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Myron Campbell, MAA
Associate Professor of Teaching
Creative Studies, Media Studies, Visual Arts
Other Titles: Media ArtsOffice: CCS 161
Email: myron.campbell@ubc.ca
Research Summary
Visual art, media arts, interactive installation; screen-based interactive animation; traditional & digital media arts; digital design.
Courses & Teaching
Visual Art; Media Studies, Digital Media
Biography
Myron Campbell is an Educator, Media Artist and Designer from Kelowna, BC.
Campbell created interactive web experiences with the Trailer Park Boys in Halifax in 2001, before joining the Banff Centre for the Arts as Lead Designer of Horizon Zero, an online digital arts and culture magazine in 2003. During this time, his personal net art site (notsosimpleton.com) was archived in the Museum for Applied Art’s digital collection in Frankfurt, Germany.
After several years of a continuing art practice and freelance design and animation, Campbell joined Switch United in 2008 as their youngest Art Director, co-creating interactive installations for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and winning Best Interactive Designer at the Canadian New Media Awards. He completed an MAA with distinction at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2012, receiving the Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence. Following two years as Instructor and then Senior Instructor in the Digital Design Program at Vancouver Film School, Campbell joined UBC Okanagan as faculty in the Creative Studies department, where he has taught digital media since 2014.
Currently, his design practice spans branding, identity and packaging, with deep roots in the Okanagan. He has led branding projects for Nixon Hospitality Group and a number of their properties including BNA Brewing Co., Skinny Duke’s Glorious Emporium, Bernie’s Supper Club, Snowshoe Sam’s, and Hello Darlin’, and has created package designs for Elephant Island Winery, among many others.
Community building has been a constant thread throughout Campbell’s career. He organizes Objects in Motion, a celebration of international animated short films that has been a fixture of the Living Things festival for over a decade, and Draw By Night, a free drop-in drawing event now that brings together students, faculty and members of the public. His newest venture, Humans in Motion, which is a curated screening of international live action short films.
Websites
Degrees
MAA in Media Arts, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 2012; Diploma in Visual Communications, Medicine Hat College, 2001
Research Interests & Projects
My current research questions the role of monstrosity in animal human hybrid characters and presents them as predominant metaphors for the underlying animal nature present in sentient beings.
Selected Grants & Awards
Media Arts Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create, 2021
Media Arts Grant, BC Arts Council. Category 1, 2013 & 2018
Aspire Learning and Teaching Fund, 2018-19
Media Arts Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, 2006
Bravo!Fact Video Grant, 2006
Awards & Distinctions
Governor General Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, 2012
Best Interactive Designer. Canadian New Media Awards, Toronto, ON, 2010
Best in Illustration. Applied Arts Awards, Toronto, ON, 2010
New Media Mention. FCCM – Montréal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media, 2004
Solo Exhibitions
Ghosts of Robert Lake. One on One Gallery. Medicine Hat, AB, 2020
Ghosts of Robert Lake. Vernon Public Art Gallery. Lake Country, BC, 2018
Kelowna Art Gallery @ YLW. Kelowna, BC, 2017
Distant Air. Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre. Medicine Hat, AB, 2006
Group Exhibitions
Enchantments – Salin des Pesquiers, Giens Peninsula, France, 2026
Nocturne Festival – Halifax, NS, 2023
Cultivated – Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, AB, 2022
AR Bernard – Bernard St., Kelowna, BC, 2021
18.01528 G/MOL – Lake Country Art Gallery, 2018
A New Digital Biennale – Wonder Cabinet of the Big Electric Cat. thewrong.org, 2013
National Portrait Gallery. Latitude 53, Edmonton, AB, 2010
Twitter/Art Social Media. Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2010
Fire In The Sky. Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, IRL, 2009
Whaleless. Strychnin Gallery, London, UK, 2008
WAFA Group Show 01: An Exercise in Patience. WAFA Studios, Seattle, WA, 2008
FILE – Electronic Language International Festival. Rio De Janeiro, BR & São Paulo, BR, 2005, 2007 & 2008
High Performance Rodeo. Calgary, AB, 2007
Lumen Eclipse: Harvard Square Showcase 02. Harvard University, Boston, MA, 2005
ZOOROOM: A Room With A Zoo. Resister Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2005
Trace. Clothworthy Arts Centre, Antrim, NIR, 2005 / The Grove Gallery, Downpatrick, NIR, 2004
Professional Services/Affiliations/Committees
The AMP Lab at UBCO
The Confluence of Religious Cultures in Medieval Historiography: A Digital Edition of the General e Grand Estoria (DEGE)
The Applied Behaviour Change (ABC) Lab