Visiting Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator; Adjunct Professor
emily@dukeandbattersby.com • www.dukeandbattersby.com

Education
BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1998
MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago

Biographical Information
Cooper Battersby (b. 1971, Penticton British Columbia, Canada) and Emily Vey Duke (b. 1972, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada) have been working collaboratively since June 1994. They work in printed matter, installation, sculpture, new media, curation and sound, but their primary practice is with single-channel video. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and at festivals in North and South America, Asia and throughout Europe, including the Walker Center (Minneapolis), The Banff Centre (Banff), The Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver), YYZ (Toronto), The Renaissance Society (Chicago), The Toronto International Art Fair, The New York Video Festival (NYC), Oberhausen, The European Media Arts Festival (Osnabruck), Impakt (Utrecht) and The Images Festival (Toronto). Their tape Being Fucked Up (2000) has been awarded prizes from film festivals in Switzerland, Germany and the USA. Bad Ideas for Paradise (2002) was purchased for broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and for the libraries at Harvard and Princeton, and has won prizes from the NYExpo (NYC) and the Onion City festival (Chicago). I am a Conjuror (2004) has received prizes from the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Onion City Festival. They were awarded the 2006 Aliant New Media Prize for their project A Year in the Life of the World, which will be completed in 2009, their newest work Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure was awarded the Jury Award at the San Diego WomenÕs Film Festival.

Emily Vey Duke received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and completed her Masters at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She then worked for a year as Artistic Director at the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax, NS. She is the New York Correspondent for C Magazine, and has had work published in numerous books and journals in Canada and the US. In the summer of 2008, Buenaventura Press will publish The Illuminations, a book of poems by Emily Vey Duke and drawings by Shary Boyle.

Cooper Battersby received his diploma in computer programming at Okanagan College, and completed his Masters at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was the recipient of a Canada Council Production Grant in 2001. Duke and Battersby are currently teaching at Syracuse University in Central New York, where Duke is the program coordinator for the new Transmedia Program. They are represented by Jessica Bradley Art and Projects in Toronto.

More information can be found on their website at www.dukeandbattersby.com

Research and Teaching Interests
Both as teachers and in our practice, we return to again and again to issues of representation and how it contributes to the construction of subjectivity. This has taken our research in many directions, including but not limited to psychoanalytic theory, the story of western art history, the relationship between technology and narrative, the uses of rhetoric, womenÕs and gender studies and the representation of race in mass culture.

We see it as our role to help students determine what truths they need to express, to choose the techniques and stylistic moves that best express it, and to hone their skills in deploying and critically analyzing those techniques and styles. In other words, we work to facilitate our studentsÕ vision by providing them with the tools they need to manifest it.

Selected Publications
"@ Donky @ Ninja @ Witch: the Fastwurms at AGYU", Canadian Art, Spring 08
"I'd Rather be Gormless", Canadian Art, Fall 07
"Concerned With Astria Suparak", C Magazine, Spring 08
"State Britain: Mark Wallinger at the Tate Britain." C Magazine, Spring 08
"Away from the Artist Run Centre", Decentre: Concerning Artist Run Culture, eds Elaine Chang, Andrea Lalonde, Chris Lloyd, Steve Loft, Jonathan Middleton, Daniel Roy, Haema Sivanesan, upcoming.
Work included in Dampbook, a journal of Vancouver media arts practices.
Untitled, Excesses and Extremes in Film and Video, eds Linda Feesey and Firoza Elavia, Pleasuredome (upcoming).
Featured Writer, C Magazine, 2003-2007; New York Correspondent, Summer 06-present.
Catalogue Essay, Deirdre Logue, Images Festival & Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto.
Afterword, Witness My Shame, Shary Boyle, Conundrum Press.
Curatorial Essay for Don't Let This Happen, Daniel Barrow at Mercer Union
The Fine Arts, Bridge Magazine DVD. Also included David Cronenberg & Miranda July.
Childhood, Public Magazine.
Lux: Ten Years of Artist's Film and Video edited by Steve Reinke and Tom Taylor.
Curatorial Essay, "Dan Graham: From Sunset to Sunrise". Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax NS.
Curatorial Essay, "Some Babies are Just Born Sad". Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax NS.
"Robust Friendships and Lucid Dreaming", Mix Magazine.