Tracing her family’s migration from Ukraine to the Canadian prairies and her own journey from Saskatchewan to Glasgow via Montreal, Dmyterko reflects on how these generational movements are captured in the symbolic motifs of her vibrant paintings.
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Beyond the Black Box: Darsha Hewitt on Media Archaeology and Technological Intimacy
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Greg J. Smith
January 19, 2026
Writer and scholar Greg J. Smith speaks with media artist Darsha Hewitt about how domestic life is shaped by contemporary technologies and what happens when those technologies become obsolete.
Ella Gonzales: Memory’s Architecture
By
Trey Le
January 13, 2026
Translucent, overlapping forms echo architectural drawings, but their fragile outlines pulse with haunting beauty, charting the emotional landscape we associate with the idea of home.
BlackFlash 42.2 Fall 2025
By
Madeline Bogoch
September 30, 2025
Several of the works in this issue consider how the domestic is shaped not only by private life but also by global currents, family histories, and consumer goods, nudging at the conditions that shape how we live, where we live, and with whom we choose to share our lives.
To Speak & Spell When You’re Up Against the Wall
By
Luis Jacob
July 24, 2025
Following a thread from colonial hauntings to Freudian repression, Jacob reflects on the aftermath of the recent ousting of Wanda Nanibush from her position at the Art Gallery of Ontario over her pro-Palestinian stance, examining what fault lines are revealed by the residual traces left in this wake.
Sticky Meanings: Scent, power and the work of Elaine Cameron-Weir
By
Lindsey Sharman
July 15, 2025
“Elaine Cameron-Weir’s material transformations reference, eschew, and play with these sticky meanings to reveal the invisible traces of power that dance around every aspect of our lives.”
As the conversation unfolds, the two discuss alchemy, medicine, sickness, symbolism, and artmaking in a tender exchange which is both enchanting and artful.
Slow Burn: on the 37th annual Images Festival
By
Madeline Bogoch
July 3, 2025
the evolving nature of solidarity in fraught moment
Some call it DIY, others call it workers’ control: Interview with Lily Jue Sheng
By
Steff Huì Cí Ling
April 11, 2025
Expanding on a discussion that took place at Anthology Film Archives following a screening of Lily Jue Sheng’s work, Steff Huì Cí Ling examines what it means to organize as arts workers while building solidarity beyond the sector and create art with “working-class intention” in a “bourgeois context.”
Celestial Throne: Augmented Reality
By
Rah Eleh
March 28, 2025
Use augmented reality to expose clues in the “Celestial Throne” game show.
Shirley Cards: A history of photography’s bias
By
Juan Ortiz-Apuy
March 28, 2025
A chance encounter at a thrift store sparked artist Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s (QC) project ‘Shirleys’. Inspired by vintage Kodak cards used to calibrate colour and skin tone, Ortiz-Apuy challenges the illusion of neutrality in lens-based technology.