Mary Bunch

Mary Bunch is an Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University, and Canada Research Chair in Critical Media Arts Ecologies. Her research develops socio-political concepts through critical theory and media arts creation, informed by decolonizing, critical disability and queer frameworks.  She has published articles in such journals as Psicanálise, Gênero, Fronteiras, Culture, Theory and Critique, the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Public, and Feminist Theory. Her SSHRC funded project Pluriversal Worlding with Extended Reality, develops a methodology of transition worldmaking that engages ‘world’ as a frame of reality, as well as being a narrative and aesthetic element of media arts works.

Bunch’s artworks, co-created with Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, have exhibited at Nuit Blanche (2022), ImagineNative (2023), and the Aga Khan Museum (2024), and the United Nations conference on Water (2023), among other venues. She is co-editor of a special issue on Access Aesthetics in the journal Public, and has a monograph-in-progress titled Ecstatic Ethics. Dr. Bunch is on the Executive Committee of Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, is a member of Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society, and a Research Associate of York’s Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages.

She is an affiliate of Guelph University’s  Revision Centre for Art and Social Justice, and a Fellow of the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.  Bunch is co-Director of the Peripheral Visions CoLab.