AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize
Web development, 2009—10
The AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize is one of Canada’s largest purses for contemporary photography. Previous to 2013 it was known as The Grange Prize.
While the short list is chosen by a panel of curators, the winner is decided by online public ballot. Read more
Art Gallery of Ontario
Web design and development, 2008—10
In 2008, designer Andrea Kreuger and I joined the AGO staff as the in-house web team. Active in strategy, process, workflow and project management, we drove improvement and change. We undertook a comprehensive redesign and redevelopment effort, interacting with all aspects of the institution to entirely re-think existing functionality, create new features and help to establish the Gallery’s social media presence. Read more
Toronto International Film Festival
Web design and development, 2007
I was only with TIFF for one year, but what a year! It was a tremendously creative environment and there wasn’t an aspect of the endeavor the web team didn’t touch. In addition to group collaboration on the big annual festival, each designer/developer had pet projects. Read more
Pleasure Dome Film & Video
Web design and development, 2006—present
Pleasure Dome is a storied film and video exhibition collective in Toronto. Going to their screenings as a student was a foundational experience, and I was honored when they brought me on as their webmaster.
My involvement began in 2006, when we created a new, WordPress-based website capable of housing 20+ years of archives (details here). Read more
Midi Onodera
Web design and development, 2006—present
I’m involved in a long-standing collaboration with artist Midi Onodera, helping to realize Internet-video projects via her website, podcasts and in-gallery exhibitions. Pictured here is a touch screen interface, part of an exhibition at Concordia University, Montreal, that enabled access to Onodera’s 2009 project, Movie of the Week. Read more
Documentary Photographers
Web design and development, 2006—present
Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of working with many amazing artists, including a number of talented and fearless globe-trotting photojournalists. A couple are pictured here, and you can find more posted under Photographers.
Donald Weber
Carolyn Drake Read more
Terminus 1525
Identity and web design, 2003
Terminus 1525 was a project of the Canada Council for the Arts aimed at teenage and young adult artists. It consisted of a nationwide festival of events and a Web 2.0-style website. I was brought into this project by zinc Roe Design to design the logo, the first version of the site and various icons and graphics. Read more
Wednesday Cooper
Personal project, 2001—05
Wednesday Cooper was my teen-angst, Flash-based web comic. In 2003 and 2004 I took it (or it took me, really) to SXSW Interactive. Read more
Paul Petro Contemporary Art
Web design and development, 2000—06
Paul Petro is a contemporary art dealer in Toronto. For a number of years I designed and maintained the site for his gallery. Read more
Half Empty
Personal and collaborative project, 1998—2005
In 1997 a group of friends and I started talking about going in on a domain. When we launched in ’98 our format was a weekly ‘zine (there were no “blogs” then) and a collection of personal creative projects. Read more
Website redesign for the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Like many of my museum colleagues, I’m a big fan of Nina Simon’s blog, Museum 2.0. When the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, of which she is the director, needed a new website, I jumped at the opportunity. Simon praised my work, saying,
“Marty is everything I could have wanted from a designer — he overdelivered on my vague directives and pushed me to think more rigorously about what we were trying to do.” Read more
Collecting as an Artistic Mode
This is the second part of my notes on Museums By Artists, edited by A. A. Bronson & Peggy Gale and published by Art Metropole in 1983. Phrases have been lifted from the text, then grouped with like. See also: Museums, Collections and Art. Read more
