Benjamin Edelberg
Director from 2014 – 2017
Benjamin Edelberg is a Chicago-born, Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist. He served as TAIS board member and member of the Executive: Secretary from 2014-2017. His work has been shown at galleries and film festivals such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Whippersnapper Gallery, and Videofag. More info available at benjaminedelberg.org
Michael Enzbrunner
Director from 2016 – 2017
Michael Enzbrunner, or Enzi for short, is a character animator and visual artist living in Toronto. He graduated at the University of Applied Arts and Sciences in Hannover, Germany with a diploma in Design for Electronic Media. Since then he has worked on animated features, TV shows and as freelance illustrator. His independent work, which is influenced by pop culture phenomena include drawings, paintings, comics, computer animations and, most recently, experiences for VR.
Farah Yusuf
Director from 2016 – 2017
Farah Yusuf is an independent curator and art writer with a strong focus on New Media art. She has over 15 years experience in motion graphics and digital animation. Farah holds an MA in Experimental Digital Media from the University of Waterloo and a BFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practices at OCAD University where she was the recipient of the Curatorial Practice Medal and Governor General’s Academic Medal. Past curatorial projects include Eutopia at the Textile Museum of Canada, Corpus Lucida: 12th Annual Emerging Artist Exhibition at InterAccess Media Art Centre, Babel on Rosetta Stone at Gallery 1313 and Future Forward at OCADU for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in 2011.
Katie Kotler
Director from 2015 – 2017
Katie Kotler is a Toronto-based visual artist, musician and writer with a practice in installation and animation. Her work is concerned with incorporating digital animation in a physical space. She completed her MFA at OCAD University (2016), and her work has been shown with Pleasure Dome, Milk Glass Gallery, Xpace Cultural Centre, OCAD University, the Augmented Cinema Film Festival, Bluestockings magazine, Arboretum Festival and as part of the Angell Gallery’s Toronto Digital Projects. In 2016 she was a Digital Artist-in-Residence at Studio Beat. Katie is the curator of TAIS upcoming exhibition “Diamonds + Thunderbolts”, which will be presented at Trinity Square Video in 2017. Katie also works as the Programming Coordinator at Xpace Cultural Centre. More info available at katiekotler.com
Nick Fox-Gieg
Director from 2012 – 2016
Nick Fox-Gieg is an animator based in Toronto and New York. His film The Orangewon the jury prize for Best Animated Short at SXSW 2010; Nick’s films have also screened at the Ottawa, Rotterdam, and TIFF film festivals, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and on CBC TV. Nick was awarded an Eyebeam Fellowship in 2012, a Fulbright Fellowship to the Netherlands in 2006, and has received media arts grants from Bravo!FACT, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the arts councils of Ontario, Pennsylvania, Toronto, and West Virginia. He holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Brett Long
Director from 2015 – 2016
Brett Long is an independent stop motion filmmaker. Known online and throughout art scenes for his high concept and innovative approach on music videos and live projections under the alias “Exploding Motor Car” – a Toronto artists collective. Brett has worked on both commercial and independent projects. He has directed and animated multiple music videos and has been involved in many short films and documentary’s. He has recently worked at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios on TV shows such as SuperMansion and Robot Chicken in L.A. Brett experiments combining old with new in-camera film techniques. He has achieved completing a highly technical process on a stop motion project for virtual reality called “In Dubitably” and is focused to further develop more techniques in the format.
Madi Piller
Oliver Vidovic
Director from 2012 – 2014
Leslie Supnet
Director from 2012 – 2013
Craig Marshall
Director/Vice-President from 2007 – 2014
Mitchell Lauzon
Director from 2007 – 2012
Neil LaPointe
Director from 2007 – 2012
Ruth Tait
Director/Treasurer from 2007 – 2012
Jeffrey Tran
Director from 2007 – 2012
Bob Wiseman
Director from 2007 – 2012
Bryce Hallett
Director from 2004 – 2006
Secretary from 2006 – 2012
Patrick Jenkins
Director/President from 1998 – 2001
