Brief Author Bio:

Erin Clarke is a Toronto media artist who began working with video and digital image making in the mid-nineties. Erin has created low-tech animations, video artworks, such as the 2006 nine-screen installation 'Borne' and the 2009 video/painting installation 'Of Self and Home: Queer Faces, Queer Places', and a documentary short, 'Woman With Cats', which was broadcast on the U.S. Documentary Channel from September 2008 to March 2009. Experimental, wistful and whimsical, her work has been exhibited in Toronto and New York and she was awarded a Toronto Animated Image Society prize in 2005. Mixing analog and digital media, Erin engages the personal, her own and others’ stories, and her work is informed by experience in both frontline social work and the information technology industry. Erin Clarke studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design, the Polytechnic Institute of NYU, The New School and Ryerson University. She holds a BFA in Integrated Media, an MS in Digital Media and an MFA in Documentary Media.

Erin plans to ignite new ideas, bring a few old ideas out of her thoughts, and enjoy a refreshing change from academic writing by participating in her first NaNoWriMo.