Board | Trinity Square Video

Belinda Kwan | Co-Chair

Belinda Kwan (b.1993, she/they) is an independent curator interested in exhibitionary forms of critique, pedagogy, and advocacy. Her research-based practice focuses on techno/sub/urban infrastructures in North America, and the global legacies of oppression that inform them. Kwan has worked with/for local and international artists, on projects presented by artist-run centres, public galleries, and non-profit organizations such as the Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts (int’l); Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga); Art Gallery of York University (Toronto); Myseum of Toronto; 187 Augusta (Toronto); and Y+ contemporary (Toronto). She is currently Co-Director/Curator at Bunker 2 Contemporary Art Container and Education and Outreach Coordinator at InterAccess.

Miriam Arbus | Co-Chair

Miriam Arbus is the project manager of Radiance VR, and also the VR and Interactive Media Programming Coordinator for the Toronto New Wave Festival 2019. As co-founder and co-director of Sleepover Club Initiative, she presented FORUM, a participatory residency as part of the Doing Feminisms Sharing The World Australia Arts Council project (2018), and curated the exhibition What Has Feminism Ever Done For Me? (Neon Parlour, Melbourne, 2016). Miriam established the Brunswick Street Gallery’s new media series, Men per Ex Lati, and was a selected curator for the Knox City Immerse Arts Festival (Melbourne, 2016). She holds an MA in Contemporary and Modern Art Theory and History from the University of Toronto. She is the co-founder of Art Collision and Communications Specialist and Curator for STYLY XR.

Tommy Truong | Treasurer

Tommy Truong is an emerging artist, curator, and animator working in Toronto, whose work explores ideas of human behaviour, screen-based media, and storytelling. He obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction at OCAD University. Recognizing the artistic merit of his practice, he was shortlisted for Equitable Bank’s 2016 Emerging Digital Artist Award, and received OCAD U’s Integrated Media Project 31 Scholarship, and Career Launcher Fund. He has also exhibited at Xpace Cultural Centre, Artscape, The Royal Cinema, Tranzac, and The Brandscape.

Rachel South | Secretary (Acting)

Rachel South is a Toronto-based designer who builds and strengthens the customer-facing elements of digital products. A graduate of the MDes program of OCADU, Rachel’s work is focused on the environmental, physical and social determinants of human health. She currently works as a junior UX designer at INVIVO, a digital scientific communications agency located in Toronto.

Sahar Te

Sahar is a Toronto-based artist who mobilizes methods that open up alternative realities and challenge common approaches to “original” content. Having graduated from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2017, Te is pursuing her Master of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto. Her interaction with multiple cultures and geographies brings her to question the notion of absolute truth. From language and semiotics, social dynamics and ethics, Te’s projects engages in geopolitical discourse to challenge power on different levels.

Renata Azevedo Moreira

Renata is Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of Toronto and an author, researcher and curator based in Tkaronto (Toronto) who holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Montreal, obtained with a co-supervision at the Art History Department at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Her doctoral research is focused on the exhibition of media arts, in particular on the dialogue established between the curatorial gesture and the processual creation of the work of contemporary and media art directed towards collaborative work with artists and audiences in the development of each curatorial event.

Serene Husni

Serene Husni is a writer, translator & filmmaker. She holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University with distinction. Her directorial debut, Zinco, won the audience award for “Best Documentary” from the Franco-Arab Film Festival. Serene is a founding member of Dalaala, an Arabic-English translation collective, and Aramram, an Arabic-speaking web television based in Amman. She recently joined the team of writers at Mahdoom, a podcast about the stories behind Arabic dishes. She provides mentorship and workshop coordination to The Shoe Project at Ryerson University.

Ramolen Laruan

RAMOLEN LARUAN is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, ON. Her artistic practice explores a variety of mediums ranging from sculpture, collage, print, photography, film, installation, and other digital work to offer new patterns of thinking about displacement, migration, politics of knowledge, notions of truth/multiple truths, memory, and remembrance. Her work has been featured in various publications and exhibited in group and travelling exhibitions across Canada and the United States. Recent solo exhibitions include still, unfolding (2020) at Zalucky Contemporary. Laruan received her BFA at Queen’s University and MFA at Western University in 2020.

Aida Khorsandi

A faculty member of the Oscar Peterson School of Music (formerly Royal Conservatory), with a degree in early childhood music education in Pars Music Institute, the most reputable children’s music institute in Iran. She then continued her journey in music and human cognition through studying cognitive science of music at University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. She obtained a master’s degree in music psychology research with a focus on affective science of music. In addition to teaching music, Aida has worked as a research assistant at the Department of Psychology and Education at Ryerson University in Toronto, She is also working on a freelance bilingual writing project in music cognition and psychology in Farsi and English.