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Susan Schuppli is an artist and cultural theorist whose work explores the latent potential of machines to short-circuit normative understandings of media and its received social, cultural, and political encodings.

Working within the domains of video, sound, and interactive media several recent art projects have examined the anxieties that arise when commonplace technologies are rendered strange again. Her work has been exhibited throughout Canada as well as in Australia, the UK, and USA.

Another strand of her research has focused upon the articulation of Canadian identities within film and architecture. In 2005 she guest-edited a special edition of BlackFlash journal that brought together cultural practioners from across Canada to reflect upon the contested legacy of Expo 67 in Montreal.

Her doctoral research is focused upon the reanimation of nonorganic matter with specific attention paid to the ways in which machines produce micro-perceptual events that have the conjunctive capacity to create promiscuous connections with others histories; thus redistributing the narrative fields into which they had previously been inscribed.