Your Kontinent Digital Carnival's featured artist, Sammy Chien is a Taipei born, Vancouver based interdisciplinary media artist, director, performer, researcher and mentor who works with film, sound art, new media and dance/theatre performance. Sammy has studied film at Simon Fraser University and developed an expertise
Wynne Palmer is a Vancouver-based integrated media artist, independant curator, arts administrator and educator. Her personal practice focuses on the threshhold where the natural and technological worlds converge, bringing into question issues of identity, concepts of location and the philosophy of language within a collective
prOphecy sun’s interdisciplinary performance practice threads together both conscious and unconscious choreographies, sound, and environment, to create exploratory works that invoke deep body memory and draw from an interior landscape of dreams. Over the last 9 years she has been self-releasing music and videos using
Victoria Singh is an artist, curator, teacher, and writer based in New Zealand. Her current performance/installation practice is durational and community-basedwith particular attention to the intersections of life and art and the liminal space that these experiences generate – allowing the exploration of conscious and
Lois Klassen is a Vancouver-based artist, writer, and multidisciplinarian. Her long-term projects, which include Renegade Library, Comforter Art Action and Slofemists (in collaboration with Lori Weidenhammer), combine collective creations with public dialogue and exchange. Her texts have appeared in Word Hoard, Fillip Magazine, Public Journal,
The Richmond Youth Media Festival is a youth film screening meant to showcase high caliber works by boundary pushing young filmmakers from around the world. To ensure a high standard to craftsmanship and innovation, Cinevolution Media Arts Society recruited a panel of five professional jury
Robin Brass is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Regina and Peepeekisis First Nation, Saskatchewan. She completed her B.A. in Indigenous Fine Arts, First Nations University of Canada. Robin is co-founder of Sakewewak Artists’ Collective, Circle Vision Arts Corp., Red Tattoo Theatre Ensemble, and the Sakewewak
Haruko Okano is a professional interdisciplinary artist with over 30 years practice integrating her concerns for the environment and our impact on the future of this planet, human rights and culture integrated as an integral part of her lifestyle. Although her art education was totally
Eileen Kage is primarily a performer/composer of Taiko. She has been active in Vancouver’s Taiko community since the 1980's, initiating several Vancouver Taiko groups including Uzume Taiko, Sawagi Taiko and the band LOUD. Kage has collaborated with a variety of artists as well as toured
Lorna Boschman works with communities, informed by a digital literacy approach to making art, conducting arts-based research and exchanging knowledge through co-creation. Most recently, she was Project Manager and Faculty Associate for Cancer’s Margins, a research study of LGBT2Q people who have been diagnosed and