Mélanie Hogan - Montréal

Presently:

Project Manager: Illustrating Medicine Archive Project
/// Online: IM

Designer and Co-Editor of Pivot: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Journal of Visual Culture
/// Online: Pivot Journal
/// In the News:The Art of Play

Researcher for Mobile Media Lab
/// Online: MML
Projects include Biomatrix and Network Image.

Contributor for ArtThreat.net
/// Contribute to collaborative blog covering visual art, music, video, cinema, new media, literature, architecture and everything in between and beyond. Art Threat also explores pressing issues affecting art and culture, stimulating debate on the world around us and how it is interpreted. Based in Montreal, Canada and created by an international team of writers and artists, Art Threat offers articles and commentary, interviews and reviews, media galleries, and other dynamic features. (2007)

Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
/// Website and print project development, layout, graphic design, DVD authoring, sound and video editing.

2005-2007:

COMS Archive Supervisor, Concordia University Communication
Studies Department. (since Jan. 2005)
/// Online: http://comms.concordia.ca/comsarchive/

Teaching Assistant for Intermediate [Production]
/// (Intermedia II) Department of Communications, Concordia University
(Sept. 2005–April 2007).
/// Online: http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/profile/profile.php?ID=24

Multimedia Instructor at Studio XX
/// Instructor for new media feminist artist-run centre; teaching Flash
(Photoshop and Dreamweaver in 2004).
/// Online:
http://www.studioxx.org

TechWatch for CIAM/HEXAGRAM in collaboration with Matricules at
Studio XX (summer 2006)
/// Online: http://www.ciam-arts.org/fr/contenu_activites1.htm

Administrative Assistant for Canadian Research Alliance
for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN) Department
of Communications, Concordia University.
/// Online: http://www3.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/cracin/

Teaching Assistant for the Simone DeBeauvoir Institute
/// Women’s Studies Department, Concordia University.

2004 and prior:

Communications Officer for Q2 Ally Network
/// Responsible for all printed documentation, website updating and poster
design. Putting together an action plan, funding proposal and faculty
package dealing with GLBTQ issues at Concordia University.

Co-coordinator of Artefact
/// Webmaster, workshop facilitator for visual arts and multimedia,
publication coordinator, communication and publicity officer.
Recruitment of volunteers. Co-production of 2 web-documentaries with
the NFB (http://www.citoyen.onf.ca: Parole Citoyenne).

Equité salariale Analyst for Government of Québec
/// Questionnaire analyst for le Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor, Equité
salariale, Montréal, Qu.

Concordia Students Union Webmaster: AWAG Conference
/// Webmaster, volunteer coordination, bottom lining the propaganda
committee, creating a housing bank.

Quality assessor for PRT/Frontier Reforestation
/// Assessing tree-planters’ work, foreman and tree-runner.

Teacher’s Assistant: Department of Sociology
/// Acadia University, N.S.
Research, correction, and in-class assistance.

Tree-planter
in Northern Ontario, Nova Scotia and British-Columbia

Community Work

Contributor for ArtThreat.net
/// Contribute to collaborative blog covering visual art, music, video, cinema, new media, literature, architecture and everything in between and beyond. Art Threat also explores pressing issues affecting art and culture, stimulating debate on the world around us and how it is interpreted. Based in Montreal, Canada and created by an international team of writers and artists, Art Threat offers articles and commentary, interviews and reviews, media galleries, and other dynamic features. (2007)

Sound Technician and co-host for McGill University’s Community Radio CKUT 90.3 FM’s Dykes on Mykes; (since 2004).
/// Responsible for overall sound tech and music. Help in programming the show, network with community activists, artists and in/out of town events of interest to the broader queer/women’s community.

Founder of Nomorepotlucks.org
/// Website for queer women in Montréal; (since 2003). Team manager: network with community groups, book, DVD and music distributors, and regular content contributors. Podcasting for Dykes on Mykes.

AlterHéros Board of Directors:
http://www.alterheros.com (2003-2004).
/// Director of Interactive Content: Ensure that all relevant questions received through the “Ask an experts” section are answered by AH’s network of experts; Develops and maintains relations with AH’s network of experts.

Group co-facilitator at Project 10
/// Co-animator for discussion group for women between 18 and 25 yrs old questioning their sexual orientation, (2003).