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EDUCATION
2011 MFA Media Study, (Emerging Practices) University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
1999 Independent Studio Program, Toronto School of Art
1998 BFA Spec. Hons. Visual Art, York University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Performing from the Edge of the Body (MFA Thesis Exhibition) p|m Gallery, Toronto
2008 Give It Up p|m Gallery, Toronto
2004 tree identification Natural Light Window, Toronto
2004 New Work Peter Richmond Gallery, Toronto
1998 topography Eleanor Winters Gallery, York University, Toronto
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, FESTIVALS AND PERFORMANCES
2011 SID Exhibition New Interfaces for Musical Expression, (NIME) Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo
2010 Beyond/In Western New York Biennial Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
2010 3-Sided Square (Curated by Darren Copeland) Toronto (new music) Marathon, Toronto
2010 Beyond the Multitude (Curated by Jordan Dalton) Buffalo, New York
2009 Conversation Piece Audio Out Listening Post, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
2009 Conflux 2009 Glowlab, NYU Steinhardt, New York
2009 Ride On (M:ST 4.5) with Kelly Andres, Marc Dulude, and Tender Mountain Clan. Mountain Standard Time Performance Art Festival, Calgary
2009 Deep Wireless Festival Ensemble (with François Girourd, Brandon Labelle, and Lisa Pijuan-Nomura) New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto
2008 (in) visible Cities Performance Art Festival with Shawna Dempsey/Lorri Millan, FASTWÜRMS, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, and Nhan Duc Nguyen. Winnipeg
2008 FREESTYLIE: LAL, Jessica Thompson & Grace N’ Style (Curated by Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot), Art Gallery of Mississauga
2007 FINE|LINE (Curated by Mia Nielson) SENKO/Kunsthallen Brænderigården, Viborg, Denmark
2007 SoundCycles: David McCallum and Jessica Thompson InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto
2007 Public Sound Project: Bike Hack + Soundride Metropolis Biennalen, Copenhagen
2006 Conflux 2006 Glowlab, McCaig-Welles Gallery, New York
2006 Interactive City, ZeroOne San Jose/ ISEA2006 Symposium, San Jose, California
2006 dp003 converse without leaving home, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee
2005 Glowlab Open Lab Art Interactive, Boston
2004 GAME-CITY FADO, Toronto
2004 psy.geo.CONFLUX Glowlab, Participant Inc, New York
2001 instant coffee/Urban Disco Trailer T- shirt Show Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2001 Energy Implosion: The 905 Imagination Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
2001 Radio Show: An exhibition of audio art CKLN 88.1 FM Toronto
2001 and I left it at that (with Kevin Rodgers) Anoush Gallery, Toronto
2000 as yet untitled (with Duncan MacDonald) DEADTECH, Chicago
2000 HUM (with Duncan MacDonald) Pekao Gallery, Toronto
2000 The Green Show / The Style Show Money House Foundation, Toronto
2000 LIFESPAN MEG Gallery, Toronto
1999 Fall Collection The Art Firm, Toronto
ART FAIRS
2011 Toronto International Art Fair (Swinging Suitcase, p|m Gallery)
2008 Toronto International Art Fair (Sounding Out The Neighbourhood AGYU)
2006 ART(212), New York (Freestyle SoundKit, p|m Gallery)
2006 maco: México arte contemporáneo, Mexico City (walking machine, p|m Gallery)
2005 Art Projects Art Basel Miami Beach (SOUNDBIKE, Curated by Natalie Kovacs)
2005 New Territories ARCO 2005, Madrid (walking machine, p|m Gallery)
PANELS, ARTIST TALKS AND GUEST LECTURES
2012 TransX Symposium, (Paper) New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto
2012 CoDE Conference, (Paper) Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
2011 Intro to DIY Making, (Panel) Women in Film, Games, & New Media Summit, tiff Nexus, Toronto
2011 Artist Talk, Collect Call, Toronto International Art Fair
2011 Artist Talk, Toronto Wearables Meetup, OCAD University, Toronto
2011 Artist Talk, Sound Travels Residency, New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto
2011 Artist Talk, Recycling Pervasive Media, (R.I.P.) Banff Centre for the Arts
2010 Artist Talk, Beyond/In Western New York Biennial Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center, Buffalo
2009 Guest Lecturer, MEME (Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments), Brown University, Providence (Sonic Psychogeography, Inst: Betsey Biggs)
2008 (in) visible Cities Performance Art Festival, Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg
2008 DrakeSalon, Andrea Carson in conversation with Michael Toke and Jessica Thompson, The Drake Hotel, Toronto
2008 dorkbot-nyc, Paul Davies, Jessica Thompson and Jeff Snyder, Location One, New York
2007 En route: displacement in artistic practice, (Panel) with Vicky Moufawad-Paul, Cheryl Rondeau, and Jessica Rose. Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Toronto
2006 Guest Lecturer, Dept. of Media Art Parsons School of Design, New York (Making Electronic Instruments, Inst: Ranjit Bhatnagar)
JURIES AND SELECTION COMMITTEES
2008 Conflux Festival Curatorial Committee, Glowlab New York
2007 Toronto Arts Council Visual Arts Jury (Emerging Category)
2007 Selection Committee BETA in beta, InterAccess Toronto
RESIDENCIES
2010 Almost Perfect Co-Production Residency, Banff New Media Institute
2009 TR:AFICC TRUCK Gallery and M:ST Performance Art Festival, Calgary
2007 Reinventing the Wheel German Cultural Centre and artlab, Sibiu, Romania
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2011 Senior Artist, Recycling Pervasive Media, Intervening in Planned Obsolescence and Practicing Technological Sustainability, (R.I.P.) Banff Centre for the Arts
2008 Visiting Artist, Sounding Out the Neighbourhood Art Gallery of York University
FUNDING AND AWARDS
2012 Ontario Arts Council Mid-Career Visual Arts Grant
2009 SUNY at Buffalo, Excellence in Teaching Award
2007 SUNY at Buffalo, College Fellowship
2007 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2004 Toronto Arts Council Visual Arts Grant, Level 1
2004 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2002 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2001 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Behrendt, Frauke. Taxonomy of Mobile Sound Art. In: Mobile Sound. Media Art in Hybrid Spaces. PhD Thesis. (University of Sussex, 2010)
LaBelle, Brandon. Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (Continuum Books, 2010)
Detheridge, Anna. FUCK DUCHAMP: REINVENTIAMO LA RUOTA Individui, mobilità e territorio in relazione nell’epoca della globalizzazione Connecting Cultures, 2009
Clark, Bob. Art goes off-site and gets active The Calgary Herald, July 30, 2009
Stowbridge, Jeff. TRAFFIC Fast Forward Weekly (Calgary) July 23, 2009
Johnson, Pamela. (Ed.) Superlight 01SJ Biennial (Cat, ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA 2006) 2009
Sandals, Leah. The Bike Lane Canadian Art, Fall 2007 vol 24 no 3
Holforn-Lovell, Donna and Andrew Zuckerman. dp003 (Cat), University of Dundee, 2006
Dietsch, Dina. Soundbike, Glowlab Open Lab, Art Interactive c magazine, issue 89, Spr 2006
Ogilvie, Megan. Sending messages to the sky The Toronto Star, December 11, 2005
Allgårdh, Sophie. Naken mässa lockade i Miami Svenska Dagbladet, December 9, 2005
Leonard, Craig. GAME-CITY Exhibition Catalogue, FADO, 2004
Wlasenko, Olexander. Energy Implosion: The 905 Imagination (Cat), Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2001
> SELECTED WEB
Howell, Trevor. Bike Hack + Soundride = Good Times fflog, July 31, 2009
Carson, Andrea. VoCA Recommends…Jessica Thompson’s collaborative performance at PM Gallery, Toronto View on Canadian Art, January 24, 2008
Greene, Malka. Give It Up for a Saturday Night Breakdance Battle NowPublic, Jan. 13, 2008
Jacobsen, Hans Henrik. Fine line – Canadisk besøg i Viborg aarhus.nu, October 17, 2007
Debatty, Regine. Freestyle SoundKit. we-make-money-not-art, September 21, 2006
Carson, Andrea. An architect, some art books and an artist View on Canadian Art, August 4, 2007
Debatty, Regine. Walking Machine. we-make-money-not-art, July 4, 2006
Corsano, Otino. Artist Interview #4: Jessica Thompson, June 30, 2006
Lloyd, Emma. Soundbike puts laughter on the road. EYEBEAM reBlog, Dec. 8, 2005
Rubin, Josh. Laughing Bike. COOL HUNTING, Dec. 8, 2005
Slater, Jill. Day 4; Strike 2; Soundbike Art Basel Daily, Dec. 4, 2005
Algeria-Oritz, Harold. HUM. Forum, www.year01.com issue 6, May 2000
> RADIO AND TELEVISION
Starr, Lori. Performing from the Edge of the Body, ARTSync Television, Rogers Cable 10, April 30, 2011
Yudhai, Iris. Where has your bike taken you? Definitely Not the Opera, CBC, June 19, 2010
Chernoff, Greg. CAMPER, SOAP BOX DERBY, CJSW 90.9FM, Calgary, July 9, 2009
Schneider, Bill. SOUNDBIKE, KPIX=TV, San Francisco, August 8, 2006
Barrón, Jonathan. walking machine, Antena Radial, MACO: México, April 28, 2006
Hopper, Jeannie. Soundbike, WPS1 MOMA, Art Basel Miami Beach, December 3, 2005
Fearon, Elizabeth. Duncan MacDonald and Jessica Thompson Art on Air CKLN 88.1FM , December 2000
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Sessional Instructor, Introduction to Sound Design, Department of Visual Art, Brock University, 2012
Artist/Instructor, The Sonic City, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2012
Adjunct Instructor, Portfolio Production, Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo, 2010
Adjunct Instructor, Intermediate Sound Art, Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo, 2009-2010
Visiting Artist, Sounding Out the Neighbourhood AGYU and Parkdale Collegiate, Fall 2009
Instructor-of-Record, Intro to Sound, Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo, 2007-2009
Instructor, Education Department, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 1994-1999
REPRESENTATION
p|m Gallery, Toronto, Canada