Photo by Justine A. Chambers
Josh Hite works with photography, video, animation, and sound, typically via typological processes, creating reorganized archives of behaviours, spaces and scenes disconnected by either geography or time. He strives to imagine content as a primary generator of possible forms while simultaneously investigating art historical or cultural references as structural assistants. Works query relationships between an experience and its location, power dynamics at play, and the ways in which sequencing and transitions can seamlessly propel viewers through time.
Josh Hite CV
2019
A Vista, with Fight With a Stick, New Westminster
Façade Festival, with Justine Chambers, Vancouver
Choreography Walk, with Justine Chambers, Hong Kong
2018
Festival of Inappropriation, Colby College, Maine
Oh What a Beautiful Morning!, with Fight With a Stick, Vancouver
2017
Non-Verbal Communication, Calabria 66, Barcelona
Cinerama, with Fight With a Stick Performance, Vancouver
Bridge, with Scott Billings, New Media Gallery, New Westminster
2016
Brand New Blinkers, D.I.Y. Space for London
Revolutions, with Fight With a Stick, Vancouver
Artist-in-Residence, with Fight With a Stick, Vancouver
Choreography Walk, with Justine Chambers, Vancouver
Stairwell, with Scott Billings, Wil Aballe Offsite, Vancouver
2015
Index 2015, Gallery 295, Vancouver
Slippery Terms, AHVA Gallery, Vancouver
Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, Ontario
Steppenwolf, with Fight With a Stick, PuSh Festival, Vancouver
Tenfifteen Maple, City of Vancouver Field House Residency, Vancouver
2014
Outcomes, Audain Art Centre, Vancouver
Drunkfest, White House Studio Project, Toronto
Field Guides Exhibition, Roundhouse, Vancouver
Sound walks with Vancouver Soundwalk Collective
Couchfest, Portugal, Brazil, England, Italy, Poland, Russia, USA, etc
Festival of InAppropriation, Los Angeles, Seattle, Edmonton, New York
Ecomusicologies, Dialogues Conference, University of North Carolina, Ashville
2013
Berlin Music Video Awards
Video Bar, VIVO, Vancouver
Tele Visions, Sydney, Australia
Channels Video Biennial, Melbourne, Australia
Noise Non-ference, Quibit, Brooklyn, New York
Basement Media Festival, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Winnipeg, Boston
Terminal Award Winner, Austin Peay State University, Tennessee
2012
Garage Show 2, Edmonton
Santorini Bienale, Santorini, Greece
Niemandsland, geh8, Dresden, Germany
Inside Out, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
Taking Time, Surrey Urban Screen, Surrey
Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester, England
International Movie Night, geh8 Gallery, Dresden, Germany
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, West Virginia University
2011
New Forms Festival, Waldorf, Vancouver
Alone in the Wilderness, Vera Project, Seattle
Square Pegs IV, Modern Fuel, Kingston, Ontario
Pursuant Pharaohs, Collar Works, Troy, New York
We Give a Shit Because We Care, UNIT/PITT Projects, Vancouver
Sound Proof, with Kristen Roos, Café for Contemporary Art, Vancouver
I live with twenty machines; I wish I lived with twenty wives, 221a, Vancouver
2010
60 Second Hand Job, Video Pool, Winnipeg
SLAB 4 – Sound and Noise, VIVO, Vancouver
Noise Performance, Dunlevy Snack Bar, Vancouver
Public Realm, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto
Copy, with Justine Chambers, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver
Theatre for the Ears, with Kristen Roos, Vancouver New Music, Vancouver
Code Live 2, Code Lab, Emily Carr University, Vancouver
2009
Material Affinities, Lasserre Auditorium, Vancouver
Would You Like To Start Again At The Beginning? Crawl Space Gallery, Seattle
City Shorts, Vancouver Public Space Network Film Festival, Vancity Theatre, Vancouver
2008
And How?, AMS Gallery, Vancouver
UBC by Design, Koerner Gallery, Vancouver
Being There and Elsewhere, Organ Gallery, Chongqing, China
The Sooner The Better Late Than Never, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
Funding
UBC Travel Award, 2008
Canada Council Research, Inter-arts, 2013
BC Arts Council Project Assistance, Dance, 2009
Canada Council Artist in Residency, Theatre, 2015
BC Arts Council Project Assistance, Visual Arts, 2015
BC Arts CouncilSenior Scholarship, (MFA at UBC) 2007
Canada Council Research and Production, Dance, 2009
BC Arts Council Project Assistance, Media Arts, 2010, 2018
Canada Council Research and Creation, Film and Video, 2010
UBC Roloff Beny Foundation Scholarship in Photography, UBC, 2007
UBC Geography DepartmentUrban Studies Graduate Research Award, UBC, 2007
Artist Talks and Guest Lectures
Colourschool, UBC, 2007
Surrey Urban Screen, Surrey, 2012
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, 2014
VISA 110, Media Arts, UBC, 2013-2017
UBC by Design, Panel Discussion, 2008
221a Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, 2011
Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, 2011
FIST 434B, Experimental Film, UBC, 2008
FIST 498, Photography in Film, UBC, 2007
New Media Gallery, New Westminster, BC, 2017
Liminal Spaces, Sociology Conference, UBC, 2007
CA 161, Introductory Studio in Visual Art, SFU, 2021
Maritime Museum, Panel Discussion, Vancouver, 2014
MHIS 407, Themes in Interactivity, Emily Carr University, 2012
Material Affinities, Art History Graduate Conference, UBC, 2009
HUB (Centre for Art and Technology), UBC Robson Square, 2009
SART 220, Contemporary Art Practices, Capilano University, 2010
Organ Haus Artist Run Centre, Symposium, Chongqing, China, 2008
Vancouver Sun/CBC Student Video Awards, Emily Carr University, 2013
SOCS – 312, Cultural Production and the Law, Emily Carr University, 2013
Reviews
Powers, Jessica, “Some humans and Nature” Artslant, 2011
Graves, Jenn. “Yes I would.” The Stranger, February 6, 2009
Unrau, Kaelan, “…Josh Hite takes the offensive…,” Beatroute, July 2015
Healey, Chris. “Josh Hite and Kevin Scanlon @ Propellor,” Art List Pro, 2010
Thomas, Colin, “A Vista; A Trip”, https://colinthomas.ca/2019/03/21/a-vista, 2019
Pace-Presnell, Jenni. “Through Line” Exhibition Catalog, Belkin Art Gallery, 2008
McCarthy, Celesse, “Music for Lamps + Furniture + Internet” Vandocument, 2013
Clark, Peter. “Oh what a blow that show gave me!”, The Ubyssey, February 16, 2007
Pothast, Emily. “Would You Like To Start Again At The Beginning?”, Scrawl No. 1, 2009
Rudd, Monica. “Belkin exhibit: spookily exciting”, The Peak, no.7, vol.125, February 19, 2007
Hackett, Regina. “Fabulous works by B.C. Artists require a Seattle response.” Seattle PI., 2009
Instructional Experience
VISA 311, Video Installation, University of British Columbia, 2017
VISA 310, Interactive Media Arts, University of British Columbia, 2015
AHIS 333, Seminar Leader, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 2010
BPA 404, Contemporary Cultural Practices, Capilano University, 2020/2021
BPA 400, Contemporary Cultural Practices, Capilano University, 2019/2021
FNDT-160-F003, Core Media Studio I, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 2016
VISA 110, Foundation Studio: Digital Media, University of British Columbia, 2019/2021
VISA 210, Media Arts, University of British Columbia, 2013/2017/2018/2019/2020/2021
FNDT-152-S001, Video Essentials, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 2016, 2018
VISA 240, Intro to Photography, University of British Columbia, 2009/2012/2013/2014/2018
BPA 4003 Interdisciplinary Performance and Creation, Capilano University, 2014 -2017, 2019
BPA 4007 Interdisciplinary Performance and Production, Capilano University, 2014 – 2017, 2021
Education
MFA, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2008
BA Philosophy, Wilkes University, Pennsylvania, USA, 2000
Bristol University, Year Abroad, Bristol, England, 1998 - 1999