Uncategorized - Dinacon 2025

Dates: Likely all the dates?

Project: Something experimental and playful. More to come!

Bio: Marie LeBlanc Flanagan is an artist working in the playful spaces between people, especially related to connection and community. Marie builds experimental video games, playful installations, and cooperative experiences and has an enduring fondness for the possibilities of trash.

Marie co-founded Wyrd Arts Initiatives, founded Drone Day; served as the editor-in-chief of Weird Canada; co-founded Imaginary Residency (an artist-run online residency); co-founded Toronto Games Week; and co-organizes GAIA. Marie has worked with Wizard Zines, A MAZE. Berlin International Games and Playful Media Festival, The Processing Foundation, The School of Machines, Making, and Make-Believe, Ada x, Daily Tous Les Jours, and Game Arts International Network.

A photo of marie, backlit by the sun and ocean and grinning so wide their eyes are closed. The wind is making a mess of their hair. It's a bit hard to see their face, you just see that they are happy in the moment

A hand-made book project focused on water and flora of Bali

Judy Major-Girardin

Judy Major-Girardin received a BFA from the University of Windsor and an MFA from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. She is a recently retired Professor from the School of the Arts at McMaster University where she taught for 39 years. She lives in Cambridge Ontario and has served as Co-Chair of the Cambridge Sculpture Garden since 2005. Her studio work includes an integrated practise of painting, printmaking, drawing, artist books, and fiber-based works that raise awareness for the preservation and celebration of wetland environments. She has exhibited throughout Canada and the USA and internationally through exhibitions in New Zealand, Portugal, and Taiwan. She has attended artist residencies in British Columbia, Newfoundland, Quebec, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Portugal, New Zealand, and most recently in France.

www.judymajorgirardin.com

Duration in Bali: June 28 – July11

I plan to make a hand-made book focused on ideas and challenges related to water. I would like to generate a second book focused on plants with medical or food applications if time allows. I will be bringing a small underwater camera, a field guide to flora of Bali and some art supplies.