Emily Vey Duke (born 1972,

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, Canada) is a Canadian-born visual artist who has worked collaboratively with Cooper Battersby since 1994. She is an associate professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at

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Career

Prior to her completion of university, in 1995, Duke was in a local Halifax band called Popularity Contest, which played in and around Halifax during the height of Maritime rock scene. Duke also released a self-titled, eight-song cassette in 1995. Duke completed a

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at the

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in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After graduating, Duke worked as the artistic director at the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax in 2004. She also went on to complete her Master of Fine Art degree at the

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in 2004. Duke and Battersby were featured artists at the

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in 2016 and were nominated for the

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for Aliant New Media Prize in 2005 and the Atlantic Canada Prize 2010. In 2015, Duke and Battersby won the Grand Prize at the European Media Arts Festival for their video ''Dear Lorde.'' Duke has exhibited at the

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, the

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, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in

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. Additionally, Duke and Battersby participated in the

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of Rotterdam. Her video work is distributed by V-Tape in

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, Video Out in

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, Argos in

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, and

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. Duke also works as a writer and has been published in

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, C Magazine, Fuse Magazine, and Mix Magazine.

References

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