Brandon Poole is an artist, filmmaker, and PhD Student at McGill University’s School of Architecture, where is he is a Vadasz Scholar and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow. With a background in journalism and philosophy, his practice and research examines the entwined histories and speculative futures of media, simulation, and the image. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (with honours and distinction) from the University of Victoria and a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. His work has been exhibited at Dazibao (Montreal), the Toronto Biennial, the Art Museum (University of Toronto), Polygon Gallery  (Vancouver), and Deluge Contemporary Art (Victoria, BC). His films have screened at EXiS (Seoul), Antimatter (Victoria), non_syntax (Tokyo/Taipei), Suspaustus Laikas (Vilnius), Mimesis (US), and Iowa City Docs, among others.