Kathryn Blair, pResident Kathryn Blair is a PhD student in the Computational Media Design program at the University of Calgary. Her work provides contexts in which people can explore the way our societies use algorithmic decision-making. She also creates wearable pieces exploring the relationship between the body and technology, and can often be caught scheming how to hack things to be controlled by EEG headsets or soldering into the dead of night. She has been a director on the EMMEDIA board since 2018 and serves on the HR Committee. http://kathrynblair.com/ GuILLERMO BARRAZA, VICEPRESIDENT Guillermo Barraza is a storyteller at heart. From writing "novels" in a duotang as a child to guiding international TV series through production, he has always embraced a people-first approach. As the Executive Director and co-founder of Homegrown Arts & Media Collective, Guillermo is dedicated to shaping a more inclusive future for diverse voices in Canadian media. He also emphasizes the importance of promoting positive mental well-being within media production, something Homegrown is working on through community conversations and relationship-based research. Before founding Homegrown, Guillermo gained extensive experience in media production, digital storytelling, production coordination, and directing. He played a key role in delivering three seasons of "Transformative CEOs" (2021) and "Jobs of Tomorrow" (2022), coordinating over 100 remote interviews with Fortune 500 leaders while optimizing production workflows and post-production processes. His earlier work as a videographer and on-screen coach, along with a stint as a digital media strategist, enhanced his proficiency in both commercial and narrative production. When he’s not nurturing creative ecosystems, you can find Guillermo training in boxing or taekwondo, obsessively analyzing the media and marketing he consumes, developing a Work Breakdown Structure for his next big idea, or trying to keep up with his kiddo. Chris Kerich, Treasurer Chris Kerich is a PhD student and artist interested in the ideology of digital systems. He is currently finishing the writing of his dissertation at the University of California, Santa Cruz which focuses on the different political affordances of “game infrastructure”, which include things like physics systems, polygonal modeling, and procedural generation. His artwork often functions as the concrete corollary to his written work, and has been exhibited across the world. Chris’ work has shown in Boston, Toronto, San Francisco, and Milan in various festivals and exhibitions. Most notably, Chris’ work has also been shown in Austria as a part of Ars Electronica, the largest digital arts festival in the world. His latest work is Three Impossible Worlds, a set of Minecraft mods illustrating anti-colonial ways of reforming Minecraft’s world. Chris joined the board in 2022 and is our current Treasurer. Jeremy Bailey Jeremy Bailey is a Toronto-based self-proclaimed Famous New Media Artist. "Since the early noughties Bailey has plowed a compelling, and often hilarious, road through the various developments of digital communications technologies." (Morgan Quiantance, Rhizome) Bailey has performed and exhibited all over the world, from bathrooms in Buffalo to museums in Moscow.
