Submissions are reviewed by a jury panel chaired by EQ Bank’s Senior Curator, Shannon Linde, and four invited guests from the digital and contemporary art communities. Learn more about each of the 2025 guest judges below.
Lillian O’Brien Davis (she/her) is the Associate Curator at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. She previously held the position of Curator of Collections and Contemporary Art Engagement at the Goldfarb Gallery of York University. She has curated independent projects at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto), and School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba. Her writing has appeared in BlackFlash Magazine, Peripheral Review, Canadian Art online, C Magazine, and RACAR Art History Journal.
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Maxwell Lander (he/they) is an Assistant Professor of New Media at Toronto Metropolitan University. Their work spans many mediums, from games to XR, photography, film and music and is entangled in many conceptual frameworks, the most central of which is queer and trans subjectivities. They have a Masters from OCAD University, where they explored technology’s engagement with the body through custom controller design. They have exhibited games in festivals like Come Up To My Room and Vectorfest, and have released multiple tabletop roleplaying games, most notably one of Gizmodo’s best RPGs of 2022, Himbos of Myth & Mettle.
Rea McNamara is a writer and curator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her practice explores the participatory cultures of networked counterpublics, particularly media fandoms. Past exhibitions and curatorial projects include I came to ruin you: The Collecting Practices of K-pop Fandoms (co-curated with Bo Shin for York University’s Special Projects Gallery, 2025), Wake Windows: The Witching Hour (MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2024), and dis-ease (Vector Festival, 2021). Additionally, McNamara has written about art and online cultures for Hyperallergic, Border Crossings, Frieze, and more. Currently, she is an SSHRC-funded MA candidate in York University’s Art History and Visual Culture program.
Bomi Yook is a media artist based in Calgary working with immersive media, experimental animation, and video performance. Her work explores hybridity in identity, cultural landscapes, and knowledge systems, often drawing on the collective memory of the Korean diaspora and its ties to immigration and colonization. Yook holds an MFA from UCLA and a BFA from Alberta University of the Arts. Her work has shown internationally- including Los Angeles, Seoul, Santa Fe, Greece, Toronto, Montreal, Sackville, Saint John, Moncton, Banff, and Calgary. She received the 2023 Emerging Digital Artist Award and has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, UCLA, and New Media Caucus.
