Johnny Alam

Johnny Alam is a multimedia visual artist and PhD Student in Cultural Mediations – Visual Culture interested in Photography, Art, Memory, Technology, and Representation. Alam holds a M.A. in art history, M.F.A in applied visual arts, and B.A. in history. His research examines various forms of post-conflict cultural productions ranging from High Art (Photography, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Film, Performance, Literature etc.) to popular culture incarnated in conventional and new media (Animation, Comic books, Graphic Novels, Postcards, Posters etc.). His forthcoming PhD dissertation assesses relations between war, memory, and history in transnational/diasporic cultural productions marked by trauma and nostalgia. As a digital imaging expert and a former Adobe employee and Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, his research interests also include posthuman representation, artificial intelligence, and the aesthetics of time, ruins, and the archive.

ICSLAC has provided Alam with the necessary academic entourage to pursue his interdisciplinary research which he hopes to publish in written and audio-visual formats. Alam has been supported by several grants and awards including a SSHRC CGS doctoral scholarship, an inaugural Henry Mendelbaum award as well as two OGS scholarships. In terms of teaching, Alam is a veteran graphic and web design instructor; he has also developed and delivered two courses titled “Animation and Society” and “Media, Culture, Future” at Carleton University in the past few years. Alam looks forward to teach courses related to transnationalism and diaspora, photography theory, representing war and trauma, and art and memory.