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Ottawa-based media artist Ehren Bear Witness Thomas has been producing short experimental video works for over six years. Bear was the recipient of the Golden Cherry Award for Video Artist of the Year 2008. His video “BrokeDickDog” was included in the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography exhibition Stealing the Gaze: Portraits of Aboriginal Artists curated by Andrea Kunard and Steven Loft and hosted by the National Gallery of Canada. Bear was commissioned by ImagiNATIVE in partnership with the Goethe Institut and the National Gallery of Canada to produce a video for the Culture Shock screening at the 2008 ImagiNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. Bear’s video The story Apanatschi and Her Red Headed Wrestler was screened at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival. In the summer of 2008, Bear exhibited two new videos as part of Drive By: A Road Trip with Jeff Thomas at The University of Toronto Art Centre. Bear’s current projects include producing a new video installation in preparation for the exhibition Home Land and Security at Render Gallery in Waterloo (2009), curated by Jeff Thomas. Recently, he co-founded a Native DJ collective that hosts a monthly event, Electric Pow Wow.