Masayuki Iwase, a Japanese-born, Vancouver-based independent scholar, educator, and multimedia artist, holds a BA in Sociology and a MA in Communication from Simon Fraser University, as well as a PhD in Educational Studies from the University of British Columbia. He is also a father.
His multidisciplinary practice blends philosophical inquiry with artistic expression, exploring the risks and possibilities of popular and commercial culture, found in new media and technologies, and their impacts on the phenomenology of human memory and temporality. Drawing on media theory and film philosophy — and as a creative act of critique, he works primarily with technê, engaging in experimental video, film, and sound/noise. His work focuses on leveraging and destabilizing what seems overly familiar, creating a virtually unfamiliar space for the unthought within thinking — imagining what is yet to come.