Artist - Theorist - Composer

David Cecchetto David Cecchetto is an Assistant Professor of New Media History and Criticism at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada, where his research critiques constructions of technological posthumanism. Readings of sound-based media art are often featured prominently in David's writing, specifically in service of a general project of reversing the flow of theory to practice. David received his Interdisciplinary Ph.D. (English/Visual Arts, with a concentration in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought) from the University of Victoria, with the renowned posthumanist scholar Cary Wolfe serving as his external examiner. Drs. Stephen Ross and Steve Gibson co-supervised David's degree.


Collision Cover David has published articles in Mosaic: a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature and Radical Musicology, a chapter in Transdiscplinary Digital Art: Sound, Vision, and the New Screen (Springer, 2008), and co-edited Collision: Interarts Practice and Research (CSP, 2009).


As an artist, David’s work has spanned a variety of forms and media ranging from sound installation to performance art to composed music for orchestra, soloists, and ensembles. David’s work often uses incongruence, disjunction, and strangeness as tactics towards identifying and exploiting assumed notions of universality, privilege, and knowledge. Digital technologies are regularly featured prominently in David's work, where they are typically turned back on themselves through deconstructive gestures. David has presented his work in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia.

David is also co-creator of www.conflations.com, to which he also contributes.