SUMMARY

CV (pdf)

• Work field: Arts and culture / International events
• Specialization: Cultural policies, cultural mediation, digital culture
• Main activities:
- Development and management, projects and parternships
- Direction and programming of contents
- Research, training and strategic watch
- Writing, communications, web monitoring
• Spoken and written languages: French, English, Spanish
• Other spoken language: Catalan

Consultant in cultural development since the fall of 2014, I am specialized in the fields of cultural policy, cultural mediation, digital culture, arts administration and project management. My professional activity is at the crossroads of art, research and management. I have worked over the last 15 years for the organizations Culture pour tous and Culture Montreal where I contributed actively to the debate on culture in the heart of Quebec's development. I am also co-founder and vicepresident of a Montreal artist run centre TOPO, dedicated to digital art. In parallel, I lead a practice in photography and media art.

2015 - CONSULTANT – RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, WRITING
- Partenariat du Quartier des Spectacles - Writing, projects and memory, studies. Case studies on Exceptional Productions in Quartier des Spectacles // Survey on Young Audiences // Development of the Urban Digital Lab Project (2016-2107)

- City of Brossard - Direction des loisirs, de la culture et de la vie communautaire
Elaboration of a cultural mediation programm - diagnostic and tools - Information Guide(March 2017)

- Printemps numérique - Study on Montreal's ecosystem of digital creativity.To consult and download the study (October 2016)

- Daigle /Saire – consulting firm, Regroupement québécois de la danse, La danse sur les routes
A study on the dance dedicated to young audiences in collaboration with Pascale Daigle (December 2015)

2016 - TRAINER, SPEAKER
-  Museo San Telmo - Workshop and conferenc,e Museums cultural mediation and digital culture (San Sebastián/Donostia, Spain, Nov. 2017)

- Conseil québécois de la musique - Workshop and conference, Cultural mediation and audience development in the digital environment (Sept. 2017)

-  Conseil scolaire acadien provincial - Training and support, Cultural mediation and collaborative leadership (May 2017)

-  Regroupement des arts interdsiciplinaires du Québec - Workshop Cultural mediation and public art (January 2017)

-  Mercado de industrias culturales del Sur (MICSUR) - Expert-consultant, Arts management (October 2016)

2014 - LECTURER

-  Cégep de Saint-Laurent - A.E.C. Specialisation in cultural mediation
- Class 391-IIA-SL - La profession de médiateur culturel (winter 2018, spring 2016)
- Class 391-22A-SL - Développement et gestion de projets en médiation culturelle (fall 2016)

-  UQAM - D.E.S.S. Gestion de la carrière artistique, Université du Québec à Montréal
Class GCA7040 - Écologie du milieu des arts, marché de l’art et diffusion (fall 2014)

2014 - 2015 PROJECTS MANAGER – Cultural Mediation and Territories
-  Culture pour tous
Expert-consultant "Mediation and territories " regional tables , seminars and workshops, conferences
Development of regional cultural mediation cells in various Quebec regions: Côte-Nord, Laurentides, Mauricie, Montérégie, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.

2005-2014 -PROJECTS DIRECTOR
- Culture pour tous
Responsabilities:
• Direction of different programs (conception, financing, implementation)
• Research and writing, content development
• Coordination of apPartnership research group on cultural mediation (GRMC)
• Conferences and trainings on cultural mediation
• Prospecting missions and participation in conferences in France, Belgium, Spain and Switzerland

Projects and achievements - examples:
• Web portal on cultural mediation: thematic dossiers (web conferences, video interviews, articles) on art practices in society, 2011-2014
• Agenda 21 pour la culture du Québec : research dossiers and toolboxes, 2011-2012
• La culture en entreprise : web portal and bank of artistic activities for the workplace, 2011-2012
• Je m’affiche pour la culture!, participatory photographic event and cafés culture, 2009-2011
• Art at work, matching artists and companies, collective creations, 2007-2010
• Parcours interculturel, Viv Ayiti, Programming of immigrant artists t, 2005-2010
• Les Convertibles, public art event; book and DVD publication, 2006-2007
• International symposia – Cultural Mediation : Montréal, sept. 2006 and dec. 2008, Lyon (France) dec. 2009 – Art et innovation managériale : Montréal, dec. 2011

Published texts :
• « Cartographier la médiation culturelle au Québec: un projet de recherche partenariale?» (avec Martin Lussier) in Les mondes de la médiation culturelle. Dir. Cécile Camrt el al. L'Harmattan, 2016.
• La médiation culturelle en questions. Mise en œuvre de projets de médiation culturelle. Deux guides pratiques. Culture pour tous, 2014
• Le Musée en partage du Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal in La médiation culturelle. Le sens des mots et l’essence des pratiques, dir. Jean-Marie Lafortune, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2012, pp. 183-190
• Médiations et territoires in Zone occupée, no. 4, pp. 42-43, Alma, fall 2012
• Art au travail un programme de création collective en milieu de travail in Revue internationale Animation, territoires et pratiques socioculturelles, no. 3, Les arts et l’animation, pp. 42-56, Montréal-Bordeaux, winter 2011
• Preface and editorial co-director, Regards croisés sur la médiation culturelle, Cahiers de l’action culturelle, Laboratoire d’animation et recherche cuturelle (LARC), UQAM, december 2007

2001 - 2004 - FOUNDING COORDINATOR
- Culture Montréal
Responsabilities:
• Implementation of the operational structure of the organisation
• Development and coordination of the activities, projects and public meetings
• Research and writing: cultural and urban politicies and development
• Design and organization of various symposia, forums and general meetings :
- Les responsabilités culturelles des agglomérations urbaines, colloquium, october 2004
- Culture et quartiers, colloquium, june 2003
- Espace urbain et politiques de la ville, forum, february 2003
- Quelle politique culturelle pour Montréal ?, forum, october 2002
- Sommet de la culture de Montréal, forum, october 2001

1997 - 1999 - DEVELOPMENT AND SPECIAL PROJECTS OFFICER
- ISEA / Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts
International organization dedicated to the development of electronic arts
• Planning, Development and governmental representation
• Design and organization of various international symposia and general events :
- Les États généraux des nouveaux médias, colloquium, Montréal, october 1999
- Art africain et nouvelles technologies, colloquium, Montréal, april 1999
- Dakar Web, web creation workshops, Dakar, Sénégal, february 1999
- Webcast98, presentation event, Montréal/Liverpool, september 1998
- SIGRAF, prospecting mission, Orlando, É.U., july 1998

1995 - COFOUNDER, VICE-PRESIDENT
- Agence TOPO — www.AgenceTopo.qc.ca
Artist-run center dedicated to the creation and presentation of digital artworks
• Implementation, development and co-direction of an artistic structure (governance, planning, financing, programming, communication, representation )
• International promotion and dissemination
• Artistic direction artistique of various projects, exhibitions and events

ARTISTIC PRODUCTION

1990 - ART PRACTICE - Photography and Media Arts
www.evaquintas.ca
• Creation, production and presentation of various photographic, video and multimedia exhibitions and events in Canada, Mexico, Europee, en Western Africa and Japan
• International creation workshops and residencies in Argentina (2018), Colombia (2015), Mexico (2004), Burkina Fas o(2000), Senegal (1999)
• Creation and travel grants
• Publication art book: Amazons, rebels and mutants, Éditions Cayenne, 2014
• Awards : Liquidation, a random photonovel on cdrom (codirection with Michel Lefebvre)
- Möbius Québec-Canad Awarda, Fiction ctegory, october 2000
- Téléfilm Canada, Best Canadian Work, New Media, Festival du nouveau
  cinéma et des nouveaux médias, october 1999

STUDIES

•  Master in Management of Cultural Organizations (M.M.E.C.), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (H.E.C.), Montréal (2016)
•  Specialized Graduate Studies (DESS), Management of Cultural Organizations, H.E.C.- Montréal (1997)
•  Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA ), Major in photography, Minor in literature, Concordia University, Montréal (1990)

Professional training :
• Training design, Compétence culture and Centre de recherche appliquée en instrumentation de l’enseignement, 14 hours, winter 2015
• Program evaluation, Société canadienne d’évaluation and Centre de liaison sur l’intervention et la prévention psychosociales, 25 hours, spring 2013

PROFESSIONNAL ENGAGEMENT - Juries , committees

• Groupe de recherche sur la médiation culturelle, since 2006
• Commission numérique de Culture Montréal, 2017-
• Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM), Arts and Business Committee, 2009-2013
• CAM, Advisory Committee, Media Arts and new practices, 2005-2009
• Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), Orientation Committee, Dissemination workgroup, 2014-2015
• CALQ, juries, Media Arts et Les inclassables, 1999-2012
• Conseil des arts du Canada, jury Artists and community, Visual arts, 2010
• Ville de Montréal, juries, Programs Cultural Action and Public Art, 2007-2011
• Conseil des arts de Longueuil, jury Prix Gala de la culture, 2011 + 2015
• Les Arts et la Ville, jury, Prix citoyen de la culture, 2009-2011
• Diversité artistique Montréal (DAM), Founding board member and head of the Public Committee Guide, 2007-2009