PAVED Arts
PAVED Arts is a non-profit, artist run centre for production, presentation, research and dissemination of contemporary media arts. The word PAVED is an acronym signifying the integration of media art forms addressed by our mandate: photographic, audio, video, electronic, digital. PAVED Arts exists to support artists who work in these media.
PAVED Meant is a biennial publication of critical writing produced by PAVED Arts in Saskatoon. Founded in 2012, it supports interdisciplinary dialogue around contemporary media and lens-based art practices. By contextualizing exhibitions and amplifying underrepresented voices, PAVED Meant contributes to critical discourse across aesthetic, political, and social dimensions of media art.
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Toxoplasma Press
Toxoplasma Press makes available books and art projects which often feature a disregard for rules and authority. We don’t consider a book to be a unit of commerce—a package for an idea to be bought and sold. We create books to be art objects—often hand-bound and specially printed—or as lasting documentation of clandestine or otherwise impermanent art projects.
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Jenelle Smith
Jenelle Smith is a first generation Jamaican-Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. Smith is an emerging artist whose dreamlike work delves into intricate concepts of the mind. Working in digital and analog image-based media, Smith addresses topics such as mental health, technology, race, and family.  A recent graduate from the OCAD University Photography program, she strives to challenge conventional perceptions and spark conversations through her work.Find out more

Amin Alsaden

Amin Alsaden is a curator, scholar, and educator whose work focuses on transnational solidarities and exchanges across cultural boundaries. His curatorial practice is committed to advancing social justice through the arts, and to disseminating more inclusive narratives that decenter existing canons and challenge hegemonic epistemological and power structures. His exhibitions invariably raise questions concerning the interrelated domains of geography, colonialism, extraction, organized violence, and displacement.

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Zoë Chan

Zoë Chan lives in Vancouver on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Sel̓íl̓witulh Nations. Since 2018, she has worked as Assistant Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where she curated Uncommon Language (2020-21), and co-curated Where do we go from here? (2020-21) and Stories that animate us (2021). While working as an independent curator between 2012 and 2019, she delved into a range of subject matter including documentary practices, youth, food, and discourse around representation in art and visual culture. Her curatorial projects have been presented by Trinity Square Video, Vidéographe, Kamloops Art Gallery, Optica, MSVU Art Gallery, Foreman Art Gallery, Articule, and the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels).

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