P e o p l e :

Geoffrey Shea
Principal Investigator

Geoffrey Shea is an artist, musician and an Assistant Professor in the Faculties of Art and Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design, working in web, video, installation and music composition.
www.unscrambled.com

Paula Gardner, PhD
Principal Investigator

Paula Gardner is an Associate Dean and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design, working in Media and Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Visual Culture, Media & Mental Health, Digital Video and TV Production. She is currently working on a documentary film with survivors of torture at a torture treatment center in Tampa, FL.
www.paulagardner.ca

David McIntosh, PhD
Researcher

David McIntosh is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design. His ongoing research interests include: globalization and the political-economies of audiovisual spaces; network theories and practices; new media narrativity; and insurrectional media history. He is currently developing a research network with media researchers and artists in Argentina, Peru and Colombia.

Patricio Davila
Researcher

Patricio is a Toronto-based artist, designer and researcher. His multi-disciplinary practice includes design, photography and video, writing and research, curation, and new media. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design and a Master's candidate in the Communication & Culture Programme at Ryerson/York Universities.

Jennie Ziemianin
Project Coordinator

Jennie Ziemianin is a Toronto based artist, writer, editor, researcher, conceptual consultant and bush-league entomologist. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Integrated Media from the Ontario College of Art & Design. Her work and research revolves around the Canadian telecommunications industry, North American politics and media theory.

Ken Leung
Interface & Software Designer

Ken is a multidisciplinary designer and artist residing in Toronto. While at the Ontario College of Art & Design, he has worked on various locative media projects with the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN), and served as a teaching assistant for the first-year Principles of Interaction Design course. Ken holds a Bachelor of Psychology from the University of Toronto, has an extensive background in software programming and is currently completing a degree in Industrial Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design.

Rob King
Software Engineer

Leigh-Ann Pahapill
Sculpture

Leigh-Ann's site-responsive, installation based, sculpture practice  brought an integrative focus to the 'Wall of Sound' prototype.   Toronto's ubiquitous street installations, the post and loop bike  stand and sidewalk heating and ventilation grates, were selected as  locations marking the interstices of civic use and public space.  Concerned with the phenomenology of perception, Leigh-Ann's research  project seeks to solicit 'fresh perceptions' of taken for granted  spaces, objects, images, and experiences. Leigh-Ann holds an MFA from  the University of Chicago and a BFA from York University.

Jim Munroe
Writer/Line Producer

A novelist who left HarperCollins to showcase and propagate indie press alternatives to Rupert Murdoch-style consolidation.
NoMediaKings.org

Peter Todd
Research Associate

Peter is a fourth year Integrated Media student at OCAD who creates electronic artworks that explore the behavior of systems and time through an integration of electrical engineering, computer science and art. For Portage, he is actively designing and building display hardware, control software and EMF detectors, as well as a number of other projects.

Bryn Ludlow
Research Assistant

Bryn is in her third year of studies in Integrated Media at the Ontario College of Art & Design.

Yvon Julie
Research Assistant

Yvon Julie is a senior Fine Arts student at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD).

Serena Lee
Research Assistant

Serena is a thesis student in the Integrated Media Program at OCAD.  Her work involves drawings, video, animation, installation, Bach fugues and Cantonese karaoke.

Jennifer Johnson
Research Assistant

Jennifer is a first year Master’s student in Communication and Culture at Ryerson/York Universities.  She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media Arts and Digital Technologies from the Alberta College of Art and Design.  Her current work and research revolves around media theory, cyborgs, and the politics of plural identity construction and representation.