Oliver Hockenhull is a Vancouver based media artist, thoughtful filmmaker, occasional screenwriter, McLuhanisque communication theorist/lecturer/writer and traveller – invite him to your house. In 2003/2004 he was visiting artist/lecturer at Northwestern University, Chicago.
He has completed six + feature length works and numerous dramatic and experimental shorts. The films have shown at such film festivals and venues as -(selected) The Montréal World Film Festival, The Contemporary Cultural Centre of Barcelona, The Vancouver International Film Festival, The European Media Arts Festival, The Nouveau Cinema Festival Montreal , The International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (Official Competition - Film), The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Graz Bienniale, The Melbourne International Film Festival, VIPER/Switzerland, MIT/Boston, and at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, etc…Works have been broadcasted on Canadian and European television.
Hockenhull has been deeply involved in the study, theory, and application of new media imaging and authoring technologies and has been a research associate with the Centre For Image and Sound Research in Vancouver, a director/resident at The Banff Centre for the Arts and most recently the media artist in residency at The Western Front (2006). He was one of the guest jurors for the Machida City Gallery (Tokyo) International VRML Competition - "Japan in the Future ". As a member of WebWeavers Network Society he contributed to getting on-line the first cultural web site in Canada. He has written for hypertext, for the World Wide Web and for CD-ROM. His early hypertext documents were proflied in T|E|L|E|C|I|N|E|- the World Wide Web "Journal of New Media†Authoring in the Digital Domain" - they were used in courses at The University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, "Tech-Sci Culture" at The University of California, Santa Barbara, The University of Iowa, Victoria University (NZ), Rensselaer Tech. Institute, New York State, and at The Institute for Social Theory at Keele University, U.K.
He has completed six + feature length works and numerous dramatic and experimental shorts. The films have shown at such film festivals and venues as -(selected) The Montréal World Film Festival, The Contemporary Cultural Centre of Barcelona, The Vancouver International Film Festival, The European Media Arts Festival, The Nouveau Cinema Festival Montreal , The International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (Official Competition - Film), The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Graz Bienniale, The Melbourne International Film Festival, VIPER/Switzerland, MIT/Boston, and at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, etc…Works have been broadcasted on Canadian and European television.
Hockenhull has been deeply involved in the study, theory, and application of new media imaging and authoring technologies and has been a research associate with the Centre For Image and Sound Research in Vancouver, a director/resident at The Banff Centre for the Arts and most recently the media artist in residency at The Western Front (2006). He was one of the guest jurors for the Machida City Gallery (Tokyo) International VRML Competition - "Japan in the Future ". As a member of WebWeavers Network Society he contributed to getting on-line the first cultural web site in Canada. He has written for hypertext, for the World Wide Web and for CD-ROM. His early hypertext documents were proflied in T|E|L|E|C|I|N|E|- the World Wide Web "Journal of New Media†Authoring in the Digital Domain" - they were used in courses at The University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, "Tech-Sci Culture" at The University of California, Santa Barbara, The University of Iowa, Victoria University (NZ), Rensselaer Tech. Institute, New York State, and at The Institute for Social Theory at Keele University, U.K.
