Bio

CINDY POREMBA (C.V.) is a digital media researcher, artist and curator, exploring the intersection of documentary, videogames and interactive art. She is currently an FQRSC postdoctoral fellow, researching infrastructure for documentary videogames, in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University.

Cindy completed a PhD in interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University in Montreal where she worked in association with the Centre for Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) . She holds an MASc in Interactive Arts from Simon Fraser University, as well as a BA from the University of Waterloo in Rhetoric & Professional Writing. Cindy is a former faculty member in Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT), who has presented internationally at both conferences and invited lectures, and has published work in journals such as Eludamos and Games & Culture. She has also organized non-traditional exhibitions as an independent curator, including Joue le jeu/Play Along, a major exhibition of ground-breaking videogames in Paris, FR, and “new arcade” events as a member of the Kokoromi game art collective.