Michelle Bunton

Michelle Bunton

Financial Assistant

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Film and Media

m.bunton@queensu.ca

Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

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Michelle Bunton is a practicing artist, curator, and roller derby player currently residing as an uninvited guest in Katarokwi-Kingston, Canada. They are a PhD Candidate in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, with a BFA (Western University) and MA (Queen鈥檚 University). Bunton works with the Vulnerable Media Lab and Ayatana鈥檚 Biophilium: Science School for Artists, and they previously held a curatorial position at Agnes Etherington Art Centre. 

Bunton considers collaboration to be a necessary condition of their curatorial, artistic and academic praxis, prioritizing kinship-building with both human and nonhuman interlocutors. Their research includes speculative design, queer coding and science fiction, working toward a critical queer-ying of the Slime Mold Algorithm (SMA). 

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