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Background prints: Rosemary Chapman-Smith
Photo credit: Anna Höstman |
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. Sound-based readings of media art are often featured prominently in David's writing. 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).
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.
