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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.

Internationally renowned performance and installation artist James Luna (Puyukitchum/Luiseno) resides on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in North County San Diego, California. With over 30 years of exhibition and performance experience Luna has given voice to Native American cultural issues, pursued innovative and versatile media within his disciplines, and charted waters for other artists to follow.

Echo + Seashell was founded in 2011 by artists Henna Hyvärinen (Finland) and Susan Kooi (Netherlands) when they met at an art-student residency in Germany. Performing in venues ranging from concert halls to art spaces, the duo is interested in how they can fit into the existing locales they come to occupy through their creative practice. Utilizing film screening paired with live performance, echo + seashell seek to create site-specific experiences for viewers around the world and have performed at various locations across Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.

Hyang Cho was born and grew up in Seoul, Korea, and studied history at Sogang University in Seoul. After moving to Canada in 2002, she enrolled in the Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary. She also completed a Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Guelph. Recent exhibitions include Counterpoint, Modern Fuel in Kingston, Ephemeral Frontiers, Design at Riverside in Cambridge, Nothing Much, Georgia Scherman Projects in Toronto, and In the Making, Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary.Cho currently lives and works in Guelph, Ontario.

Chris Fritton is the former Studio Director of the Western New York Book Arts Center. A poet, printer, and fine artist, Fritton has over a decade of experience writing, printing, and making his own books, in addition to collaborative efforts with other authors and artists. Recently (2014) he was selected as a panelist to judge the New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship in Drawing, Printmaking, and Book Arts. He co-founded the highly-acclaimed Buffalo Small Press Book Fair with Kevin Thurston in 2007, and has been organizing the fair solo since 2009 (the Fair is now in its 10th year).

The room-filling installations are like fantasy cities that you can wander around in.

Van Dam herself is a traveller, constantly on a journey of exploration.

She happens on here building materials by chance:

tubes and drainage pipes, building plastic and sheets of rubber, wool and balloons.

These found objects then form the palette of new temporary installations and works

she constructs in unusual spots: in a museum, on the roof of a building or on a street corner.

Ed Pien has shown work at the Drawing Centre; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Canadian Culture Centre, Paris; The Goethe Institute, Berlin; AGO, Toronto; Musée des beaux arts and Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal; Songzhuang Art Centre, Beijing; and the National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Oboro, Montreal. He has participated in the 2000 and 2002 Montreal Biennales; the 18th Edition of the Sydney Biennale, "Oh Canada", at MASS MoCA. Pien also presented work at the 5th Edition of the Moscow Biennale, in 2013, and at the Beijing Biennale, in 2015.

Between Savage and Civilized: Negotiating a space for indigenous art in the 21st Century.

A discussion on the progression of Lisa Lipton's multi-disciplinary artist practice in association with her most recent project and experimental feature film - THE IMPOSSIBLE BLUE ROSE. From the perspective of a visual artist, drummer and director, Lisa will review the process of documenting a traveling story and international collaboration, creating through a fearless exploration within unknown territories and landscapes of people.