He received his PhD from McGill University’s Department of Art History & Communication Studies. He holds an MA in German Studies from Université de Montréal, and has also attended Universität Konstanz and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is Director of the creative research collective IN/TERMINUS: Media, Art, and Urban Ecologies as well as a Co-Investigator for the Visible City Project + Archive (York University), an External Research Affiliate of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (York University), and a member of the Centre de recherches intermédiales (Université de Montréal). His current research and publications explore the intersection of media and urban studies, new histories of Canadian media studies, the cross-border urban context of Detroit-Windsor, and artistic and cultural practices in other urban environments.