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RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS
Published proceedings, book chapters, contributions to a collective work:
-Sujir, Leila, with Anthony Head, “Exploring art, technology, research methodologies and the human in virtual, augmented and mixed realities or: how a research project, Elastic 3D Spaces, emerged from an outdoor projection event,” Practices of Projection (editors: Gabriel Menotti & Virginia Crisp), Oxford University Press, 2020.
-Sujir, Leila, Sudhir Mudur, Behnam Maneshgar and Charalambos Poullis, “Automatic Adjustment of Stereoscopic Content for Long-Range Projections in Outdoor Areas”, ACM Digital Library, 2017.
Creative outputs – art projects:
2024 in-progress, forest! documents, 63 minutes, stereoscopic 3D video installation, in an experimental prototype research stage with an artist, along with community screenings (2018-2020 with the PFN [Pacheedaht First Nation]), with plans for presentation 2025-2026 in a solo exhibition.
2019, Aerial, a 9 minute video IMAX artwork, commissioned for a series of large screen artistic IMAX experiments by curator Janine Marchessault for a Canada Council New Chapter project; the project uses a large format drone simulating the flight paths of a hummingbird through the South Walbran old growth forests (8k camera with ambisonic sound and cablecam rigging to take ambisonic microphones into the forest canopy).
2018, Peacocks Dream, Elastic City Spacey, a 2-channel stereoscopic 3D video projection, for exhibition with curators Steven Evans and Sunil Gupta at the Houston FotoFest Biennial: India — Contemporary Photography and New Media Art (March – April 2018).
2018, Forest Breath, a stereoscopic video lightbox, for exhibition with curator Haema Sivanesan in the group exhibition, ”Supernatural: Art, Technology, and the Forest,” at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (May 18-September 30).
Solo exhibition:
2025 upcoming, TBA
Solo screening:
2017 For Jackson: A Time Capsule from his two grandmothers, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia (February).
Group exhibitions:
-2023 “Those That Came Before Us,” MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan (June - September [Peacocks Dream]).
-2021 “Super Women: Conversations with the Real Action Figures,” in the Breadth of symposium commissioned by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto, Ontario (April [The Dreams of the Night Cleaners]).
-2019 ”Rebellious: Alberta Women Artists in the 1980's,” Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (November 9 - February 17, 2020 [India Hearts Beat, 1988]).
-2019 “The Garden in the Machine,” Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia (September 21 - December 15 [Forest Breath]).
-2019 ”XL Celebrating the Canadian History of Imax,” at The Cinesphere, Ontario Place, Images Festival, Toronto, Ontario (April 18, [Aerial]).
-2018 ”Supernatural: Art, Technology, and the Forest,” Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia (May 17 – September 30) [Forest Breath]).
-2018 Houston FotoFest Biennial: India -- Contemporary Photography and New Media Art, Houston, Texas, USA (March – April [Peacocks Dream]).
Group screenings:
-2024 “Outer Worlds IMAX experiments by artists,” at Westben Music festival, July 17 evening [Aerial].
-2024 "Outer Worlds IMAX experiments by artists,” at Queen’s University (March 7 evening, with panel March 8 afternoon [Aerial].
-2023 “Outer Worlds IMAX experiments by artists,” in Thinking Allowed, Montreal Science Centre IMAX theatre, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (October 19) [Aerial].
-2019 From the Archive of Media Arts, ”Longing and Belonging: 1990's South Asian Film and Video,” Doxa Festival, Vancouver Cinematheque, Vancouver, British Columbia (May 9th [The Dreams of the Night Cleaners]).
Presentations as guest speaker – conferences and workshops:
-Presentation on a panel, “IMAX by artists,” Thinking Allowed, October 21-23, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, 2023.
-Presentation on a panel, Remembering Practice & Policy (30 to 40 years ago), in the Media Arts in the UK and Canada,” Thinking Allowed, June 12-15, 2023, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, 2023.
-Presentation in a workshop, “Besides the Screen: Transitional Tactics for Moving Image Research,” Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), Transitions: Moving Images and Bodies, University of Palermo, Italy, 2021.
-Interview and Screening, Dreams of the Night Cleaners (1995), in “Super Women: Conversations with the Real Action Figures,” in the Breadth of symposium commissioned by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto, Ontario, 2021.
-Presentation on a panel with Jorge Zavagno, ”Forests Drawing Close,” LASER 9 (Leonardo Art Science Engineering Research), UQÀM, Montreal, Quebec, 2020.
-Presentation with Anthony Head, ”Practices of Projection Book Launch,” University of London, London, UK, 2020.
-Presentation at “Sentient Circuitries,” Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia, 2020.
-Presentation on a Panel, Doxa Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019.
-Presentation on a panel, ”XL, Outer Worlds, ”Images Festival, Toronto, 2019.
-Presentation with Paul Landon, ”Cybercorporéités: subjectivités nomades en contexte numérique,” Symposium, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal 2018.
-Presentation with Santiago Tavera, and Jorge Zavagno,” Entertainment Technology Summit China Canada International Film Festival,” Montreal, 2018.
Publications - writing and reviews of Sujir’s artwork:
-Mortimer Chatterjee (ed), Moving Focus: Art From India Since 1900. ACC Art Books, 2022 [Peacocks Dream].
-TechLab: Experiments in Media Arts 1999-2019, Surrey Art Gallery, 2022 [India Heart Beat and Forest Breath].]
https://www.surrey.ca/sites/default/files/media/documents/SurreyArtGallery_TechLab.pdf
-Sivanesan, Haema. “Unsettling the Picturing of the Canadian Old Growth Forest: Consent, Consultation and (Re)conciliation in Leila Sujir's Forest!” Journal of Transcultural Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021 [Forest!, Forest Breath and Aerial]. https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/24248/17987
-Tousley, Nancy and Haema Sivanesan, Rebellious: Alberta Women Artists in the 1980’s. (Edmonton, Art Gallery of Alberta, 2020) [India Hearts Beat].
-Cummings, Jesse, “Outer Worlds,” Canadian Art, May 23rd, 2019 [Aerial]. https://canadianart.ca/reviews/outer-worlds/
-Tousley, Nancy, “Leila Sujir’s forest of pixels,” Intertwined Histories: Plants in Their Social Contexts (Calgary: University of Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Spring 2019) [Aerial and Forest Breath]. https://prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/handle/1880/110196/9781773850917_chapter13.pdf?sequence=15&isAllowed=y
-Suleman, Zool, “Longing and Belonging: 1990’s South Asian Film and Video,” Rungh for Doxa Festival, May 2019. https://rungh.org/projects/longing-and-belonging/
-Shrumm, Regan, ”Report on Forest Breath: a portrait in progress,” Art Gallery of Greater Victoria magazine, September 1, 2018 [Forest Breath].
-Luna, John, ”Into the Woods: a review of 'Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest,'” Canadian Art (June 6, 2018) [Forest Breath]. https://canadianart.ca/reviews/into-the-woods/
-Glenzter, Molly, ”Four of FotoFest’s dazzling displays focus on Indian portraiture,” Houston Chronicle (April 13, 2018) [Peacocks Dream].
-Gupta, Sunil, curator, FotoFest International 2018 Biennial: INDIA - Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art, (Houston: Fotofest and Schindel), 2018 [Peacocks Dream].