They/Them
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. Their research is at the intersection of creative technologies, trans studies, queer theory, media and communications theory, critical race theory, critical geography, and design justice. Their SSHRC-funded doctoral research focuses on affective encounters with trans and queer digital media art in everyday urban spaces.
In 2020, Evie Johnny'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. Evie Johnny created and co-produced the locative audio tour Queering the Queen City, which features place-based stories told by queer, trans, and Two Spirit people in downtown Regina. More recently, they were Project Coordinator and Sound Editor for Buffalo Futurism, a collaboratively created Indigenous futuristic AR experience in māmowimīwēyitamōwin Park. As a digital and lab ethicist with the Transgender Media Lab, they collaboratively created the Transgender Media Portal – an online searchable website of trans-made films.
Evie Johnny lives 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.