Artists and Researchers
Lance Blomgren is a writer and curator from Vancouver. He is the author of the novel Walkups
and Corner Pieces, a collection of fiction and urban proposals. His essays and fiction have been in
journals and exhibition publications internationally. His research on serial photographic practices
resulted in Still Films, an exhibition at the Yukon Arts Centre, and Duplicitous at the Helen Pitt Gallery.
Dianne Bos was born in Hamilton, Ontario. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount
Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. She, currently divides her time between the foothills of
the Rockies and the Pyrenees. Bos’s work often features handmade cameras, walk-in light installation
and sound pieces, tools and devices used to investigate ideas of journeying, time and the optics. Her
work has been shown extensively throughout Canada, and at exhibitions in USA, Italy, France, Spain
and Japan.
Lea Bucknell is a multidisciplinary artist with a history of showing in unconventional exhibition
spaces and creating site-specific projects. Recently, she has participated in residencies at the Banff
Centre, Vermont Studio Centre, and Pilchuck Glass School. She received her MFA from University of
Western Ontario in 2011, and is currently a sessional instructor at Thompson Rivers University.
Sven Dupré, previously Director of the Centre of History of Science at Ghent University, is Professor
of History of Knowledge at the Institute for Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin and Research
Group Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. He has published on a
wide range of topics in the history of early modern science, technology and art in Italy, the Spanish
Netherlands, the German lands, Britain and France.
Bob Jickling lives in the Yukon. He earned a PhD from Simon Fraser University, and has
researched and taught environmental philosophy and education at Yukon College and as Professor of
Education at Lakehead University. His creative work strives to inform practice with theory, and refine
educational theories in light of environmentally based practices. Recently he has been combining
pinhole photography and lyric philosophy in experiments to broaden conceptions of rationality and
engagement with place.
Petran Kockelkoren holds the chair in Art and Technology in the Department of Philosophy at
the University of Twente, Netherlands, and lectures at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. His book Technology:
Art, Fairground and Theatre (2003) investigated the history of cameras obscura in conjunction with
travel, information technology and spectacle.
Ernie Kroeger’s artwork usually engages a particular geography: Winnipeg, Ukraine, Calgary,
Banff, the Rocky Mountains, and Kamloops, BC, where he lives. His work has