David J. Knight
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David J. Knight

Artist / Author / Archaeologist

Exhibitions / Screenings / Events

V i s u a l

1985

Ten Minutes Of Your Life (performance art), with Adrian Dunham and David Chevalier
Zavitz Hall, University of Guelph, Canada

Exhibiting artist at Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph, Canada

1986

Baile Atha Cliath (xerography)
In Viewpoints - MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Canada

The Mortal Coil - Mein Leiber Mortuus (multi-media performance)
UC103, University of Guelph, Canada

1987

I Saved This From The Old House (found object sculpture)
University of Guelph Fine Art Graduate Exhibition - Pauline McGibbon Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1988

From the Corner of Our Eye (paintings and drawings)
Exhibition with Adrian Dunham - Bookshelf Cafe, Guelph, Canada

Automobilia Nervosa (installation performance)
ANNPAC AGM, Winnipeg, Canada

Factorytown (multi-media performance)
Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph, Canada

David Knight: Video Art Producer (video and music performance)
Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph, Canada

1989

Solo exhibition of paintings and drawings
Jimmy Jazz, Guelph, Canada

Photography (photography)
Exhibition with Dean Palmer - Timers, Guelph, Canada

1991

An Evening with David J. Knight (video, music and performance)
Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Canada

1993

Actual Unreality (found object and furniture installation)
Part of  Cafe Plastique by John Varah and Dominic Downes, for The Brighton Festival
Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, UK

2000-2001

Patina: surfacerecordings (solo exhibition of paintings and drawings)
Cafe Nostalgica, Ottawa, Canada

2001

Wherever You See Snowdrops (digital paintings)
Phoenix Gallery Foyer, Brighton, UK

2005

Having Read The Book (sound installation)
Art-If-Axe Exhibition at ArtVaults
Southampton Medieval Vaults, Southampton, UK

2007

Opening the Ears and Eyes of Archaeology (sound installation)
iHear2: Virtual Audio and Past Environments: Audio and Acoustics in Heritage Applications Conference
National Centre for Early Music, York, UK

2011

The Pareidolian Periplus (sound installation)
Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) Conference, Birmingham, UK

Corners, 'Pata-Archaeographia and 'Pata-Archaeosophia (sound installation)
Visualisation in Archaeology (VIA) Conference Exhibition
University of Southampton, UK

What Goes Round (director of video, with Christopher Peterson and Kevin Hogg)
Live sound performance for Palaeophonics inaugural concert
George Square Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Funded by The University of Edinburgh Campaign and The Arts and Heritage Research Council, UK
"Archaeological evidence for Palaeolithic rotational aerophones such as the bullroarer offers an opportunity to conceptually and experimentally explore modern concepts of prehistoric auditory experience. Used by a variety of past and present cultures the bullroarer is associated with wind, storms, lightning and long-distance communication. The film shows a simulated bullroarer performance recorded at a modern onshore wind-farm at Arthur, Ontario, Canada, and stills taken of onshore wind-farms in Picardy, France. The film and live performance highlight shifting attitudes of how noise is culturally defined in the past and present and questioning the use of the loaded terms "music" and "noise" as applied to past acoustic cultures" (Palaeophonics brochure 2011).

2012

Cloud8 (paintings, video and sound installation)
Exhibition with Sona Mincoff
Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph, Canada.
Funded by The Ontario Arts Council

2012-2013

130th Anniversary of the Petrie Building, Guelph (curator and exhibitor)
A series of Guelph exhibitions of local artists celebrating the Petrie Building
Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Crimea Street Art Gallery, Bullfrog Mall Guelph Public Library, The Sleeman Centre (for Doors Open), The Apollo Eleven (Petrie Building), Guelph, Canada

2013

John C. Green and Guelph's Cinema History (researcher and co-curator)
Guelph Civic Museum, Guelph, Canada 

2015

Act 2, Scene 2 of The Star of Destiny by John Galt (director, narrator and chorus of public performance)
Book launch of The Star f Destiny and The German's Tale by John Galt (Vocamus Editions)
Actors: Laura Ward (servant), Ann Marshall (servant), T. Berto (Ventose), Burnaby Orbax (Fiend), Jenn E. Norton (Beatrice), Scott McGovern (Herman), Kevin Hogg (Sir Gondibert), Jeremy Luke Hill (Ludolph / Chorus), Sona Mincoff (Chorus)
Musicians: Ben Grossman (hurdy-gurdy), Bob MacLean (Mandolin)
Army, Navy & Air Force (A.N.A.F.) Veterans Club 344, Guelph, Canada

A Single Voice (Lanugo Press)
A web-page on David J. Knight curated by Lydia Chiussi / Lanugo Press, Toronto, Canada

Fenylalanine Publishing
Founder and Editor-in-Chief since 2015)

2016

XAGGERA
XAGGERA, a Fenylalazine from Fenylalanine Publishing, at Lulu.com
Launched September 30 at Army, Navy & Air Force (A.N.A.F.) Veterans Club 344, Guelph, Canada
2017
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De Canada con Amor (from Fenylalanine Publishing)
With Mexico, From Love

November 25 2016 - February 19 2017
Idea Exchange, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Curators: Iga Janik, Scott McGovern

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(Plastic Pine Tree from Fenylalanine Publishing in Mexico)

​Freehand Dot Matrix Landscape (Pointillism drawing, 1980)
Personal Geographies: Maps, Signposts, & Souvenirs of Special Places and Sacred Spaces
March 28 - April 29
EBar, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Curator: Eric Allen Montgomery

2018

Visuals for the Martin Page album "The Amber of Memory"

2020

Visuals for the Martin Page album "The Poetry of Collisions: Volume I"

2021

Visuals and Music Videos for Martin Page album "The Occupation of Hope"
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Visuals and Music Videos for Martin Page album "Fugitive Pieces"
​"Fugitive Pieces: The Songs Artbook" Published by WhirlWhirl Publishing
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Fugitive Pieces by Martin Page
Visuals by David J. Knight
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Fugitive Pieces: The Songs Artbook by David J. Knight
Published by WhirlWhirl Publishing 2021

A u d i o


1986

Ripping Susan (music by A Single Voice - the band)
On Just West of Something Big (CFRU vinyl album), Guelph, Canada

Last Fall  (music by David J. Knight and Pauline Sinclair - as Strings & Shades)
On Just West of Something Big (CFRU vinyl album), Guelph, Canada

Solace (A Single Voice band cassette)
Recorded at different venues in Guelph and Kitchener, Canada

1987

Big Black Dog Near a Forest This Winter, Barking Bloody Murder (video and music by Knight)
Produced at Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph, Canada

1988

Night (video by Knight) - music with Brian Roche.
Selected as part of Distinguishing Features; 15 Years of Artist's Video at Ed Video Media Arts Centre 1976-1991 (Curated by Karen Knights 1991). Shown across Canada including:
Forest City Gallery (London)
 CineCycle (Toronto)
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre (Guelph)
Video Verite (Saskatoon)

1989

"My Brother Once Said This Will Be The Centre Of The House" (audio recording - as Stephen Hero)
On Experiments For Giant TVs: ED Video Audio Art Album (vinyl), Guelph, Canada

Cry On Bathed (music by David J. Knight and Pauline Sinclair - as Strings & Shades)
On Experiments For Giant TVs: ED Video Audio Art Album (vinyl), Guelph, Canada

1991

Slow Choirs - Score and Voiceover for the short animation Capital P by Stephen Barnes
Capital P Awards:
Viewers'-Choice Winner in Retrospect - 1996 International Animation Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada
Best Short Film at Kinderfilmfest - 1991 Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Best Animation of Festival - 1991 Chicago International Festival of Children's Films, Chicago, USA
Best Short Film - 1991 Carrousel International du Film de Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
Gold Award - 1991 2nd Student Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
First Place - 1991 TVOntario TELEFEST, Toronto, Canada
Capital P Screenings:
Channel 4 Television, UK (part of Fourmations 1993)
23rd International Tournee of Animation, USA 1991
Milwaukee Art Museum, USA 1991
Annecy International Animation Festival, France 1991
Canal Plus Television, France 1991
Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia 1991
Sydney Film Festival, Australia 1991
Goteberg Film Festival, Sweden 1991
Le Festival du Dessin Anime, Belgium 1991
Bombay International Film Festival, India 1991
TV International, Denmark 1991
Capital P is archived in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and has been honoured with the distinction of being used by Nagasaki city council as an educational aid for child psychology.

The Work of David J. Knight (radio interview, music and improvised guitar)
More Art Than Science - Brian Roche CFRU campus radio show, Guelph, Canada

1999

The Audient (A Single Voice CD)
Original solo work by David J. Knight
Distributed to and played by Canadian campus radio stations, including:
CFRU (Guelph)
CHUO (Ottawa)
CKDU (Halifax)

2009

A Short Tour of the British Museum Made Shorter (music by Knight)
Video by Tom Goskar; Salisbury, UK

2011

What Goes Round (music by Knight, Kevin Hogg and Christopher Peterson / video by Knight and Hogg)
For Palaeophonics inaugural performance at George Square Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Funded by The University of Edinburgh Campaign and The Arts and Heritage Research Council, UK

2012

Cloud8 (music and video by Knight and Sona Mincoff)
Recording and live performance for Cloud8 exhibition at Ed Video Media Arts Centre.
Funded by The Ontario Arts Council, Canada

2014

The Wexford Carol (video by Knight and Thoreau Bakker - acoustic guitar by Bob MacLean)
Produced for the Rhymes With Elf fundraising project in support of Ed Video Media Arts Centre and Guelph Youth Music Centre

2015

A Whispering Piano Listened To (sound installation and talk by Knight)
Produced for 26, a house-gallery venue in Toronto (November - December)

2017

A Whispering Piano Listened To II (sound installation and talk by Knight)
Produced for The Elora Poetry Centre & Gallery, Elora, Ontario (February 11)

2018

Impossibilities (CD by David J. Knight)
Released on CDBaby June 2018: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/asinglevoice2 

2019

Original score and vocalizations for Bird Brain, a short animation by Stephen Barnes
​Released in cinemas across America on 9/11 2019
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Appearances in other Artists' Work

1986

The Skate Dancers (performer in Lori-Ann Emerton's performance art)
University of Guelph, Burlington Art Centre, Hamilton Artists Inc., and The Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada.
Included in Nora Hutchinson's video Opera Around the House

1987

Last Fall (video produced by Pauline Sinclair - music by David J. Knight and Pauline Sinclair as Strings & Shades)

Interview with David Knight (video by Kevin Hogg)
Part One
Part Two

A Sign Of The Times (video by Kevin Hogg)
David J. Knight commentary about dismantling The Treanon restaurant hanging sign, Guelph, Canada

1989

Cry On Bathed (video produced by Pauline Sinclair - music by David J. Knight and Pauline Sinclair as Strings & Shades)

1990

Healing (video by Pauline Sinclair - music by David J. Knight and Pauline Sinclair as Strings & Shades)
Funded by the Ontario Arts Council

2012

A Building Worth Saving (video by Angus McLellan)
David J. Knight interview on the Petrie Building, Guelph, Ontario


Positions and Awards

1986

President of Fine Art Network - University of Guelph, Canada

1987

Mein Leiber Mortuus (film and projection installation)
First Prize, Zavitz Juried Art Show - University of Guelph, Canada

Heinz Jordan Fine Art Award - University of Guelph, Canada

1988 - 1989

Vice President of Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph, Canada

1999

Music Technology Instructor - Canterbury College, UK

Judge at 1999 Battle of the Bands Competition - The Penny Theatre, Canterbury, UK

2003

Chair of The Post-Graduate Forum, University of Southampton, UK

2008

Campus Author for King Lucius of Britain (The History Press) - University of Guelph, Canada

2009-2010

Hummingbird: Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences Doctoral Research Journal
Part of Editorial Team and contributing author of the inaugural issue (Issue 1 | April 2010)
University of Southampton, UK

2014

Campus Author for Sound Guelph and The Omen by John Galt (Publication Studio) - University of Guelph, Canada
Board Member of The Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, Guelph Wellington Branch

2015

Campus Author for Guelph Versifiers of the 19th Century and The Star of Destiny (by John Galt) (Vocamus Editions) - University of Guelph, Canada
​Member of The John Galt Society (University of Glasgow, Scotland)

2017

Campus Author for The Cromaboo Mail Carrier (by Mary Leslie) (Vocamus Editions) - University of Guelph, Canada

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Homebound by David J. Knight 1988 (black Bic pen)
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Sweet Jupiter and Little One by David J. Knight 2017 (black Bic pen and watercolours)
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