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Mikhel Proulx is the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Vulnerable Media Lab. Mikhel is a historian of contemporary Canadian art and digital culture. He recently defended his doctoral dissertation—a study of network-based art by Canadian women—which was awarded the 2022 Leonardo Journal top thesis prize. His research considers network culture from queer-feminist and settler-colonial perspectives, and has been recently presented at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute; the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York; Goldsmith’s College, London; Yale University; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. In recent projects, he has collaborated with the artists Margaret Dragu, Skawennati, Anna Boghiguian, Vera Frenkel, Anna Banana, and Rita McKeough. His forthcoming book—part of the Queer Films Classics series—considers how Bob Fosse’s 1972 Cabaret represents Queer sexualities of Weimar Berlin. 

Derek was a freelance cinematographer and a lecturer in film, video and digital media production at Queen's from 1976 to 2015, teaching the Fundamentals of Production regularly and in some years Advanced Production or Video and Multimedia. He created the Film and Media Department's website in 1995 and maintained it until 2015, and served on the University's Instructional Technology Advisory Committee, Web Editorial Board, Radio Policy Board, and Campus Planning Committee. 

Weixian Pan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at ���ϳԹ���Դ. She holds a PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University, Montreal. Before joining ���ϳԹ���Դ, she was Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Arts at NYU Shanghai and affiliated faculty at the . She also taught at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and was the coordinator and researcher in the .

Her research interests center on the politics of visuality (including cinema, television, video, and other new media/art forms), critical media infrastructure, and environmental media. She examines media’s textual, material, and socio-political dynamics mainly through China's situated experience but gradually expands to explore the trans-regional linkages across Asia. Her current book project, Frontier Vision: The Geopolitics of Seeing China’s Borderlands, examines how China’s geopolitical aspirations have been hyper-mediated and entangled with the logic of frontier-making between the mid-twentieth century and the present. This book offers a transhistorical view of the visual regimes that recalibrate natural environments and their political promises through geological extraction, televisual mediation of hydropower, and maritime signal sovereignty. Her book project was also supported by the (2024-2025) from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Her work appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Television and New Media, Culture Machine, Asiascape: Digital Asia, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and Journal of Environmental Media. In the past, she has led curatorial projects such as “” (2021) and “China Now: Independent Visions” (2016). She also co-organizes the “ online workshop that fosters interdisciplinary conversations across scholars and artists.

She is currently working on a collaborative video project on the hydraulic and infrastructural landscapes along the Pearl River in southern China. Her next research aims to theorize Asia's transboundary linkages through different forms of aquatic mediation, such as the vernacular imagination of water, the history of underwater technology, and the emerging blue carbon economy.

Selected Publications:

• Special journal issue “Energy and Media,” co-edit with Yandong Li (University of Washington). Journal of Chinese Cinema, forthcoming Summer/Fall 2025.
• “Crash Landing on the Philippines: Transnational Korean Dramas and Internet Infrastructure Desires.” Television and New Media, 2024.
• “Teaching with Video: A Global Media Form and Interfaces of Global Encounters,” Teaching Dossier on . Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (Winter 2022)
• “Bitcoin’s Ethnic Shadow and Echoes.” Art Review of Bitcoin Mining and Field Recordings of Ethnic Minorities, by Liu Chuang. Journal for Environmental Media 2, no. 2, 2021.
• “.” Culture Machine 19, 2020. (Special issue on “Media Populism”)
• “Under the Dome: Un-engineering Digital Capture in China’s Smog.” In Asiascape: Digital Asia 4, no. 1-2, 2017.

Kelly O’Dette is the new Film and Media Department Technician.  Kelly has worked as editor in film and television in Toronto for the past 10 years.  She has experience with various genres such as comedy and documentary.  She also worked as a post-production supervisor overseeing project workflow and delivery.  Kelly holds a BFA from NSCAD University and an MFA from Western University.