Interviewing Martin Kaltwasser, August 2010
Formerly a film crew technician (grip), I quit working on features such as Eight Below and Catwoman, shot in Vancouver, for academia, returning to university in 2007 for an MA program in Liberal Studies. Mythesis project for this interdisciplinary program at Simon Fraser University was on public art. It included a paper (available through the thesis repository) and three short films. Subsequently I created a three-hour series of 23 short films about public art, Public Art Private Views.
photo by Derek Von Essen
Over the past five years I’ve also published and edited Coastline Journal, an academic blog for the many Liberal Studies students and alumni across North America.
Papers:
Art in Nature (Stanford, 2009)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Muir (Reed College, 2010; published on Coastline Journal)
Re-defining the Documentary (Simon Fraser University, 2011)
Virginia Woolf’s Time and Space (SFU, 2012)
What is that thing and why did you put it there? Engaging with Public Art (Langara College, 2012; Dominican University, California, 2013)
In 2013-14 I am focusing on an audio podcast series, Conversations With Courage (blog and podcast), continuing my documentary on people’s relationships with their cats, Mein Kat, and teaching and editing academic/professional texts. I can be reached at the Gmail address coastlinejournal.
PUBLIC ART PRIVATE VIEWS 