Iliria Bicovnik-Carnevale teaches Darkroom Photography, Digital Photography and Media Studies. She received her post graduate degree in Fine Arts at UQAM and her undergraduate degree in Visual Arts at Concordia University. She also has a teaching certificate in Fine Arts from Concordia university and has taught art courses for the past 20 years at the elementary, secondary and post secondary level.
Anne Golden is Artistic Director of Groupe Intervention Video, an artist-run distribution, exhibition and production centre for videos directed by women. She is an independent curator and writer whose programs include Horizontal Holds/Vertical Views: Recent Canadian Art Video (Musée National du Québec, 2001) and Seuils/Thresholds (Edges Festival, Victoria, 2006). She has also curated programs for Vtape (Toronto) and Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax). Golden has made 12 videos since 1991. Among these are FAT CHANCE (1994), BIG GIRL TOWN (1998), SOMME (2005) and FROM THE ARCHIVES OF VIDÉO POPULAIRE (2007).
Bettina Hoffmann is a photo and video artist working in at the intersection of photography and cinema. Her work is shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions as well as in video festivals in Europe and North America. She works as well as a professional photographer. She received a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and attended both the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles and the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Bettina Hoffmann has been an instructor at JAC since 2008. Currently she is teaching Digital Photography.
Clea Notar B.A. (McGill) M.A. (Sussex) has taught Film and Media Studies in Canada and England for over 15 years. She has programmed cinema for independent and alternative film venues, has worked with international film festivals, and as an on air presenter of live coast to coast radio and a reporter on International Film Festivals for CBC radio. She has written on literature, theatre, fine arts and film for numerous magazines, newspapers and artists catalogues on both sides of the Atlantic. Her area of specialisation is the anti-Hollywood film. Her Chinese horoscope is Tiger.
Daniel Schorr was born in Rio de Janeiro, where he studied social communications, specializing in film animation. His first film, Viagem de ônibus, received the First Prize for Animation in Havana. In the 1980s, Daniel trained in animation in Brazil with visiting NFB filmmakers and subsequently became the first Latin American director to be hired by the NFB animation studio. In Montreal, Daniel worked on several National Film Board of Canada productions, including Jours de plaine (1990), Dinosaurs: Piecing It All Together (1991) and Snow Cat (1998). His film Recital received the Best Direction Prize in Festival de Recife, Brazil . He also co-directed the award-winning Jonas and Lisa (1995) on children's rights. Dominoes, (2006), his most recent National Film Board of Canada film, is part of the ShowPeace Series on conflict resolution. It was animated under the camera with paper cut-outs in tribute to NFB animation film pioneers.
Frédérick A. Belzile teaches Digital Media I, Digital Media II and Universe of the Arts 3. She is an artist working with electronic media creating video and interactive media for the web and CD-Rom. Her practice explores the passage between reality and fiction through the use of narratives. Her work has been showed in exhibitions and festivals nationally and internationally. She received her Post-Graduate degree in Media, Art and Design in the Transmedia program at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas (Bruxelles) and her BFA from Concordia University (Montréal).
Mike Turner. was born in Oxford, England and moved to Canada in 1967. Over the past 35 years he has been a video technician, a freelance videographer and a video production instructor. As a technician he has designed and built a number of video and sound studios for both John Abbott College and commercial industry. As a videographer he has produced material in the Middle East, Tunisia, France, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, USA and Canada. He learned his skills primarily “on the Job” and the video production courses he teaches reflect this kind of learning.
Nikki Forrest is an interdisciplinary artist working with video, sound, drawing and installation. She is best known for short experimental videos which have been shown at festivals across Europe and North America as well as in several group and solo gallery exhibitions. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in open media from Concordia University in 1995 and has been teaching film and video at John Abbott since 2001.
Ryan Young has been a teacher in the Creative Arts Department at John Abbott College since 2002, teaching a variety of practical and theoretical courses with an emphasis on media studies, and radio and television production. Ryan is a documentary filmmaker who is primarily interested in environmental and social justice stories. Ryan Young is also the host and producer of the only English language environmental radio show in Montreal—Ecolibrium—heard every Tuesday morning between 11am-12pm on CKUT 90.3 FM.
Suzanne Girard has been teaching photography in the Creative Arts department since 1995. Her works have been published and exhibited in Canada, Europe and South America. She still owns and operates her own black & white photo lab and was one of the rare photographers in Montreal to also operate a colour print lab. Some of her documentary photos are part of the National Archive of Canada collection. Suzanne has also worked in the events industry since 1985. She is a cofounder and the present director of the Divers/Cité festival.
Tracey McKee specialises in radio production and broadcast media. Tracey has an Honours B.A. with a double major in English Literature and Theatre Arts from the University of Western Ontario. Her original goal was to teach – that dream was sidelined in order to pursue a career in broadcasting. She moved to Montreal to complete a Graduate Diploma in Communications Studies and then followed that with an M.A. in Media Studies. While studying, Tracey worked her way through the ranks of the Montreal broadcasting scene, first as a traffic reporter for CHOM FM. She has also been a radio producer, weather anchor, entertainment reporter and feature reporter. From 2000-2008, she was the host of This Morning Live on Global Television – a full-service, three hour morning show. Currently, you can hear Tracey every Sunday at noon on CJAD radio where she hosts a one hour show called Health Beat.
Yassaman Ameri has been teaching a variety of studio and theoretical courses at John Abbott College since 1992. Currently, she teaches Digital Photography 1 & 2 in the CALL program. She is a multimedia artist.
Yudi Sewraj has taught filmmaking, media and films studies at John Abbott College since 2006. Between 1992 and 2002 he developed a body of short experimental videos and films that have been shown in Canada, the US and Europe. This work explored ideas of “authenticity" and the particular relationship between the camera and the subject. His installation work developed as a means of generating both content and structure for his single channel work. Two installations completed during his MFA at the University of California, San Diego uses this approach: “Monologue Table - Rehearsal for an Apology” (2003) and “A Cold Night in February”(2005). His most recent work includes “Salon”(2007), presented at Articule gallery in Montréal, and “Nineteen-seventy-eight”(2009) presented at the Glenhyrst Art Center.