Don Miller is an idea-based visual artist, intuitive carpenter and poet who lives near Shelburne, Ontario. Miller works in a number of media including performance, video, installation, experimental architecture, snow sculpture and written word. He also works with stone, steel and wood to generate income to fund his artistic pursuits; his creative endeavours tend to infiltrate his life, and his life tends to infiltrate his art. Though the majority of his projects are produced independently, outside the gallery network, Miller has also presented performances, videos, readings and interventions at Ghost Ship (Amsterdam); York University (Toronto); Knock on Woods (Holland); Pleasure Dome/Cinecycle (Toronto); Engine Gallery (Toronto); Tranzac (Toronto); and Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax). His projects include an ongoing series of sensory deprivation and/or sensory enhancement snow caves, a large one of a kind frankenhouse constructed from numerous century old barns, spoken word performances at various venues, and creating what he terms "a strategy for living." Don received a BFA in 2002 from NSCAD University.
Pablo de Ocampo is a curator living in Toronto where he is the Artistic Director of the Images Festival. Prior to his post at Images, Pablo resided in Portland, Oregon where he helped to found the experimental film screening series Cinema Project and was the Executive Director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center.
Alexis O'Hara is an interdisciplinary artist based in Montréal. Her practice exploits allegories of the human voice via electronic improvisation, video and installation. Her eclectic perfor-
mances have been presented in a variety of contexts in Slovenia, Austria, Mexico, Germany, Spain, the UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Canada and the USA. She has shared the stage with such diverse artists as Diamanda Galàs, Ursula Rucker, Henri Chopin and TV on the Radio. SQUEEEEQUE, her sound installation, toured Germany and France in early 2010.
Undisciplinary artist, Mary Margaret O'Hara is a graduate of The Ontario College of Art and Design who typecast herself with her 1988 album Miss America. All over the creative map, if there is such a map, she loves drawing, painting, her original calligraphy, free improv, hosting her brother's events, making people laugh and cry, acting in and composing for theatre and film, doing wordless backup for singers and musicians, making noises on the fly, off the cuff, and out of the ballpark, composing for film and being with her brothers and sisters. You know who you are.
residency at the Banff Centre. She has exhibited in solo shows at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and SleepwalkerProjects as well as in group shows at Western Front; Xpace; YYZ Artists' Outlet; Spin Gallery, Gallery 1313; and Latitude 53.
Cheryl Rondeau is a visual artist who works with both still and moving imagery to transform moments of transition and the quotidian into the monumental with the intent of exposing influences and mechanics that mediate representation and identity. Born in St. Catharines (Canada), Cheryl Rondeau studied art at York University, the Ontario College of Art & Design and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social/ Cultural Anthropology from the University of Toronto. Her work has been included in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including Festival international du film sur l’art (Montréal); Mediawave International Festival of Visual Arts (Gyor, Hungary); Scope Art Fair (New York City); and Museum of Modern Art (Bogota, Colombia).
Seth Porcello is a researcher, designer and audiophile based in Charlottesville, Va.
Fedora Romita is an interdisciplinary artist. Her practice includes performance, interactive drawing projects, video, installation and a dance/ choreography collaboration. Her work concentrates on process and can be understood through its construction over time. She received her BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Sculpture Installation. Her work has been included in festivals such as Nuit Blanche Toronto, and she participated in the Future of Idea Art
Paola Savasta currently lives and works in Victoria, British Columbia. She works in painting, sculpture and installation to explore ideas of the consumer, systems of desire, modes of display, and their relation to space. Savasta was born and raised in Mississauga and received her undergraduate degree from the joint Art & Art History program between the University of Toronto and Sheridan College (2010). She is currently a Masters of Fine Art candidate at the University of Victoria. She has exhibited at KWT Contemporary (2011) and XPACE Culture Centre (2011) in Toronto, and Deluge Contemporary Art (2011) and Legacy Art Gallery in Victoria (2012). 183