Sigi Torinus creates new media works that include site-specific installation and improvisatory interactive live-video performance. Her work explores our perceptions of the migratory journey, through time and space, in physical, ephemeral and digital worlds. She holds an MFA from the Braunschweig Art Institute, Germany, and San Francisco State University in California.
She is a co-founder of the Noiseborder Ensemble and has been awarded significant funding for research/creation through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council. She is a Professor of Integrated Media in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor and co-directs the Noiseborder Multimedia Performance Lab (NMPL).
Professional Activities:
Selected exhibitions/performances: Hybrid Labs/Renewable Futures, Helsinki, Finland (2018), VBK Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2018), Sofia History Museum, Bulgaria (2017), Goethe-Institut Bulgaria (2017), Case de las Américas, Havana, Cuba (2017), Festival del Caribe, Santiago de Cuba (2016), KUBE Art Museum, Ålesund, Norway (2015), Laban Theatre, London, England (2015), Festival of Lights, Berlin, Germany (2014), Medienwerkstatt Berlin, Germany (2014), Art Gallery of Windsor, ON, Canada (solo show, 2014), International Video Art Festival, Camagüey, Cuba (2013), Sonorities Festival, Belfast, Ireland (2013), 11th Biennial Havana: Artistic Practice and Social Imaginary, Havana, Cuba (2012), Casalmaggiore Festival, Italy (2012)
http://www.uwindsor.ca/
Department: Humanities Research Group
Research Interests: Time Based Media, Installation Art, Aesthetics and Sustainability
Teaching Interests: Time Based Media, Intermedia, Graduate Seminar, Critical Issues
Office: Room 217 Armouries and Freedom Way
Phone: +1 519 253 3000 x2036
E-mail: torinus@uwindsor.ca