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?"

Raymond Boisjoly is an Indigenous artist of Haida and Québécois descent from Chilliwack, BC, currently based in Vancouver. Recent exhibitions include (And) Other Echoes, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Raymond Boisjoly, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, and As It Comes, Contemporary Art Gallery. Boisjoly has participated in numerous group exhibitions and projects including Pleinairism, Walter Phillips Gallery; Tools for Conviviality, The Power Plant; Phantasmagoria, Presentation House Gallery; and...

Raymond Boisjoly is an Indigenous artist of Haida and Québécois descent from Chilliwack, BC, currently based in Vancouver. Recent exhibitions include (And) Other Echoes, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Raymond Boisjoly, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, and As It Comes, Contemporary Art Gallery. Boisjoly has participated in numerous group exhibitions and projects including Pleinairism, Walter Phillips Gallery; Tools for Conviviality, The Power Plant; Phantasmagoria, Presentation House Gallery; and...

Dan Fox is co-editor at Frieze magazine and is based in New York City. Fox’s writing has appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues and in publications as diverse as Bulletins of The Serving Library, Dot Dot Dot, Frozen Tears, and GQ Magazine. He is a visiting lecturer at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, a musician, and co-director of the music label Junior Aspirin Records. Dan Fox is guest faculty for the Visual Arts residency program Confuse the Cat.

Mark Clintberg is an artist, writer, and curator. He is currently a PhD student in the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Art History at Concordia University, Montreal. He earned his MA from Concordia University and BFA from the Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary completing a portion of his studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax. His practice explores how private needs and engagements deserve demonstration in public space, and how public space might invade...

Mark Clintberg is an artist, writer, and curator. He is currently a PhD student in the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Art History at Concordia University, Montreal. He earned his MA from Concordia University and BFA from the Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary completing a portion of his studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax. His practice explores how private needs and engagements deserve demonstration in public space, and how public space might invade...

Shary Boyle is well-known for her bold and fantastical explorations of the figure. Fuelled by concerns about class and gender injustice, Boyle approaches her work with an expressive candor and compassion; exploring a range of psychological and emotional states through sculpture, drawing, painting, installation and performance. Employing a high-level of handmade craft and detail, her multidisciplinary practice – at once spirited, oneiric and poetic - mines the history of porcelain figurines,...

Shary Boyle is well-known for her bold and fantastical explorations of the figure. Fuelled by concerns about class and gender injustice, Boyle approaches her work with an expressive candor and compassion; exploring a range of psychological and emotional states through sculpture, drawing, painting, installation and performance. Employing a high-level of handmade craft and detail, her multidisciplinary practice – at once spirited, oneiric and poetic - mines the history of porcelain figurines,...

Shary Boyle is well-known for her bold and fantastical explorations of the figure. Fuelled by concerns about class and gender injustice, Boyle approaches her work with an expressive candor and compassion; exploring a range of psychological and emotional states through sculpture, drawing, painting, installation and performance. Employing a high-level of handmade craft and detail, her multidisciplinary practice – at once spirited, oneiric and poetic - mines the history of porcelain figurines,...

Stephanie LeMenager situates herself in the overlapping fields of American Studies and environmental criticism. Her books include an essay collection Century Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First (2012, co-edited with Teresa Shewry and Ken Hiltner),Manifest and Other Destinies (2005), and her newly released Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the AmericanCentury (2014). In her words, “Living Oil reaches outside the United States, to Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Azerbaijan, but its North...

Stephanie LeMenager situates herself in the overlapping fields of American Studies and environmental criticism. Her books include an essay collection Century Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First (2012, co-edited with Teresa Shewry and Ken Hiltner),Manifest and Other Destinies (2005), and her newly released Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the AmericanCentury (2014). In her words, “Living Oil reaches outside the United States, to Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Azerbaijan, but its North...

Sarah Brouillette is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. She has an abiding interest in the economic and political circumstances that underpin and influence the production, circulation and reception of contemporary literature and culture. She recently wrote an article for nonsite.org, “Academic Labour, the Aesthetics of Management, and the Promise of Autonomous Work,” and has two monographs Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace (2007)...

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is currently a visiting professor at Leuphana University (Germany) and is completing a monograph entitled Imagined Networks. Speaking as part of the "Distributed Intimacies" Banff Research in Culture (BRiC) residency program.

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is currently a visiting professor at Leuphana University (Germany) and is completing a monograph entitled Imagined Networks. Speaking as part of the "Distributed Intimacies" Banff Research in Culture (BRiC) residency program.

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is currently a visiting professor at Leuphana University (Germany) and is completing a monograph entitled Imagined Networks. Speaking as part of the "Distributed Intimacies" Banff Research in Culture (BRiC) residency program.

Eva-Lynn Jagoe is Director of 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. Jagoe was a faculty member of the BRiC Residency "Distributed...

Eva-Lynn Jagoe is Director of 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. Jagoe was a faculty member of the BRiC Residency "Distributed...

Mia Feuer is a Canadian-born sculptural artist based in Washington D.C. Her work is characterized by an innovative approach to materials resulting in structures that appear rigid, chaotic, physically imposing, and gravity defying. Feuer teaches sculpture at George Mason University. Feuer was a guest faculty member of the Artist Residency "Re: Making."

Mia Feuer is a Canadian-born sculptural artist based in Washington D.C. Her work is characterized by an innovative approach to materials resulting in structures that appear rigid, chaotic, physically imposing, and gravity defying. Feuer teaches sculpture at George Mason University. Feuer was a guest faculty member of the Artist Residency "Re: Making."

Heather and Ivan Morison are an artist team based in Brighton, England, and Arthog, Wales. Their diverse projects comprise of flying kite-like structures, performances, plays, puppet theatre, installations, debris barricades, and architecture. Their work has been exhibited widely including at the Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The Barbican, The Vancouver Art Gallery, and the 52nd Venice Biennale, where they represented Wales. Morison was a guest artist faculty of the Artist Residency "Re: Making."

Heather and Ivan Morison are an artist team based in Brighton, England, and Arthog, Wales. Their diverse projects comprise of flying kite-like structures, performances, plays, puppet theatre, installations, debris barricades, and architecture. Their work has been exhibited widely including at the Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The Barbican, The Vancouver Art Gallery, and the 52nd Venice Biennale, where they represented Wales. Morison was a guest artist faculty of the Artist Residency "Re: Making."

Peter von Tiesenhausen is an internationally acclaimed multi-disciplinary Canadian artist whose work reveals an intense connection to place, the environment, and sustainability. Employing a wide array of materials and processes, his practice spans sculpture; painting; video; community engagement activities; installation; and large scale public art. Tiesenhausen was the lead faculty member of the Artist Residency "Re: Making."

Peter von Tiesenhausen is an internationally acclaimed multi-disciplinary Canadian artist whose work reveals an intense connection to place, the environment, and sustainability. Employing a wide array of materials and processes, his practice spans sculpture; painting; video; community engagement activities; installation; and large scale public art. Tiesenhausen was the lead faculty member of the Artist Residency "Re: Making."

Cristóbal Martínez is a digital media music composer, and media arts and sciences PhD candidate wih the Arts Media and Engineering program, at Arizona State University. As a member of the artist’s collective Postcommodity Cristóbal Martínez was one of four faculty members for the Indigenous Artist Residency "Global Positioning System or Hacking the Coordinates to Enable Shapeshifting and Shadow Networks"

Kade L. Twist is a multidisciplinary artist working with video, installation, sound and text. Twist's work combines re-imagined tribal stories with geopolitical narratives. Both are part of the indigenous artist collective Postcommodity. Twist was one of four faculty members for the Indigenous Artist Residency "Global Positioning System or Hacking the Coordinates to Enable Shapeshifting and Shadow Networks"