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A PhD student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, Faten considers herself an activist artist who seeks to contribute to the appreciation of various cultures and acceptance of the others in her own community and around the world. She works with various mediums ranging from handicrafts to digital photography and video to create her sight specific installations.

Lindsay K. Muir is a Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies Ph.D. student within the Film and Media department at Queen’s University. She recently completed her M.A. in the same department with her thesis, Where the Willow Meets the Moon: Lessons in Settler Curation Through Indigenous Storytelling. Prior to graduate school, Lindsay earned a double major in Art History and English Literature with a minor in World Cinemas from McGill University. Her current research revolves around the representations of Celtic and Indigenous women in various media.

Naomi Okabe is a media artist, writer, and creative researcher working at the intersection of documentary and speculative fiction. She is currently pursuing a PhD in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program (Film and Media, Queen’s University), where she is thinking about space media and decolonial outer space imaginaries. Naomi’s films have premiered at festivals such as Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival and Kingston Canadian Film Festival, and her writing is soon to be published by Silver Press, Mattering Press, and KOSMICA Magazine. Naomi also co-runs , a record label and publisher.

Heather is a PhD student in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial studies program. Her research focuses on found footage horror films, including the cultural history of the genre and themes of surveillance within it. She is also interested in adaptation theory, screenlife horror films, and the interplay between reality and image.

Anne Runciman is a PhD student in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program at ³ÉÈË´óƬ. After finishing her BA in Political Studies, Anne went on to the Master’s program at Queen’s Film & Media where she studied drive-in movie theatres. As part of her Master’s thesis, she produced a podcast series, Let’s All Go to the Drive-In, which incorporated elements of archive media, sound effects and music to bring the listener into the world of the drive-in. Now in her PhD, Anne is studying museum exhibition design in dark tourism sites. She’s looking at how these grim tourist attractions use interior design, lighting, archive media, sound effects and music to shape the emotional experience of the visitor.

Emily Sanders is a first (ish) year PhD student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. Her research focuses primarily on Canadian film, and investigates the abject within the genre. Other research interests include rural cinemas in Canada; affect theory; aesthetics in film; horror and the monstrous; and film-philosophy. Her (current) favourite film is Morvern Callar by Lynne Ramsay.

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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Jessica Turner is a PhD student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. As a curator, her research broadly encompasses the intersection of art and climate. Climate communication, relational aesthetics, audience evaluation, and place-based research all inform her work. Jessica is currently a Research Assistant in the Art and Media Lab.

Ariel is a PhD student in SCCS. She received a BA in Anthropology/Archaeology from Brigham Young University, and a MA in English: Film Studies from National University. Research interests include intersectional feminism related to post-war trauma, Easternism, diaspora communities, and identity, in film, television, and video games.

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.

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. 

I'm only really curious about why we live: what kinds of faith subtends the mechanics of our day-to-day survival; the manner & the style through which we express our vitality. In the language of the University, I translate this curiosity into such terms as "experiential performance-based research": for my PhD I want to gather a collective of multimodal artists who are interested in spirituality and mystical experience to work at the limits of their practices, and to dissolve their limits into the mutation-structure of the group. Call it a cult but with no centre, no dogma, no direction.