Evie Johnny Ruddy

"Evie Johnny Ruddy is a trans non-binary artist, scholar, and settler living in Treaty 4 territory. They are an Assistant Professor in Creative Technologies & Design in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina and a PhD Candidate in Cultural Mediations at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. ​Evie Johnny designs and creates interactive augmented reality, web-based, and locative audio experiences to disrupt colonial, cisheteropatriarchal logics and reimagine more joyful and liberatory futures. They live in oskana kâ-asastêki, colonially known as Regina, in Treaty 4 – the territory of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis Nation."

Evie Johnny Ruddy is a trans non-binary white settler living in Treaty 4. They are a socially engaged interdisciplinary artist and PhD Candidate in Cultural Mediations at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. As a PhD Fellow with the Transgender Media Lab, Evie is researching feminist lab ethics and helping to develop an online database of film and audiovisual works made by transgender, Two Spirit, non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming artists. In 2020, Evie’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 2019, Evie partnered with UR Pride Centre for Sexuality and Gender Diversity to lead Stories That Move You, a portrait and digital storytelling project by and for transgender and non-binary people in Saskatchewan. Evie co-produced and created the audio walking tour Queering the Queen City, which features place-based stories told by queer, trans, and Two Spirit people at sites throughout downtown Regina and the city’s Heritage Community in Treaty 4. Their doctoral research investigates improvisation as a method for ethical co-creation between media artists and trans collaborators.