Ellen Moffat’s work spans multi-media installations and public art that use spatialized sound, digital-image, text, video and projection to explore place, transience, voice (subjective and collective) and art as a social practice. The audio component of these projects straddles musical composition and language. Her most recent work, The Phoneme Project, is an ongoing investigation of sound and composition using data banks of phonemes as linguistic note events. She is presently working on an interactive sound box as a music/language generator.

Ellen has exhibited and participated in residencies nationally and internationally. Her work has been presented in public galleries, artist-run centres and off-site locations including Crossfiring: The Claybank Project (2006), Future Cities, Art Gallery of Hamilton (2004), Utopia Station, Arsenale, Venice Biennale (2003) and the SPASM Public Art Festival in Saskatoon (2002). She has completed residencies at The Banff Centre, Confederation Centre for the Arts, Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Western Front and Video Vérité. She has an upcoming residency at Oboro.

Moffat has a BA in Anthropology (U of Toronto), BFA in Studio (Concordia U) and MFA in Sculpture (U of Regina). Since moving to Saskatchewan in 1992, she has worked as a freelance cultural producer throughout the province with public galleries, artist-run centres, academic institutions and community organizations as artist-in-residence, educator, independent curator, projects coordinator, writer and arts administrator with the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan – Extension, PAVED Arts, Video Vérité, CARFAC-Sask, the Mendel Art Gallery, Dunlop Art Gallery and The Little Gallery. From Toronto, she is currently based in Saskatoon.

Website: http://www.ellenmoffat.ca/