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Hector Canonge is a filmmaker & New Media artist who lives in New York City where he studied literature, film and Integrated Media Arts. His solo exhibition, “18 BEATS,” funded in part by NYSCA’s regrant program, featured the interactive environments URBIS18 and IRTag plus the site specific installation Tracking.  His project “Intersections,” was featured at the Association of Hispanic Arts. He participated in New Jersey City University’s residency program as visiting artist in Digital Media, and as culmination of his work in the NJ New Media Residency Program awarded by City Without Walls, he present the exhibition "Germinal," a project exploring the genetic manipulation of seeds. While in residence at cWOW, he also developed the Media installation "Deceptive Landscapes," presented by Gallery Aferro in the Summer 2009. His solo exhibition and first New-media installation-performance, "Schema CorpoReal," was presented at Topaz Arts Gallery. His Public Art collaboration "100 Degrees," with artist, Chin Chih Yang, was commissioned by NYC Department of Transportation and the Queens Council on the Arts for the program Queens Arts Express. Presently, Canonge is working on a new project as part of his residency at Pace University, Dyson AIR Program, and developing the platform for his Fall exhibition about the Centenial of the Grand Concourse, "GC2," to be presented at Bronx Blue Bedroom Project.

In December 2008, his public art installation project, “SHIELD / CORAZA” was featured as part of World AIDS Day, Day With(out) Art at Manuel de Dios Unanue Triangle Plaza in Jackson Heights, Queens. In 2008 he presented “Dixie-Tone,“ a public intervention on US1, produced while in residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts, in New Smyrna Beach, Florid. The same year, his work with Rutgers University scientists and geographers “parallel grounds,” an interactive installation about land use and development in New Jersey, was featured at the Jersey City Museum’s SPRAWL Exhibition, and his video installation “axioMetrics,” about gender, identity and the politics of immigration, was presented as part of the MIX21 Media Festival.

His documentary video about Lesbian and Gay older adults “Senior Pride,” his multimedia work with members of SAGE/Queens “Lavander Ink,” and his new literary initiative “ROZINE,” featuring the work of Queens based Lesbian and Gay seniors, was presented at the Jackson Heights Jewish Center during the Queens Pride 2008 Celebrations.  In 2007 Canonge was commissioned by the Queens Museum of Art to create his public installation referencing the wall being built along the USA-Mexican border, “MurosDistópicos / DystopicWalls,” for the exhibition Corona Plaza Center of Everywhere. The same year he was the recipient of the AIM 27 Residency Program at the Bronx Museum of Art, where he presented “IDOLatries,” an interactive project that explores the representation of archetypical feminine images on Hispanic food products through the use of Universal Product Codes (barcode labels), and commercial scanners.

In 2006, Canonge was nominated for the Rockefeller Fellowship in New Media, received a Harvestworks Scholarship, and presented “200mm3,” an installation about people with HIV/AIDS, which was featured at the Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ, and at Manhattan’s World Culture Open Center Gallery for World AIDS Day. In 2005, he organized and participated in URBAN INTERFACES v.1, a program that explored the use of open source communication technologies, presented SONIC BYTES, a psychogeographic collaborative sound-mapping conceptual project, and introduced QUADROLOGYA, a series of experiments dealing with the effects that street intersections have on the perception of the city.

His mobile Web based interactive, open source project, “Ciudad Transmobil” was featured in at the Queens Museum of Art Biennial, Queens International 2004. He was a guest speaker in the CUNY 2004 Media Conference: Journalism, Media and the Big City, and a presenter of Documentary Intentions in the Age of New Media organized by SUNY, Buffalo, and at CUNY, Hunter College (2003). Canonge has been featured on the Web with projects like CUBOT, MEXICANISMOS, HCVTR, His films have been shown nationally: Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Fest, NYC MIX Film Festival, San Antonio CineAccion; and internationally in Germany, Tokyo , Italy and Brazil where he received awards and honorable mentions for his documentary work with “Go Boys!,” and experimental fiction narrative “Fear.”

Canonge has been an adjunct instructor of multimedia at New York City College of Technology, CUNY. He has taught Web technologies in the Film & Communications Program at the New School University; media production at Brooklyn Community Access Television; and Stop Motion Animation at Bronx River Arts Center. Canonge was also an educator at the Museum of the Moving Image, and conducted workshops in Design and 3D Modeling Architecture at the Bronx Museum of Arts. As part of his community initiatives, he started the monthly Queens’  LGBT film program CINEMAROSA. He is also the co-founder of QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, a non-for profit arts organization that serves various communities of Queens with media programs in the arts like FRAMING AIDS, a multidisciplinary event in observance of Worlds AIDS Day.

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