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Matt Soar

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  • Lost Leaders: The metadata of film [project website]
    • Billionaires Gnaw their Tongues from the Pain (2021)
    • ASANASA (2019)
    • LOVE LEADERS (2018)
    • Academy / Society / Universal: 3 Handwritten Leader Standards (2016)
    • Lost Leaders #14 (2014) [interactive film]
  • Montreal Signs Project [project website]
    • Les Enseignistes de Montréal (iDoc, 2018)
    • Flight YMX (Mirabel / Solari)
    • Farine Five Roses public art project [website]
  • I’ll like your Instagram and Raise you one Genocide! [pdf]. MESSAGE 5 Covid-19 Special issue (March 2022). University of Plymouth Journals.
  • Standardized Film Leaders. In Wolf, Mark (Ed.) (2018) The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence. Taylor & Francis.
  • Memory, Materiality, and the Montreal Signs Project. In Atzmon, L. and Boradkar, P. (Eds.) (2017). Encountering Things. London: Bloomsbury.
  • The Beginnings and the Ends of Film: Leader standardization in the US and Canada (1930-1999). The Moving Image 16(2), Fall 2016, pp 21-44.
  • DesignInquiry Is (iDoc, 2016)
  • 26 Ways of Thinking about a Graphic Advocacy Poster [pdf]. In Reznick, E. (Ed.) (2015) Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001-2012 (MassArt).
  • If You’re Asking, It’s not Fair Dealing: Animating Canadian copyright issues in a ‘read-write’ classroom [pdf]. In Coomb, R., Wershler, D., & Zeilinger, M. (Eds.) (2014) Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (University of Toronto Press).
  • Making (with) the Korsakow System: Database Documentaries as Articulation and Assemblage [pdf]. In Nash, Hight & Summerhayes (Eds.) (2014) New Documentary Ecologies (Palgrave Macmillan).
  • Fibonacci Korsakow #2 (interactive film using 68 Vines, 2013)
  • Database|Narrative|Archive: Seven interactive essays on digital nonlinear storytelling (co-edited with Monika Kin Gagnon, 2012).
  • Ceci N’est Pas Embres (database diary film, 2012)
  • Rick Poynor on ‘Design Academics’: Having His Cake and Eating It Too (2012).
  • Not As I Do (rotoscoped animation, 2009)
  • Film Farm Alfabet (16mm, 2009)
  • Images over Time: The rich pre-history of motion graphics is filled with inspiration for screen-based image-makers. Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design 60 (Summer 2006). [pdf]. Co-authored with Peter Hall.
  • Design Anarchy (Kalle Lasn, 2006) – Review for Eye magazine
  • Excoffon’s autograph: Why is Mistral the typeface of choice for so many of Montréal’s small businesses? Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design 54 (Winter 2004). [pdf]
  • Cinematic shorthand: Commitment and brevity inform the film titles of Marlene McCarty. Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design 50 (Winter 2003). [pdf]
  • Graphic Design/Graphic Dissent: Towards a Cultural Economy of an Insular Profession (PhD dissertation, UMass Amherst 2002). [pdf]
  • A bibliography on graphic design and cultural studies (2002)
  • Faculty webpage
  • Pinboard
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