SHADOW WORK | FLAGSHIP EXHIBITION

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Imogen Clendinning is a media artist, researcher and DIY archivist who resides in London ON. In her practice, Clendinning is working to develop solar-powered web servers to hold digital archives for grassroots collectives and artist-run centres. She has shown across Ontario, in Windsor, North Bay and Temiskaming. Clendinning is currently pursuing a PhD in Art and Visual Culture at Western University, with a focus on DIY Internet infrastructure and sustainable practices in digital archiving.

Krish Dineshkumar is a podcast producer, creative archivist, DJ and cook. He scored music for the film Snowbirds (2020), which premiered at Inside Out Film Festival 2020. Krish is a member of the Tamil Archive Project collective, under which he'll be running Cooked Until Tender: a project that provides mental health support and cooking fundamentals for young men.

Vasuki Shanmuganathan is an artist, researcher, and educator. Her emerging art and curatorial practice engages with archives of the mundane and symbiotic forms of connections to trace the material and immaterial borders of the digital sphere. In 2022, she created a series of installations for the Gardiner Expressway underpass as part of the AR Knot Artist Residency (Ottawa) and her current AR work can be seen as part of Hypercity Festival (Toronto).

Akash Mulye (Hexstudio) is a second generation Indian-Canadian creative, fullstack developer, and founder of a boutique sized group of creative freestylers known as hexstudio. As a creative developer, Akash specializes in 3D/2D interactivity, creating audio visuals and highly niche web design/development.

Zoe Osborne is a Toronto based artist and designer from Barbados, crafting digital animations. Her work focuses on Caribbean symbolism and narratives as they relate to home, longing, and the Caribbean diaspora. She is the founder of Mahogany Culture, a collective focused on Caribbean culture retention and celebration.

Nithursan Elamuhilan is an emerging photographer and data analyst based in Scarborough, Ontario. He is actively exploring ways to incorporate photography, data, and graphic design as an expressive mode of communication. Since 2021, he has led a civic tech initiative, itsneerby, that aims to document public greenspaces and communities, utilizing archival and open data with public art initiatives to engage and share knowledge with others.

Allan Pichardo is a digital artist who—through interactive installations, netart, video games, and hacked software—intends to upend the relationship between consumers of technology and the power structures that exploit them for data. He dissects the mechanics of social media to transform mundane interactions into reflective experiences, engaging deeply with the raw materials of computational media to extrapolate alternate futures where users have ultimate agency over their personal data.

Swarm is concerned with making artistic inquiries into astrophysical concepts– particularly the nature, structure and the materiality of the universe (from the micro to macro). While her practice encompasses all mediums of art, she is primarily focused on traditional and contemporary textile methods and how the practice of making can be a form of astronomical observation. Her current field of interest is cosmology, the early universe, the nature of time and our cosmic origins.

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Mitra Fakhrashrafi is a curator and emerging archivist interested in creating places of sanctuary and indebted to border abolition organizing. Mapping the legacies of colonial infrastructure and the resistance which has always followed ground and guide her work. In 2020, Mitra published a Master’s thesis on shisha bans, surveillance and Muslim placemaking in the Greater Toronto Area. Mitra is chair of Whippersnapper Gallery’s Board of Director’s and was recently awarded the 2021 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curator’s. In her spare time she listens to music that emerges from Toronto; a queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and diasporic city.

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