Master of Arts
Film + Photographic Preservation
Toronto Metropolitan University
Bachelor of Design/Photography
Alberta University of the Arts
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EXHIBITIONS
2024
Art Work, Group show, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
DAMNED, Solo show, CONTACT Gallery, Toronto
Moonquake : Three Chapters, Charles Street Video (Toronto, Canada)
collaborative sound installation with artist Dan Tapper
Salon 44, Gallery 44, Group show
2023
Tsonomi XVII Festival de Arte Sonoro
Selected Radio Artist
(Valparaíso, Chile)
I Did My Damnedest, Group show: Paradise Engineering - After All Ends, No New Beginnings. Space Rosa Stern (Munich, Germany)
I Am Not a Wolf, Sound work performance, Lothringer 13 Halle (Munich, Germany)
Fragments of Sonic Extinction, 8 newly commissioned international sound works, co-curated by L. M. Ramsey + Kalas Liebfried, shared with the public through a variety of programmatic offerings including an exhibition, workshop, performances and Radio80000 takeover. ZIRKA Space (Munich, Germany)
Junk Anima, single channel audio + installation. ZIRKA Space (Munich, Germany)
HyperAcid, collaboration with Kalas Liebfried [DAWN PHASE], RADIO AMNION - Sonic Transmissions of Care in Oceanic Space, radio transmission 2 km deep in the Pacific Ocean
2022
Living Data, Presumed Dead, Critical Distance Gallery (Toronto, Canada) Ecologies & Cosmologies - Curator: Karina Iskandarsjah
The Air We Share, InterAccess - Vector Festival 2022: Glitch (Toronto, Canada) Curator: Megan Maclaurin
Cricket Alarm, Fragments of Sonic Extinction (Munich, Germany) Curator: Kalas Liebfried
2021
Ground, Bio-Creation Station, hosted by MIT Media Lab, USA
2019
From the Archives, Mezzanine Gallery, Robert Frost Library, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Co-curators: Tim Pinault, Misha Storm
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PUBLICATIONS
2024
Broken Spectatorship and the Poetics of Looking Away, 20SECONDS.
2022
Data Data, Artist Zine, Co-published with Art Metropole
2021
Mobilizing Materiality: The Role of Digitisation in the Preservation of and Access to Berenice Abbott's Acetate Negatives, Archiving 2021 Conference, Society for Imaging Science and Technology
2014
Phases of the Moon: A Study of 19th Century Scientific Book Illustrations
Providing a Comprehensive Catalogue for the First Three Editions of James Nasmyth & James Carpenter's The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite
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TALKS
2025
Human-in-the-disintegration-loop: Digitization and Materiality, at the Forum: Encoding the Image: How Does AI Affect the Future of Photo History? hosted at The Image Centre, Toronto Metropolitan University March 31 - April 2, 2025.
Colorant Detectives: An Interactive Dichotomous Key for Multiband Imaging, American Institute for Conservation (AIC), 53rd Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 27-31, 2025
2023
Galeries Ontario, Digital Art Practices for Galleries and Museums Workshop. Session 2: Collecting and Conserving Digital Art.
Co-Presenter - Patricia Falcão, Time-based Conservator, The Tate, London, UK.
Artist DEEP TALK conversation at Favorit Bar, Munich, Germany
Subliminals: Human and Machine Pattern Recognition, The Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada
Fragments of Sonic Extinction, Bio-Creation Station, hosted by MIT Media Lab, USA
2021
Herbivory: Data Sonification of a Forest Ecosystem, Global Community BioSummit, MIT Media Lab
2017
Imaging Abbott: Copy Work as a Negotiation Between Objective and Psychic Realities, Toronto Metropolitan University
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RADIO
2023
︎Tsonomi XVII Festival de Arte Sonoro
Selected Radio Artist, Valparaíso, Chile
︎RADIO 80K, Cricket Alarm, Munich, Germany
︎WGXC Radio For Open Ears, 90.7 FM, New York, HyperAcid [DAWN PHASE]
︎3FACH Swiss Radio, Junk Anima [DAWN PHASE]
︎BBC6 Radio, Cricket Alarm, Fragments of Sonic Extinction - hosted by Kalas Liebfried
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MEDIA
2024
Insight: Dan Tapper & L. M. Ramsey unveil our connection to the moon in their sensory-seismic experience Moonquake, Clot Magazine
Damned, Heather Canlas Rigg
2023
Sound of Life, Exploring the Sounds of Extinction: In Conversation With Kalas Liebfried, July 4, 2023
LIVE REPORT: Fragments of Sonic Extinction, The Quietus, Daryl Worthington, May 16, 2023.
INTERVIEW: Supernova #95/Menti Esplosive. Fragments of Sonic Extinction, Radio Raheem, Michelle Davis, 2023.
2022
Insight: ‘Fragments of Sonic Extinction’, approaches on the extinction of natural sounds, Clot Magazine
2021
Ground, Photo-essay in SciArt Magazine, v. 44
2020
Interviewed by Mishka Henner, online
2019
Interview, Function Magazine #20
Josh Reichmann, Antechamber: L.M.Ramsey’s Points Of Departure, The Luminous Landscape
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RESIDENCIES
2024 CSV, Toronto, Canada
2022 ECOLOGIES & COSMOLOGIES, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada
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AWARDS
2022 MUSIKFONDS, Electronic or electro-acoustic music,
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien [50K CAD]
2022 ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL GRANT, Exhibition Assistance [2K CAD]
2015 JUNO AWARD SHORTLIST, RECORDING PACKAGE OF THE YEAR: TIMBER TIMBRE
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TEACHING
2024 Adjunct Professor, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA (MIAP), Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
2019-2024 Sessional Lecturer, Digital Applications & Collections Management
Film & Photography Master’s program, Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University
2018 & 2020 Guest Lecturer, Professional Practices, Toronto Metropolitan University
2015 Guest Lecturer, Digitization Standards, Toronto Metropolitan University
2013-2014 Guest Lecturer, History of Photomechanical Reproduction, Sheridan College
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EXPERIENCE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Associate Manager, Conservation Documentation
Paper Conservation
The Image Centre
Digital Asset & Imaging Specialist / Photographic Archives
Edward Burtynsky Studio
Archivist - Research Associate
Elaine Ling Photography
Head Archivist - Digital & Analogue Photographic Collection
Greenpeace Canada
Archivist / Photo Editor
Art Gallery of Ontario
Research Assistant - Print & Photography Collection
Toronto Metropolitan University Film Archive
Archivist / Preservationist
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2021 MERCYRY, Music Video for 'Seeyoushine' Album Artwork for 'Out of Body'
2020 MERCYRY, Music Video for 'Glass Machine'
2019 NICOLETTE & THE NOBODIES, Album Photography for 'Devil's Run'
2017 TIMBER TIMBRE, Album Design + Photography for 'Sincerely, Future Pollution'
2016 MARVELOUS MARK, Album Design + Photography for 'Crushin'
2014 TIMBER TIMBRE, Album Photography for 'Hot Dreams'
**Nominated for a Juno Award: Album Artwork of the Year.
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AFFILIATIONS
Canadian Conservation Photographers Collective
Member of The Society for Imaging Science and Technology
*Core Committee 2023-2024*
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Discussion Group
MULTIBAND IMAGING DICHOTOMOUS KEY [TESTING PHASE]
COLORANT FIELD GUIDE