Research Statement

I am a performance, technology, and research-creation scholar with a PhD in Information from the University of Toronto and a MA in Performance Practice as Research from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. My research examines how contemporary performance practices transform our sociopolitical and embodied understandings of digital technologies. I am currently Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream, CLTA) at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information.

My interdisciplinary research mobilizes queer, feminist, and anti-colonial approaches in the integrated fields of performance and Art, Science, and Technology Studies (ASTS) to investigate the industries, philosophies, and powers that activate digital technologies. Through performance-based research-creation, I challenge the materialities and imaginaries that constitute digital tools, disrupting their normative uses to craft alternative relations based in creativity and social justice. This work further examines how we, as interdisciplinary practitioner-researchers, might situate ourselves within these new relationalities.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Conference Presentations

Publications

Research-Creation

Peer Reviewed. Intson. Camille. 2026. "Crafting 'Bisexual Bedroom Imaginaries': Queering Virtual Reality Design Practice." Accepted to Women & Performance, forthcoming.
Peer Reviewed. Intson, Camille. 2026. "Queering GPT-2 in Collaboration: Fine-Tuning the Trans-Feminist-Queer Transformer." Under review.
Peer Reviewed. Intson, Camille. 2026. "Designing JANE: Queer Intermediality as Theatre Research Praxis." Under review.
Peer Reviewed. Intson, Camille. 2025. "Bisexual Bedroom Imaginaries (Prototype)." Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 27. http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz27/assemblages/04-intson.html.
Public Scholarship. Intson, Camille. 2023. "“Telling your story through art at VEMU: Reflections on creative expressions of Estonian-Canadian identity and community.” Eesti Elu 19, https://eestielu.ca/telling-your-story-through-art-at-vemu-reflections-on-creative-expressions-of-estonian-canadian-identity-and-community/.
Peer Reviewed. Intson, Camille. 2022. "betweenspace/s: Towards a Transmedial Practice of Digital Intimacy." Journal of Literary and Intermedial Crossings 6, no. 2: h1-25. https://clic.research.vub.be/sites/default/files/2025-06/08_JLIC_6.2_Intson_upd25.pdf.

Art, Science, and Technology Studies

Peer Reviewed (Conference Proceedings). Iantorno, Mathew and Camille Intson. 2022. "Lifecycle: A Speculative Fiction on Healthcare Automation." HRI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 1218-1219, DOI: 10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889497.
Peer Reviewed. Bryant, Haley, Nelanthi Hewa, Camille Intson, and Arun Jacob. 2022. "Making the Most of the 'Crisortunity': Multidisciplinary Provocations on Techno-fixes and Precarity." Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities 3, no. 2: https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.db5a6abe.
Curated. Intson, Camille. 2022. "Artist Profile: Zach Blas." Art Monthly 459: 14-15.

Theatre and Performance Research

Curated. Intson, Camille. 2023. "Hey, Toronto audiences! Why are we laughing at white supremacy?" Intermission Magazine, https://www.intermissionmagazine.ca/artist-perspective/white-liberal-laughter/.
Peer Reviewed (Performance Review). Intson, Camille. 2022. "Findings in the future of live performance." International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 18, no. 3: 421-422.
Peer Reviewed (Performance Review). Intson, Camille. 2022. "Blindness." International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 18, no. 1: 195-196.
Peer Reviewed. Intson, Camille. 2021. "Intimate Audio-Materialities: Reinventing Audio Drama for Community-Engaged Response in Ghost River Theatre's Sensory Box." Canadian Theatre Review 188, no. 1: 95-97.
Peer Reviewed (Book Review). Intson, Camille. 2021. "The Play in The System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance: By Anna Watkins Fisher. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020; 304 Pp.; Illustrations. $27.95 Cloth, $27.95 Paper, e-Book Available.” TDR: The Drama Review 65, no. 4: 186–188.

Conference Presentations

Research-Creation

Intson, Camille. 2024. “Performing Remains: Photography and the Intergenerational Imagination.” The Great Escape of 1944—The Baltic Experience, Tartu College, September 19-20, Toronto, Canada.
Intson, Camille. 2024. “Queer Virtual Realities and the Memory Archive Machine.” Art for Sustenance: Nineteenth Annual Conference on the Arts in Society, May 24-26, Seoul, South Korea.
Intson, Camille. 2022. “Feeling Between Bodies, Texts, and Technologies.” The 17th Ammerman Center Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, November 10-12, New London, CT, United States.
Intson, Camille. 2022. “Digital Intimacy in Hybrid Realities.” International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) World Congress, June 20-24, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Intson, Camille. 2021. “Betweenspace/s: Towards a Transmedial Practice of Digital Intimacy.” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting (4S), October 6-9, 2021. Virtual.
Bateman, Andrew, Craig Fahner, Camille Intson, Luis Navarro, Ph0phecy Sun, and Andrew Tarnawsky. 2021. “Research-Creation Methods in Communication: Perspectives from the Field.” Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual Conference. June 1-4, Virtual.
Intson, Camille, and Ewa Limanówka. 2020. “Transmitting Between/Spaces: a performative conversation.” International Documentation of Contemporary Dance Education (IDOCDE) TAKING SPACE MAKING PLACE Symposium, July 21-26, Virtual.

Art, Science, and Technology Studies

Iantorno, Mathew. and Camille Intson. 2022. “Lifecycle: A Speculative Fiction on Healthcare Automation.” International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022) Student Design Competition, March 7-10, Virtual.
Intson, Camille. 2022. “Queer/Trans/Feminist Technology and Design: Interventions into 'Making,' 'Repair,' and 'Reparation.'” Sexual Diversity Studies Research Colloquium, University of Toronto, March 25, Virtual.
Ratto, Matt, Camille Intson, Mathew Iantorno, and Olivia Doggett. 2021. “Situated Bots: Positioning non-humans within behavioural counselling and care-giving.” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting (4S), October 6-9, Virtual.
Bryant, Haley, Nelanthi Hewa, Camille Intson, and Arun Jacob. 2021.“Emergent-cy: Critical DH in the Time of COVID.” Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), July 21-23, Virtual.
Bryant, Haley, Nelanthi Hewa, Camille Intson, and Arun Jacob. 2021.“Emergent-cy: Critical DH in the Time of COVID.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Conference and Colloquium, June 7-18, Virtual.
Iantorno, Mathew, Olivia Doggett, Camille Intson, and Matt Ratto. 2021. “Motivational Algorithms: Appraising Taxonomies of Trust in a Counselling Chatbot.” Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 8-13, Virtual.

Performance Studies

Intson, Camille. 2022. “Virtual Reality Performance and Memory Archive Construction in Jordan Tannahill’s Draw Me Close.” Digital Research in the Humanities (DHRA), September 4-7, Kingston, United Kingdom.
Intson, Camille. 2022. “Dangerous Desire and the Performance of Blood in Julia Ducournau’s Raw and Titane.” Material Selves: Gender, Health, and Performance, University College London, June 15-16, London, England.
Intson, Camille. 2022, “Draw Me Close: Performing Archives.” International Association of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Documentation Centres of the Performing Arts (SIBMAS) “Performing the Future” Conference, June 7-10, Virtual.
Intson, Camille. 2021. “Zoom pas de deux.” Constellations of Engagement Through Artistic Research: Performance Studies International (PSi) Constellate Program. July 7-9, Virtual.