Taien Ng-Chan is a writer, media artist, and assistant professor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University. She holds a doctorate from Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC). In addition to her scholarly work in such publications as Intermediality and Humanities, she has published four books and anthologies of creative writing, produced […]
Mary Bunch is an Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University and Canada Research Chair in Critical Media Arts Ecologies. Her research develops socio-political concepts of transitional worldmaking through critical theory and media arts creation, informed by decolonizing, critical disability and queer frameworks. Her four-year SSHRC-funded projected Pluriveral Worlding with Extended Reality […]
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Ken Rogers is Associate Director of the MBA Program in Arts Media and Entertainment. He is the author of The Attention Complex (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) and has published on the social and cultural impact of art, media art, and emerging media technology. His current research focuses on the fields of cultural policy, media policy, and […]
Gillian Helfield began teaching at York University in 1997 after completing her Ph.D. in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. Her dissertation focused on Quebec Cinema of the Quiet Revolution, which remains an important subject in her teaching, research and writing. Helfield also teaches courses in Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, National Cinemas, […]
Professor Zryd's research interests include Experimental cinema and media, including video art and installation Experimental film & media artists (e.g., Hollis Frampton, Craig Baldwin, Luke Fowler, Su Freidrich, Philip Hoffman, Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas, Midi Onodera, Ruth Ozeki, Michael Snow, Stan VanDerBeek, Joyce Wieland, among others) History of cinema and media studies as a discipline […]
John McCullough’s primary area of research is popular North American film and television. His teaching focusses on representations of social, power, and spatial relations and critical analysis of media institutions and enterprises including studies of media labour. He has published a monograph on the tv series 24 and co-edited Locating Migrating Media. He has published […]
Janine Marchessault is a professor in Cinema and Media Arts and holds a York Research Chair in Media Art and Social Engagement. Her research has engaged with four areas: the history of large screen media (from multiscreen to Imax to media as architecture and VR); diverse models of public art, festivals, and site specific curation; […]
Professor Longfellow has published articles on documentaries, Indigenous cinemas, feminist film theory, eco cinema and Canadian cinema in Public, Camera Obscura, Indigenous Media Arts in Canada, Screen, and the Journal of Canadian Film Studies. She is a co-editor (with Scott MacKenzie and Tom Waugh) of the anthology The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John […]
Professor Ali Kazimi (pronounced Ka-Zim-E) is filmmaker, writer, and visual artist whose work deals with race, social justice, migration, history, memory and archive. In 2019 he received the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts, as well as a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa from the University of British Columbia. In 2023 he was […]