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David Cecchetto is Assistant Professor (New Media History and Criticism) in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada, where he also teaches and supervises in three of the University's graduate programs (IAMD, CCP, and CADN). His research critiques constructions of technological posthumanism, and sound-based readings of media art are often featured prominently.

David has published articles in Theory, Culture, and Society, Mosaic: a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, and Radical Musicology. He has also authored a chapter in Transdisciplinary Digital Art: Sound, Vision, and the New Screen (Springer, 2008), co-edited Collision: Interarts Practice and Research (CSP, 2009), and has a monograph titled Humanesis: Sound, Discourse, and Technological Posthumanism forthcoming on the Posthumanities series of the University of Minnesota Press.

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 received his Interdisciplinary Ph.D. (with a concentration in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought) from the University of Victoria and, upon receiving his degree, was awarded a 2010 Governor General's Gold Medal (the highest academic honour the University can bestow on a graduate student) as well as the 2011 CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award (granted by the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies to the top Canadian dissertation in the fine arts, humanities and social sciences category for 2011).

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