About Me

Camille Intson (she/her) is a Toronto-based artist, researcher, and incoming Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto.

 

Intson's award-winning art and research practice spans performance, new media, music, installation, and emerging technology. Her research interests include trans-feminist and queer approaches to performance, making, and design; intermedial arts praxis; and conceptual-material studies of technology. She currently teaches undergraduate and master's level courses on critical information infrastructures, queer and feminist studies, contemporary new media art and performance, cultural heritage in the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) sectors, dramatic writing, direction, and dramaturgy.

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Based in Toronto but working across Southern Ontario, Intson's projects have engaged hundreds of arts workers and dozens of companies, venues, and organizations (both academic and non-academic) in collaboration, supported by over $250,000 in grants and fellowships. Recent endeavours include Armastusega Eestisse: To Estonia, With Love (VEMU Estonian Museum of Canada), POEMS IN THE ASHES (2025 Canadian Folk Music Awards Nominee), Click Bush Train Bug (Tarragon Theatre/TMU School of Performance), Death to the Prometheans! (RBC Emerging Playwright, Studio180 Theatre), and JANE (Tarragon Theatre with Pantheon Projects). Her work has been honoured with a Playwrights' Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Award, Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award (Folk Music Ontario, Ontario Arts Council), NNPF National Playwriting Competition Award, and Best in Fringe Award, among others.

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Intson holds a Master of Arts degree in Performance Practice as Research from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and, in May of 2025, will complete her SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral) funded PhD in Information, with collaborative specializations in Knowledge Media Design and Sexual Diversity Studies, at the University of Toronto . Her writing and research have appeared in The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, the Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, IDEAH, TDR: The Drama Review, ArtMonthly, Canadian Theatre Review, Eesti Elu, and Intermission Magazine.

 

Camille is grateful to live and work on the traditional lands of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit.