Artists & Collaborators

Jordan Bennett

IOTA Artist, Present

Bennett’s practice utilizes painting, sculpture, video, installation and sound to explore land, language, the act of visiting, familial histories and challenging colonial perceptions of indigenous histories, stereotypes and presence with a focus on exploring Mi’kmaq and Beothuk visual culture of Ktaqamkuk.

Jordan Bennett prints can be purchased exclusively in the IOTA Studio Gallery.

Ruth Marsh

Artist in Residence, 2018

IOTA: ARC presented a 15-min stop-motion, sound and video piece conjuring a technologically altered, large-scale beehive. This Immersive Experience was created by Halifax-based artist Ruth Marsh in the form of a 360 degree video original music with sound design by musician Jeremy Costello. The new work titled Cyberhive, was presented by IOTA Institute October 3, 2018 at the Sea Dome and at the Discovery Centre in May 2019 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was supported via a 3-month artist residency with the support of technical director Nick Iwaskow.

WhiteFeather Hunter

Artist in Residence, 2018

WhiteFeather Hunter is a multiple award-winning Canadian artist and scholar, as well as an educator, arts administrator, curator and writer. She is currently a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, Australian Government Commonwealth Scholar and University of Western Australia Postgraduate Scholar.

Earthline Tattoo Collective

Featured Artists, 2019

IOTA partnered with the Earthline Tattoo Collective to present a Tattoo School, an opportunity for Indigenous artists to (re)learn their craft on Mi’kma’ki in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) between February 9th and March 16th, 2019. A public tattoo demonstration was held at the Museum of Natural History March 9th, and gave an opportunity for a broad audience to come together and discuss safe and healthy practices and spaces when teaching traditional Indigenous tattooing.

Stelarc

Featured Artist, 2019

Stelarc is a performance artist who has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body. Stelarc performed StickMan/miniStickMan May 30th and exhibited May 30-June 21 at TellTale Productions.

Dr. Jennifer Willet

Featured Artist, 2019

Dr. Jennifer Willet presented a Bio Art Workshop, “Halifax Yeast” on May 26th and an exhibition of “Untitled: Travelling Laboratory Coat”, a custom garment that has literally and metaphorically accrued layers of meaning and microbes as it moves through representation, performance, space, and time  at the Anna Leonowens Gallery from 26th to June 2nd.

Andrew Pelling

Featured Artist, 2019

Andrew Pelling presented in the IOTA Bio Art Series, “Building Augmented Living Systems from Trash, Spare Parts and Biology” ad spoke about The Pelling Lab at the University of Ottawa is a curiosity-driven research space that brings together Artists, Scientists, Social Scientists and Engineers.

Nina Sellars

Featured Artist, 2019

Australian artist Nina Sellars challenged our normative frames of reference as it relates to anatomy with her projection, “Sentinels” at the Anna Leonowens Gallery from 26th to June 2nd. This Bio Art installation is designed to question the cultural and scientific implications of the relative absence of fat in the history of anatomy and the significance for contemporary debates about the human, the non-human, and the posthuman.