_CV
Positions
2009-present AACTI Chair of Development for IT and Digital Media
2009-present Digital Alberta Board of Directors
2008-present Faculty in Media Arts + Digital Technology, Alberta College of Art + Design
2007 Gallery Technician – Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design
2005-present President / Creative Director – Kulturlab: creative content development
1997-2005 President / Creative Director – The HUMANUS Collective: cultural research and media arts
collective and think tank.
Education
1998 Master of Philosophy Research Degree Programme in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, The University of Sheffield, England. Thesis: Materiality and the Limits of Archaeological Knowledge.
1993 Double Degree, Bachelor of Arts Programmes in Archaeology and Anthropology, Departments of Archaeology and Anthropology, The University of Calgary, Canada. Convocation: June 1993. Arts undergraduate thesis: “Towards an Associational Theory for Archaeology.” Sciences undergraduate thesis: “An Analysis of Temper Properties in Ceramics from Laguna Bustillios, Chihuahua, Mexico.”
Post-Secondary Teaching
2008-09 Media Arts + Digital Technologies, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2005-06 Member of Sessional Faculty Pool, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada.
1994-95 Teaching assistant and tutorial advisor, Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield, England.
1994-96 Seminar Director, “Deciphering Social Theory,” University of Sheffield Interdisciplinary Social Theory Seminars, Sheffield, England.
1996 Seminar Director, Social Theory and Philosophy Seminar, Department of Archaeology, the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Select list of Digital Media/Interactive Projects
2008-2009 Good Medicine – Producer/Director of an Experimental Documentary on Aboriginal Perspectives on health and wellness in Alberta. Funded by Health Canada, AACTI, ACAD, Keyano College.
2008 (January) Problems with History (Elements 13, 14, 15) – 3 video-based installations exploring issues in historical representation installed at the Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
2007 (November) Problems with History (Element 14) – Interviews, performances, and audio video installation conducted/installed at the Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, that explores the creation, exchange and destruction of history.
2007 (September) Lines of Communication (Analogue Dialogue 2) – 6 X4 foot canvas, communication wire and paint installation/public art project installed at the Ruberto Ostberg Gallary, Calgary, Canada. September
2007 In the Shadow of Progress (multi-platform digital documentary) – personal and subjective explorations of life in the industrial north using web, email, terrestrial phone and locative/time accessed mobile media. Developed for the National Film Board of Canada.
2006 Ghosts of Industry (Locative Media) – location driven outdoor audio and video installation over PDA/ I-Pac and GPS.
2005 Technosaurs/C.I.E. – branded multi-platform educational participatory narrative for ‘tweens’. Coproduced with RocketFuel Inc. and the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. Funders: Canada New Media Fund; Virtual Museum of Canada.
2003-04 Warhospital (web documentary) – intimate observations on life at the largest Red Cross war casualty facility in Lokichokio, Kenya. Project Developed for the National Film Board of Canada with the assistance of the Interactive Project Lab.
2001-04 Ghosts of Industry (ghostsofindustry.com) – experiential documentary of the industrial ghost town of Bitumount in northern Alberta. Collaborators: Jeff Dawson, Wayne Dunkley, Leonard Paul.
Grants and Awards
2007 First Place – “Pitch-it”, Kidscreen Summit, New York. Project: Technosaurs/C.I.E.
2006 Telus Innovation Fund. Project: Technosaurs.
2005 Canada New Media Fund, Telefilm Canada, Project:Technosaurs.
Virtual Museum of Canada Investment Program. Project:Technosaurs
2003 Interactive Project Lab, Prototyping Grant. Project: War Hospital
2001 Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund. Project: Ghosts of Industry.
Telus Television Fund. Project: Ghosts of Industry.
Alberta Historical Resources Foundation, Media Grant. Project: Ghosts of Industry.
Exhibitions
2008 Problems with History, Solo show of 12 paintings and 3 installations at the Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
2007 Problems with History (Element 14), Perfomances and Audio/Video Installation at ‘Open Spaces’, the Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
Art Walk, Group Show, The Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2006 Ghosts of Industry, Locative Media Installation, Banff New Media Institute, The Banff Centre, Banff,
Canada.
Art Walk, Group Show. The Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
1st Anniversary Group Show. The Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
2005 Adieu, Public Art Project/Installation. The Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
Say Goodbye, Curator. Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
2003 Warhospital: Paper Interactions, Interactive Project Lab, Banff Summer Arts Festival, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
Residencies:
2008 Good Medicine – Director of the Good Medicine Residency with 6 Aboriginal Artists at the Banff New Media Institute, the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada. October 2008.
2007 Thematic Residency/Co-production Lab: Almost Perfect. Projects: Problems with History (Elements 12 and 13). The Banff New Media Institute, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
2006 Thematic Residency/Co-production Lab: Almost Perfect. Projects: Ghosts of Industry (locative media); In the Shadow of Progress. The Banff New Media Institute, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
2005 Self Directed Residency. Project: Technosaurs. The Banff New Media Institute, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
2003 Interactive Project Lab. Project: Warhospital. The Canadian Film Centre (Toronto), The Banff New Media Institute (Banff), and Institut National de l’Image et du Son (Montreal).
Panels, Presentations and Delegations (Select list)
2009-’Educating the Makers’ presented at Interactive Screen, The Banff New Media Institute, Banff Alberta. Senior Artist/Faculty.
2008 -South by South West, Austin, Texas. Alberta AACTI Contingent
2006 -Digital Media 101: The Value of Digital Media. Banff New Media Institute, Accelerator Program, Banff, Alberta.
-The casualty of War Hospital: Observations for a conflicted documentary genre. Presented at Interactive Screen, The Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada.
-Electronic Entertainment Expo. Western Canada Delegation. Los Angeles, United States.
2003 -WAR HOSPITAL: a Study in Being Human. Presented at “IPL day” at the “Festival international nouveau cinema et nouveaux medias”, Montreal, Canada.
-WAR HOSPITAL. Presented at Cyberpitch, the Banff Television festival, Banff, Canada.
2002 -Web Visualisation and the First Philosophy of History. Presented at Interactive Screen, the Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada.
2001 -Recontextualising Digital Media: Lessons from Material History. Presented at Unforgiving Memory, the Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada.
Media Communications/Marketing Consultation
2008 Thought Department – Creative Consultant / Designer
WiilliamJoseph Communications – Copywrter/Creative consultant
C+TS, Alberta College of Art + Design – Information Architect and Usability Consultant
2007 Calgary Arts Development Authority – Digital Media consultant
Union of BC Performers – ‘State of Industry’ consultant for Digital Media/Gaming
2006 Alberta College of Art + Design – Interim Director of Marketing and Communications
Voice Pictures – Usability consultant for Goose! children’s website
Union of BC Performers – ‘State of Industry’ consultant for Digital Media/Gaming
2004-05 Agitprop Films / National Film Board of Canada / CBC – Research and Development co-producer for the documentary “Province of the Future”.
2004 Union of BC Performers – Web/usability consultant; designer/director of promotional trailer for BC-Indie.org
Agitprop Films – designer/developer for multi-platform digital adventure Watching Warner – a digital media companion for the Film Six Figures.
Gerda Films – research/content consultant / First Nations Liaison for feature documentary The Weather Report.
2003 Archaeological Society of Alberta – web consultant / developer for webzine debitage.ca.
2002 The Banff New Media Institute – web-content, information architecture, usability consultant for
horzonzero.ca and Zero Horizon.
Zing Studios – creative consultant for George Street TV convergence comedy project.
Writing and Reportage
Clients include: AgitProp Films; Banff New Media Institute; Canadian Heritage; Goodonya
Productions; Halstead Communications; HotRocket Studios; Parks Canada; Purple Door Art
Studio; RocketFuel Inc.; Ruberto Ostberg Gallery; Rumble Seat Recordings; Stanton-Smith
Consulting; Zing Studios.
Publications
2002 Lesick, Kurtis, Barbara Kulle, Christine Cluny, Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown (Editors) The
Archaeology of Contact: Processes and Consequences. The Archaeological Association of the
University of Calgary.
2001 Lesick, Kurtis, “The First Graphic Design“ in Entropie Art/Design/Communication/Culture Vol. 2,
No. 3.
1997 Magne, Martin, Kurtis Lesick, Peter D. Francis, Gwyn Langemann and Rod Heitzmann, “Archaeology – A Crucial Role in Ecosystem Management,“ CRM, Vol.20, No.4.
Lesick, Kurtis “Re-engendering gender: some theoretical and methodological concerns on a burgeoning archaeological pursuit.“ In J. Moore and E. Scott (eds) Invisible People and Processes: Writing Gender and Childhood into European Archaeology. Leicester University Press.
Reports
2003 The Beauty of Collaboration: Methods, Manners, and Aesthetics, Report for the Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Alberta.
2001 The Media and Material Culture Summit: Communicating Canada‘s Heritage. Report for the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Gallery
Ruberto Ostberg Gallery
2108-18th Street, N.W., Calgary, Canada
Phone: 403.289.3388