Faculty of Communication, Art + Technology

The Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology houses schools and programs advancing the practice and scholarly study of the intersection of culture and technology, precisely where some of the most important and exciting developments are to be found.

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Featured Graduate Student

  • Anthony is focusing on Digital Health Technologies (DHTs) at the centre of delivering health interventions moving into the mid 21st century. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

  • Emily is a MPub Masters of Publishing student in the School of Contemporary Arts and research focused on media literacy, publishing, media and technology. (Graduate Fellowship Award and Dean's Honour Roll)

  • Zohra is a Publishing Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose program is the mixture of theory and practice related to publishing industry. (Graduate Fellowship)

  • Aniana is a Publishing Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology interested in the publishing industry. (Graduate Fellowship, Southam Graduate Entrance Scholarship in Publishing)

  • Erin is a Publishing Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology researching on zines and the zine community of the west coast of Canada as a publishing counterculture.(BC Graduate Scholarship)

  • Nazmus is an Interactive Arts & Technology Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology studying fictions and speculations in his design research to foresee different future of possibilities. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

  • Armaghan is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology tackling different types of challenges in different aspects moving from the project forward and achieving the best possible result. (Centre for Digital Media Scholarship)

  • Chelsea is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology working on diverse projects to practice skills, such as, product management, game design and UX design. (Centre for Digital Media Scholarship)

  • Simranjot is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology learning to develop essential communication, collaboration and leadership skills. (Centre for Digital Media Scholarship)

  • Mzwakithi is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology turning nascent ideas into tangible prototypes/digital artifacts. (Centre for Digital Media Scholarship)

  • Ruchika is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology focusing on experiential learning with projects to solve real-world problems for clients across the digital media industry like Gaming, Healthcare, Extended Reality, Entertainment. (Centre for Digital Media Scholarship)

  • Mary is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose main focus is on UX design. (Gerri Sinclair Award Digital Media)

  • Nwaufa is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology creating compelling character designs, exploring new fields of design and bringing ideas to life. (Centre for Digital Media Scholarship)

  • Ying is a Digital Media master's student who has a high level of experience in producing RWD design, web apps and mobile applications.

  • Matthew is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research ranges from video games to virtual reality simulations. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

  • Edward is a Contemporary Arts-dance major doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Three keywords of research are Indigenous-Contemporary, Knowledge, Art (Norwegian College of Dance Scholarship, Dean's Graduate Fellowship, GPS Graduate Fellowship, Special Graduate Fellowship, DPS Graduate Fellowship, Steel Memorial Graduate Scholarships)

  • Tara is a Masters of Fine Arts student in the School of Contemporary Arts and research focuses include gender, the attention economy and neuroscience, and aging. (Colin McPhee Grad School in Fine Arts award)

  • Shauna-Kaye is a Contemporary Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research looks at situating Arts Administration as an artistic practice. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

  • Salome is a School of Contemporary Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose project explores the intersection between her cultural heritage and butoh aesthetics, deconstructing the Mexican female archetypes in performance. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

  • Kittie is a Contemporary Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology building DIY electronic instruments, and composing text and graphic scores that incorporate physical gestures, lighting, and/or other visual components. (Special Grad Entrance Scholarship, Graduate Fellowship)

  • Irfan is an interdisciplinary artist pursuing his Master of Fine Arts, and a Colin McPhee Graduate Scholarship Award recipient. Irfan explores the intersection of technology and performance with electronic instruments, feedback systems, and more.

  • Josephine is a School for the Contemporary Arts doctoral student as well as an SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship recipient. Josephine uses various artistic mediums to propose new ways of how more equitable and symbiotic futures can be created.

  • Doaa is a School of Contemporary Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences exploring race and female agency in contemporary horror films, and dance as a movement to reclaim cultural identity and dismantle white supremacy within marginalized groups. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

  • Emily is a Contemporary Art Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researching on arts integration as a foundation for social justice and decolonization in early education, with a focus on music and musical storytelling as a pedagogical tool for teaching and learning. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

  • Robert is a poet, artist, and curator who works with Jewish histories as a medium for a context and site-dependent practice.

  • Hannah is a Interactive Arts & Technology major doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology. Three keywords of research are critical data literacies; communication co-design; data visualization (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships)

  • Julian is a School of Interactive Arts and Technology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology researching the nature of reality or life in a Matrix. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

  • Rafael is an Interactive Arts & Technology Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research relates to improving Artificial Intelligence algorithms for music composition and improvisation. (Graduate Fellowship)

  • Brett is a doctoral student in the School of Interactive Art & Technology and his research looks at how documentarians can use artificial intelligence within their work to help others build critical literacy around artificial intelligence. (Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship)

  • Stan is an Interactive Arts and Technology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research revolves around the understanding that the data used in real-world decisions is messy, incomplete, and requires an exploration of alternative interpretations. (Andrew Wade Mem Scholarship; Van Pykstra Graduate Scholarship; Presidents PhD Scholarship; SFU Big Data Graduate Scholarship)

  • Lakshmi is a School of Interactive Arts & Technology Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology researching on how visual analytics methods may serve to help people recognize patterns from large sets of collected data and reflect on their wellbeing and health-related behaviors. (Fraser Health Graduate Scholarship)

  • Pinyao is an Interactive Arts & Technology Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology leveraging Virtual Reality technology to foster human connection and positive emotions. (Mitacs Globalink Fellowship)

  • Katerina is a School of Interactive Arts and Technology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research explores how the immersive powers of modern technology can be leveraged to help people become more connected with themselves, each other and the world around them. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

  • Eneas is a master's student in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology. (Graduate Fellowship)

  • Tylar is an Interactive arts & Technology PhD student researching visual anthropology, media archaeology, and how humans interface with technology to create new realities. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship, SSHRC Vanier)

  • Dongwook is a School of Communication doctoral student in the School of Interactive Art & Technology and his research looks at media and cultural studies with a focus on the everyday life practices of people. (COGECO Grad School in Communication award, Graduate Travel and Research Award)

  • Hoornaz is a Communication doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology. Three keywords of research are Transnational Feminism, Middle East, Transgressive Bodies

  • Shiyu is a Communication Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology. (Orient Star Media Graduate Scholarship in Global Communication)

  • Alex is a Communication Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology looking at the space in-between technology and art. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship, Graduate Fellowship)

  • Philippa is a Communication Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology researching how people talk about women-led films on social media sites. (Asper Graduate Fellowship in CMNS)

  • Mingmin is a Communication Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose current research concerns Political Economy of Communication, and Cultural and Media Studies. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

  • Maria is a master's student in the School of Communication and a recipient of the SSHRC-CGS Master's Scholarship. Additionally, Maria is a teaching assistant and graduate caucus secretary in the School of Communication as well as an associate editor for Stream, SFU's interdisciplinary communications journal.

  • Amy is a PhD student in the School of Communication and a recipient of the SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship. Amy's current research focuses on how museums and exhibitions about climate change help people to understand what the future will look like.

  • Thomas is a master's student interested in political communication, online participatory cultures, and film and online media studies. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

  • Carina is studying social network "thinking" from a perspective that engages both technical and social sciences. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

  • Belen is a School of Communication Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research collaborates with women who have migrated from rural parts of Ecuador to Quito, the country's capital city, and which local community media gather and share alternative experiences of wellbeing in the context of internal migration, and to collectively consider their relation to structural factors shaping women's health. (Steel Memorial Graduate Scholarship)

  • Anthony is a Communications Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology studying computation, computing, computers, and the worlds that surround them (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

  • Pearl is a Master's in Publishing student in the Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology.

  • Shaleeta is a Master's in Publishing student working to find ways to support the publishing industry. Graduate Fellowship Scholarship)

  • Gabriel is a Interactive Arts & Technology major doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology. Three keywords of research are Popular culture, Brazil, Decolonial Studies. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships)

  • Ghazal is an MFA student Interdisciplinary Arts working with virtual and augmented reality to reflect on some personal and existential subject matters. (Graduate fellowship award and the Research and Travel award)

  • Jamie is a master's student who currently works as a Managing Editor for SFU's interdisciplinary communications journal and a Teaching Assistant in the School of Communication.

  • Tin is an Interdisciplinary Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researching on how to better hold space for individual and collective reflection on identity, positionality, and place. (McPhee Grad Scholarship)

  • Mark is a Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research hopes to combine a thorough critique of how labour is used in North American prisons with an exploration of better solutions focused on rehabilitation first and foremost. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

  • Catherine is a Communication Master's Student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research focuses on the ways that finance has become a key part of everyday life. (SSHRC-CGS Master's Scholarship)

  • Homa is a Fine Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art, and Technology learning new practices of making art. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

  • Alice is a PhD student in Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology examining how journalists use preprints - studies that have not yet gone through the peer review process - and what this means for the publics who rely on their reporting. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship, Michael Stevenson Grad Scholar)

Internal + Donor Funded Awards

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School of Communication

Program Credential Tuition Completion Pathway Work Experience
Communication MA Regular Thesis; Project; Extended Essay or Project -
Communication PhD
(Minimum funding available)
Regular
Thesis -
Global Communication Double Degree MA Specialty Extended Essay Internship
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School of Contemporary Arts

Program Credential Tuition Completion Pathway
Contemporary Arts MA Regular Extended Essay
Contemporary Arts PhD
(Minimum funding available)
Regular Thesis
Fine Arts MFA Regular Project
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Digital Media Program

Program Credential Tuition Completion Pathway Work Experience
Digital Media MDM Specialty Project Internship
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School of Interactive Arts and Technology

Program Credential Tuition Completion Pathway
Interactive Arts and Technology MA Regular Thesis; Project
Interactive Arts and Technology MSc Regular Thesis; Project
Interactive Arts and Technology PhD
(Minimum funding available)
Regular
Thesis
Visual Analytics Certificate Specialty Course Work
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Publishing Program

Program Credential Tuition Completion Pathway
Publishing MPub Specialty Course Work; Project
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