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Evie Johnny Ruddy is a trans non-binary artist, scholar, and settler of Irish, French, and German descent living in oskana kâ-asastêki, colonially known as Regina, in Treaty 4. They are an Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies + Design in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina and a Doctoral Candidate in Cultural Mediations at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University.
Evie Johnny designs and creates interactive augmented reality, web-based, and locative audio experiences to disrupt colonial, cisheteropatriarchal logics and reimagine more joyful and liberatory futures. A 2025-27 Humanities Research Institute Fellow, Evie Johnny is researching Queer, Trans, and Two Spirit Worldmaking in AR. Their interdisciplinary research is at the intersection of creative technologies, trans studies, queer theory, critical geography, and design justice.
Evie Johnny was Program Coordinator and Sound Editor for Buffalo Futurism, a collaboratively created Indigenous futuristic AR experience in māmowimīwēyitamōwin Park. Buffalo Futurism was exhibited at the 2025 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. Evie Johnny's interactive web project with the National Film Board, Un/tied, won a Digital Dozen: Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award from Columbia University School of the Arts Digital Storytelling Lab and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award in the category of Best Production – Interactive. As an ethicist with the Transgender Media Lab, they collaboratively created the Transgender Media Portal, an online searchable website of trans-made films.
Evie Johnny’s co-written chapter with Dr. Laura Horak, “Enacting Our Values: Practical Applications of Ethics in the Transgender Media Lab” will be published in the Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice in August 2025. Their digital art, Trans cARe Billboards, has been exhibited at Nuit Blanche in Saskatoon and will be exhibited at the Art Gallery of Swift Current in fall 2025.