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Cody Rooney
(b. Canada)

Profile
Cody Rooney is a writer and multimedia artist whose research and creative work in film, photography, and digital culture explores post-digital visuality, memory, nostalgia, post-structuralism, and critical theory. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Liminul Magazine, a digital arts and culture publication based in Toronto.

Education

2026 PhD in Communication & Culture, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON
2020 Master of Arts in Communication & Culture (With Distinction), Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON
2016 Bachelor of Arts Honours in Theatre Studies (Dean's List), York University, Toronto, ON

Selected Exhibitions and Conferences

2024 Data Relations: The Precession of Simulacra and Reversal of Techne in Contemporary Digital Capitalism, Future Communications, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto

2024 Data Relations: The Precession of Simulacra and Reversal of Techne in Contemporary Digital Capitalism, Situated Emergences Media Conference, Concordia University, Montreal
2024 The Data Dividual, Situated Emergences Media Conference, Concordia University, Montreal
2024 Data Relations: The Precession of Simulacra and Reversal of Techne in Contemporary Digital Capitalism, FMSAC, Concordia University, Montreal
2024 The Post-Digital Pensive Image, Guest Lecture, Toronto Metropolitan University (SOC 202), Toronto
2023 Digital Entropy, Media Ecology Association, Fordham University, New York City, NY (MEA Competitive Travel Grant Recipient)
2023 Digital Entropy, Milieux Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2022 Les Pierrots, Lift Off Film Festival, UK
2020 Tangled Roots, Storytelling Toronto, Toronto
2020 Memory & Distortion, Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works/ Vivo Media Arts New Vancouver Works, Toronto
2019 The Distortion of Memory, Eleanor Winters Art Gallery, Toronto
2018 Insomnia, Eleanor Winters Art Gallery, Toronto
2016 Inside The Idle Hour Club, Division Monodrama Festival, Toronto
2015 Primavera, Division Monodrama Festival, Toronto

Publications

2024 Anjulie Unscripted, Liminul Magazine

2024 Promethean Shame, Liminul Magazine
2023 Bow Down To Me, Liminul Magazine
2023 Reimagining Queer Liberation Review, Pleasure Dome
2023 Post-Human Sensorium and Digital Affect, Imagining Future of Experimental Media, Pleasure Dome
2022 Verseau Femme, Liminul Magazine
2021 Images of Lockdown, Liminul Magazine
2020 The Post-Digital Pensive Image: Reclamation of Subjectivity within Communicative Capitalism, Toronto Metropolitan University
2020 Distorted Time, JunkDumpMag
2019 Insomnia, www.booooooom.com
2018 Nostalgia, Glossi Mag, Matte PR
2017 Bright Future, Glossi Mag, Matte PR