Jon McCurley

Jon McCurley is a multidisciplinary artist who works mainly in performance and comedy. As a member of the art group Life of a Craphead, his artwork was included in the Seoul Mediacity Biennale and the Toronto Biennial of Art. As a solo artist, his work was exhibited at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, U.K. For Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024, his project, Arguing Signs, features two electronic road signs which appear to argue back and forth through the messages shown on their programmable displays.

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Nour Bishouty

Nour Bishouty is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes video, sculpture, drawing and writing. Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Casa rabe in Madrid and the Beirut Art Center. For Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024, her video installation, On the count of three, is a poetic meditation on the hotel as a space where public and private lives converge.

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Mishann Lau

Mishann Lau is a filmmaker and multimedia artist whose work has been shown at the Toronto Biennial of Art, Summerworks and at film festivals internationally. For Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024, she has created What are you saying?, a series of video chat installations made in collaboration with artists Jim Ruxton and Lubo Brezina that will connect multiple physical locations across the event space.

Anique Jordan

Anique Jordan is a writer, curator and multidisciplinary artist whose work includes photography, sculpture, social practice and performance. Her art has been exhibited at the Polygon Gallery, the Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Ontario. For Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024, her sound-based sculptural installation, Ive come to find this place, uses the lens of Black surrealism to explore folklore, spirituality and mysticism across the Caribbean and its diaspora.

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Vladimir Kanic

Vladimir Kanic is an environmentalist and interdisciplinary artist whose work has been recognized with a CIBC Fine Arts Award, RBC Emerging Artist Award and the InterAccess Media Prize. For Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024, his interactive installation, Living Algae Cyborg, will enable visitors to communicate with microorganisms inside his living sculpture through an AI interface.

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Ziyan Hossain

Ziyan Hossain is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and co-founder of the creative consultancy Method Collective. For Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024, he is working alongside Sandy Hudson, Plini and Third Diganta Collective for the immersive installation We Remembered You, Too a multisensory art experience that contemplates beauty, grief and memory on personal and collective scales.

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Ayanna Allen

Ayanna Allen is a photographer whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. For Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024, her photographic installation, what time is it where you are?, examines what it means to maintain connections and relationships across distance.

Diana Lynn VanderMeulen & Stefana Fratila

Diana Lynn VanderMeulen is a multidisciplinary artist working in both digital and analogue media. Stefana Fratila is a composer, sound designer and DJ. For Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024, the pair will create an immersive multisensory sci-fi experience called I want to leave this Earth behind inside the 40,000-square-foot space of the old Toronto Stock Exchange.

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Jordan Shaw

Jordan Shaw is a multidisciplinary artist and creative technologist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. For Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024, he has created an interactive light sculpture called SIGNAL, which reacts to the presence of visitors, inviting a shared exploration of the installation.

Micki-Lee Smith & Zakriya Bashir-Hill

Micki-Lee Smith is a musician, composer and multimedia artist. Zakriya Bashir-Hill is a musician, producer, photographer and filmmaker. For Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024, their interactive sonic installation, 1-800-INF-ERNO, created with contributions from Diana Lawryshyn, Pratap Mathews and Yun Young Lee, uses the telephone as a device to explore our connection to or disconnection from the climate crisis.

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Julia Jamrozik & Coryn Kempster

Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster are designers, artists and educators who have collaborated since 2003. Both worked as architects at the renowned Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron. Their collaborative art and design work is collected and exhibited internationally. For Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024, their installation, Closer Together, turns spectators into spectacle with two sets of grandstands constructed face-to-face.

Joseph Shabason

Joseph Shabason is a musician, composer and producer. He has performed and recorded under his own name as well as with groups including DIANA, Destroyer and the War on Drugs. For Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024, he has been commissioned to compose original music for the opening of a brand new community arts facility, called the Belle, in Etobicokes Mabelle Park.

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