https://nellymatorina.com Nelly Matorina Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:17:50 +0000 https://nellymatorina.com en https://nellymatorina.com/Front-page Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:36:22 +0000 Nelly Matorina https://nellymatorina.com/Front-page Cognitive Neuroscientist and Artist <img width="1860" height="1020" width_o="1860" height_o="1020" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad64b59f2ab95261d994498ab095fd74d0e62ae3bfb84a17039f1e037c082598/AnExtensionOfYou_Still.png" data-mid="153985370" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad64b59f2ab95261d994498ab095fd74d0e62ae3bfb84a17039f1e037c082598/AnExtensionOfYou_Still.png" /> https://nellymatorina.com/Publications Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:36:23 +0000 Nelly Matorina https://nellymatorina.com/Publications Publications Drawing promotes memory retention in a patient with sleep-related anterograde amnesiaMatorina, N., Meade, M. E., Starenky, J., &amp; Barense, M. D. (2024). Drawing promotes memory retention in a patient with sleep-related anterograde amnesia. Memory &amp; Cognition, 1-14. Sleep and autobiographical memory Matorina, N., &amp; Barense, M. D. (2024). Sleep and Autobiographical Memory. Current Sleep Medicine Reports, 1-11. Sleep differentially and profoundly impairs recall memory in a patient with fornix damage Matorina, N., Tseng, J., Ladyka-Wojcik, N., Olsen, R.K., Mabbot, D.J., &amp; Barense, M.D. (2023). Sleep differentially and profoundly impairs recall memory in a patient with fornix damage. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(10), 1635-1655.&nbsp; Memory decay distinguishes subtypes of gist Matorina, N., &amp; Poppenk, J. (2021). Memory decay distinguishes subtypes of gist. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 185, 107519. For boredom: A conceptual network of cultural objects Mosurinjohn, S. and Matorina, N. (2019). For boredom: A conceptual network of cultural objects. Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, 2 (1–2), 174 - 184. https://nellymatorina.com/Awards Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:13:00 +0000 Nelly Matorina https://nellymatorina.com/Awards Awards Selected fellowships and scholarships:&nbsp;Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral for Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC PGS-D), 2022 - 2025 Ontario Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (OGS), 2021Junior Fellowship at Massey College, 2021 - 2025University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Sciences Top Doctoral Fellowship, 2020 - 2024Natural Sciences and Engineering Council Summer Research Award (NSERC USRA), 2015Travel Fellowship for Sleep Research Training at the University of California, Los Angeles, 2014Global Career Seminar in Leadership at Kwansei Gakuin University, 2012Queen’s University Excellence Scholarship, 2011 Selected Awards and Honours: Ebbinghaus Award for Most Outstanding Talk, Toronto Area Memory Group Conference, 2024 Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Excellence for one of the top Master’s Theses at Queen’s University, 2018Psychology Graduate Entrance Award, Queen’s University, 2016 https://nellymatorina.com/Artworks Sun, 25 Sep 2022 19:53:53 +0000 Nelly Matorina https://nellymatorina.com/Artworks Selected works <img width="1418" height="1981" width_o="1418" height_o="1981" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c57dba120e598a48b27cd5067b14a52977f7316e95e2ad421949d0b9553e951/InteraccessTO_EventPhoto_NellyMatorina.jpg" data-mid="245198387" border="0" data-scale="54" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c57dba120e598a48b27cd5067b14a52977f7316e95e2ad421949d0b9553e951/InteraccessTO_EventPhoto_NellyMatorina.jpg" /> <img width="2673" height="2673" width_o="2673" height_o="2673" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fd64cc18570ed82a8b038348bd8c643822dd8ab76296bacc4c54394573e9c2b/DreamAnnotation.jpg" data-mid="221295849" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fd64cc18570ed82a8b038348bd8c643822dd8ab76296bacc4c54394573e9c2b/DreamAnnotation.jpg" /> <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e33aae155658a3e8b138107a5ab77966a57cef2395c27b73588543f70888c1b6/IMG_6561.jpg" data-mid="154026304" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e33aae155658a3e8b138107a5ab77966a57cef2395c27b73588543f70888c1b6/IMG_6561.jpg" /><img width="1860" height="1020" width_o="1860" height_o="1020" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad64b59f2ab95261d994498ab095fd74d0e62ae3bfb84a17039f1e037c082598/AnExtensionOfYou_Still.png" data-mid="154026305" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad64b59f2ab95261d994498ab095fd74d0e62ae3bfb84a17039f1e037c082598/AnExtensionOfYou_Still.png" /> <img width="2736" height="1824" width_o="2736" height_o="1824" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5927e74cc91b8ca78c6d3d489a35842e26c3cebc37d450ecf75954b90974fc6/IMG_9830.JPG" data-mid="154026306" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5927e74cc91b8ca78c6d3d489a35842e26c3cebc37d450ecf75954b90974fc6/IMG_9830.JPG" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/035efe4f80fb409d1ce70992163d73b3ddb2852971d1aff895ba346a26346b8d/38024802_268653153722451_4025260731543846912_n.jpg" data-mid="154034751" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/035efe4f80fb409d1ce70992163d73b3ddb2852971d1aff895ba346a26346b8d/38024802_268653153722451_4025260731543846912_n.jpg" /><img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67edad546d6212e3643d4990217b17a5f8b2d3349054e294391c0c26dc4ef147/circaseptan_v4.002.png" data-mid="154034749" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67edad546d6212e3643d4990217b17a5f8b2d3349054e294391c0c26dc4ef147/circaseptan_v4.002.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53c97016b49312f579c58314eabb7ce78862cf4988f960dfe89add9d136b44f1/vlcsnap-2022-09-25-20h18m14s623.png" data-mid="154156454" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53c97016b49312f579c58314eabb7ce78862cf4988f960dfe89add9d136b44f1/vlcsnap-2022-09-25-20h18m14s623.png" /> https://nellymatorina.com/Artist-CV Sun, 25 Sep 2022 19:57:16 +0000 Nelly Matorina https://nellymatorina.com/Artist-CV Artist CV Fellowships 2024 Massey College Bibliography Room Fellow, Toronto, Canada Publications 2023 The Fragment, Audeamus Literary and Arts Journal 2020 For Boredom, A Conceptual Network of Cultural Objects, co-authored with Dr. Sharday Mosurinjohn, Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry Exhibitions 2019 CircaSeptan, Modern Fuel, Kingston, Canada2018 Don’t Forget to Call, SAW Video Gallery, Ottawa, Canada2018 Don’t Forget to Call, Union Gallery, Kingston, Canada2018 after-sleep, Unit 115 Gallery, Kingston, Canada2015 Mirror Element, Happening at Artel Collective, Kingston, Canada2014 Pure Phenomenality, Pop-up House Installation, Kingston, Canada2014 Zilant, Oops Artel Collective Pop-up Show, Kingston, Canada Screenings, Radio, Lectures, and Performances 2025&nbsp; The Fragment, Ayatana’s Biophylium, Ottawa, Canada 2025 The Fragment, InterAccess TO Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2018 an extension of you, Reelout Film and Video Festival, Kingston, Canada2017 Is it going to be much longer? Modern Fuel’s Square Pegs, Kingston, Canada2017 The Sun Rises, Union Gallery, Kingston, Canada2015 Radio(waves) in Motion for Radia Sound Network2015 Spaces to act or not for Radia Sound Network2014 Perceptual City, Artel Collective, Kingston, Canada2014 Wide, Artel Collective, Kingston, Canada2014 Tie that Binds, University Club, Kingston, Canada2014 Finding something yet again, Artel Collective, Kingston, Canada2014 Feedback Loop, Corridor Culture, Kingston, Canada2014 Creature, Probably, Reelout Film Festival, Kingston, Canada2014 Television and the Forest, Union Gallery, Kingston, Canada Presentations and Talks 2023 CircaSeptan: The Lag Between Sleep and Wake, conference presentation at Somnabulations Critical Approaches to Sleep Conference 2018 Artist Talk, guest lecture in Religion and Art Seminar at Queen’s University in Canada.2017 Possible Worlds: Re-imagining Scientific Participation, conference presentation at Undisciplined Graduate Conference at Queen’s University in Canada. Interviews 2018 In Between Remembering: Intergenerational Practice Discussion Group at Saw Video Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.2018 Interview at Union Gallery by Leyla Chisamore, July 2018, Kingston, Canada.2017 Interview for Documenta 14, Berlin, Germany. Radio.2015 Interview for Art the Science, Kingston, Canada. https://nellymatorina.com/The-Fragment Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:17:50 +0000 Nelly Matorina https://nellymatorina.com/The-Fragment <img width="1418" height="1981" width_o="1418" height_o="1981" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc4c84ddc18012cd74b94a8f70a3eea84d31700dc044fa5a6c9017fb14ecb5c2/InteraccessTO_EventPhoto_NellyMatorina.jpg" data-mid="245198330" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc4c84ddc18012cd74b94a8f70a3eea84d31700dc044fa5a6c9017fb14ecb5c2/InteraccessTO_EventPhoto_NellyMatorina.jpg" /> The Fragment: An Artist Lecture of Sleep, Dreaming and Memory Year: 2025Gallery: InterAccess Gallery Location: Toronto, Canada Image: Wikimedia The Fragment is an artist book exploring how our present experience decomposes into the fragments that make up our memories and permeate into our dreams. Although dreams are populated with memory, the references to memories in our dreams never seem to be an exact copy but rather a series of fragments. The dream insists on building an entirely new world every time. This artist talk will consider the unique architecture of the dream environment and the everchanging distance between sleep and wake. The session began with a network of shared dream patterns created from attendees' recent dreams followed by readings from the artist book. https://nellymatorina.com/Don-t-Forget-to-Call Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:36:20 +0000 Nelly Matorina https://nellymatorina.com/Don-t-Forget-to-Call <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e33aae155658a3e8b138107a5ab77966a57cef2395c27b73588543f70888c1b6/IMG_6561.jpg" data-mid="153989285" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e33aae155658a3e8b138107a5ab77966a57cef2395c27b73588543f70888c1b6/IMG_6561.jpg" /> Don’t Forget to Call Year: 2018Gallery: Union Gallery Location: Kingston, Canada Photographs: Chris Miner Don’t Forget to Call is a 7-channel video installation exploring mediated forms of communication. The installation is composed of seven ‘calls’ to my grandparents and other deceased ancestors, some of whom I’ve never met or spoken to. Throughout their lives, most of our communication was mediated through calling cards and, more recently, calling home phone numbers through Skype. This installation extends my familiarity with mediation into another realm: is a call to the afterlife that much further than a call over the internet? <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f43e558c4306f79c111f0ba3fd9b114e6842946eb03d98aaedf8cd61696c3fd1/IMG_6569.jpg" data-mid="153989334" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f43e558c4306f79c111f0ba3fd9b114e6842946eb03d98aaedf8cd61696c3fd1/IMG_6569.jpg" /><img width="1600" height="1143" width_o="1600" height_o="1143" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a90222aca1f18b808d3ea010f3699982ec9864688c870e7a72c58c80d090882/don-tforgettocall.jpg" data-mid="153989341" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a90222aca1f18b808d3ea010f3699982ec9864688c870e7a72c58c80d090882/don-tforgettocall.jpg" /> <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87c5138d07ae67c6b4e30fb9293e453fcfdc82e07be11ad19a0ea55e6da55d0d/IMG_6630.jpg" data-mid="153989330" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87c5138d07ae67c6b4e30fb9293e453fcfdc82e07be11ad19a0ea55e6da55d0d/IMG_6630.jpg" /><img width="2560" height="1436" width_o="2560" height_o="1436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dba63a5cd251952e1bb9ccaea2c1deeebce30abbc2c91cecacfef3e08b79d29b/Don-tForgetToCallScreenshot.png" data-mid="153989338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dba63a5cd251952e1bb9ccaea2c1deeebce30abbc2c91cecacfef3e08b79d29b/Don-tForgetToCallScreenshot.png" /> https://nellymatorina.com/an-extension-of-you Sun, 25 Sep 2022 03:14:49 +0000 Nelly Matorina https://nellymatorina.com/an-extension-of-you <img width="1860" height="1020" width_o="1860" height_o="1020" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad64b59f2ab95261d994498ab095fd74d0e62ae3bfb84a17039f1e037c082598/AnExtensionOfYou_Still.png" data-mid="154026904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad64b59f2ab95261d994498ab095fd74d0e62ae3bfb84a17039f1e037c082598/AnExtensionOfYou_Still.png" /> An Extension of You Year: 2018Co-created with Sherry/ Xiaoxuan Huang Screened: Reelout Queer Film and Video Festival An extension of you is a short film that looks at what it means to be separated from the one(s) you love by distance and a generation’s worth of years. Personal digital archives, in this case real e-mail correspondences between the film’s collaborators, get displaced and enscribed on tender and ghostly home footage. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56509afa7da5a3c4537f289f0adae8ddb6bbe1393f86f0bcc0137cfee6907c05/vlcsnap-2022-09-25-20h06m26s805.png" data-mid="154043632" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56509afa7da5a3c4537f289f0adae8ddb6bbe1393f86f0bcc0137cfee6907c05/vlcsnap-2022-09-25-20h06m26s805.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0662d237e0b5da2e4976bfe2d4db7ee21af586747fa60e5f1e6a82a6ff87e7dd/vlcsnap-2022-09-25-20h07m14s331.png" data-mid="154043635" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0662d237e0b5da2e4976bfe2d4db7ee21af586747fa60e5f1e6a82a6ff87e7dd/vlcsnap-2022-09-25-20h07m14s331.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41c52a1810a27ef54ff1b1b73b4d63c0984b9691f80606a90ddebe0baa0048e4/vlcsnap-2022-09-25-20h07m29s584.png" data-mid="154043636" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41c52a1810a27ef54ff1b1b73b4d63c0984b9691f80606a90ddebe0baa0048e4/vlcsnap-2022-09-25-20h07m29s584.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8cb592a602919449f28f5568b76313a374564846422f6c7caa0aaeb1959851d/vlcsnap-2022-09-25-20h09m11s291.png" data-mid="154043637" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8cb592a602919449f28f5568b76313a374564846422f6c7caa0aaeb1959851d/vlcsnap-2022-09-25-20h09m11s291.png" /> https://nellymatorina.com/Dream-Annotation Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:22:39 +0000 Nelly Matorina https://nellymatorina.com/Dream-Annotation <img width="2673" height="2673" width_o="2673" height_o="2673" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fd64cc18570ed82a8b038348bd8c643822dd8ab76296bacc4c54394573e9c2b/DreamAnnotation.jpg" data-mid="221295900" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fd64cc18570ed82a8b038348bd8c643822dd8ab76296bacc4c54394573e9c2b/DreamAnnotation.jpg" /> Dream Annotation Year: 2024Massey College Bibliography Room Portfolio Exchange Edition of 25 <img width="2673" height="2673" width_o="2673" height_o="2673" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fd64cc18570ed82a8b038348bd8c643822dd8ab76296bacc4c54394573e9c2b/DreamAnnotation.jpg" data-mid="221295900" border="0" data-rotation="-90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fd64cc18570ed82a8b038348bd8c643822dd8ab76296bacc4c54394573e9c2b/DreamAnnotation.jpg" /> A memory of a dream annotated&nbsp; using the Autobiographical Interview (Levine et al. (2002). What is a dream made of? What are its components? <img width="2673" height="2673" width_o="2673" height_o="2673" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fd64cc18570ed82a8b038348bd8c643822dd8ab76296bacc4c54394573e9c2b/DreamAnnotation.jpg" data-mid="221295900" border="0" data-rotation="-180" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fd64cc18570ed82a8b038348bd8c643822dd8ab76296bacc4c54394573e9c2b/DreamAnnotation.jpg" /> https://nellymatorina.com/after-sleep Sun, 25 Sep 2022 05:17:59 +0000 Nelly Matorina https://nellymatorina.com/after-sleep <img width="2736" height="1824" width_o="2736" height_o="1824" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1232240bc413785471a4a7989a0e92d7621d37e7cbe1674de2d839d0605af3a3/IMG_9776.JPG" data-mid="154032778" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1232240bc413785471a4a7989a0e92d7621d37e7cbe1674de2d839d0605af3a3/IMG_9776.JPG" /> after (sleep) Year: 2018 Gallery: Unit 115 GalleryLocation: Kingston, Canada after-sleep is a two-channel video installation shown at Unit 115 Gallery in Kingston, Canada. The work explored long-distance family relationships and feelings of cultural disconnect. For one of the videos, I was inspired by a work titled Hypnosis, Dream, Sleep by performance artist Linda Montano. <img width="1838" height="1158" width_o="1838" height_o="1158" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e70f75b5be4ae2d5ef1fa834057bd04b1df59acfb7fd7d0af726bb9a2de10ae/aftersleep_still1.png" data-mid="154032802" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e70f75b5be4ae2d5ef1fa834057bd04b1df59acfb7fd7d0af726bb9a2de10ae/aftersleep_still1.png" /><img width="1966" height="1108" width_o="1966" height_o="1108" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc8e553c9e2eb12d2b1ad6eecee217d60f8febe5cac65fda0f2a8257ae403652/aftersleep_still2.png" data-mid="154032809" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc8e553c9e2eb12d2b1ad6eecee217d60f8febe5cac65fda0f2a8257ae403652/aftersleep_still2.png" /> <img width="2736" height="1824" width_o="2736" height_o="1824" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3116bcd907f5f9950c664c5ee4b29fc12461cef8aeedfb5b3a5f4824e9fee870/IMG_9830.JPG" data-mid="154032817" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3116bcd907f5f9950c664c5ee4b29fc12461cef8aeedfb5b3a5f4824e9fee870/IMG_9830.JPG" /><img width="1384" height="756" width_o="1384" height_o="756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2af86617f703eae056c464641f456c1c9f704365fb407998914a244a7005498/10009764_716686845018983_1078669720_o.jpg" data-mid="154032774" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2af86617f703eae056c464641f456c1c9f704365fb407998914a244a7005498/10009764_716686845018983_1078669720_o.jpg" />