Lindsay K. Muir is a Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies Ph.D. student within the Film and Media department at Queen’s University. She recently completed her M.A. in the same department with her thesis, Where the Willow Meets the Moon: Lessons in Settler Curation Through Indigenous Storytelling. Prior to graduate school, Lindsay earned a double major in Art History and English Literature with a minor in World Cinemas from McGill University. Her current research revolves around the representations of Celtic and Indigenous women in various media.

Dr. Mél Hogan is the host of The Data Fix podcast (thedatafix.net) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen's University. My areas of interest and scholarly expertise are: data infrastructure, big tech and the environment.

Supervision and teaching:

I’m not taking on new MA or PhD students at this time. (I am available for supervisory committees and exams over Zoom.)

I'm committed to supervising / examining only students not using generative AI for any component of their thesis- or dissertation-writing. I'm a critical scholar of AI (this is an area of expertise), and I don't consider synthetic text generation to be demonstrative of any intellectual capacity or rigour and I believe it stands in contradiction to the goals of a higher education.

In general, I’m happy to consider supervising projects that take a critical, environmental, collective-humanistic, cultural, social, and/or historical approach to data, communication, media, and technology. 

I work well with students from interdisciplinary backgrounds. I’m an especially good fit for students whose research interests draw on qualitative, exploratory, research-creation, speculative, or ethnographic methods, and who work within communication and media studies; environmental humanities; environmental media; archival theory; elemental media; infrastructural studies; critical data studies; media archaeology; algorithm studies; science and technology studies (STS); history of technology; and critical theory.

I’m most excited about working with students interested in projects looking at the various and vast environmental impacts of data infrastructures.

I am not suited to projects primarily focused on solving technical problems (around AI and algorithms, for example) or looking for expertise in quantitative social sciences methods. 

I normally teach undergraduate and graduate courses on topics that intersect media and the environment.

Adam Cook is a film critic, curator, and scholar.

Outside of the academy, his experience as a writer and film programmer spans over a decade. Within the academy, Cook’s research seeks to find connective tissue between reductive strands of theory and a revitalized aesthetics centered on formalism. Previously, he completed his SSHRC-funded MA at York University on heightened embodiment as a formal system in the films of Tsai Ming-liang. Cook has been adapting the resulting work into videographic pieces including a recent video essay, A Cinema of Bodily Sense, published in [in]Transition (10.2 2023). During his undergraduate studies at UBC in his hometown, Cook received the inaugural Mark Harris Memorial Scholarship in Film Studies award.

Currently, he is a member of the programming collective K-Fab, which presents screenings and retrospectives at Paradise Theatre in Toronto and also serves on Cinema Politica’s Screening Committee. Cook has curated retrospective programmes for Doclisboa, TIFF Cinematheque, Northwest Film Forum, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, and Vancity Theatre. He has taught workshops and classes on film and criticism for the Ever Scholar program at Queen’s and TIFF’s Reel Comfort program. Cook’s bylines as a critic and journalist include The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, VICE, Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Cinema Scope, Filmmaker Magazine, Little White Lies, and Cineaste among other outlets. An early employee of MUBI in its formative years, Cook held the title of Content Manager between 2010 and 2015.

His favourite film is Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. His favourite filmmaker is John Ford.

Francesca C. DiBona is an MA student in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program. She holds a BAH in Critical Media Studies and Urban Education from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Working in both textual and essayistic media forms, her work concerns topics of transgression theory, Orientalism, food, and fugitivity, among others.

A PhD student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. Faten considers herself an activist artist who seeks to contribute to the appreciation of various cultures and acceptance of the others in her own community and around the world. She works with various mediums ranging from handicrafts to digital photography and video to create her sight specific installations. She is a member at Artnauts artist collective www.artnauts.org  

Since an early age, she is concerned with the documentation, historiography, and presentation of Palestinian art. She conducted various research in the field and wrote a number of articles and three books. Besides, she was the curator of several exhibitions and art projects; including the Palestinian Collection for “Imago Mundi” project, commissioned by Luciano Benetton Foundation http://www.imagomundiart.com/collections?q=Palestine   

In Palestine, she was a key person in developing and establishing Dar al-Kalima University which is the first specialized university in Palestine and focuses on arts, design, and Culture. She initiated several projects, the latest was the establishment of the academic program and laboratory in the field of conservation and restoration of paintings.   

Manal Osman is a 21-year-old MA student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. Obtaining a Mass Media and Communications degree from the University of Balamand, she is an advocate of storytelling and cinema. Her education involves exploring textual media studies, writing prose, and creating moving image.   

Michelle Bunton is a practicing artist, curator, and roller derby player currently residing as an uninvited guest in Katarokwi-Kingston, Canada. They are a PhD Candidate in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, with a BFA (Western University) and MA (Queen’s University). Bunton works with the Vulnerable Media Lab and Ayatana’s Biophilium: Science School for Artists, and they previously held a curatorial position at Agnes Etherington Art Centre. 

Bunton considers collaboration to be a necessary condition of their curatorial, artistic and academic praxis, prioritizing kinship-building with both human and nonhuman interlocutors. Their research includes speculative design, queer coding and science fiction, working toward a critical queer-ying of the Slime Mold Algorithm (SMA). 

Access more of their work here: https://michellebunton.cargo.site/