Marie-Hélène Leblanc
Marie-Hélène Leblanc has participated as both curator and artist in more than a dozen exhibitions in Quebec and France. While continuing her own work as an artist, she has developed a particular interest in arts management, leading her to work as a coordinator for various cultural organisations and artist-run centres in Quebec and at the Centre d’actions artistiques contemporaines in Strasbourg, France. Marie-Hélène Leblanc is currently artistic director of the Centre de production Daïmõn in Gatineau, a production centre for media arts and photography. From 2006 to 2008 she was director of the artist-run centre Espace Virtuel in Chicoutimi. She holds a master’s degree in art from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.
Steven Loft
Steven Loft is a Mohawk of the Six Nations. He is a curator, writer and media artist. In 2008, he became the first Curator-In-Residence, Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada. He was formerly the Director/Curator of the Urban Shaman Gallery in Winnipeg, Aboriginal Curator at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Artistic Director of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers’ Association. He has written extensively on Indigenous art and aesthetics for various magazines, catalogues and arts publications. Loft co-edited Transference, Technology, Tradition: Aboriginal Media and New Media Art, published by the Banff Centre Press in 2005. His video works, which include A History in Two Parts, 2510037901, TAX THIS! and Out of the Darkness have been screened at festivals and galleries across Canada and internationally.
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