Susan Kennard

Susan Kennard is director and executive producer of the Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre, leading the training, production, research, and development activity of the institute. She facilitates partnership, exchange, and dialogue at the local, national, and international level with a focus on creating an environment at The Banff Centre that supports creative pluralism, different modes of inquiry, the production of new work, and the engagement of artists, producers, technologists, and researchers with new media aesthetics and digital culture.

Prior to this, Kennard worked in television as an associate producer for the “International Hour”, “CBC Newsworld” Calgary, and “Dateline NBC” New York. Her radio career roles were writer/broadcaster for CBC Radio Calgary, fundraising coordinator for CKUT Montreal, station manager for CKIZ Community Radio Pincher Creek, and board member with the National Campus/Community Radio Association.

Susan has extensive experience in policy development, training, and advocacy for the arts and cultural media sectors across Canada; she is the co-founder of radio90.fm, a hybrid net/fm radio station. In 2005, Kennard concluded a master’s degree in communication for development from the University of Malmö, Sweden, on the relationship between contemporary art practice, social change, and civil society in post-war Sarajevo. Susan participates on numerous juries and review committees in Canada and abroad, is on the board of governors for the Canadian Conference on the Arts, and is a board member of the Banff YWCA.

Associated with the following Banff Centre programs:

• GOSH! Summit
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2009) July 16 - July 18

• 2006 CWC / Corus New Media Career Accelerator
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2006) February 24 - March 03

• Interactive Project Lab - Virtual Strategy Clinic
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2005) November 21 - November 25

• Survival, Revival, Reunion: From Platform Media to Mobility Interactive Screen 0.5/Money and Law
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2005) August 16 - August 23

• Bodies in Motion: Memory, Personalization, Mobility and Design
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2005) June 25 - June 28

• Bodies in Play: Shaping and Mapping Mobile Applications
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2005) May 19 - May 22

• Mobile Digital Commons Design and Engineering Workshop
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) December 13 - December 16

• Interactive Project Lab
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) November 22 - November 26

• Participate/Collaborate: Reciprocity, Design and Social Networks
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) September 30 - October 03

• Inside/Outside: Responsive Environments and Ubiquitous Presence
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) August 05 - August 08

• Outside/Inside: Boundary Crossings, a Wearable Design Workshop
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) July 31 - August 04

• Interactive Screen 0.4 and Accelerator Workshop One: Money and Law
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) July 11 - July 18

• CWC/Corus New Media Career Accelerator Program
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2004) February 28 - March 05

• Wireless Laboratory
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2003) November 13 - November 16

• Skinning Our Tools: Designing for Context and Cult
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2003) October 01 - October 05

• Carbon versus Silicon: Thinking Small/Thinking Fast
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2003) August 07 - August 10

• Interactive Screen 0.3
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2003) July 15 - July 20

• The Beauty of Collaboration: Methods, Manners and Aesthetics
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2003) May 22 - May 25

• Bridges II
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) October 04 - October 06

• Quintessence: The Clumpy Matter of Art, Math, and Science Visualization
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) September 12 - September 14

• Artificial Stupidity/Artificial Intelligence
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) August 01 - August 04

• Writing for Interactive Media
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) July 26 - July 28

• Interactive Screen 0.2
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) July 02 - July 08

• Producing New Media: Money & Law
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) June 28 - June 30

• Intimate Technologies / Dangerous Zones
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) April 25 - April 28

• CWC/Corus New Media Career Accelerator
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) March 02 - March 08

• Digital Media Management
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) November 04 - November 05

• Emotional Architectures/Cognitive Armatures/Cognitive Science in Interactive Design
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) September 20 - September 22

• Smart, Sexy and Healthy
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) September 06 - September 08

• Human Generosity Project, Tools that Enable Collaboration
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) August 26 - August 28

• Unforgiving Memory
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) August 23 - August 25

• Interactive Screen 0.1
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) July 30 - August 05

• Producing New Media: Money and Law
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) July 26 - July 28

• Writing for Interactive Media
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) July 06 - July 08

• Aboriginal Streams: Aboriginal Radio on the Internet
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2001) April 03 - April 08

• The Banff Super Conductor: Network Collaborations: Convergent Services, ecommerce, Tactical Media, Filling for Fat Pipes
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) August 18 - August 21

• Growing Things: The Cultures of Nan Tech, Bio Tech, and Eco Tech Meat Art
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) June 02 - June 04

• Emotional Computing: Performing Arts, Fiction and Interactive Experience
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2000) May 11 - May 13

• Navigating Intelligence: A Banff Summit
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1999) September 09 - September 12

• Interactive Screen 9.9
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1999) July 28 - August 03

• Producing New Media: Money and Law
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1999) July 24 - July 26

• Advanced Design for Multimedia
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1999) June 26 - June 30

• Synch or Stream: A Banff Summit
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1999) May 15 - May 17

• Interactive Screen 19.98
  (Banff New Media Institute, 1998) July 29 - August 08

• Interactive Project Lab
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2002) -

• Interactive Project Lab
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2003) -

• REFRESH! The First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
  (Banff New Media Institute, 2005) -

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