Cassandra Gemmell
Raised in Mississauga, Cassandra Gemmell studied Anthropology and Art History at the University of Toronto, where she first became interested in situating media within a legacy of inherited visual and technical conventions, while acknowledging its agency in shaping the cultural landscape. In current research as a graduate student studying Contemporary Art, Design and New Media at OCAD University, Gemmell explores the historical precedents of new media, such as Artificial Intelligence, with focus on technology, myth, and the intersection of aesthetics and science. Gemmell’s research approaches the body as a text, and as a site of social mapping where myths of technology and science, narratives of citizenship and subjectivity, and cultural conceptions of health, deviance, and disease are formed.