Brandon Hocura
PhD Student
Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies
Film and Media
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
Brandon Hocura is a sound artist, filmmaker, writer, and archivist. He is the founder and creative director of the record label and publisher Séance Centre. His research intersects with experimental poetics and ethnography, exploring the complex relationships between music, language, technology, geography, and culture. His recent research areas include iterative sound, autonomous distribution networks, visual & sound poetry, material histories, rogue archives, archipelagic theory, and diasporic traditions. As part of the Vulnerable Media Lab team at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥, he is engaged with audio and video preservation, and is helping to build standards and best practices for audio archiving. Brandon’s research is supported by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.