Bio & CV

Lindsay MacDonald is an artist and new media researcher/practitioner born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. She has a BFA in painting and digital media from the University of Calgary, and another BFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Practice from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has served as a producer, freelance editor, animator, and creative and technical consultant for several new media artists and designers.

Lindsay is a masters student in the Computational Media Design Interdisciplinary Graduate Group at the University of Calgary. Her approach to research and creative production combines methodology both from computer science and art, and she divides her time between the Interactions Lab’s InnoVis Group and her studio in the Department of Art. Her research interests include meta arts, information visualization, interaction design, distributed collaborative creation for media art, exhibition strategy and media art history.

Lindsay’s experience working across media in video, interaction design, narrative, installation, illustration and printed matter have afforded her ongoing opportunities to collaborate and participate in the production of rigorous projects that have received funding from both provincial and national funding bodies and have been exhibited internationally, as well as several summer research positions during her undergraduate studies. Prior to beginning her Masters studies, Lindsay was employed full-time at The Banff Centre as the Production Coordinator for the cross-disciplinary collaborative environment of The Banff New Media Institute (BNMI). In this capacity, she facilitated discourse and collaboration amongst artists, technicians, and researchers to create high-risk and innovative new media works through the Co-production Program. Her tenure at The BNMI allowed her to observe and participate in the process of successful collaborative research and collective inquiry into a broad range of topics in new media while building and maintaining a strong international network of media artists, researchers and innovators. This subsequently enabled and encouraged her to reflect on her own practice as a media artist, and her interests in studio art, new media research and cross-disciplinary collaboration. She has been invited several times to present her work to resident BNMI artists and researchers. She has also been sent to represent The BNMI at a number of arts- and industry-based new media festivals and conferences, thereby expanding her knowledge and understanding of current developments, ideas, challenges and trends within the field.

When she’s not surrounded by her studio research, Lindsay enjoys quiet mornings with good coffee and good friends, knitting with hand-spun yarn, making and eating good food, traveling to foreign countries and trying to blend in with the locals, and hanging out with cats.