what I do
Creator and producer of media, culture, dialogue, experimentation.
I facilitate cross-sector collaboration around complex issues and new opportunities.
Independently and with others, I build projects, foster exchange, develop strategy, and secure support.
My client roster includes avant studios, leading institutions, peer-driven networks, and sundry intrepid, independent teams.
practice
approach
values
My interests tend towards the marginal, relational, speculative, systemic, and complex. I’m propelled by the eternal persistance, and infinite configurations, of an alternative.
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bio
Amy Gottung is a creative producer, programmer, consultant, and writer based in Canada. She has led landmark projects and diverse teams for platforms ranging from experimental media, to broadcast television, to international festivals. As a designer and convener, Amy works across sectors, communities, and disciplines.
From 2016-2020 Amy served as Executive Director of Toronto’s singular “anarchic, circus-like” alternative music and art series, Long Winter (Rolling Stone). In four seasons, she helped to establish collective-based frameworks and a board of directors, introduced international collaborations including the co-production of a 2019 festival in Paris, France, tripled revenue and activity, and ushered the organization into annual operating funding streams.
Amy is the creator of several cross-sector interventions and international exchanges in support of self-organized cultural scenes and spaces. Initiatives include a festival and research conference, co-presented by Long Winter (Toronto) and La Station Gare des Mines (Paris) in 2021 (Together Apart), and the DIY Space Project: a multi-city, transdisciplinary research and advocacy program realized in partnership with Trans Europe Halles and leaders from government, alternative culture, real estate, and nightlife in Toronto, Berlin, Amsterdam, and beyond.
She is a co-creator and creative producer for A More Beautiful Journey, a custom web XR app animating hundreds of kilometres of Toronto transit line with original, spatialized sound and music.
Amy holds a SSHRC-funded M.A. from the University of Toronto and a B. Mus from McGill University. She has lived and worked in Toronto, New York, Montréal, Sagueney (QC), Zürich, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and British Columbia.
Amy is a frequent speaker, advisor, and facilitator in cultural, civic, and educational spaces. She interrogates and experiments with collaborators around the world.
looking for the others
amy.gottung@gmail.com
Creator and producer of media, culture, dialogue, experimentation.
I facilitate cross-sector collaboration around complex issues and new opportunities.
Independently and with others, I build projects, foster exchange, develop strategy, and secure support.
My client roster includes avant studios, leading institutions, peer-driven networks, and sundry intrepid, independent teams.
practice
- programming and production (media, culture, editorial)
- writing and editing
- grants and fundraising
- research and evaluation
- organizational development (focus on alternative models)
- consulting, facilitation
approach
- accessible
- flexible
- equity focused
- analytic, detail-oriented, engaged
- real (for real)
values
My interests tend towards the marginal, relational, speculative, systemic, and complex. I’m propelled by the eternal persistance, and infinite configurations, of an alternative.
.
bio
Amy Gottung is a creative producer, programmer, consultant, and writer based in Canada. She has led landmark projects and diverse teams for platforms ranging from experimental media, to broadcast television, to international festivals. As a designer and convener, Amy works across sectors, communities, and disciplines.
From 2016-2020 Amy served as Executive Director of Toronto’s singular “anarchic, circus-like” alternative music and art series, Long Winter (Rolling Stone). In four seasons, she helped to establish collective-based frameworks and a board of directors, introduced international collaborations including the co-production of a 2019 festival in Paris, France, tripled revenue and activity, and ushered the organization into annual operating funding streams.
Amy is the creator of several cross-sector interventions and international exchanges in support of self-organized cultural scenes and spaces. Initiatives include a festival and research conference, co-presented by Long Winter (Toronto) and La Station Gare des Mines (Paris) in 2021 (Together Apart), and the DIY Space Project: a multi-city, transdisciplinary research and advocacy program realized in partnership with Trans Europe Halles and leaders from government, alternative culture, real estate, and nightlife in Toronto, Berlin, Amsterdam, and beyond.
She is a co-creator and creative producer for A More Beautiful Journey, a custom web XR app animating hundreds of kilometres of Toronto transit line with original, spatialized sound and music.
Amy holds a SSHRC-funded M.A. from the University of Toronto and a B. Mus from McGill University. She has lived and worked in Toronto, New York, Montréal, Sagueney (QC), Zürich, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and British Columbia.
Amy is a frequent speaker, advisor, and facilitator in cultural, civic, and educational spaces. She interrogates and experiments with collaborators around the world.
looking for the others
amy.gottung@gmail.com