Patrick Blenkarn + Milton Lim
Patrick Blenkarn
Patrick Blenkarn is a Canadian artist working at the intersection of performance, game design, and visual art. His practice often engages with the politics of participation and interactivity, featuring sustained investigations into language, labor, democracy, and the art economy. These inquiries take diverse forms, ranging from video games and card games to stage plays and books.
Patrick’s work has been featured in film festivals, galleries, and performance festivals across Canada, as well as in Argentina, Mexico, Germany, and the Arctic. He holds a degree in philosophy, theatre, and film from the University of King’s College and an MFA in interdisciplinary art from Simon Fraser University. A passionate linguist, he speaks English, French, Spanish, and German. Beyond his solo practice, he is the co-founder of videocan, Canada’s national video archive of performance.
Milton Lim
Milton Lim (1989) is an award-winning Canadian digital media artist, game designer, and performance creator based between Vancouver and Montréal. His research-based practice entwines publicly available data, interactive digital media, and gameful performance to create speculative visions of social capital. This line of inquiry aims to reconsider how we aggregate knowledge and engage in political intervention within the contemporary context of big data and algorithmic culture.
Milton holds a BFA (Hons.) in theatre performance and psychology from Simon Fraser University and is currently pursuing a PhD in the future of interactive storytelling at Concordia University. His work has been presented extensively across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He serves as a co-artistic director of Hong Kong Exile, an artistic associate with Theatre Conspiracy, and is a creative developer on the Innovation Team at Moment Factory.