Mél Hogan is a candidate in the Joint PhD in Communication at Concordia University.
Her work is on digital value through digital archives, media repositories, and Canadian online distribution models for video artists. Her work focuses mainly on SAW Video's Mediatheque project and defunct video art repositories. As a Curatorial Research Creation project, her PhD is based at WAYWARD.
She is the Art Director and Publisher of print-on-demand and online journal NOMOREPOTLUCKS and is the Creative Director of ARCHINODES, working with web developer Jeff Traynor.
She has recently been working on a series of archive + collection projects relating to story (re)telling through sns and web 2.0 inspired approaches. A new video collaboration with Frédérick Belzile, under the moniker BRUCE, is due out soon.
Education
2007-2011
Doctorat conjoint en communication
(l'U. de Montréal, l'U.Concordia, et l'U. du Québec à Montréal)
* Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
* Concordia University Graduate Fellowship
2005-2007
MA in Media Studies,
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec.
* J.W. McConnell Memorial Graduate Fellowship
* Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council MA Fellowship
2004–2005
Graduate Diploma in Communication,
Concordia University, Montréal Québec.
* Donald Boisvert Scholarship for Gay and Lesbian Activism
2001
Graphic Design Professional Training Program,
Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ontario.
1996–1999
BA in Sociology (with Honours),
Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Thesis: “Tracing the Intellectual History of Gender as a Category for Analysis”
1998–1999
BA Exchange Programme, Sunderland University, England