Nadine Lessio

CV

Exhibitions

Fixations | Fortune Tasker 3.0: Bit Bazaar – Toronto, June 2019
Working With Useless Machines: Art-AI Festival – Leicester UK, May 2019
Sad Home (Depressed Alexa 1.0): Banff Centre Open Studios – Banff AB, January 2019
SAD Blender: NeurIPS 2018 – Montreal QC and Online, December 2018
Fortune Tasker 2.0: Damage Camp – Toronto, September 2018
Fortune Tasker: Internet Yami-Ichi X Bit Bazzar – Toronto, July 2018
Calendar Creep: Vector: Born Digital, Art On The Screens – Toronto, July 2018
Working With Useless Machines: GradEx – Toronto, May 2018
Working With Useless Machines: Digital Futures Graduating Show – Toronto, April 2018
Fortune Tasker: Digital Futures Open Show – Toronto, February 1st, 2018
Fascist Falldown: Digital Futures Open Show – Toronto, March 2017
PoopArray: INT VAR VOID – Toronto, December 2016
Punk Prism Power: IndieCade Official Selection – Culver City LA, October 2015
Sext Adventure: Vector: To Utility and Beyond, Interaccess – Toronto, February 2015
Punk Prism Power: DMG X Vector Killer Interfaces Showcase – Toronto, February 2015
Sext Adventure: No Coins – Banff Centre Convergence – Banff, November 2014.
Adventurebox: Cordial Calliope Tea House installation: Nuit Blanche – Toronto, 2014
Sext Adventure: InideCade Official Selection – Culver City LA, October 9-12th 2014
Sext Adventure: Boston Festival of Indie Games – MIT – September, 2014
ISS Love Booth: GDC/Wild Rumpus – That Party – 2014
ISS Love Booth: AGO / Hand Eye Society Fancy Video Game Party – Feb 2014
Cat Quest: AGO DMG / Long Winter Takeover for First Thursday – January 2014
Cat Quest: Toronto Long Winter – 2013
Long Time Coming: Toronto Long Winter Showcase – March 2013
Long Time Coming: DMG Feb Fatale showcase – November 2013

Speaking Sessions

FITC Toronto: Working With Useless Machines – April 2019
PyCon Canada: Working With Useless Machines – November 2018
Different Games: Playing With Personal Assistants IRL – October 2018
Hacakaday.io AMA Chat: Hacking Voice Interfaces – July 2018
Vector: Born Digital: Inner Workings | Performance Artist Panel – July 2018
CreateTO: Working With Useless Machines – June 2018
Maker Festival Toronto: Too Dangerous For GDC – July 2017
Different Games Toronto: Too Dangerous For GDC – June 2017
Networking Mixer for Makers at FITC Toronto: Too Dangerous For GDC – April 2017
Toronto Public Library: Technology - Successes and Failures – June 12th, 2015
Hack-a-day Toronto: Why I won't use the Word Easy Anymore. – April 2015
Vector: To Utility and Beyond Artist Panel, Interaccess – February 2015
FITC: Lessons learned from the ISS Love – 2014
CreateTO: Recycled Sensors and Ongoing Game Projects – 2013

Residencies

January 2019 – Digital Promises | Banff Centre For Arts and Creativity

Workshops and Jams

2018,2017 – Co-Organizer, Stupid Shit No One Needs and Bad Ideas Hackathon Toronto
2017 – Technical Co-Organizer, Different Games Toronto
2015 – Lead Mentor, FITC Women's Make n' Mix
2014 – Lead Mentor, Beyond The Code Makey Makey Workshop
2014 – Co-Organizer, Julivewire!(DMG) –
2014 – Workshop Coordinator, Allied Media Conference – DIY Game Controllers Workshop
2014 – Mentor / Speaker, FITC Women’s Make and Mix
2013 – Organizer, MakeyMakey Workshop – DMG Toronto
2013 – Participant, Feb Fatale game jam / workshop – DMG Toronto
2012 – Participant, NoJam game workshop – DMG Toronto
2010 – Participant, Artsy Games Incubator

Press

NOW Toronto – 10 Toronto makers you should know
The Hairpin – A Fake Knife A Real throw
Wired – I had Sex With a Bot And It Left Me Confused
Hackaday – Friday Hack And Chat: Hacking Voice Assistants
Built To Play 55 – Interface The Machine
Built To Play 29 – Vector-Based Romance

Publications

2018 – Morris, Lessio – MPS '18 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Privacy and Security – Deriving Privacy and Security Considerations for CORE: An Indoor IoT Adaptive Context Environment
2018 – Lessio,N – OCADU Open Research – Working With Useless Machines: A look at our shifting relationship with ubiquity through personal assistants

Education

MDes in Digital Futures from OCAD University
Undergrad in Graphic Design from OCAD University
Workshops and courses in art, farbication, craft, and electronics
Courses in technical skills

Awards

2018 – Digital Futures, Best Creative Project, Working With Useless Machines
2018 – OCADU Gradlinks Scholarship
2017 – CGS-M Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Working With Useless Machines)
2016 – OCADU Dean's Scholarship

Work

Current – Research Assistant in the Adaptive Context Environments Lab, OCADU
Jan 2017 – March 2017: Teaching Assistant in Strategic Foresight and Innovation
Sept 2016 – Feb 2017: Research assistant in the Visual Analytics Lab at OCADU

Skills

Experience programing for platforms such as Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and voice interface platforms. Familiar with IoT devices and networking. Comfortable in Photoshop and Illustrator. Background in web design, graphic design, and 2D art using collage and encaustic techniques. Familiar with laser cutters, and various kinds of rough construction. Experience contributing to papers and doing contextual reviews. Interested in knowing more about Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning techniques.