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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鈥檚 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鈥揺ra 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 鈥淭echnologies of Colonialism and Solidarity鈥 at the IWM Vienna, and a film festival Where The Wind Scatters Seeds at Filmhaus K枚ln / Akademie der K眉nste 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 Borderlands, examines how China鈥檚 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 成人大片, 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 成人大片 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鈥檚 degree from Hong Kong Baptist University and a Master鈥檚 degree from the University of Hong Kong.
Ying Cui completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and Media at 成人大片 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.
Yujing Ma comes from a filmmaking, multidisciplinary art production, and artistic research background. Her practices and research focus on mass urbanization, fractured and precarious narrative, systemic hierarchy, as well as the entangled relationship between human and non-human existence. She views research as a process of investigation and thinking, which inspires her creative reflections. Most of all, she cares about the impact of social progress on individual identities, as well as the instability of geographical and psychological belonging. Yujing is an MA student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. She completed her BFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Yuting Shen is currently pursuing her master's degree in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program. She completed her BA at Queen鈥檚 majoring in Film and Media. Yuting's research revolves around the curation, sensory ethnography documentary, and the profound influence of nature (land, water, air, etc.) on artistic expression. She is also passionate about contemporary archives, film photography, interactive art, digital media, and Asian cinema. Through her interdisciplinary approach, Yuting aims to illuminate the dynamic interplay between curatorial practices, sensory experiences, and the elemental forces that shape and inspire artistic endeavours.