Jim Drobnick, OCAD University

Research

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Latest funding

The Medium in the Museum: Psychometry and the Affective Artifact
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$21,660
Look with your sense of smell: olfaction in modern and avant-garde art
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$14,970

All 2 grants and awards

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The Medium in the Museum: Psychometry and the Affective Artifact

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Fisher, Jennifer

Keywords: affective objects; curatorial intervention; video installation; paranormal knowledge; curating as research-creation; performing mediumship; clairsentience and affect; contemporary art; spiritualism; museum collections; performance curation

$21,660

Look with your sense of smell: olfaction in modern and avant-garde art

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Drobnick, Jim

Keywords: senses in art; smell in art; sensorial art history; sensory aesthetics

$14,970

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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