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omo.yomo AKA Joshua Lam (he/him) is an emerging filmmaker from Vancouver, located on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. Joshua specializes in directing, producing, and creative writing; he experiments with…

Throughout this paper, I will lay out some of the underpinnings of my practice. My practice is multivalent; it ranges widely, draws from many sources and employs a multitude of media. It reflects my explorations in using the parafiction as a…

I am John, I moved to Canada in 2003, and have been living in the lower mainland ever since. I had done some water color paintings in the past. I love nature and painted dramatic landscapes. I did this for a number of years, I had accumulated a…

Rachel Lau is a community-engaged multidisciplinary artist, writer, and radio producer based in what’s colonially known as “Vancouver”. Through sound art, photography, and zine-making, they contemplate what it means to experience longing in a world…

An exploration of dreams is a recurring source of inspiration for my practice. Coupled with observations from lived, waking experience, dreams offer another layer and resource for making art. Inspired by my dreams the balloon is used as a material…

I am a 4th-year student at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and will be graduating this spring with a Bachelor of Visual Arts. I pursue an interdisciplinary art practice involving painting, sculpture, photography, film, print media, and…

Gavin Tran is a Vietnamese-Canadian Film Editor and Filmmaker from Vancouver, BC who enjoys crafting the story and energy behind the keyboard in the editing room. He has graduated from Capilano University with a Bachelors's Degree in Motion…

Jared is a recent graduate from UBC and was born here in Vancouver, BC. His art style consists primarily of self-portraits and photos of friends.

This research based practice investigates a contemporary relationship to environment in the age of the Anthropocene. Conceptually led, this interdisciplinary practice ranges from drawing, photography, video, sculpture, to site-sensitive installation…

Hello, I'm Sonia (She, Her, Hers), a 3rd year undergraduate media studies student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. I grew up in Hong Kong & Macau, then I came to Canada in 2016. I am interested in different forms of…

Jason Karman is a Vancouver-based screenwriter-director and producer. His 17 short films have screened internationally at festivals, including Telefilm Canada's Not Short on Talent showcase at Clermont-Ferrand. A Master of Fine Arts graduate…

I am a Chinese-Canadian artist who specializes with character-focused art. I am currently a second-year student at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and I am majoring in illustration. Being someone who identifies as queer and is 3rd generation…

This research has explored the relationship between cyclist and machine, through exploratory research methods and heuristic exploration by proposing a series of custom hardware interventions as way of enriching mountain bike rider’s experience.…

Novel Movement, is an emerging collective of dancers based in Surrey. We started our dance journey as teammates in a competitive crew and over the years our friendship deepened as we continue to be passionate about creating art through movement. We…

Jodie Aguinaldo is a theatre major at Douglas College and has been a part of Chorus Studio for three years. She has been an actress and singer in Snow White, a Royal Canadian Theatre Company rendition. Her hobbies include juggling, songwriting, and…

This supporting thesis attempts to argue for the use of comics and comic arts as an effective visual language with which to disseminate the question of female ageism (prejudice or discrimination on the basis of one’s age). Through familial and self-…

This practice based research is grounded in multi-day walking and camping activities guided by procedures which alter the ways I perceive and participate with my more-than-human surroundings. From these walks emerge animations, installations, oral…

This thesis poses questions about the preservation of culture and language amongst generations of Iranian immigrants living in North America. It investigates the socio-cultural implications of hybridity as they relate to interethnic exchange and the…

Karen is a first generation Chinese immigrant, a digital comic artist (@bigbrowcomics) and writer. She's a recent graduate from UBC with a Bachelors of Commerce and is currently based out of Vancouver. She enjoys poetry, animated films and flea…

Shana Wolfe is a dance artist on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her artistic practice is based in dancing, performance and more recently in choreography, crocheting, and houseplant crafting. She toured…

My work aims to question how historic tropes shape the way personal identity is formed in relation to sexuality, specifically in relation to masculinity and queerness. By using the symbols which are representative of my cultural background, I aim to…

Owing to the long history of being colonized by China and France, the Vietnamese language has been exposed to the cultural conception of other nations. It has been separated by great gulfs in time, geography, different social and political systems,…

This paper is about memory and about narrative, both of which are concerned with what is missing. It explores the ways that the events in our individual lives, our collective lives, become history and narrative. The paper considers writer Thomas…

This thesis essay is an account of an auto-ethnographic research about how personal identity is formed, performed and represented. Its structure is experimental and it uses various and overlapping discursive strategies to engage the reader. It is…