In Conversation with Cardiff/MillerJanet Cardiff | George Bures Miller

In partnership with the Performance Studies International Conference (PSi16), York University, and OCAD.

Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, creators of the installation Ship O’ Fools (see page 17), have won international acclaim for their pioneering use of technology and illusion to immerse viewers in intricately realized alternative worlds. Hear them discuss the work that has intrigued the minds and delighted the senses of spectators and participants throughout the world.

Moderated by Amelia Jones, professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University

Moderator bio

Amelia Jones is Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture at McGill University in Montréal.  She has organized exhibitions and performance events on contemporary art and on feminism, queer, and anti-racist approaches to visual culture. Her recent publications include the edited volumes Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2003; new edition 2010) and A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 (2006). Following on her Body Art/Performing the Subject (1998), Jones’s single-authored books include Irrational Modernism:  A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada (2004) and Self Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (2006). Her current projects are an edited volume Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History (with co-editor Adrian Heathfield) and a book tentatively entitled Seeing Differently: Identification and the Visual Arts.