Description: Saelan Twerdy is a Montreal-based writer and editor and a PhD candidate in Art History at McGill University. His academic research focuses on the notion of “dematerialization” in art since the 1960s, especially in relation to information technology, political economy, and artistic labour.
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I am currently Editorial Coordinator at Concordia University Press .
I am also the Managing Editor of RACAR , the official journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada. From 2014 to 2021, I was a contributing editor at Momus , and my writing has appeared in venues such as Beside , CBC Arts , Canadian Art (RIP), Esse , C magazine , Border Crossings , Blackflash , and The New Inquiry .
I have also contributed to books and exhibition catalogues published by Fonderie Darling, Concordia University’s FOFA Gallery, Fogo Island Arts/Sternberg Press, and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (now MOCA Toronto), among others.