Brandon Poole is an artist, filmmaker, and PhD Candidate 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 architecture, simulation, and the image, while his films document the folkloric and vernacular constructions of place. He holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours, with Distinction) from the University of Victoria. 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), Mimesis (US), non_syntax (Tokyo/Taipei), Antimatter (Victoria), Suspaustus Laikas (Vilnius), and Iowa City Docs, among others. He is a Lecturer in the Visual Arts department at the University of Victoria. For more information, please contact.