Johanne Sloan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanne Sloan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Sloan |
| SIGNATURE | SLOAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Joyce Wieland’s Defend the Earth (1972)
Canadian artist Joyce Wieland’s quilt-like Defend the Earth (1972), a work of public art installed in the National Science Library in Ottawa, had rarely been seen or written about over the past 50 years, until its inclusion in Joyce Wieland: Heart On, a 2025 retrospective exhibition. Wieland had previously made environmentally oriented artworks, but the scale and ambition of this seven-metre-long textile work deserve to be studied in relation to …
Experiments in Urban Luminosity
This article addresses contemporary artworks that reinvent ordinary urban lighting fixtures and technologies to create complex sensorial environments. In recent years, light art has indeed flourished in many cities – often in the context of extravagant light festivals and all-night art events that are sponsored by municipalities and funded by corporations. The end result of such events can be empty spectacle and the further commodification of urb…
Expo 67
Experiments in Urban Luminosity
This article addresses contemporary artworks that reinvent ordinary urban lighting fixtures and technologies to create complex sensorial environments. In recent years, light art has indeed flourished in many cities – often in the context of extravagant light festivals and all-night art events that are sponsored by municipalities and funded by corporations. The end result of such events can be empty spectacle and the further commodification of urb…
Expo 67
Experiments in Urban Luminosity
This article addresses contemporary artworks that reinvent ordinary urban lighting fixtures and technologies to create complex sensorial environments. In recent years, light art has indeed flourished in many cities – often in the context of extravagant light festivals and all-night art events that are sponsored by municipalities and funded by corporations. The end result of such events can be empty spectacle and the further commodification of urb…
Joyce Wieland’s Defend the Earth (1972)
Canadian artist Joyce Wieland’s quilt-like Defend the Earth (1972), a work of public art installed in the National Science Library in Ottawa, had rarely been seen or written about over the past 50 years, until its inclusion in Joyce Wieland: Heart On, a 2025 retrospective exhibition. Wieland had previously made environmentally oriented artworks, but the scale and ambition of this seven-metre-long textile work deserve to be studied in relation to …
History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Architecture (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work) · Art, Technology, and Culture (1 work) · Cityscape (1 work) · Commodification (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)