P. K. Langshaw

ISEA2011

P.K. Langshaw is associate professor, in the department of Design & Computation Arts and a founding member of Hexagram Institute for research/creation in media arts and technology at Concordia University. She earned her degree from université a quebec a montréal- maitrise en arts plastiques- en création. Her hybrid praxis is extracted from concrete poetry, and expanded by the quantic relations of all things verse- diverse, quaquaversal, inversion, transversal, and reversible. The use technologies for innovative adaptation in nomadic performance and filmic interpretation is of particular interest to langshaw. as principle investigator or collaborator, she has been funded by Hexagram, FQRSC research-creation, CASA, the McConnell foundation, CIAM and SSHRC Aid to conferences. In 2006 Langshaw formed the d_verse research laboratory which reflects the poetic nature of and diverse strategies for collaborative research & creation. The works are mediated by the forms of garments, poetry, dynamic typography, video and photography and realized in the forms of web sites, bookworks, sensory/sensored environments, film, projections and performative events. All programs and projects respond to social, ecological and economic sustainable practice.