Monique Tschofen
My current research is in environmental humanities; I work in research-creation modes with a team of fine arts, humanities, social scientists, and scientists to examine and respond to the polycrisis. Other interests include the history of art-as-theory.
Recent publications
R. O鈥橣lynn, Siobhan, Jolene Armstrong, Monique Tschofen, Lai-Tze Fan, Angela Joosse, Caitlin Fisher, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Kelly Egan. 鈥淚magine the World Anew鈥�: Documentary Making, Story-telling Practice and Creation as Feminist Collaboration and Care in a Time of Crisis,鈥� Convergence. Submitted Summer 2023.
R. Joosse, Angela, Monique Tschofen and Jolene Armstrong. "Lessons in Project Management: The Decameron Collective." IDEAH (Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities). In press.
R. Monique Tschofen and Jolene Armstrong. 鈥淓mergence as Method: The Virtuality of Grief and Remembrance in Memory Eternal.鈥� Interactive Film & Media Journal, 4.1-2 (2024): https://doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v4i1-2.1987.
R. Tschofen, Monique. "In (a) Critical Condition: Reconsiderations of Krisis, Critique, and Theoria through Research Co-creation." Imaginations: A Cross-Cultural Journal of Image Studies 15.3 (2024): 13-46. https://doi.doi.ororg/10.17742/IMAg/10.17742/IMAGE29715.GE29715
R. Armstrong, Jolene, Monique Tschofen, Angela Joosse, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, and Kari Maaren. 鈥淲hat the Body Remembers: VR as Site of Preservation in Memory Eternal | 袙褨褔薪邪褟 袩邪屑'褟褌褜.鈥� MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 11.1 (2024): 59-83. https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/article/view/15991/10815
R. Tschofen, Monique, Siobhan O鈥橣lynn, Jolene Armstrong, Lai-Tze Fan, Caitlin Fisher, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Kari Maaren, Angela Joosse. 鈥淎 Research-Creation of Care: Feminist Speculation, Collaboration, and Curation in the Digital Virtual Gallery.鈥� Representing a (Post)Pandemic World, special issue of University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 93, no. 4, 2024, pp. 612-52. https://doi.org/10.3138/utq.93.04.06
R. Tschofen, Monique and Lai-Tze Fan. 鈥淚ntroduction: Vibrant Materialities Across Media, Literature, and Theory / Introduction: Num茅ro sp茅cial: Mat茅rialit茅s vibrantes 脿 travers les m茅dias, la litt茅rature et la th茅orie.鈥� Imaginations: A Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 14.2 (2023). doi: 10.17742/IMAGE29699
R. Tschofen, Monique. 鈥淏ecoming Matter/Becoming Mother: Wilding in Ali Abbasi鈥檚 Border (Gr盲ns) | Devenir Mati猫re/Devenir M猫re en Border (Gr盲ns) d鈥橝li Abbasi.鈥� Imaginations: A Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 14.2 (2023) doi: 10.17742/IMAGE29700
Juried Exhibitions
Fire and Water, Jolene Armstrong and Monique Tschofen. Installation. Electronic Literature Organization鈥檚 Media Arts Festival. July 10-13, 2025.
Metamorphoses: Love Letters to Shared Futures by the Decameron Collective: Jolene Armstrong, Catilin Fisher, Monique Tschofen, Siobhan O鈥橣lynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Kelly Egan. Electronic Literature Organization鈥檚 Media Arts Festival. July 2025
Memory Eternal by the Decameron Collective (Angela Joosse, Jolene Armstrong, Monique Tschofen, Catilin Fisher, Siobhan O鈥橣lynn, Kari Maaren, Lai-Tze Fan, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Kelly Egan). 果酱视频 Rubix 10th Anniversary. February 27, 2025.
Monique Tschofen. Happenings, Interactive Film and Media Conference, Toronto, June 10-13, 2025. https://scalar.rula.info/happenings/index
Monique Tschofen. Careless Water, International Conference of Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), Baranquilla, Colombia December 2-6, 2024. https://icids2024.ardin.online/art-exhibition/ https://arcg.is/05GXOe0
Memory Eternal by the Decameron Collective (Jolene Armstrong, Kelly Egan, Lai-Tze Fan, Catilin Fisher, Angela Joosse, Siobhan O鈥橣lynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Monique Tschofen) Interactive Film and Media Conference, Toronto, June 11 2024.
Monique Tschofen. In There Behind the Door, Electronic Literature Organization鈥檚 Media Arts Festival, Florida, July 18-21, 2024. https://scalar.usc.edu/works/in-there-behind-the-door-an-exhibition-of-deformances-of-gertrude-stein/index
Decameron 2.0 (Jolene Armstrong, Kelly Egan, Catilin Fisher, Angela Joosse, Siobhan O鈥橣lynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Monique Tschofen) PhilosoPHIA Conference, Society for Continental Feminism. Mount Royal, Calgary. March 16, 2024.
Decameron 2.0 (Jolene Armstrong, Kelly Egan, Catilin Fisher, Angela Joosse, Siobhan O鈥橣lynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Monique Tschofen) International International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling ICIDS 2023, November 11th-15th, Kobe, Japan.
Memory Eternal 袙褨褔薪邪褟 袩邪屑'褟褌褜: Book of Mourning by the Decameron Collective (Jolene Armstrong, Kelly Egan, Catilin Fisher, Angela Joosse, Siobhan O鈥橣lynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Monique Tschofen) Electronic Literature Organization Media Arts Festival. VR storyworld. Coimbra, Portugal, July 12-15, 2023.
Decameron 2.0 by the Decameron Collective (Jolene Armstrong, Kelly Egan, Catilin Fisher, Angela Joosse, Siobhan O鈥橣lynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Monique Tschofen) Electronic Literature Organization Media Arts Festival, Como Italy, May 30-June 1, 2022. https://www.elo2022.com/portfolio/tschofen-mareen-joosse-armstrong/
Carrie Sijia Wang, Mark Marino and Monique Tschofen 鈥淐hatbot,鈥� included in Carrie Sijia Wang, Rituals of Social Transformation, Brooklyn鈥檚 Head Hi, Brooklyn, New York, January 26, 2024.
Documentary Film
Aquaphoria (Before the Waters Rise) (14:16 min film).
Director, Writer, Photographer: Monique Tschofen.
Sound: Hendrick de Haan. Produced by IMPRINT Documentary Collective.
Best Environmental Film: Montreal Women Film Festival 2025; Nominee, LA Independent Women Film Awards 2025; Honorable Mention: Experimental Forum (LA) 2025.
Official Selection: Toronto Short Film Festival (March 13, 2025); Liberty Film Festival (Athens), 2025; Sophia International Film Festival (Bulgaria) (2025); ECOCine International Environmental and Human Rights Film Festival (Brasil) 2025.
ComCult Supervisory Activities
PhD
- Fizza Mir, In progress. 鈥淔ashion and Abolition.鈥�
- Azadeh Monzavi, co-supervised with Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof. In progress.
- Olivia Trono (PhD). In progress.
- Paul Couillard (PhD). 鈥淩ethinking Presence as a Thinking Body: Intra-Active Relationality and Animate Form.鈥� York, Communications and Culture. July 23, 2021.
- Daniel Browne (PhD). 鈥淢ediated Landscapes: Technology and Environment in Recent Canadian Cinema.鈥� 果酱视频, Communications and Culture. April 29, 2020.
- Brooke Ford (PhD). 鈥淭he Case for Graphic Counter-Memorials in The Comics of Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli鈥� Co-supervised with Andrew O鈥橫alley. 果酱视频, Communications and Culture. August 14, 2017.
- Lai-Tze Fan (PhD). 鈥淧re | Digital Liminalities: A Hermeneutics of
the Intermedial and Materiality in the Print Intermedial Novel. 2011-2016. - Evren Oczelcuk (PhD). 鈥淭urkey鈥檚 Internal Other: Embodiments of Ta艧ra in the Works of Orhan Pamuk, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Fatih Akin.鈥� York University, Communications and Culture. 2005 - 2015.
- Aleksandra Bida (PhD). 鈥淪weet-bitter Home: Roots/Routes and Identity.鈥� 2008-2013.
- Kelly Egan (PhD). 鈥淭owards an Aesthetic of Visual Music: Film as Technological Transgression, Acoustic Space and Sounding the Absurd.鈥� 2012.
- Angela Joosse (PhD). 鈥淢ade from Movement: Marie Menken's Arabesque, Richard Serra's Torque, and Michael Snow's This & That.鈥� 2011.
MA
- Dylan Aslop (MA) 鈥淐limate Crisis, Youth, and Media: A Story Analysis of Geo-Doc Videos as Agents for Social Transformation.鈥� Communications and Culture. August 13, 2024.
- Griffen Horsley (MA) Communications and Culture. 鈥淩emediating the Necromancer: Abstracted Photoscanning and the Materiality of Grief.鈥� September 5, 2023.
- Dhvani Ramanujam. Communications and Culture. 鈥淪creening (Im)Materiality: On Virtually Programming planetary ruins & other possibilities.鈥� August 24, 2022.
- Quentin Stuckey (MA). Literatures of Modernity. 鈥溾�橝ll Eyes On Me鈥�: Pandemic-Induced Mental Illness And Performance In Bo Burnham鈥檚 Inside.鈥� August 2021.
- Ren茅e Leblanc Proctor (MA). 鈥淚 am inevitable鈥�: Seriality, Nostalgia and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 果酱视频. Communications and Culture. September 8, 2021.
- Holly Chang. (MA) 鈥淪titching the Story of Chinese-Canadian Histories: Quilting as an Archival Medium.鈥� 果酱视频. Communications and Culture. August 19, 2021.
- Kathleen Ballantyne (MA) 鈥淰iewing the Spectacular Body of Modernity: Bourgeois Identity and the Body of the Other.鈥� 果酱视频, Communications and Culture, August 23, 2021.
ComCult Teaching Activities
- CC 8921 Visual Culture
- CC 9904 Perspectives in Commun and Culture Studies