Camille Intson (she/her) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and scholar of technology, new media, and performance based in Tkarón:to/Toronto.

My research examines how performance (as a discipline, methodology, and artistic practice) can reshape our sociopolitical and embodied understandings of digital tools. From immersive technologies (XR, VR) to artificial intelligence (AI), I investigate how technological systems mediate our experiences of embodiment, identity, intimacy, and connection, and how creative practice can challenge, reimagine, and transform these relationships. Grounded in queer, feminist, and anti-colonial perspectives, my work brings critical theory into conversation with material experimentation and artistic production.

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I hold a PhD in Information from the University of Toronto, where I am currently an Assistant Professor (CLTA) in the Faculty of Information. Alongside my academic work, I am a playwright, musician, director, and new media artist. Over the past decade, I have created and premiered cross-disciplinary performance projects across Canada, receiving recognition including a Playwrights' Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Award, a Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award, and two Canadian Folk Music Award nominations, among other honours.​​

 

My scholarly writing on technology, performance, and artistic research has appeared in Women & Performance, AI & Society, the International Journal of Performing Arts and Digital Media, Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, and other publications. Across my research, creative practice, and teaching, I am interested in the possibilities that emerge when artistic experimentation meets critical inquiry—and in how these encounters might help us imagine different ways of living, relating, and making worlds.

 

Explore this portfolio to learn more about my research, creative projects, and teaching, or get in touch.