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 Transmedia at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Career

Duke completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the

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

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. Duke and Battersby were featured artists at the

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in 2016 and were nominated for the

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in 2005 and 2010. 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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