Evie Johnny Ruddy
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About Evie Johnny
Dr. Evie Johnny Ruddy is Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies and Design in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance. They are an interdisciplinary artist and scholar and a trans nonbinary settler of Irish, French, and German descent living in oskana kâ-asastêki in Treaty 4. Evie Johnny creates interactive augmented reality (AR), web-based, and locative audio experiences to disrupt settler-colonial, cisheteropatriarchal logics and imagine more joyful and liberatory futures.
A 2025-27 Humanities Research Institute Fellow, Evie Johnny is researching queer, trans, and Two Spirit worldbuilding in AR. Their research creation is at the intersection of creative technologies, trans studies, queer theory, critical race theory, and design justice. Their SSHRC-funded doctoral dissertation, “Transing Matter(s): Queer and Trans Augmented Reality and Projection Activism in Shared Settler-Colonial Environments” explores how AR and projection mapping can be used to enact t4t care, queer and denaturalize settler-colonial spaces, and disrupt hegemonic views of matter and corporeality.
Evie Johnny was Program Coordinator and Sound Editor for Buffalo Futurism, a collaboratively created Indigenous futuristic AR experience. In 2025, Buffalo Futurism was exhibited at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Evie Johnny's interactive web project with the National Film Board, Un/tied, won a Digital Dozen: Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award from Columbia University School of the Arts Digital Storytelling Lab and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award in the category of Best Production – Interactive.
As an ethicist with Dr. Laura Horak’s Transgender Media Lab, Evie Johnny collaboratively created the Transgender Media Portal, an award-winning searchable website of trans-made films and audiovisual media. They continue to work with the Lab as a collaborator on Dr. Horak’s SSHRC Insight project, “Linking Worlds: Trans Filmmaking, Arts Institutions, and the Intersectional Feminist Digital Humanities.”
Evie Johnny’s digital art has been exhibited at Nuit Blanche in Saskatoon, the Art Gallery of Swift Current, and the RIT City Art Space in Rochester, New York. Recent publications include, “Enacting Our Values: Practical Applications of Ethics in the Transgender Media Lab,” co-written with Laura Horak, in the Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice, and the community resource, Buffalo Futurism Field Trips: A Toolkit for Teachers, written in collaboration with interdisciplinary artist Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway.