France Trépanier is a visual artist and curator of Kanien’kéha:ka and French ancestry. Her artistic and curatorial work has been presented in various venues in Canada, the US and Europe. France is currently co-director of the Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires initiative. [...]
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The IM4 Lab The IM4 Lab was created by Indigenous filmmaker, Loretta Todd, alongside media matriarchs Doreen Manuel, Cease Wyss, and Tracey Kim Bonneau. In collaboration with Emily Carr University of Art + Design, IM4 offers workshops and training for [...]
Tracey El Hajj is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the “algorhythmics” of networked communications. She was a 2019-20 President’s Fellow [...]
Julie M. Funk is a PhD student in English and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought at the University of Victoria. She is also a member of the Praxis Studio at UVic. Julie’s research is situated in the field of science [...]
Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and is a PhD candidate [...]
Nasma Ahmed is a technologist based in the city we now know as Toronto. Nasma is currently the Director of the Digital Justice Lab, an initiative focused on building towards a more just and equitable digital future. In 2017 she [...]
Devon Berquist (b. 1990) is a visual artist from Canada’s north, the Yukon Territory. She uses digital and analogue photography to explore the intersections of environmentalism, geography, identity and culture with particular regards to circumpolar regions of the world. Her [...]
Carmen Papalia uses organizing strategies and improvisation to address his access to public space, the art institution and visual culture. His work, which takes forms ranging from collaborative performance to public intervention, is a response to the barriers and biases [...]
Tamar Tembeck, Ph.D., is a Montreal-based art historian whose research engages with visual cultures of illness and medicine, hospital art practices, critical disability studies as well as performance and media studies. She has a professional background in the performing arts [...]
Professor of Law at Laval University from 2001 to 2017, his research focused on the relationship between art and copyright, the socio-economic status of artists, digital technologies and legal methodology. Since 2017, Georges Azzaria has been the director of the [...]
Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte is a visual and media artist, independent curator, author, and independent researcher based in Vancouver. She is currently completing a PhD in Communication at Simon Fraser University, studying the impact of cultural policies on BC artist-run centers. In [...]
Sally Lee has worked with arts organizations representing a wide range of disciplines since the late 80s, including artists rights organization CARFAC Ontario, where she served as Executive Director from 2015-18. She has held management and leadership positions at TIFF, [...]
As Distribution Director, Wanda vanderStoop provides continuing support to Vtape’s artists, promoting over 5000 independent productions to worldwide markets including museums, national and international festivals, broadcasters, educational institutions and mobile platforms. A graduate of Ryerson University’s Image Arts New Media [...]
kimura byol-nathalie lemoine (키무라 별 – 나타리 르뫈 – 木村 ビヨル – ナタリー レムワンー) is a conceptual multimedia feminist artist who works on identities (diaspora, ethnicity, colorism, post-colonialism, immigration, gender), and expresses it with calligraphy, paintings, digital images, poems, videos [...]
Cáa-Poré, Cafuzo film-maker and photographer. M.A. of Social Dimensions of Health. Mixed-media storyteller examining the interconnectivity between identity, land and wellbeing and co-founder of UATÊ STORIED LEARNING -----
Simone Blais is a dancer, writer, director and aspiring midwife. She is a recent UVic Gender Studies graduate whose work focuses on decolonizing the dance community and reproductive justice for marginalized communities. In the past 5 years, she has worked [...]