Eva Nesselroth-Woyzbun is a third year doctoral student in the York-Ryesron Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture. Her primary research concerns the material aspects of digital communication tools. Her research explores ways in which we can apply Marshall McLuhan’s aphorism, the medium is the message to digital technologies. In particular, how do the material aspects of digital tools impact the ways in which we create, transfer, and receive information over digital media? Her research also includes a study of the philosophical works of Walter Benjamin, Bruno Latour, and the early communications scholars, Harold Innis and Walter Ong. From these legacies we can trace the insights of those who were concerned with the relationship between a society’s use of materials and deeper epistemological values. She holds an MA from York University in Communication and Culture, and an Hon. BA in Semiotics and Communication from the University of Toronto. She is also an avid gamer, amateur mycologist, low-brow art connoisseur, and an incorrigible varlet.

Eva is a partner on the LOT 3 project which includes an exploration of Toronto’s Baby Point neighbourhood and its mixed, contested and subjective histories. LOT 3 will combine large-scale projections in Etienne Brule park and an interactive experience of the landscape’s rich and varied histories that will include park visitors and spectators. This project aims to destabilize the conflicting Anglo, Franco, and Indigenous histories of the area – a landscape that serves as a archive for the location’s histories of violence and peace, settlement and displacement, and recurring erasures and inscriptions. Eva is also a contributor to LOT’s current urban experiments in Willowdale, Ontario. She has been a member of LOT since May, 2007.