Featured Artists

Animator & Digital Media Artist

Kailee Fawcett is a digital media artist working at the intersection of film, animation, and interactive media. She layers textures to merge the digital with the physical, transforming surfaces into emotional landscapes that shape perception, memory, and identity. Drawing from her background in Theatre and Environmental Studies, Kailee creates immersive projects that bring social and environmental narratives to life through innovative forms of storytelling. Her work often plays with distortion and immersion, creating spaces where the familiar and the surreal collide.

Visual Artist & BMS Student

Cadence Myroniuk is a fourth-year Media Studies student who creates nature-based works using the gaming engine Unity. Her work focuses on digitally recreating aquatic ecosystems native to British Columbia, offering an alternative way to engage with species and environments that are otherwise difficult to access. Motivated by the limited opportunities to encounter aquatic life in the Okanagan, she seeks to create opportunities for learning, appreciation, and connection to local ecological processes through digital media.

Sound Artist & BMS Student

Yashvardhan Joshi is a fourth-year undergraduate student from India in the Bachelor of Media Studies program at UBC Okanagan. He is an undergraduate research assistant at the Sonic Production Intelligence Research and Applications Lab (SPIRAL), researching deep learning methods in audio generation for Packet Loss Concealment, specifically for ambient audio. His work also involves recording audio for creating narrative driven soundscapes of the Kelowna area. This has led him to work with the Arts Council of the Okanagan and the City of Kelowna to develop soundscapes for urban spaces within Kelowna. 

Artist, Scholar, Professor

Dr. Aleksandra Dulic is an artist-scholar working at the intersections of interactive multimedia installation and live performance with research foci in cross-cultural media performance, interactive animation and computational poetics. She has received a number of awards for her short animated films and interactive media works. Her work is widely presented in exhibitions, festivals, conferences and television broadcasts across Europe, Asia and North America.  These works include films, animated media performances, interactive computer installations and software tools for interactive animation. She is active as an artist, curator, writer, educator, teaching courses, presenting and publishing papers across North America, Australia, Europe and Asia.