camille turner
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Camille Turner is a Toronto based media/performance artist and curator whose inter-cultural engagements explore the social dimensions of technology. She uses digital media art to build bridges across cultures and differences, help communities and individuals tell their stories and create meaningful exchanges that contribute to social change.

Active in the new media community, she is a founding member of Year Zero One, a collective operating as a network for the dissemination of digital culture and she has curated several exhibitions for Subtle Technologies a festival that blurs the boundaries between art and science.

Camille has presented talks, workshops, performances and exhibitions of her work throughout Canada, USA, UK, Senegal, Australia, Germany and Mexico.

Her ongoing performance projects include: Miss Canadiana, a beauty queen on a 'round the world Red, White and Beautiful Tour, who challenges assumptions of Canadian identity and normative beauty and The Final Frontier, an afro-futurist work in which astronauts from an ancient African civilization return home to earth save the planet.