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CURRICULUM VITAE

KURTIS LESICK

TEACHING POSITIONS

2019-Present Associate Professor, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Alberta Canada.

2013- 2019 Assistant Professor, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

2013-2015 Adjunct Professor, Digital Futures Initiative, Faculty of Graduate Studies, OCAD

University, Toronto, Canada.

2012 Sessional Faculty, Digital Futures Initiative, Faculty of Graduate Studies, OCAD

University, Toronto,Canada.

2012 Visiting Faculty, Values in Design Doctoral Workshop, School of Information and

Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA (August 19-26, 2012).

2009 Senior Faculty and Scholarship Student Facilitator, Interactive Screen, The Banff

New Media Institute, the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

2008-2012 Sessional Faculty in Media Arts + Digital Technology, Alberta College of Art +

Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

EXECUTIVE/ ARTS ADMINISTRATION POSITIONS

2015-Present Programme Lead, Media Arts School of Craft + Emerging Media, Alberta University of the

Arts. Administration, Curriculum Development, Student Advising, Departmental Liason.

2013-2015 Chair, School of Craft + Emerging Media, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary,

Canada. Administration, operations, visioning, direction of the five Craft and Media Arts +

Digital Technology programmes; Academic Leadership; Academic Council; Research

Liaison.

2009-Present Director/Curator, Creative Environment for Emerging Electronic Culture

(CE3C.com), Calgary, Canada. Fund development, administration, direction, programme

development, and curriculum integration for research and residency programmes in

MADT at the Alberta College of Art & Design.

2005-Present President/Creative Director – Kulturlab Inc. Content Development and strategic creative

consulting for a variety of clients including the Office of the Dean, Donald Bren School of

Information and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine; Development Office,

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, University of California at

Irvine; Department of Film and Media, the Banff Centre; the National Film Board of

Canada; Alberta College of Art +Design; Association of Alberta Colleges and Technical

Institutes; Calgary Arts Development Authority; and others.

2009-2012 Digital Alberta, Board of Directors. Worked with industry, key stakeholders, and the

provincial government as an advocate for digital industries; created programming and

policy positions to better situate digital industries in Alberta; Committee chair for

education, arts, rural development and community outreach.

2009-2010 AACTI Chair of Development for IT and Digital Media. Coordinated the direction of

research and development for IT and Digital Media for 14 Post-secondary institutions

in Alberta. Advocated with industry and government to help initiate funding and

support programmes.

2006 Acting Director of Marketing and Communications, Alberta College of Art +

Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Coordinated and directed all Academic,

Administration, and Support Departments at ACAD in producing content for ACAD’s

new website; implemented College rebranding; project managed new website launch

over two months (despite preparation being 9 months behind); maintained all internal

and external communications at ACAD.

1997-2005 President/Creative Director – The HUMANUS Collective: cultural research and

media arts collective and think tank. Coordinated and directed applied research and

media projects for key stakeholders including: Department of Canadian Heritage;

National Parks Service; Banff National Park; Banff New Media Institute; Union of BC

Performers; Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development; Canadian

Archaeological Association; and others.

EDUCATION

In Progress: PhD, Philosophy, Art, and Social Thought, European Graduate School.

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 Bustillos, Chihuahua, Mexico.”

SELECT LIST OF APPLIED RESEARCH INITIATIVES (DIRECTOR)

2014 Visualising Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalila

Research on the composer Olivier Messiaen and the development of his formal musical language, semiotics, and synesthesia. Project culminated in the development of a visual counterpart using Video, Animation, Generative Audio Visualisation and Projection Mapping. Directed by Kurtis Lesick; Technical Direction by Craig Fahner; Programming Intern: Mathew Lindenberg; Animation Intern: Kelly-Ann Desouza; Video Intern: Kaylee Novakovski;

2013-2015 The Agora (SEGENS | Social Engagement through Geographically Embedded News Systems). SEGENS is an applied research collaboration with the Calgary Herald that explores the mediated engagement with news through screen interactions and smartphones as a form of cultural dialogue, community building, and support for socially connected ecosystems. By treating news as more than information, as a focus of discussion and communication, and by locating it in the physical world, SEGENS facilitates better social expression, greater community engagement, and a stronger sense of citizenry.

2011 C4 (http://www.c4ios.com/)

C4 is an open source coding framework for iOS (iPhone Operating System) that streamlines the coding experience for developing with Apple’s touch-based hardware. C4 allows users to take advantage of Apple’s robust native iOS programming environment with an emphasis on aesthetic programming for building artworks, visualisations, design interfaces and new forms of media and interaction. The framework provides simple coding shortcuts that unify the workflow for different media. A long term project of Travis Kirton, CE3C supported the development of C4 over two years, firstly hosting a series of workshops and development bootcamps, then a development residency for Travis Kirton, and finally, the AACTI (Association of Alberta Colleges and Technical Institutes) funded PAX (Programming for Aesthetic Experience) residency.

2010 The Enterprise Challenge / Vulcan Knowledge Repository

The Vulcan Knowledge Repository is a multi-user, interactive environment that allows visitors to explore information about Vulcan County embedded within a futuristic, Star Trek inspired narrative. Installed in the Vulcan Trek Station in Vulcan, Alberta, the Knowledge Repository allows visitors to Vulcan to explore the history and character of the region through the fun Star Trek brand that draws tourists to the area.

2009 CIRO – COMPLEX INPUT | RATIONAL OUTPUT (CIRO.org)

CIRO focuses on intuitive, ‘natural’ interfaces and computing experiences that translate complex data streams into visualisations or sonifications that are easily and instinctively apprehended by the user. Breaking away from the keyboard, the project focussed on developing large touchscreens that could provide a communal and immersive experience. Looking at trends in virtual reality, augmented reality and 3D display our screens were developed with 3D capacities and made reconfigurable for variety of performance, installation and commercial contexts. The project also produced a variety of software experiments bringing performance and visualisation into the touchscreen environment.

SELECT LIST OF WORKS

2021

“What is an Event?” (6 channel installation) Part of Killing Me Softly, Group Show, Kyle Marks Projects at the Ribtor Warehouse, Calgary, March 20-22
Touch like the touch of an other (2 channel video installation) Kyle Marks Projects at Two House, Calgary, POSTPONED due to Covid19.

2020

#athingisaholeinathingitisnot - photographic installation considering thing/object and space/place through the lens of the work and writing of Carl Andre. Fountain Studio, Calgary. October/November, 2020.

2019

Data Dance, movement and dance performance with Małgorzata Suś investigating the generative nature of the relations between data and information in “the archive”. Performed in Sellasia, Greece, June 9, 2019.
I Know, performance exploring the burden of knowing, an implication of the archive that holds knowledge that we can never unknow. Documented by Dasha Ilina. Performed in Sellasia, Greece, June 6, 2019.
Rite de Passage, video collaboration with Dasha Ilina that explores the initiation of two characters into the archive they are attempting to negate. Videoed by Michael Higgins.
Points of Contact, performance/video carving a pathway through the wild scrub of a hillside outside of Sellasia, Greece with only my body. Videoed by Michael Higgins. Performed in Sellasia, Greece, June 3, 2019.

2018-Present

#athingisaholeinathingitisnot - (in progress) photographs, media interventions and/or sculptures considering thing/object and space/place through the lens of the work and writing of Carl Andre.

2016

In Grottos / Nelle Grotte, Mixed Media Video Installation, and Consider the Book / Considerate il Libro, Video Installation, both on the relationship between knowledge time and matter. Created in Residence at Palazzo del Gatto, Casaprota, Italy.
Entanglement - Series 1, Mediated Landscape Interventions on Aluminum with hand poured resin. Series of Landscape interventions from Llorenc del Penedes, Spain. Exhibited as part of “String Theory” at the Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada.

2015

Seven Deadly Sins / Fall of the House of Usher, Video Projections accompanying the Calgary Philharmonic during their annual festival performance. Visuals Directed by Kurtis Lesick; Line Producers: Greg Debicki, Mathew Lindenberg; Performance Intern: Kaylee Novakovski.
Entanglement, Sculptural installation, photography, and video installation exploring metaphors of quantum and astrophysics in relation to human experience.

2014

Turangalila, Video, Animation, Generative Audio Visualisation and Projection Mapping. Composed by Olivier Messiaen; Music Performed by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; Visuals Directed by Kurtis Lesick; Technical Direction by Craig Fahner; Programming Intern: Mathew Lindenberg; Animation Intern: Kelly-Ann Desouza; Video Intern: Kaylee Novakovski.

2013 - 2015

The Agora (S.E.G.E.N.S.), (Director) Interactive screen and web-based news and community building intervention. Researcher: Angus Leech; Programmers: Paul Robert and Craig Fahner.

2013

Iran Do Espirito Santo: Drawings and Manifestos . Documentary Video, Co-directors: Noam Gonick and Kurtis Lesick, in collaboration with Martha Affleck, Kyle Anderson, Dani Anderson and Kirk Loveland . Producer: Corus Entertainment/W. Baerwaldt  (Canada, 2013, 9 minutes).

2012

Inner Waters Flowing Faster, Video Projected on Glass Sculpture in collaboration with Kai Scholefield (Glass Artist) and Greg Debicki (Audio Engineer and Original Music). At the Ruberto Ostberg Gallery for the 2012 Exposure Photography Festival.

2011

(re)production: a reading for Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Digital Performance Commissioned by Dandelion Magazine for “Performance/MACHINE” edited by Kathleen Brown and Michael Nardone.

The Vulcan Explorer, (Director) Interactive edu-tainment experience at the Vulcan Trek Station, Vulcan, Alberta, Canada.

Possibilities Exceed 9, Poetry and computer generated performance piece in collaboration with Travis Kirton, Poetic Performance Laboratory, John Dutton Theatre, Calgary Public Library, Calgary
(mis)read, Interactive, Multi-Media Installation, Commissioned for “Popsex!” curated by Annette Timms and Michael Thomas Taylor, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada.

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

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

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

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’. Co-produced 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

2020 Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship Fellowship Award, the University of Bristol.

2020 AUArts Sabbatical. January to June

2019 AUArts FPAF Funding. Project: Koumaria Residency, Sparta, Greece; Society for Literature,

Science and Arts (EU) Conference, Athens, Greece

2016 ACAD FPAC Funding. Project: "High Fives to the Avant-Garde" Presented at the

Human-Computer Interaction International Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 20, 2016.

2012 ACAD Scholarly Research and Creativity Initiative. Project: Tex(t)ech (Letters to our

Father)

2012 AACTI AR&I Fund. Project: SEGENS | Social Engagement through Geographically

Embedded News Systems. (In partnership with the Calgary Herald).

2012 Digital Alberta Awards, People’s Choice Award, Most Inspirational Digital Leader.

2012 AACTI CAP Talks Grant

2012 AACTI Regional Innovation Network (RIN) Capacity Building Grant

2011 ACAD Scholarly Research and Creativity Initiative

2010 FMSIC Grant, AACTI. Project: The Enterprise Challenge

2009 FMSR and FSRD Grants, AACTI. Project: Complex Input | Rational Output (CIRO) Cirolab.org

2009 Marion Research Fund, Alberta College of Art + Design. Project: Complex Input | Rational Output

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.

2005 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.

2001 Telus Television Fund. Project: Ghosts of Industry.

2001 Alberta Historical Resources Foundation, Media Grant. Project: Ghosts of Industry.

EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES

2021 “What is an Event?” (6 channel installation) Part of Killing Me Softly, Group Show, Kyle Marks Projects at the Ribtor

Warehouse, Calgary, March 20-22

2021 Touch like the touch of another (2 channel video installation) Kyle Marks Projects at Two House, Calgary, POSTPONED due to Covid19.

2020 #athingisaholeinathingitisnot - photographic installation, Fountain Studio, Calgary. October/November, 2020.

2019 Data Dance, movement and dance performance with Małgorzata Suś investigating the

generative nature of the relations between data and information in “the archive”. Performed in

Sellasia, Greece. (June 9, 2019).

2019 I Know, performance exploring the burden of knowing, an implication of the archive that holds

knowledge that we can never unknow. Documented by Dasha Ilina. Performed in Sellasia,

Greece. (June 6, 2019).

2019 Points of Contact, performance/video carving a pathway through the wild scrub of a hillside

outside of Sellasia, Greece with only my body. Videoed by Michael Higgins. Performed in

Sellasia, Greece. (June 3, 2019).

2017 Possibilities Exceed Nine, Curated by Barbara Sutherland. The Fountain Studio, Calgary,

Canada. (May 19, 2017)

2016 In Grottos / Nelle Grotte, Palazzo del Gatto, Casaprota, Italy (June 25-27) Ruberto Ostberg

Gallery: Entanglement (Series 1) Landscape Interventions.

2016 String Theories, Group Show (Kurtis Lesick, Barbara Sutherland, Mark Vitalis, Joanne

McDonald) Ruberto Ostberg Gallery: Entanglement (Series 1) Landscape Interventions.

2015 Seven Deadly Sins / Fall of the House of Usher in Partnership with the Calgary Philharmonic.

Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary, Canada.

2015 Beakerhead 4, Main Mall, Alberta College of Art + Design. The Agora.

2015 All Faculty Show, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada. Entanglement: Llorenc del Penedes

Remix.

2015 "Exposició i presentació de la publicació del 5e aniversari del CeRCCa 2009-2015, a l‘antic

cinema Cal Marçal de Llorenç del Penedès, Spain (June 23-28). Entanglement

(Entanglement 1, 2, 3).

2014 Turangalila, in Partnership with the Calgary Philharmonic. Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary,

Canada.

2012 All Faculty Show, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada. Inner Waters Flowing Faster.

2012 Exposure Photography Festival, Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary Canada. Inner Waters

Flowing Faster.

2011 Poetic Performance Lab: an interactive hour of poetic performances, textual theatre and sound

action. John Dutton Theatre, Calgary Public Library, Calgary, Canada.

2011 Popsex! Thematic Group Show curated by Annette Timms and Michael Thomas Taylor,

Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada

2010 DigitalCultures001, Digital Alberta Digital Showcase, Alberta College of Art+Design, Calgary,

Canada

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), Performances and Audio/Video Installation at ‘Open

Spaces’, the Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.

2007 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.

2006 Art Walk, Group Show. The Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada.

2006 1st Anniversary Group Show. The Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada.

2005 Adieu, Public Art Project/Installation. The Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada.

2003 Warhospital: Paper Interactions, Interactive Project Lab, Banff Summer Arts Festival, The Banff

Centre, Banff, Canada.

CURATORIAL

2018 (re)thinking the image, Theatre Junction Grand, Calgary, Canada, 2018 Exposure Photography Festival. (February 9-28, 2018)
2018 Limbs and Thresholds, Performance by Oana Avasilichioaei, Theatre Junction Grand, Calgary, Canada (January 30, 2018)
2013 Delicate Spaces, The Fluevog Peanut Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2013 Letters to My Father. Mediated Text Performances and Installations at “In(ter)ventions”, the Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
2012 Inter(media)tions | Mediated Text Performances and Installations at “Free Exchange”, the University of Calgary, Calgary Canada. Curated with Kathleen Brown.
2012 Inter(media)tions | Mediated Text Performances and Installations at “In(ter)ventions”, the Banff Centre, Banff, Canada. Curated with Kathleen Brown.
2010 DigitalCultures001 | A Night of Digital Art and Culture. Performances and Installations by 14 artists including artificiel, from Montreal. Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada
2009 LIVE(D)CINEMA, 12 Live Cinema Performances including Mia Makela, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada
2005 Say Goodbye, Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
2001 The Media and Material Culture Summit: Communicating Canada‘s Heritage. In Association with the Canadian Archaeological Association. The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.

RESIDENCIES

2020 Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship, the University of Bristol.
2019 (June) Koumaria, Medea Electronique, Sellasia, Greece.
2016 (June) Sabinarti Associazione Culturale, Palazzo del Gatto, Casaprota, Italy.
2015 (May-June) Residency at CeRCCa (Centre for Research and Creativity Casamarles), Llorenc del Penedes, Spain.
2013 Tex(t)ech (Letters to our Father) Director of a one month residency on mediated text critically exploring the patriarchal influences of the internet. CE3C, Calgary, Canada.
2012 Inter(media)tions, Co-director of a one month residency on mediated text with Kathleen Brown and mentor J.R. Carpenter. CE3C, Calgary, Canada.
2011 Tex(t)ech, Co-director of a three week interactive laboratory for artists, technologists, media practitioners and writers. With Oana Avasilichioaei. CE3C, Calgary, Canada.
2009 Live Cinema – Director of one week Live Cinema residency with Mia Makela (solu.org) and 11 artists at CE3C, Alberta College of Art + Design. Part of the Reel Artist Film Festival.
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, JURIES, PRESENTATIONS AND DELEGATIONS (SELECT LIST)

2021

“How are we to approach the world?” Seminar for Vivacity, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada.

http://www.vivacityyyc.com/the-challenge-3. February 03, 2021.

2020

“Being in the excess of touch” Keynote Presentation at The Future of Touch: a conversation between artists making

interactive, social, participatory, or public artworks in the wake of COVID-19.

https://incandescentcloud.com/2020/05/11/the-future-of-touch/, May 22. 2020.

2019

“Preliminary Conjectures on Indeterminacy and the Dissolution of Time, Space, and Matter as Substance” Presented at the Society for Literature, Science and Arts (EU) Conference, Athens, Greece. June 26, 2019)
Moderator, “Documentary and Creative Storytelling”, Story Studio Summit, The Banff Centre. March 9, 2019.

2018

Panel Discussion “Photography in the Era of Social Media”, 2018 Exposure Festival, Theatre Junction Grand, Calgary, Canada. February 9, 2018.

2016

"High Fives to the Avant-Garde" Presented at the Human-Computer Interaction International Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 20, 2016.

2015/16

Public Art Jury for the Calgary Film Centre, Calgary Economic Development.

2015 -

Critical Entanglements for Unimaginable Truths, Presented at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, October 20, 2015.
Public Artist Talk, CeRCCa (Centre for Research and Creativity Casamarles), Llorenc del Penedes, Spain. May 19, 2015.

2014

Turangalila Pre-Concert Presentation, with Heather Slater, Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary, Canada, November 29th, 2014

2013

“twerking it! disruptive strategies against (anti)social media”, Presented at TALKXTALK, OCAD University, Digital Futures Lecture Series, Toronto, Canada. October 17, 2013.
Jury for ‘Connections’ group show at the Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
Delegate Host, TEDactive2013, The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered. Palm Springs, California.

2012

Panel Discussion: Interactivity and Gaming, with Steve Gilmore (Bioware) and Roddy Piper (National Film Board of Canada). Presented at the GIRAF Animation Festival, Calgary, Canada.
blank | art, design, and the ineffable why, Presented at OCAD University at the Digital Futures Lecture Series, Toronto, Canada. October 11, 2012.
Production Bootcamp, Presented at the Values in Design Doctoral Workshop, Values in Design Programme, School of Information and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA (August 19-26, 2012).
CE3C: Past, Present, and Future, Kurtis Lesick, Travis Kirton, and Adam Tindale. Presented at: Technology in Society: An Exploration,  DeVry University,  Calgary, AB, Canada. 
Jury for the Horse Show, Performance, Installation and video competition. Stanford Perrot Theatre, ACAD.
I.D.E.A. (Interaction, Design, Experience, and Audience) Think Tank, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.

2011

Jury for ‘Connections’ group show at the Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Jury for the Horse Show, Performance, Installation and video competition. Stanford Perrot Theatre, ACAD.
Emerging Configurations of the Virtual and the Real, National Science Foundation Symposium, Chicago, USA.

2010

Interactive Screen, The Banff New Media Institute, Senior Faculty and Scholarship Facilitator
Jury for the Horse Show, Performance, Installation and video competition. Stanford Perrot Theatre, ACAD.
How New Technology Drives Advances in Art and Culture. Digital Alberta Panel
South by South West, Austin, Texas. AACTI / Digital Alberta Contingent

2009

South by South West, Austin, Texas. AACTI Contingent
Interactive Screen, The Banff New Media Institute, Senior Faculty and Scholarship Facilitator

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.

PUBLICATIONS

2016 Lesick Kurtis, “High Fives to the Avant-Garde”. In: Marcus A. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability: Design Thinking and Methods. DUXU 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9746. Springer, Cham.
2012 Lesick, Kurtis, ‘Building Electronic Culture | Computing at ACAD’ in the Journal of Computational Media Design. pp.16-29.
2011 Lesick, Kurtis, ‘The Closing of the Text’ in DANDELION performance/machine [Issue 37.2] edited by Kathleen Brown and Michael Nardone.
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.
1997 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.

CRITICAL ESSAYS/INTERVIEWS

Petry, Michael (2018) The Word Is Art. Thames & Hudson. P.137.
Kriebel, Sabine (2017). "Sexologies Beholders: The Exhibition Popsex! in Calgary, in Taylor, M., Timm, A., & Herrn, R. (Eds.). Not Straight from Germany: Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.9238370. Pp. 84-87.
Taylor, M., Timm, A., & Herrn, R. (Eds.). (2017). Not Straight from Germany: Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.9238370. Pp. 237-239.
Cuguoğlu, Naz (2015) “Kurtis Lesick 02/05 Interview” in CI Magazine, Issue 3, September, 09, 20125

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.