MEET THE TEAM

Vicki Van Chau (she/her) has been involved with AMAAS since 2008 when she first started working at EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society. She joined the Board of Directors from 2015 – 2019, and facilitated the XR Artist in Residence Program at the 2022 AMAAS Media Arts Conference in St. Paul. This is her first conference as the Executive Director.

Joe Kelly (he/him) is a Calgary-based filmmaker and media artist whose works have been screened and awarded internationally. He explores and experiments with analog and digital video, animation, photography, super 8, 16 and 35mm format film, and creates kinetic sculptures to present his video-based installations that blend the wonder of early cinema with contemporary media technology.

Sophia Lengle (she/her) started working at AMAAS in March 2020 as the Sponsorship and Bursary Program Coordinator and have since taken on the One2One Grant Mentorship Program as well. She has also recently implemented our membership onto AMS and currently maintains and updates our database.

Tyler McKinney (they/he) is a Two-Spirited Cree/Métis/Chinese/Vietnamese storyteller, filmmaker, and photographer based in Central Alberta. With over a decade of experience in independent journalism, visual storytelling, and digital media, Tyler’s work centers Indigenous voices, cultural reconnection, and stories that foster healing and resilience.

Teresa Tam (she/her) is an artist from and based in Calgary. She likes to alter spaces and experiences that are familiar, making them a bit foreign through re-interpreting and re-creating. Tam’s projects are developed to emphasize audience interactions as integral components to her work, impelled by the possibility of people experiencing something intimately personal through action. Tam doesn’t specialize in anything, but likes to work with digital processes, functional installations, all things shaped in paper, excessive labour, and collections of mildly niche objects. Recent work includes the Good Job Arcade project. She graduated from AUArts in 2014 and co-runs Yolkless Press with Areum Kim. She’s currently interested in: finding spots to cloud gaze and daydream again.