JCCC Gallery's featured artist for Nuit Blanche this Fall, Maari Sugawara will exhibit a series of immersive audio and video installations entitled, "Algorithms of Innocence". Maari Sugawara (born 1994 in Tokyo, Japan), a Japanese interdisciplinary artist, researcher, translator, writer, and soon-to-be Ph.D. student at the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong, splits her time between Toronto, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. She is the recipient of the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), established by the Research Grants Council (RGC). Employing a wide range of mediums such as VR, animation, videography, and stock materials, Maari problematizes aspects of Japanese national and cultural identity and encourages a departure from traditional categories of difference.

Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre

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