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Tamara de Szegheo Lang

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media
Queen's University
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Tamara de Szegheo Lang is Project Manager of the Vulnerable Media Lab and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University. She holds a doctorate in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies from York University. Dr. de Szegheo Lang’s research takes up queer history, community-based archives, visual culture, and the affective relationships between LGBT2Q people and the past. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, the Journal of Lesbian Studies, and the Journal of Homosexuality. Dr. de Szegheo Lang is also active in curatorial and programming roles. She is a member of the programming committee for the Reelout Queer Film Festival in Kingston, a co-programmer of the Born in Frames Screening Series at Queen’s University, and past curatorial committee co-chair of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.

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Joyce Joumaa
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Joyce Joumaa

BFA Student, Film Studies
Concordia University
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Joyce Joumaa is a video artist based in Montreal. After growing up in Tripoli, Lebanon, she moved to Canada to pursue a BFA, Specialization in Film Studies, at Concordia University. She is interested in the intersection of art and politics as a means to translate images from the political climate surrounding the Mena region. Her works examine themes of exile, language, post-war memory, and post-colonial education. Joumaa is active as a programmer at Cinema Politica and as the exhibitions coordinator for Art Matters Festival. She is also currently an invited artist at the Galerie UQO. Her current research focus for a film project revolves around a maritime boarder conflict and the political intentions behind it.

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Lola Rémy

PhD Candidate, Film and Moving Image Studies
Concordia University
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Lola Rémy is a PhD candidate in Film and Moving Image Studies in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Montreal. She received her MA in History of Arts from Université Paris-Sorbonne. Her dissertation investigates and contextualizes the formation of a post-war universalist discourse as expressed in experimental film practices of assemblage. Examining the archives of artists as well as the institutions that funded them, she is attentive to archival silences. She attempts to retrieve the missing voices of the archives, and offers a decolonizing perspective on the appropriation of Indigenous objects and imagery, at the core of the universalist discourse. Her work has been published in NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, Frames Cinema Journal, and Synoptique, A Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies.

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Cydney Langill
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Cydney Langill

PhD Student, Cinema and Media Studies
York University
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Cydney Langill is a PhD student in York University’s Cinema and Media Studies program. She holds an MA in Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories from OCAD University, with a focus in post-cinematic media and shifting forms of embodiment in the digital age. She has worked in film production and post-production, as well as arts administration. Recent publications include an article in Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities in collaboration with Dr. Selmin Kara. Her PhD research involves an examination of post-pandemic media cultures generating activated archives and new portals for online engagement.

 

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Amber Berson
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Amber Berson

PhD Candidate, Art History
Queen's University
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Amber Berson is a writer, curator, and Ph.D. candidate conducting doctoral research at Queen’s University on artist-run culture and feminist, utopian thinking. She most recently curated Souper Spaghetti (2021, with Manon Tourigny), Utopia as Method (2018); World Cup! (2018); The Let Down Reflex (2016-2018, with Juliana Driever); TrailMix (2014, with Eliane Ellbogen); and *~._.:*JENNIFER X JENNIFER*:.~ (2013, with Eliane Ellbogen); The Annual Art Administrator’s Relay Race (2013, with Nicole Burisch); The Wild Bush Residency (2012–14); and was the 2016 curator-in-residence as part of the France-Quebec Cross-Residencies at Astérides in Marseille, France. She is a co-lead at Art+Feminism, a project that works for a more equitable Wikipedia and was the 2019-2020 Wikipedian in Residence at Concordia University.  She is also the programming coordinator at articule.

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Hannah Spaulding
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Hannah Spaulding

Assistant Professor
University of Lincoln, UK
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Hannah Spaulding’s research examines histories of media and technologies in the home, with a specific focus on issues of gender, discourse, and domesticity. Her dissertation analyzed fantasies and practices of interactive television from 1960 to 1990, tracing the relationships between technological change, family life, and visions of domestic futures. Her current research explores a history of surveillance technologies in the home. Working from an explicitly feminist and media historical perspective, she examines the imbrication of such devices (baby monitors, closed-circuit television, burglar alarms, etc.) with discourses of security, practices of care, and possibilities of pleasure that shape understandings and expectations of domestic everyday life.

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Jennifer Dysart
Artist in Residence

Jennifer Dysart

Filmmaker, A/CA Artist in Residence with Library and Archives of Canada
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Jennifer Dysart is a short film director, set decorator, and archival researcher. She was born in Alberta (Blackfoot territory), lives in Hamilton, Ontario (Haudenosaunee territory), and has Cree roots from South Indian Lake, Manitoba. She was a commissioned filmmaker for the Home Made Visible project by Regent Park Film Festival and created Caribou in the Archive (2018/19), a short experimental found footage film. Dysart envisions more inclusive archives of the future that are relevant and accessible to the public, include the personal stories of individuals and small cultural groups, and expand the national and provincial narratives of history. She has a special interest in recovering historical materials about the large-scale hydro developments that have irreparably affected Cree territory in the north. 

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Jennifer Dysart
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Jennifer Dysart

Independent Artist
Library and Archives Canada
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Jennifer Dysart is a short film director, set decorator, and archival researcher. She was born in Alberta (Blackfoot territory), lives in Hamilton, Ontario (Haudenosaunee territory), and has Cree roots from South Indian Lake, Manitoba. She was a commissioned filmmaker for the Home Made Visible project by Regent Park Film Festival and created Caribou in the Archive (2018/19), a short experimental found footage film. Dysart envisions more inclusive archives of the future that are relevant and accessible to the public, include the personal stories of individuals and small cultural groups, and expand the national and provincial narratives of history. She has a special interest in recovering historical materials about the large-scale hydro developments that have irreparably affected Cree territory in the north. 

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Nadine Valcin
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Nadine Valcin

Assistant Professor
Library and Archives Canada / Sheridan College
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Nadine Valcin is an award-winning filmmaker and media artist whose practice spans documentary, experimental and narrative film as well as installation and virtual reality. Her work explores questions of memory, identity and language. She holds a professional degree in architecture from McGill University and was an artist’s residence at Library and Archives Canada through Archive/Counter Archive. She is currently in production on a documentary about Black actor/model Johanne Harrelle with funding from The Canada Council for the Arts, Telefilm Canada, the Canada Media Fund and TFO which grew out of her work with Archive/ Counter Archive. Nadine is a professor in the Film and Television program at Sheridan College. 

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Pamila Matharu

Artist in Residence
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
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Pamila Matharu (1973-) is an immigrant-settler of Panjabi descent, born in Birmingham, England, based in Tkarón:to (Toronto). She primarily works in visual arts, arts education, and arts advocacy. A graduate of the Visual Arts and Fine Arts BEd programs from York University and a grant recipient of the Toronto, Ontario and Canada Art Councils; she has screened and exhibited her work locally, regionally, nationally. Recently she was awarded the 2019 Images Festival Homebrew Award and the Ontario Association of Art Galleries’ 2019 Exhibition of the Year, for her critically acclaimed first solo exhibit One of These Things Is Not Like The Other at A Space Gallery, Toronto (2019) and the 2020 CONTACT Festival’s Burtynsky Photobook Award for her upcoming monograph, INDEX (SOME OF ALL PARTS). Where Were You in ‘92? Is slated to debut at Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston, ON), Or Gallery (Vancouver, BC) in Spring of 2022.

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