Kay Burns is a multidisciplinary artist based in Fogo Island, Newfoundland, her practice engages in site-specific responses to locations through the reinterpretation of local mythologies, histories, and the eccentricities of people who inhabit those places. Burns is lead faculty for the Visual + Digital Arts thematic residency Truth Lies Lore.

Heather and Ivan Morison are an artist team based in Brighton, England, and Arthog, Wales. Integral to their art practice is an active engagement with materials, histories, sites, and processes. Their diverse projects comprise of flying kite-like structures, performances, plays, puppet theatre, installations, debris barricades, architecture, and site-specific projects including the establishment of an arboretum in Wales. More recently, they are known for architectural structures that...

Heather and Ivan Morison are an artist team based in Brighton, England, and Arthog, Wales. Integral to their art practice is an active engagement with materials, histories, sites, and processes. Their diverse projects comprise of flying kite-like structures, performances, plays, puppet theatre, installations, debris barricades, architecture, and site-specific projects including the establishment of an arboretum in Wales. More recently, they are known for architectural structures that...

Nina Power teaches Philosophy at the University of Roehampton and Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Arts. She has written widely on politics, philosophy, feminism and culture. She is the author of the book One-Dimensional Woman, and numerous articles. Power writes for several magazines including New Statesman; New Humanist; Cabinet; Radical Philosophy and The Philosophers. In addition, she is the reviews editor for The Philosophers and runs the film club Kino Fist....

Eva-Lynn Jagoe is Director of the Program in Comparative Literature and associate professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish and Portuguese, and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the recipient of a Jackman Humanities Research Fellowship (2011) for her book project entitled Too Much, in which she examines forms of containment and excess that define and delimit intimacy and identity in literature, film, and psychoanalysis. She is also working on a project about sound,...

Imre Szeman is Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies and Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Prior to coming to Alberta in 2009, he worked at McMaster University, where he was Senator William McMaster Chair in Globalization and Culture Studies (2004-2009) and Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition (2003-2005). Szeman is the recipient of the John Polanyi Prize in Literature (2000), the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award (2003),...

Quinn Latimer is guest faculty for the Banff International Curatorial Institute residency – Critical Art Writing Ensemble. Quinn Latimer is an American poet, critic, and editor based in Basel and Athens. She is the author of Rumored Animals (2012), which won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize, and Sarah Lucas: Describe This Distance (2013), which explores the work of Lucas as well as shame, palindromes, passivity, fertility statuary, Napoleon, Artaud, Beckett, and Sontag. A regular...

Andrew Berardini is a writer based in Los Angeles. He worked as a curator for the Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena) and LAXART (Los Angeles), and as editor at Semiotext(e) Press. He currently holds the position of editor for the European magazine Mousse and deputy editor for the online publication Artslant. Andrew’s articles and essays have been featured in: Frieze, Fillip, Artforum, X-TRA, Artnet, Paper Monument, Art Review, Rolling Stone, Public Fiction, Modern Painters, and he...

Kristy Trinier is a curator at the Art Gallery of Alberta. She previously held the post of Public Art Director at the Edmonton Arts Council, where she managed the City of Edmonton’s Public Art Collection, as well as related exhibitions and public art programs. Trinier’s wide range of experience includes cultural administration; policy and program development; art direction and consultation as well as strategic research and grant writing for cultural fund development. She holds a Bachelors...

Kristy Trinier is a curator at the Art Gallery of Alberta. She previously held the post of Public Art Director at the Edmonton Arts Council, where she managed the City of Edmonton’s Public Art Collection, as well as related exhibitions and public art programs. Trinier’s wide range of experience includes cultural administration; policy and program development; art direction and consultation as well as strategic research and grant writing for cultural fund development. She holds a Bachelors...

Lucy Orta is Chair of Art & the Environment at University of the Arts London, and a Paris based installation artist whose work bridges fashion, sculpture, and architecture, to include social and environmental issues such as water pollution, waste recycling, global warming and population control. Through the use of diverse media, Lucy investigates the boundaries between the body and architecture (both structural and societal) while exploring issues of mobility, identity and communication....

Lucy Orta is Chair of Art & the Environment at University of the Arts London, and a Paris based installation artist whose work bridges fashion, sculpture, and architecture, to include social and environmental issues such as water pollution, waste recycling, global warming and population control. Through the use of diverse media, Lucy investigates the boundaries between the body and architecture (both structural and societal) while exploring issues of mobility, identity and communication....

David Bickerstaff is an Australian artist and filmmaker who lives and works in London. With a degree in painting, Bickerstaff started Atomictv in 1997 to develop projects that use time based media on new digital platforms for artistic output. These projects include immersive video installations, documentaries, multimedia commissions, sound based projects, and online works, and are developed in collaboration with artists from various disciplines. His projects Altenberg: The Little Pocket...

David Bickerstaff is an Australian artist and filmmaker who lives and works in London. With a degree in painting, Bickerstaff started Atomictv in 1997 to develop projects that use time based media on new digital platforms for artistic output. These projects include immersive video installations, documentaries, multimedia commissions, sound based projects, and online works, and are developed in collaboration with artists from various disciplines. His projects Altenberg: The Little Pocket...

Nigel Prince presents a series of curatorial participatory projects developed with artists over the last ten years. Connecting to issues surrounding the politics of personal and public space through collaboration, practices that integrate into everyday life inside and outside of the gallery space will be discussed. Nigel Prince is a curator and writer. Since 2011, he has held the post of executive director at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Prior to this, he was responsible for an...

Nigel Prince presents a series of curatorial participatory projects developed with artists over the last ten years. Connecting to issues surrounding the politics of personal and public space through collaboration, practices that integrate into everyday life inside and outside of the gallery space will be discussed. Nigel Prince is a curator and writer. Since 2011, he has held the post of executive director at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Prior to this, he was responsible for an...

Wilfrid Almendra is a French/Portuguese artist who lives and works in Cholet, France. His work draws upon architectural influences found in the shapes and surfaces around us; bringing together diverse sources and materials to create sculptures that reference the practices of hobbyist, cite the designs of major architects of the Modern era, and question social class divisions, labour and alternative economies. Wilfrid Almendra is guest faculty of the Visual Arts residency program Are we...

Wilfrid Almendra is a French/Portuguese artist who lives and works in Cholet, France. His work draws upon architectural influences found in the shapes and surfaces around us; bringing together diverse sources and materials to create sculptures that reference the practices of hobbyist, cite the designs of major architects of the Modern era, and question social class divisions, labour and alternative economies. Wilfrid Almendra is guest faculty of the Visual Arts residency program Are we...

Arnold Joseph Kemp is an artist, writer, and curator. He is currently the chair of the Painting and Print Media Department at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. Kemp is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Artadia Fund for Art & Dialogue, the Art Matters Grant, and the Printed Matter Award for Artists. He is guest faculty of the Visual...

Arnold Joseph Kemp is an artist, writer, and curator. He is currently the chair of the Painting and Print Media Department at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. Kemp is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Artadia Fund for Art & Dialogue, the Art Matters Grant, and the Printed Matter Award for Artists. He is guest faculty of the Visual...

Erika Vogt lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work combines sculpture, video, drawing, sound, photography, and installation. She has been featured in major international exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, New York; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; SFMOMA, San Francisco; New Museum, New York, and Triangle France, Marseille. Vogt is guest faculty of the Visual Arts residency program Are we looking at dead birds?

Erika Vogt lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work combines sculpture, video, drawing, sound, photography, and installation. She has been featured in major international exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, New York; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; SFMOMA, San Francisco; New Museum, New York, and Triangle France, Marseille. Vogt is guest faculty of the Visual Arts residency program Are we looking at dead birds?

Joar Nango, son to Nils John Nango, is an artist and architect from the Sami village of Máze in northern Norway. His work includes site specific installations and research based projects exploring the boundary between architecture, design, and visual art while addressing nomadism and contradictions in contemporary architecture. Joar Nango is guest faculty for the Visual Arts residency program “In Kind” Negotiations.

Joar Nango, son to Nils John Nango, is an artist and architect from the Sami village of Máze in northern Norway. His work includes site specific installations and research based projects exploring the boundary between architecture, design, and visual art while addressing nomadism and contradictions in contemporary architecture. Joar Nango is guest faculty for the Visual Arts residency program “In Kind” Negotiations.

Céline Kopp is a curator and writer based in France. Since 2012, she has held the post of director of Triangle France; the country’s oldest artist run space and non-profit contemporary arts organization based in Marseilles. She curated the first European exhibition of Liz Magor, and has commissioned new works from Jean-Marie Appriou, Andrea Büttner, Laure Prouvost and Erika Vogt. Céline Kopp is lead faculty of the Visual Arts residency program "Are we looking at dead birds?"