They/Them
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Evie Johnny Ruddy is a trans nonbinary artist, scholar, and settler of Irish, French, and German descent living in oskana kâ-asastêki, colonially known as Regina, in Treaty 4. They hold a PhD in Cultural Mediations from Carleton University and are an Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies and Design in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina.
Evie Johnny creates interactive augmented reality (AR), web-based, and locative audio experiences to disrupt settler-colonial, cisheteropatriarchal logics and imagine more joyful and liberatory futures. A 2025-27 Humanities Research Institute Fellow, Evie Johnny is researching queer, trans, and Two Spirit worldbuilding in AR. Their research is at the intersection of creative technologies, trans studies, queer theory, critical race theory, and design justice.
Evie Johnny was Program Coordinator and Sound Editor for Buffalo Futurism, a collaboratively created Indigenous futuristic AR experience. In 2025, Buffalo Futurism was exhibited at imagineNATIVE Film + 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 Dr. Laura Horak’s Transgender Media Lab, Evie Johnny collaboratively created the Transgender Media Portal, an award-winning searchable website of trans-made films and audiovisual media. They continue to work with the Lab as a collaborator on Dr. Horak’s SSHRC Insight project, “Linking Worlds: Trans Filmmaking, Arts Institutions, and the Intersectional Feminist Digital Humanities.”
Evie Johnny’s digital art has been exhibited at Nuit Blanche in Saskatoon, the Art Gallery of Swift Current, and the RIT City Art Space in Rochester, New York. Recent publications include, “Enacting Our Values: Practical Applications of Ethics in the Transgender Media Lab,” co-written with Laura Horak, in the Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice, and the community resource, Buffalo Futurism Field Trips: A Toolkit for Teachers, written in collaboration with interdisciplinary artist Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway.