
Michelle Bunton
Financial Assistant
They / She
Film and Media
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
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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