Jury

DB Boyko
DB Boyko has been pursuing the various disciplines of performance since 1974. She has had extended periods of study and exploration in music, theatre, dance, and voice. Her influences have come from the world of avant-garde/contemporary dance and music and the traditions of world music, dance and theatre (i.e. Balinese dance, mask and ritual and Javanese sung poetry). Her career as a free-lance artist has included performing in a wide variety of projects from Gamelan Orchestra, improvised music, modern dance, to mainstream theatre.

In recent years she has been active as a vocalist, composer and music director. She has provided live and tape scores for several Vancouver dance and theatre productions. She performs with several improvising ensembles including the all women VIEW Ensemble and Crossing Borders Ensemble. DB has also devoted much of her energy to producing the work of other artists as curator for the Music Program of the Vancouver artist-run-centre The Western Front. Throughout the years she has managed a successful balancing act between performing, teaching, directing, managing and producing in a broad cross section of artistic projects in dance, film, theatre and music.

Isabelle Hayeur
Isabelle Hayeur is a media arts performer who lives and works in Montreal. She is devoted to the field of digital imaging, video and Internet art. Her recent work invites us to reflect on the state of the landscape and the numerous transformations (real or simulated) that it undergoes due to technology. She has had exhibitions in Quebec and across Canada and participates in many international video festivals. She is a member of Fresh Air, a women’s collective dedicated to art in situ (http://fresh-air.ca) and of Year Zero One, a center for online artists whose mandate is to promote the distribution of new media.

Julie Lapalme
Lapalme tied for the Bell Fund Award with Chia-Yi Tung at this year’s Cyberpitch 2.0 held by the Festival international nouveau Cinéma nouveaux Médias in Montreal. She pitched a work in progress, TONGUE RUG:TAPIS À LANGUES, a project which consists of the mapping of specific waypoints in the Québec landscape, using a GPS, a bike and Flash. She began her research as a resident artist at EMMEDIA, Calgary, AB. Her multimedia project, TRAINED TALES, begun during a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, has been exhibited in shows and festivals in Halifax NS, Moncton NB, St-John’s NF, Montreal and São Paulo, Brasil.

laura jeanne lefave
laura jeanne lefave abandoned her real name in 1995. Since then, she has battled against capital letters which crop up incessantly. An artist in media arts, her work has been presented in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. In addition to her artistic work, she has worked as a video editor and in art centers, notably at the Centre de production DAÏMÕN - photos, videos, new media - in Hull where she is Artistic Coordinator. She also lectures at Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts where she teaches Women in Fine Arts: Gender and Technology.

Stephanie Morrissette
Stéphanie Morissette has just completed a post-graduate diploma specializing in International Artistic Cooperation in Paris, for which she travelled to several European countries in 2002. She met and interviewed a number of artists in addition to visiting many organizations, festivals and media art events. She organized a round table on self censorship with new forms of creation at ISEA 2002 in Japan. She worked at the 5e Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Electronique de Montréal, Cité des Ondes, in September 2002. She also participated in an artist's residency at the Straumur Art Commune in Iceland.