Lila Pine

Lila Pine is a New Media artist and Principal Investigator of Imag(in)ing Indigeneity in Language, a SSHRC funded program of research/creation. Her work employs digital art creation as a scholarly research tool to shift perceptions around the relationship of language to worldviews and ecological concerns. Using cymatics, she seeks to develop a way of “seeing” languages.

Lila received her MFA from York University in Toronto and PhD from the European Graduate School. In 2011, she defended her dissertation, entitled Memory Matters: Touching the Untouchable, which theorizes oral, literate and “electrate” cultures. Dr. Pine graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Lila divides her time between Tkaronto where she teaches and Gespegawagi where she does her primary research. Presently, she is working on Fairy Stone Story, a genre bending book about memory, identity and language.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2019 - Laura Heidenheim; Project-Paper: Circle Of Aunties: Fostering Co-Conspiratorship With Families Of MMIWGT2S In The Resistance of Settler Colonial Violence

2018 – Paul De Silva; Dissertation: Mind the Gap: Exploring the Experiences of Diasporic Media Producers and Representations of Cultural Diversity in Canada

2006 - Olatokunbo Olaleye; Project-Paper: Digitizing Ibadan: explorations of the photoblogosphere as a site of resistance