Camille Intson (she/her) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and scholar of technology, new media, and performance based in Tkarón:to/Toronto.
As a playwright, musician, director, and new media artist, I have spent over a decade creating and premiering cross-disciplinary, performance-based projects across Canada. These Works have garnered several accolades, including a Playwrights' Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Award, Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award, Best in Fringe Award, Fringe New Play Contest Award, two Canadian Folk Music Awards nominations, and a New Media Writing Prize Opening Up Award nomination. As a multimedia storyteller, I'm largely fascinated by how digital and technological systems shape the ways we experience intimacy, desire, and connection—particularly through queer and feminist lenses.
As a scholar and practitioner-researcher, my work examines how digital technologies transform live performance practices and the cultural industries that support them. Equally, my research examines how performance (as a discipline, methodology, and artistic practice) can reshape our sociopolitical and embodied understandings of digital technologies. At the core of this work is an integrated commitment to critical theory and material practice, informed by queer, feminist, and anti-colonial perspectives. I have a PhD in Information from the University of Toronto, where I am currently Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream, CLTA) in the Faculty of Information.
My writing on technology, performance, and artistic research has appeared in venues including Women & Performance, AI & Society, the International Journal of Performing Arts and Digital Media, Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities, Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, and the Journal of Literary and Intermedial Crossings, among others. In addition, I bring substantial teaching experience across media, information, and performance studies, having designed and taught eight undergraduate and graduate courses.
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