Selected News

JUNE 2013
To reveal the fourteen windows is part of a group exhibition at Redline in Denver titled - Between home and where I find myself - On the aesthetics of recognition and curated by Chad Kautzer and Robin Gallite. Opening June 1st.

three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck screens at Experimental Response Cinema in Austin, Texas as part of Large-Scale: Experimental Films on 35mm on June 1st.

oil wells: sturgeon road & 97th street screens at Sight Unseen in Baltimore.

April 2013
when the smog-filled wind began to howl screens in Montreal as part of 30X30: FILMS FOR 30 YEARS OF LIFT

a review of fog vortex at WARC Gallery as part of Images 2013 by Michael Sicinski on Cinema Scope online: Between the Walls: Images Festival 2013

I'm excited to present a new installation as part of the 2013 Images Festival at WARC Gallery in Toronto. Stay tuned for more info on fog vortex - a mixed media installation about vile vorticies, magnetic anomolies and electronic fog, oh my!

March 2013
I'll be heading to Dawson City, Yukon for a residency at the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture where I'll start working on a new installation called Explorations of an Unexpected Time Traveler and a new installment in the Tracking Sasquatch series. While in Dawson I will present a program of short works at the Dawson City Film Festival. Tracking Sasquatch (field report #1) and Tracking Sasquatch (field report #2) will also be part of a group exhibition entitled 'Cold Cuts' on view at the end of March.

buffalo lifts and oil wells: sturgeon road & 97th street screen as part of 'DIY Dystopia' - a program of analog-ly made films as part of the Balagan Film Series at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA.

January 2013
Well, I'm packing up my lovely island studio here at Gibraltar Point Artscape. Its been lovely and I've gotten a lot done on two new sections of the mapping the prairies through disaster project (this time tornados & floods). next week, once i'm back on the mainland and studio-less I'll start working on editing everything i've shot.

December 2012
a video reading of Jackson Mac Low's Forties 87 i made for Counterpath Press in Denver screens as a part of the second installment of <mt/time> -- a series of films that confront issues of spoken or written language and that develop a language-inflected poetics of the moving image. Curated by Jeanne Liotta. [Sunday, December 2, 2011, at 7 p.m., with works by: Monte Cazazza / Brion Gysin,Joshua Clover, Peggy Ahwesh, Jeanne Liotta and Matvei Yankelevich, Cecilia Dougherty, Amy Silliman / Lisa Robertson Stacy Doris, Felix Bernstein, Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee, Paul Legault, & Caroline Bergvall.

November 2012
Enjoying my residency here at Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island & getting lots done. I'm working on part 4 of the mapping the prairies through disasters series - this time TORNADOS - building miniature sets and electronics oh my! next week I will be in Tennessee giving a couple talks - one at Watkins College in Nashville & one at Bethel University in Mckenzie. exciting!


Christina Battle: Filing Memory
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University, from September 15 - December 10, 2010.

texts by: Vicky Chainey Gagnon, Shawn Malley, Andréa Picard


This saturday I'll be joining other artists & curators of the Archival Dialogues show at RIC for an walk thru of the exhibition - check it out 2-4pm Saturday, November 24th.

when the smog-filled wind began to howl screens at the The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (Germany)

October 2012
dearfield, colorado moves to The Aspen Art Museum (Colorado) as part of Continental Drift - curated by Nora Burnett Abrams & Jacob Proctor. Through to November 25, 2012

October 2012
when the smog-filled wind began to howl screens as part of 'Towards a Vanishing Point' & on the day it started there wasn’t a cloud in sight as part of 'This Must Be the Place' both programs in the Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria (BC). I'll be there - come say hi!

September 2012
Archived Disasters now at the new Ryerson Image Centre! read more about the exhibition Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection [September 29 thru December 16, 2012]

August 2012
An essay I wrote for English Language Notes is now available in print. Also here in colour - “Everything you Read and See Just Might be a Lie AKA Don’t Believe a Word I Say (A Series of Proofs),” (PDF) ELN 50.1 Spring/Summer 2012, The Shape of the I: A Double Issue edited by Julie Carr & John-Michael Rivera.

August 2012
Meredith Tromble reviews dearfield, colorado in her blog Art & Shadows - Electrified Air and Restless Skies.

August 2012
Finished the residency at FAVA in Edmonton - check out my residency blog complete with images from my Art of Projection group's multi projection extravaganza. During my time at FAVA i started working on a new installation: waiting for time to repeat itself (at the end of the world) still in the works but close to being completed.

JULY 2012
I'm excited to be an artist in residence at FAVA in Edmonton for a solid month this coming July/August (i'm told ii'll be the first resident artist since 1982!!). Some things i'm doing as part of the residency: a screening & artist talk on July 25th (with toonie bar! have i mentioned FAVA is my kinda people?!); a curated screening from the FAVA archives on August 2nd (toonie bar!); a workshop 'The Art of Projection' August 8, 15 + 17th (where we will be exhibiting the work we make at FAVA's annual summer BBQ). I will also begin work on a new installation tentatively titled 'waiting for time to repeat itself' which will be shot near Lac La Biche in northern Alberta. I'll be keeping a blog while in residence so you can keep track. SUMMERTIME!!

JULY 2012
dearfield, colorado will be installed at MCA Denver as part of a group show titled: Continental Drift [July 13 - September 23, 2012] and will later move to the Aspen Art Museum [October 19 - November 25, 2012] Curated by Nora Burnett Abrams & Jacob Proctor.

Continental Drift brings together the work of seven Colorado-based artists, each of whom explores the idea of place in diverse and thoughtful ways. Ranging from specific studies of both historical sites and contemporary ruins to more abstract or conceptual examinations of space, these artists demonstrate a collective preoccupation with place and setting. While some seek to unearth a specific history in Colorado, others are interested in the ideas and objects that define sites and establish the contours of spaces we all inhabit. This exhibition will include works in film, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing and installation that reflect this singular idea in manifold ways. Artists included are: Christina Battle, Scott Johnson, Jeanne Liotta, Sarah McKenzie, Adam Milner, Yumi Roth, and Edie Winograde.

June 2012
excited to be a new contributing editor to INCITE journal of experimental media -- edited + published by Brett Kashmere along with Walter Forsberg.

April 2012
Jeanne Liotta & I present O BONY ORBIT a program of short video works screening at the University of Colorado, Boulder as part of The Shape of the "I": A National Conference put on by English Language Notes.

March 2012
I'm thrilled to be able to host Brett Kashmere who will be presenting a programme he initially curated for the Images Festival (Toronto, 2009) - Saturn Returns - at CU Boulder [ATLAS 100] Tuesday, March 6 at 7pm.

While in Colorado Brett will also present his recently curated - New Ages - to help launch the new issue of Incite: Journal of Experimental Media (Issue No. 3) at Counterpath Press in Denver - Wednesday, March 7th at 8pm.

February 2012
I will be presenting a talk on wandering thru secret storms at a class at UBC as part of an upcoming program at the Pacific Cinematheque's DIM Cinema (curated by Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk)

January 2012
PUBLIC 44: Experimental Media Launches at Early Monthly Segments #35 - in Toronto (I contributed a piece titled ‘Words at Issue’)

when the smog-filled wind began to howl screens as part of LIFT's 30x30 - In celebration of three decades of filmmaking the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) has commissioned 30 Toronto film veterans and emerging voices to make new works originating on or in the spirit of Super 8mm film.

December 2011
To reveal the fourteen windows screens as part of <mt/time> a series of films that directly confront issues of spoken or written language and that develop a language-inflected poetics of the moving image. Curated by Jeanne Liotta. <mt/time> launches the series which will be contnually updated on the Couterpath Press Website.

November 2011
November 17, 8pm - To reveal the fourteen windows screens as part of Beautiful Moving Images - a program of short works curated by Charles Boone. at ATA in San Francisco.

17 hours of darkness - part two of an ongoing program of works screens at Counterpath Press in Denver - Friday, November 4, 7.30pm. With works by: Josh Bonnetta, Sara MacLean, Peter Dudar and Marianna Milhorat.

September 2011
I will be presenting at 'Cultures of Surveillance' an Interdisciplanary Conference at the University College London with Vicky Chainey Gagnon of the Foreman Art Gallery. We will walk through our recent installation Filing Memory during a talk titled "Filing Memory: An Exhibition Project Exploring Multi-Dimensional Memory and Surveillance". September 29 - October 1.

Behind the Shadows & untitled (birds) are installed as part of Re:play - an exhibition at the Lexington Art League in Lexington, Kentucky. September 23 - October 16th. Curated by Sarah Wylie A VanMeter.

June 2011
A new work - To reveal the fourteen windows, a collaboration with Denver-based poet Julie Carr - screens as part of Poetry & Cinema: A Three Day Festival and Conference & collaboration between Naropa University and the University of Colorado Creative Writing and Film Studies Programs

May 2011
I will be taking part in BYOB Denver at Redline.

January 2011
oil wells: sturgeon road & 97th street screens at the Art Gallery of Alberta as part of a program CANADIANA, curated by Larissa Fan (along with works by Franci Duran, John Price, Jason Britski, Amanda Dawn-Christie & others)

December 2010
I will be presenting an artist talk at the Center for Humanities & The Arts – University of Colorado, Boulder titled: “wandering through secret storms and other works”

November 2010
I will be at The Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University for a Panel Discussion:
Remixing Artist: Roundtable & Networking Event
Exploring the issues of artist rights, copyright, creative commons and the remixing of culture in the 21st century with Filing Memory artist, Christina Battle, cultural studies Professor, Dr. Shawn Malley & artist and project coordinator at Sporobole, Eric Desmarais.

October 2010
Behind the Shadows screens as a part of the Festival du Nouveau CInema in Montreal

wandering through secret storms screens as a part of Jihlava Documentary Festival in the Czech Republic

wandering through secret storms screens as a part of WNDX in Winnipeg

September 2010
September 15 septembre – December 11 décembre 2010
Filing Memory opens at the Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, Quebec).
Composed of the 3-frame video installation Wandering through Secret Storms as well as new works, this solo exhibition project addresses the relationship between archives, public memory and practices of surveillance. Presented in a creative mise-en-scène, Christina Battle’s moving image work forms the nexus around which will be displayed communication devices (telegraph, camera, radio, telephone) from private and public collections coupled with documents from local archives, thus situating surveillance as a practice affecting all communities – regardless of their urban or rural specificities.

SEptember 2010
I will be in Seoul, Korea attending the EXiS festival. three hours fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck screens as a part of a program curated by Lauren Howes (CFMDC).

June 2010
Elective Identities: The Moving Images of Gariné Torossian (edited by Tom McSorley) to which I contributed an essay "Gariné Torossian's Sparklehorse"

I will be sitting on a panel at this year's IMAA conference in Toronto:
WHICH WAY IS UP? June 15th, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Glenn Gould Theatre Moderator - Kim Tomczak, with Panellists - David Rokeby, Amanda Steggell and Christina Battle will discuss how advancing technologies create challenges for artists and organizations, especially those outside of major metropolitan areas, to gain access to these technologies and the implications this creates for identifying the preservation needs of artists, equipment and the setting of standards for the care and protection of our collective media arts heritage.

December 2009
a presentation of recent works at International House Philadelphia as a part of "Archive Fever 1.0" & master class co-presented by PIFVA

Consciously Collective: Archive Fever 1.0 explores how four filmmakers redefine our visual history. by Shaun Brady - reviews the program at ihouse.

paradise falls, new mexico screens at the SF Cinematheque as a part of "Holding Patternsand Collective Memories"

October 2009
wandering through secret storms will premiere at the Antimatter Festival in Victoria, BC (October 14)

i will be presenting a program of work in Boulder Colorado as part of CU Boulder's First Person Cinema (October 5th)

September 2009
i now live in Denver, Colorado and am excited to be a new Assistant Professor in the Film Studies Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder

A number of my works are now available for distribution from Light Cone in Paris

nostalgia (april 2001 to present) screens at EXiS in Seoul Korea as part of "Sequence Controller" a programme curated by the Images Festival (Festival Director Scott Miller Berry will be in attendance)

Behind the Walls and Under the Stairs screens at the Chicago Underground Film Festival as part of a programme entitled "The Watchful Eye" (September 12 & 17)

April 2009
suddenly everything changed - on exhibit as a part of Signal and Noise - April 23-25 - Vancouver

Behind the Shadows - a newly commissioned work screens at the 2009 Images Festival - Thursday, April 2 - Toronto

January 2009
suddenly everything changed - a regular 8 installation made for The 8 Fest - January 30 - February 1st, 2009

when the wind shifted shows as a part of "Strategies of the Medium/Stratégies du Milieua" a group show curated by Ben Donoghue. With work by Kelly Egan & Ben Donoghue. At Espace Virtuel, Chicoutimi, Quebec.

Light Industry - 17 hours of darkness (reflections on this place I call home) (a collection of film works) January 13, 2009 - Brooklyn, NY

November 2008
Behind the Shadows - a newly commissioned work screens in Amsterdam. A collaboration with Toronto-based Composer Martin Arnold. Part of SHIFT - a project by the Images Festival & Continuum Contemporary Music.

October 28 2008 (7.30pm)
I will be showing work at the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa at Cafe Ex/Club Saw.

September 2008
Uncharted Histories: Pirates at Deluge Contemporary Art as part of the Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC)

May 13 2008
Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists, edited by Mike Hoolboom (Coach House Books) - book lauch as part of This is Not a Reading Series at the Gladstone Ballroom

April 2008
Uncharted Histories: Pirates awarded the Steam Whistle Home Brew Award
For "excellence and promise in a local artist" by the 2008 Images Festival

March 2008
three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck screens as part of the Ann Arbor Film Festival

March - April 2008
"Uncharted Histories: Pirates" at YYZ Artists Outlet as part of Images 2008

February 2008
three hours fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck screens as a part of the Portland International Film Festival in a program curated by Curated by Cinema Project "The Spaces in–between"

January 2008
Behind the Walls and Under the Stairs screens at the Rotterdam Film Festival as a part of a special program of films from Niagara Custom Lab "From Niagara to Japan (2008)"

NOVEMBER 10, 2007
traveling thru with eyes closed tight & the distance between here and there screen as a part of ‘Double Vision’ at Kino Arsenal in Berlin (in celebration of the Images Festival’s 20th anniversary & the CFMDC’s 40th anniversary) - I am excited to be in attendance

OCTOBER 27, 2007
hysteria screens as a part of the london film festival

OCTOBER 18, 2007
three hours fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck screens as a part of ‘Time To Dwell: Selections From The 20th Edition Of Toronto's Images Festival’ at the Anthology Film Archives - NY

OCTOBER 2007
CFMDC Artist Spotlight Series - DVD release

July 6 thru August 4, 2007
as storms take shape in the distance...
Solo show at the Fleishman Gallery in Toronto

april 7, 2007
three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck
screens as part of the images festival

january thru march 2007
Time Inside the Image (3) - Foreman Art Gallery
Curated by Vicky Chainey-Gagnon, Sherbrooke, QB

october 14 thru november 26, 2006
Pulse: Film And Painting After The Image
Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery
Curated by Ingrid Jenkner & Barbara Sternberg, Halifax NS

september 30, 2006
Nuit Blanche, Toronto
when the wind shifted - A series of outdoor projections
Curated by Kim Simon

september 21 thru october 21, 2006
The Searchers - Group show curated by Patricia Maloney
White Box, New York

september 2006
hysteria screens as part of Toronto International Film Festival
Wavelengths 2

march/april 2006
I will be screening work as a part of the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day for Night

january 27, 2006
memories of moments from here & there - A solo retrospective
including recent & new works - LIFT's New Directions in Cinema Series