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Linda Duvall is a visual artist whose work exists at the intersection of collaboration, performance and conversation. Her hybrid practice grapples with recurring themes of connection to place, grief and loss, and the many meanings of exclusion and absence. She often sets up situations in which people who might not normally meet are invited to interact.

Anton Ginzburg is a New York-based artist who uses an array of historical and cultural references as starting points for his investigations into art's capacity to penetrate layers of the past and reflect on the contemporary experience. Born in 1974 in Leningrad, USSR, Ginzburg received a classical arts education before immigrating to the United States in 1990. He earned a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design in 1997 and MFA degree from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts.

How do we relate to things are unnamed or unnameable?  What happens at the perceptual limits of human thought, consciousness, and comprehension?  Throughout her practice, Miruna Dragan engages these questions, peeling back at the glimmering edges where language, object, and reason overlap with the unknown.  With an ongoing interest in metaphysics, Dragan’s site-response work reflects themes of dispersion, immanence, and transcendence.  Operating within and between various modes of studio research including drawing, lens-based media, site-specific intervention, and others, she interprets sur

Searching for the Post-contemporary: a report on the 2016 Berlin and Montreal Biennials

Janice Isabel Jackson has sung over 200 world premieres, many works written specifically for her, and performed with contemporary music ensembles and in concert halls around the world – Beijing, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Torino, Toronto, Montreal, New York, Berlin, Johannesburg, Cape Town and more.

Robert Del Tredici is a photographer and artist who has been teaching cinema history and the art of animated film at Concordia University in Montreal since the early 1970s. He has also been documenting the nuclear age since 1979. His first book, The People of Three Mile Island, covered America’s worst nuclear accident. His next book, At Work in the Fields of the Bomb, documented the US nuclear weapons complex. In 1987, he founded the Atomic Photographers Guild.

Mary Kavanagh is an artist and associate professor in the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge.  Since 2005, Kavanagh has researched and documented activities and ephemera at historic and active nuclear sites: her current project Atomic Tourist: Trinity explores nuclear anxiety in the post-Cold War era through interviews with atomic pilgrims at the testing site of the world’s first atomic bomb. Recent explorations in glass, breath and drawing have further addressed the permeable body, vulnerable to imperceptible contaminants and atmospheric fallout.

Maria Z Madacky’s art is rooted in literature and ancient philosophies. Her practice involves investigations into the liminal including unconventional structures of knowledge that mediate the rational and irrational modes of thinking such as mythology, folk tales and rituals; as well as the liminal spaces of the social. Her projects often employ blurring the boundaries between the art and audiences while addressing complex social issues. Maria’s exhibition “Trash Talk”, executed in collaboration with the performance art collective M.E.D.I.U.M.

I am from Okinawa, Japan. Growing up on the island, I often took its beauty and traditional arts and crafts for granted. After I immigrated to Canada in 1999, I began to rediscover my heritage and artistic ideas associated with it. This realization guided me toward furthering my education.

“In 2006, I finally decided to follow my passion to study art. I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in studio art from the University of Lethbridge in 2011.

In the new real, we are running with the robots. Industrial robots for seamlessly automated car manufacturing; medical robots for facilitating patient care in assisted living retirement communities; warrior robots engaged in materializing the imaginative game scenarios of cyber-warfare; toy robots that promise a happy first encounter between machines and the newest generation of humans; and, most of all, invisible robots circulating in the data clouds of social media as SocialBots.