Collaborators

IOTA is an international network of researchers, curators, arts workers, writers, scientists, knowledge keepers, and technicians. From our home base in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), our collaborators connect us to art happenings around the world. 

Home Ex Dance Collective

Research in Dance: Bodies in Movement

IOTA Institute is embarking on a new creative research stream into the interventionist quality of bodies in movement through familiar expressions of dance and performance art. We consider small acts such as blinking, breathing, or collective bodies in motion through public space as examples of ‘movements’ that can be documented, scored, and presented as new forms of art.

Jordan Bennett

IOTA Artist

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

Former Artist in Residence

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.

Dion Kaszas and Nlaka'pamux cultural tattooing

Featured Researcher

IOTA is a creative agency that supports writing, curatorial research, and cross-disciplinary artworks in new media, the web, visual, interactive and performance art.

Stelarc

Former Featured Artist

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

IOTA Artist

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.

Earthline Tattoo Collective

Former Featured Artists

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.

Jeanette Kotowich

Artist & Research Collaborator

Sarah Prosper

Artist & Research Collaborator

Germaine Koh

Artist & Research Collaborator

Brendan Fernandes

Artist & Research Collaborator

Jacinte Armstrong

Artist & Research Collaborator

Maddie Alexander

Public Art Manager, Social Media Manager

Close up photo of woman with long dark hair, grey blouse, sitting at a table

Shen Molloy

Headshot of a white woman with short spiky blonde hair, wearing a cheetah-print blazer over a black tshirt that says "the future is accessible." The background is blurrred, but appears to be a white room with art on the walls.

Kristina McMullin

Design & Access Consultant

Photoshopped image of a person with long hair & bleached brows, standing on a cliff at dusk. They are dressed in green, with a green blanket wrapped around them, in front of a portable green screen set up on the cliff.

Marissa Sean Cruz

I’thandi Munro

Dance Artist, Visual Artist

Carrie Allison

IOTA Artist

Ruth Marsh

IOTA Artist

David Clark

IOTA Writer 2018

Headshot of man smiling with pale complexion, short grey hair, glasses, yellow button down and dark blazer, against blue backdrop

Jim Abraham

Person with long brown hair, shorts & a tshirt standing knee deep in the ocean, holding a cymbal upside down, balancing water in it like a vessel.

Lindsay Bonnevie Dawn Dobbin

Séamus Gallagher

IOTA Artist

Black & White headshot of a young man in white button down with short brown hair against a brick wall

Nick Iwaskow

Photo taken from below, looking up at temporary stage built in a dark conference room, with spots of multicoloured lights. A small screen says "GS"

Trevor DeSouza

Technical Director

Headshot of man with short hair, blue polo shirt, white earbuds

Sean Brilliant

Mireille Bourgeois

IOTA Founder & Artistic Director

Alexis Cormier

Dancer, Choreographer, Project Manager

Close up headshot of woman with long grey hair, outdoors in front of blue sky and tall buildings

Kelly B. Schnare

Project Manager and Founder, Re-imagining Atlantic Harbours for 2050

Amy Malbeuf

IOTA Artist

Close up black and white headshot of man staring at the camera

Sébastien Aubin

Lou Sheppard

IOTA Artist

Amanda Shore

Art Manager

Dion Kaszas

IOTA Researcher

Adrienne Crossman

IOTA Writer 2018

Amberley John

Earthline Tattoo Collective member, Bio Art Series Artist 2019

Angela Glanzmann

Pop Up Artist 2017

Andrew Pelling

Bio Art Series Speaker 2019

Anne Macmillan

Pop Up Artist 2017

Annie Onyi Cheung

Pop Up Artist 2017

Audie Murray

Earthline Tattoo Collective member, Bio Art Series Artist 2019

Barbara Lounder - head shot

Barbara Lounder

Pop Up Artist 2015

Bruce Barber

Pop Up Artist 2015

Carly Butler

Pop Up Artist 2015

Ecko Aleck

IOTA Collaborator

Earthline Tattoo Collective

Bio Art Series Artist 2019

Oron Catts

IOTA Artist

Geneviève Boulet

Dance Artist/Interpreter | Reiki Master

Gillian Seaward-Boone

Dance Artist

Isabelle Arvers

IOTA Writer 2018

I-Chun Jenkins

Pop Up Artist 2017

Ionat Zurr

IOTA Artist

James MacSwain

Curator 2015, Pop Up Artist 2017

Craig Leonard

Pop Up Artist 2015

Jennifer Chan

Artist

Jens Hauser

IOTA Artist

Johanna Drucker

IOTA Writer 2018

Julia Fleur McMillan

IOTA Writer 2018

J.R. Carpenter

Artist

Kate Ward

Pop Up Artist 2015

Liz Solo

Artist

Louisa Adamson

Theatre Maker, Manager

Lucie Chan

Pop Up Artist 2015

Marta Menezes

IOTA Artist

Mila Waseskwan

Artist, Earthline Tattoo Collective (2019)

Mollie Cronin

Curator 2015

Nina Sellars

Bio Art Series Artist 2019

Aaron Outhwaite

Bio Art Series Artist 2019

D’Arcy Wilson

Pop Up Artist 2015

Peter Dykhuis

Pop Up Artist 2017

Quill Christie Peters

Artist, Earthline Tattoo Collective (2019)

Rémi Belliveau

Pop Up Artist 2017

Sandra Brownlee

Pop Up Artist 2015

Sara Roth

Curator 2015

Sarah Murphy

Dance Artist

Mark Bovey

Pop Up Artist 2015

Stacey Fayant

Artist, Earthline Tattoo Collective (2019)

Stelarc

Bio Art Series Artist 2019

William Robinson

Pop Up Artist 2017

YORODEO

Pop Up Artist 2015

Alisa Arsenault

IOTA Gallery Artist

Spectres of Shortwave / Ombres des ondes courtes, 1 hour 53 minutes, colour 5.1 sound, filmed on 35mm film, finished to 2k DCP, 2016

Amanda Dawn Christie

IOTA Artist

Brandon Hoax

IOTA Gallery Artist

Hackteria

IOTA Collaborator

SIX QUESTIONS

IOTA conducts interviews with artists and collaborators. Click through interviews to read artists, writers, curators, and other collaborators discuss their research and practice.