Michaele Jordana Berman: Creative Director
“Still human not data”

Michaele Jordana is a multidisciplinary artist and media designer whose work explores the multiplatform convergence of visual art, video, music and technology in interactive and digital media.

As Creative Director of The PeakMedia Collective since 1997, Michaele Jordana has designed numerous immersive interactive web experiences including the original participatory online art school - Artists in Electronic Residence - for Industry Canada, and Bad Bugs - an online Video Medical Symposium designed as a learning tool to educate leading doctors and specialists in current drug-resistant bacteria. Her large-scale video installations for public spaces include Winter Sky, that transformed the 24,000 sq. ft. vaulted canopy of Sherway Gardens into a digital fresco; and the 96-screen, 3-story synchronized video installation, The Media Tree , designed for the atrium of Casino Niagara.

With PeakMedia, Michaele has won the New York Film and Video Festival silver medal for the half hour docudrama Face to Face, which documents her pioneering work merging art and assistive technology to enable Down syndrome youth to communicate with greater ease.

A photorealist whose work is the collection of The National Gallery of Canada and Art Bank, Michaele began experimenting with technology in art in 1976 for her first show of paintings at The Isaacs Gallery in Toronto. Cyborg, her newest body of work - large-scale digital prints, explores the humanity of avatars.

In the late 70's, Michaele Jordana pioneered the New Wave movement with her recording band The Poles - named after a trip to the North Pole. Her album was nominated for the Juno and won the first Casby Award.

As an Art Educator, Michaele Jordana has taught visual art, video production, media and design throughout her career at institutions including Three Schools of Art, York University, University of Guelph, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Centennial College School of Media and Design as Professor and Coordinator of Digital Animation and Game Design and Development.

Michaele has a BFA Honours degree from the University of Manitoba and has been awarded several Canada Council Arts Grants amongst others.