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Sam Sunwoo is a producer and interdisciplinary artist with over six years of experience in South Korea’s animation industry. She has produced award-winning, internationally recognized animated series. Her current interest lies in working across various media such as VR, motion graphics, and exhibitions, with a focus on interactive storytelling.

Sana Kazemirashid (she/her) is a PhD student in the Screen Culture and Curatorial Studies program. With a BSc in Computer Engineering and an MA in Animation, she is a filmmaker and animator whose doctoral research explores women’s emotions, narratives, and struggles through immersive and innovative storytelling. 

Sarah is a PhD student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. Her SSHRC-funded dissertation takes up the figure of the serial killer as a discursive construction key to establishing and securing interconnected categories of criminality, deviance, and identity in the popular imagination throughout the 20th century. Her other research interests include monstrosity, true crime, and horror media. 

After completing my PhD in Communications at McGill University, I went to Scotland to undertake a post-doctoral fellowship on minor national cinemas at the University of Glasgow. Before coming to Queen’s, I taught at universities in the UK and Canada. At Queen’s, I have taught courses on Classical Hollywood cinemas; Arctic transnational cinemas; transnational European cinemas; film manifestos; film and media theory; Culture and Technology; and popular music and cultural studies, among others.

Shashank Satish is an Experimental Media Artist-Curator who works at the intersection of art, science, technology and academia. Satish holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture, a Master’s in Experimental Media Art, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Indian Aesthetics. He is the Principal Investigator of the Experiential Cognition Laboratory (XPC Lab, est. 2017), an independent initiative at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and art. The lab develops art–science projects and hosts Anubhava, a podcast exploring the role of experience in understanding consciousness through cross-disciplinary dialogue.

He has taught Art and Architecture at the undergraduate level and published research at their intersection. As founder of Holy Cow! Studio (Bangalore), he produces graphic design, art, and curatorial projects, with exhibitions of his new media art and curation showcased both in India and internationally.

Shashank's research at the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program focuses on the digitization of cultural heritage and experimental museology through critical curatorial frameworks. 

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Skyler James is an MA student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies and holds a BAH in Media and Performance Production from ���˴�Ƭ. As a multimedia artist, their work and research revolves around utilizing methods of digital transhumanism and postgenderism within performance and installation art to expand, obscure, and escape the gender binary. They are also a professional theatrical designer and technical director, specializing in projection, lighting, and sound.

Sojung Bahng (방소정) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and researcher. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media, with a cross-appointment to the DAN School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University in Canada. Her work explores cinematic media through digital technologies, reflecting on aesthetic and narrative experiences within cultural and philosophical contexts. Sojung holds a PhD from SensiLab in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University in Australia. Her doctoral thesis, Cinematic VR as a Reflexive Tool Beyond Empathy, received the 2020 Mollie Holman Medal for the best thesis of the year. She also served as a postdoctoral fellow and contract instructor in the Media Production and Design program at Carleton University in Canada. She earned her master’s degree in Culture Technology from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and a BFA in TV & Film Production and Art Theory from Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts, 한국예술종합학교).

Sojung’s works have been showcased and recognized at numerous prestigious festivals and symposiums worldwide. Her animated VR films have received international recognition, with Wired winning Second Prize in the VR Section at Digital Arts Zurich and Anonymous being exhibited at BIAF (Bucheon), TSFM (Torino), TIAF (Tbilisi), and ANIMAZE (Montreal). Her interactive VR project Sleeping Eyes received the Award of Excellence in Experience Design at the Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories. The 360° autobiographical documentary Floating Walk was nominated for the Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA) in Los Angeles, and her dance film Poetry of Separation was selected for NDC in New York. Her experiments in expanded cinema, performance, and digital storytelling have been presented at international venues and conferences including the McCord Stewart Museum (Montreal), Heide Museum (Melbourne), Arts and Technology (Istanbul), ICLC (Barcelona), ICMC (New York), and ISEA (Dubai and Brisbane). She also curated and directed Somplexity, a multidisciplinary art project funded by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.

She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles as first author in internationally recognized conferences and journals such as SIGCHI, ISEA, ArtsIT, HCII, TEI, ICIDS, Frontiers, and ACM Interactions. She is currently running research practice, a collaborative framework exploring intersections between research and practice, and leading an SSHRC-funded research project titled Meta-Metaverse: Digital Art-Based Research on Reflective Approaches to the Metaverse.

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Steve Bates is an artist and musician. Through his work he listens to thresholds, boundaries and borders, points of contact and conflict. The history of ideas, experiences, and materials are an influence on his work and often lead to a research-heavy path resulting in a suite of works around a theme. Recent topics have included the history of barbed wire as colonizing device, the night as a space of freedom and libidinal desire, feedback as it occurs in sound and video art, politics, economics, and biology, historical and contemporary instances of pathological and non-pathological auditory hallucination and most recently, a speculative project around the sound of Hell. His work has been exhibited and performed in Canada, the United States of America, Europe, Chile and Senegal. He works in the field, on the air, in museological/gallery and performance contexts. These shifting territories reflect the content of his practice. 

Areas of research interest include contemporary art and aesthetic theory, research-creation, experimental media, installation, social practice and performance art, curatorial practice/studies, institutional critique and visual and popular cultures. Supervisory fields are curatorial practice/studies and contemporary art.

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Cinema and media arts areas include gendered spaces and the city, women’s and Canadian cinemas,  and Cuban cinema and visual culture; decolonial practice; media archives and their remediation, social ecology of vulnerable media, collectives and collections; curatorial projects; media arts artists’ groups and artist-run centres.

Tamara de Szegheo Lang (she/her) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media. Her research takes up queer history, community-based archives, visual culture, and the affective relationships between LGBT2Q+ people and the past.

The research projects Tamara is currently involved with include: Bodies on Fire: Rekindling the Lesbian Decade in Canadian Film,1990-1999; The Witch Institute: Harnessing the Cultural Power of the Witch for Decolonial, Feminist Futures; and Under the Shadow of Empire: Minor Archives and Radical Media Distribution in the Americas.

Tamara is interested in supervising in the following areas: historical and contemporary film and media; marginalized and activist (feminist, racialized, Indigenous, queer and trans) screen cultures; archive studies, preservation, and archival films; affect theory; and curatorial studies.

Thea Fitz-James is a theatre academic and practitioner. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from York University and is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Queen’s University, teaching theatre theory, theatre administration, fringe theatre, performance art, and performance studies. Her current creative and academic work looks at Fringe Theatre, concepts of play in creative research, and the materiality of the body in performance. She’s developed two solo shows deconstructing contemporary feminist stereotypes, which have toured the Fringe circuit internationally. She is a white, queer, ‘Mad’, cis-gendered settler.

Tyler Adair was an MA student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. He previously completed an MA in Comparative Literature at Brock University where he also received his undergraduate degree in Art History and Film Studies. He is interested in film theory, modern art (especially painting), Marxism, and curatorial studies, and is currently researching the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet.

Vince Ha is a PhD candidate in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies at Queen’s University. His research centers on two core themes: diasporic identities and queer archival methods. Currently, he is investigating transnational media and its impact on queer diasporic sociality, with special attention to homoerotic representation in Asian cinema

Vincent E. writes, curates, teaches, moderates, organises, dreams, and plots. They live as an uninvited settler in Katarokwi (Kingston), on land stolen from the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat peoples.Their doctoral research develops decolonial approaches to Soviet Cold War–era media, centering Indigenous land-based struggles. Their writing has appeared in The Funambulist Magazine, Journal of Visual Culture, Parse Journal, Kajet Journal, and other publications, with forthcoming contributions in volumes from Edinburgh University Press and Bloomsbury Press. They have presented their work at nGBK Berlin, transmediale art and digital culture festival (Berlin), Goldsmiths University of London, the University of Amsterdam, and La Biennale di Architettura, Venice.

In their curatorial work, they seek to build connections across places and contexts through working groups, conferences, film screenings, and radio broadcasts.  Recently they co-curated a conference “Technologies of Colonialism and Solidarity” at the IWM Vienna, and a film festival Where The Wind Scatters Seeds at Filmhaus Köln / Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne.

In their free time they like drawing and going for long walks.

Her research interests center on the politics of visuality (including cinema, television, video, and other new media/art forms), critical media infrastructure, and environmental media. She examines media’s textual, material, and socio-political dynamics mainly through China's situated experience but gradually expands to explore the trans-regional linkages across Asia. Her current book project, Frontier Vision: The Geopolitics of Seeing China’s Borderlands, examines how China’s geopolitical aspirations have been hyper-mediated and entangled with the logic of frontier-making between the mid-twentieth century and the present. This book offers a transhistorical view of the visual regimes that recalibrate natural environments and their political promises through geological extraction, televisual mediation of hydropower, and maritime signal sovereignty. Her book project was also supported by the (2024-2025) from the American Council of Learned Societies.

William Jennings is a PhD student in the Film and Media department. He holds an MA in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies from ���˴�Ƭ, and a BA in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Victoria. Interests include slow cinema, continental philosophy, memory, materiality, and new media. Not to be confused with the 41st US Secretary of State.

After graduating from ���˴�Ƭ with an Undergraduate degree in Film and Media, Xiao Lin has transitioned into the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies MA program. Her research interests include feminist, queer theory, and narrative production.

Xunan Wang is an independent filmmaker specialising in documentary and cinematic virtual reality. He explores the shifting boundaries between fiction and reality, challenging conventional narratives while engaging with the limits of the screen. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Hong Kong Baptist University and a Master’s degree from the University of Hong Kong.

Ying Cui completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and Media at ���˴�Ƭ and is now pursuing an MA in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program. Her research interests focus on contemporary East Asian queer studies and diaspora media. With an interest in cultural studies, Ying explores social power structures and gender equality at a deeper level by analyzing the portrayal of film characters.