About us
Art Threat is an online publication devoted to political art and cultural policy. We write about art that seeks to interpret, influence, or reflect upon society. We discuss policy as it pertains to culture. And we showcase artists whose work inspires social change. Whether your passion is video or visual art, design or drama, music or literary musings, we’ve got you covered with a blanket of information and eye candy.
Art Threat is volunteer driven, and we appreciate any way you can help spread the word. Be sure to find us on Facebook, follow us on twitter, or sign up for our email updates.
Art Threat is published by Art Threat Publishing Inc, a nonprofit organization. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $20.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada.
Editor
Rob Maguire is an arts marketing consultant and the marketing director for a music festival in Saskatoon. Once a gigging musician, Rob unceremoniously ditched the Econoline a decade ago in favour of a MacBook and a megaphone. Connect with him on Twitter and LinkedIn, or visit his not-often-enough-updated arts marketing blog.
Contributing Editors
Ezra Winton is the founder of Cinema Politica, the largest campus-based documentary screening network in the world. He dangles one foot in activism and the other in academia, where he researches documentary cinema, audiences and the politics of witnessing. He teaches and studies at Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communication and is the co-editor of Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada.
Amanda McCuaig is an artist, journalist, and designer living in Vancouver. She studied political economy of communications at SFU, resulting in a quiet anxiety over consumerism and a permanent itch to re-democratize media(/everything). After years of training her parents mostly understand that she actually doesn’t want things for Christmas. Her paintings can be seen at mettlelurgy.com.
Michael Lithgow is a PhD candidate at Carleton University in the School of Journalism and Communication. His research explores the aesthetics of mediated truth in performance, installation and new media contexts. He is a research associate with OpenMedia.ca and the Canadian Alternative Media Archive. Selections of his poetry have appeared in Rutting Season (Buffalo Runs Press, 2009), Undercurrents: New Voices in Canadian Poetry (Cormorant Books, 2011), and a variety of Canadian journals. His first collection of poems, Waking in the Tree House, was recently published by Cormorant Books (2012).
Kevin Yuen Kit Lo is a Montreal-based art director and graphic designer with a penchant for community organizing through art, music and design. He runs an independent design and communications consulting practice under the name of LOKi design, specializing in work within the cultural and activist spheres. He publishes the zine Four Minutes to Midnight, exploring the intersections of typography, poetics and politics. Kevin holds a BFA in Design Art from Concordia University and an MA in graphic design from the London College of Printing.
Regular Contributors
Stefan Christoff is a writer, community organizer and musician in Montreal. He tweets as @spirodon, and you can find his music at soundcloud.com/spirodon.
Julia Pyper covers energy and environment issues for ClimateWire in Washington D.C. She interned at 60 Minutes while getting her master’s at the Columbia J-School, and has dabbled in all sorts of multimedia storytelling. She grew up on a horse farm in Ontario and needs to do more yoga. She tweets as @JMPyper.
Colin Horgan is a parliamentary reporter in Ottawa for iPolitics.ca. In the past, he has been a contributor for the Guardian, the Calgary Herald, the Globe and Mail, and Maclean’s On Campus. In his spare time, Colin likes thinking about and planning his escape. He is from Calgary, and tweets as @cfhorgan.
More contributors: Derek Wall, Race Capet, Valerie Cardinal, Terry Fairman, Laurence Miall, Tyler Morgenstern.
