Board of advisors member
Monika Kin Gagnon, Concordia University
Monika Kin Gagnon is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University. She is author of Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art (2000), 13 Conversations about Art and Cultural Race Politics (2002) with Richard Fung, and co-editor of Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67 (2014) with Janine Marchessault, and In Search of Expo 67 (2020) with Lesley Johnstone. She was co-curator of In Search of Expo 67 at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal for the 50th anniversary of Expo 67, including an expanded cinema program of digitally restored multi-screen films from Expo 67. She curated La Vie polaire/Polar Life, a digital simulation of the 11-screen Expo 67 film for Cinémathèque québécoise (2014), and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha | Immatérial for DHC Art/Centre Phi (2015). Research projects she is involved in include CINEMAexpo67 and Archive|Counter-Archive. She is currently working on a book entitled, Posthumous Cinema: Unfinished Films in the Archives. |