Ian Campbell

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About Ian

Ian Campbell is the Film Department's Lab Instructor. Ian holds a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Victoria (2002) and an MFA in Studio Arts Open Media from Concordia University (2006). Ian is a filmmaker and media artist who works with traditional and digital film techniques.

His research areas are digital filmmaking and digital effects, live video mixing, expanded cinema and 3d printing. His practice encompasses theatrical screenings, single-channel video and live media performances.

He has shown new media art across Canada and Internationally, including group exhibitions and performances at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Mendel Art Gallery, CCA (Glasgow), 300m3 (Gothenburg), EPCOR Centre (Calgary), the Parisian Laundry (Montreal) and The Mackenzie Art Gallery. His short experimental films have screened at Festival Nouveau Cinema (Montreal), Antimatter (Victoria), WNDX (Winnipeg), Dawson City International Film Festival (Yukon) and The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany). He has presented outdoor projection-based works at Nuit Blanche Regina (2022, 2019, 2018) and Nuit Blanche Saskatoon (2023, 2015, 2014).

His short film The Flats (2018) was nominated for a Saskatchewan Independent Film Award in the categories of “Best Short Film” and “Technical Achievement Production Design”. In 2022 he performed an expanded cinema performance using antique 35mm film projectors with collaborator Heidi Phillips at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.