Ashley
Culver

Ashley Culver (b. 1986) is an artist and writer based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Culver holds an MFA from York University (2015), and a BFA from the University of Victoria (2011). Attention with care runs through her practice. Her work is in conversation with domestic space and desire for connection.

One Hundred Footnotes is a working document which can be viewed via the google doc. In this written piece I am collecting thoughts, anecdotes, quotes, and images related to my project One Hundred Aloe Plants (2022). As the title says it takes the format entirely of footnotes and will be complete once I reach one hundred. The work is a contemplative collection of notes on artistic process, the relation between domestic and nature, and how we are connected.

CAM
Collective

CAM Collective is made up of three multidisciplinary artists, Carisa Putri Antariksa, Amreen Ashraf and Maria Denise Yala. Their work focuses on worldbuilding, speculative storytelling and researching the various ways in which life and digital technologies are entwined. CAM’s works primarily use new media technologies and digital materials to construct immersive storytelling experiences.

Piece-ful Mind (2022) is a storytelling exploration of isolation, the ways in which we seek community, and our tangled existence with technology. Inspired by nostalgia, the use of early web 2.0 and 90’s aesthetics acts as a juxtaposition to our relationship with predictive algorithmic, content-driven information that continuously saturates our lives. Through the different artifacts, we follow a teenage character and her interactions with different worlds; the physical world (her bedroom), the digital world (screens), and her internal world, in the form of a visualized internet "rabbit hole".

Emma
Ongman

Emma Ongman is a multidisciplinary artist and musician who makes work by collaborating with her computer. Through manipulating images, video, and sound, Ongman is interested in exploring the evolution of technology and its influence on the human experience. She embraces tech-accidents, the intersection between science and art, and the ongoing relationship between humans and their inventions.

iHave a pulse is an audio/visual experience inspired by the life-after-death electromagnetic radiation emitted by pulsar stars. Beginning in micro scale and evolving into macro view before moving again into micro, this video is a metaphor for the regeneration of life and the effect all actions have on the future of the universe that surrounds them. The hypnotic looping drones and revolving visuals are specifically inspired by the past and future of humans and their intimate relationship with technology.

Hee Jun
Ahn

Hee Jun Ahn is a Korean Canadian artist based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, known as Vancouver. Oscillating between a material and digital practice, her work shapes the digital landscape through 3d rendered visuals. Her work is informed by the mesh of diasporic experience and screen-based interface culture.

During the residency I approached the webspace as a virtual ground to practice forgotten rituals with computerized objects. I worked with the theme of Eesangahjok of North & South Korea, defined as separated family who are unable to get together. The interface holds portals to pieces of a ritual inspired by Korean Shamanism for its animistic practices and communication with physically distant ones. The practice of rendering such spaces seeks to map out displacement that cyberspace and diaspora spaces both have in common.

Katherine
Diemert

Katherine Rae Diemert is a visual artist based out of Hamilton, Canada. She makes visual and interactive mixed media work inspired by natural forms and artificial processes. Katherine often begins with drawing or collage, developing work through a process of translation and iteration between mediums. She layers software, motion, assemblage, and installation to transform images and materials.

Is a rock alive? What story would it tell if it was? A Rolling Stone Gathering Moss began by stumbling across a rock in the path. Taking on the rock as a subject, I attempted to document it in an ongoing series of transformations from photogrammetry to augmented reality to drawing to 3D simulations and onwards… only to ultimately fail in finding a conclusion. A Rolling Stone Gathering Moss is a breadcrumb trail of artifacts from the appreciation of a stone.

Maite
Merida

Maite Mérida is a journalist born in Chile dedicated to experimental photographic / audiovisual processes and archive use in a self-taught way; interested in displacements of photographic images, women's movements, territorial struggles, personal and political memories. Received a scholarship to study Microcuratorships and was a resident of War Mi Photo, Bolivia; Photo Trouvée Magazine and participated in two editorial labs. Self-published her first photochemical book and was a photojournalism fellow of Situated Journalism, Argentina in 2021.

The need to question memories led me to process family and inherited archives processed through material gestures. Memories as temporary spaces where direct, mediated, contextual experiences converge. Ripping through what’s out of focus, what goes under the rug of family and countries narratives. Along the way I worked on a curatorial proposal oriented to gather experiences of self taught, artists and photographers, women and disidencies, whose work is aligned to displace photographic images beyond the default high-definition optics of the camera. This work is intended to become a magazine next year and at the same time, a space in which these artists can get together in networking.

Paula
McLean

Born in Sarnia, Ontario, Paula McLean received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Studio Art from Concordia University in 2017 and a Master of Fine Art at the University of Waterloo in 2019. She has exhibited at several regional galleries including Patel Brown, Hearth, and the plumb in Toronto; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in Kitchener, Art Mûr and Centre des Arts Actuels Skol, Montreal and the Quarters Gallery in Los Angeles.

The work made for the residency revolves around my old studio floor and a screenshot from a family home video. My old studio floor harbored many “indices”, bearing the traces of physical actions (tears, spills, scuffs), some of which were the results of my own creative processes and others, which had been there probably long before my arrival, were remnants whose origin I could only speculate. The work here functions as a sort of mind map that references both sources of inspiration for the project.

Sof
Kreidstein

Sof Kreidstein is an interdisciplinary artist, workshop facilitator, and curator living in Kjipuktuk in Mi’kma’ki (so-called Halifax, Nova Scotia). They are Jewish, neurodivergent, Mad, non-binary, and a white settler, exploring these intersections in their work. Throughout their studio practice, they experiment with material, media, performance, language, and community based arts. With a poetic and responsive approach, they intertwine micro/macrocosms of matter and affect; inspired by patterns in nature within and around them. In all that they do, Sof aims to cultivate spaces of curiosity and connection.

sort of stones is devoted to revealing relationships between stones and our interconnections as uniquely intricate entities. This web based project centres stones collected by campers and staff on the paths of a summer camp, each imbued with the affirmation and care held in this spontaneous gathering. Intuitive processes of pattern recognition and arrangement guide this work, experienced through a lens of neurodivergence. Seeking to crystallize and nurture the living poetry that grows through this collection and its engagement, sort of stones is a dedication to, and responsive continuation of, play.