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BIO: Kirk Tougas is a noted experimental media artist, director of photography, producer, director, curator, founder of the Pacific Cinematheque and initiator of Xinema in Vancouver, Canada. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 2024. Creator of numerous experimental works, he has been variously described as a structural or conceptual artist. While varying in style and form, his artworks have broadly pursued three themes:

the inherent nature of a film/digital medium and its message;

portraiture and self-imaging as a human phenomenon from cave walls to the Selfie;

and the poetics of a medium composed of image, sound and time.

All within a discourse of each viewer’s subjective experience.

Nominated for a Canadian Academy Award, he is best known for the politics of perception and the medium is the message which along with his other works have been distinguished with screenings and installations in museums, universities, art schools, biennales, and film/video festivals.