LEGACY
Founded in 2014 by the City of New Westminster, New Media Gallery developed for a decade under the leadership of Director-Curators Gordon Duggan and Sarah Joyce. During that decade the duo curated 35 group exhibitions featuring more than 160 works by more than 200 artists from 39 countries. The gallery achieved an international profile, working with some of the most exciting artists in the world. The gallery championed art and ideas that explored the creative potential and enigmatic meaning of technology in our lives. Equitable, authentic and direct engagement and dialogue was pivotal to curatorial practice.
In 2020 New Media Gallery branched out to become the ‘Art + Technology’ division, acknowledging the important programming that was being developed. Art + Technology and New Media Gallery developed innovative public, professional and educational programming, performances and events. Creative technology workshops operates out of the Art + Technology LAB with a focus on encouraging a broad understanding of how technology can be used for creative purposes, pedagogy, critical thinking and the creation of meaning.
Past Director/Curator
Gordon Duggan
Founding Executive Director and Curator of New Media Gallery since 2014 with international experience in both the private and public sectors around contemporary technology-based art practice. Past experience includes a position as Manager of Electronic & Time-based Media Artists for Lisson Gallery, London, representing that institution internationally, supporting their collection and artists. His educational background includes a foundation in Visual Arts with further graduate studies in design theory & practice from Domus Academy, Milan (MDes Honours) together and with a background in contemporary design practice, design teaching and pedagogy as Course Director of Parnham Design College, UK. His focus for the past decade has been on developing a curatorial practice in new media art, exhibition design & development, radical curatorial engagement and gallery management. Through New Media Gallery he contributes to the development of best practice by developing international technology-based art exhibition process, curatorial engagement theory and pedagogy.
Sarah Joyce
Founding Director and Curator of New Media Gallery since 2014, with international experience in the public sector focussed around contemporary, technology-based art practice. Past experience includes positions as Head of Conservation, Glenbow Museum and later Acting Head / Senior Conservator for Tate Gallery in Electronic & Time-based Media Art, representing that institution internationally, supporting their collection and artists. Her educational background includes a foundation in Visual Arts & Art History, with further graduate studies in Conservation, Ethnographic Studies & Contemporary Visual Culture from the University of London, Getty Institute and Bath Spa University/MA.. Her focus for the past decade has been on developing a curatorial practice in new media art, exhibition development, radical curatorial engagement and gallery management. Through New Media Gallery she contributes to the development of best practice by developing international, technology-based art exhibition process, curatorial engagement theory and pedagogy.