Announcing our 2026/27 Board of Directors

Sasha J. Langford

Member-at-large

Sasha J. Langford is an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of sound, writing, performance, and social practice. In her collaborations with choreographers and media artists, as well as her solo live performance practice, Sasha’s work has been presented at Ehkä-Kutomo (Turku, Finland), FestivALT (Kraków, Poland), Lines of Flight Festival of Experimental Music (Dunedin, New Zealand), Ende Tymes (Brooklyn, NY), Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal, QC), Western Front (Vancouver, BC), and the International Noise Conference (Miami, FL).

As a writer and thinker, Sasha has published critical texts and delivered public talks through Access Gallery, About A Bicycle, Charcuterie, The School of Making Thinking, and the Vancouver Institute for Social Research. Most recently, her writing has appeared in the Norient publication on place and sound Home Is Where the Heart Strives (2025) as well as the edited collection Lacan and the Environment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). She has been artist in residence and produced commissioned work through the Festival of Recorded Movement, Vancouver New Music, What Lab, the Media Arts Committee, and the Strathcona Art Gallery and Library.

Sasha resides on the occupied xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ territories known as Vancouver, BC. She is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow in the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.

Kevin T. Day

Member-at-large

Kevin T. Day is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of data-driven media art, critical information studies, and philosophy of technology. Taking the form of interactive media installations that often utilize data, video, sound, haptic, and kinetic components, his practice and research examine the socio-political issues of the digital economy. He received his MFA and PhD from the University of British Columbia and is currently based in Vancouver. He has exhibited his work internationally and presented his research through the top international platforms for art and technology such as SIGGRAPH, ISEA, and Leonardo. He teaches digital art in the UBC Bachelor of Media Studies program and the politics of algorithmic and information systems at the UBC School of Information.

Amélie Malissard

Member-at-large

Amélie Malissard (she/her) has worked in non-profit and arts operations and project management in Canada for a decade and is deeply involved in the experimental music scene in Vancouver and Montreal. She is currently Operations Manager at the BC Civil Liberties Association, where she supports the association on governance, records, annual reporting, finances, and audits, and serves as Secretary and volunteer project manager on the board of Barking Sphinx Performance Society. She brings strong financial, operational, and governance skills, and a values alignment with U/P’s mission to support experimental critical practices.

Aretha Pereira

Member-at-large

Aretha Pereira (she/her) is a writer, curator, and artist whose practice studies archival relationships, cataloguing memory, history, and connection across structures of inclusion and exclusion. She is drawn to supporting U/P’s archive and to working alongside arts workers committed to collective engagement, responsive care, and platforming equity-denied communities.