS, XML
3D Studio Max R3-2010
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
Pepakura 3d paper
After Effects
Video editing (Avid, Adobe Premiere)
Computer programming (Turbo Pascal, BASIC, Java, Objective C)
Sound Editing
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Electronics
Circuit board design, printing and fabrication
Microchip Programming (PIC & Arduino)
Robotics |
Misc
Computer hardware/software repair/installation
Networking
Holography
Screen printing
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