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Artists Kate Armstrong focuses on the creation of experimental narrative forms, particularly works in which poetics are inserted within the functional framework of computer programs. She is a recipient of a 2004-2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts for Turbulence, and is affiliated with bnode and the Locative Media Lab. Bobbi Kozinuk uses radio, electronics, projections and performance to explore issues of gender, the environment and community involvement. He has taught over 150 people to build FM radio transmitters, empowering communities and individuals to access and work with electronic media and helped numerous artists create installations and outdoor performances. M. Simon Levin has been creating site-based systems that explore the aesthetics of engagement using a variety of designed forms and tools for the past 18 years. These relational projects investigate the often-blurred boundaries between the private and the public resulting in poetic interventions into space and place. Laurie Long is an independent filmmaker and artist who has been involved over the past 15 years in productions ranging from guerrilla style performance poetry videos and independently produced documentaries, to gallery video installations and television series. Her work has been broadcast, screened and exhibited internationally and extensively in Canada. Leonard J. Paul has a ten-year history in making music and coding for video games working for companies such as Electronic Arts, Radical Entertainment and Rockstar Vancouver. He is the composer for the film The Corporation that has become the highest grossing Canadian documentary in history. Manuel Piña is interested in the relationships between power, utopias, history and the city as both site and embodiment of these relationships. His photographs and video pieces often depict urban spaces as a departure point for narratives concerning social issues. He currently lives and works in Vancouver and Havana. Jean Routhier is an audio wrapper, his approach is similar to a store clerk, bagging everything into their sonic essence. Interested in the gaps and gasps in sounds conducive to the transmission of stories he sometimes hears in the ether, he finds inspiration in everyday situations. Curator Alice Ming Wai Jim is an art historian, curator and critic. She is currently Curator of the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A) since 2003. She has curated numerous exhibitions at Centre A, with Videotage (Hong Kong), and other independent projects. She obtained her PhD from McGill University in contemporary Asian art in 2004, one of the first in the field in Canada. Her research interests include media art, theories of representation and spatial culture. In 2001-2002, Jim was Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies and the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong. Her writings on contemporary Asian art and diasporic art have been widely published. She teaches as sessional faculty in the Critical and Cultural Studies Department at Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design + Media, and in the Critical and Curatorial Studies Program of the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia. Jim is on the curatorial and programming committees of NFF05 (Vancouver), LITMUS (New Zealand) and ISEA2006 (San Jose). URLs:
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