Tom Kohut

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Tom Kohut, Independent critic and curator, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Tom is an author, critic and curator living in Winnipeg, Canada. He holds an M.A. in English from Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) where he specialized in cultural theory and the twentieth-century avant garde. He has written on film, video, new media theory, sound art and bio art in books and journals across Canada and the U.S., as well as for exhibition catalogues for PLATFORM Centre for the Digital and Photographic Arts, Gallery 1C03 (University of Winnipeg) and Video Pool Media Arts Centre. His curated film/video programs have screened in Canada, Europe and Turkey. He is co-editor of Marshall McLuhan and Vilém Flusser’s Aesthetic and Communication Theories Revisited and co-curator of The Age of Catastrophe (Video Pool Media Arts Centre and Actual Gallery, November-December 2015).