Re: Quick question

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the nudge... I'm a bit scattered these days. Here's my new bio. Feel free to edit down if it's too long.

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Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte is a cultural policy scholar with a creative practitioner background who specializes in the study of organizational and governance issues in the Canadian cultural sector. Mariane completed a PhD in Communication (2025) and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (2012) at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. Her PhD dissertation maps the history of artist-run centres in British Columbia in relation to evolving cultural governance processes and apparatuses at federal and provincial levels and within artist-run networks. She is presently Co-Director, with Mary Elizabeth Luka and Claudia Sicondolfo of the Archives in Action: Canadian Audiovisual Archives Policy project, which mobilizes a cross-Canada network to address key policy issues affecting marginalized audiovi­sual archives in Canada at local, regional, and national levels. Her research on Canadian cultural policy, artist-run organizations, and the intersections of digital technologies with arts management has been published in the Canadian Journal of Communication, ESSACHESS: Journal of Communication Studies, and various anthologies. Mariane has served on the board of directors of the Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres, VIVO Media Arts Centre, and Aphotic Theatre. Mariane has worked as the lead consultant on various sectoral and community research projects commissioned by national and provincial arts service organizations including Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference (ARCA), Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA), Canadian Artists’ Representation/Front des artistes Canadiens (CARFAC), and Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec (RCAAQ). She has contributed to revising the CARFAC–RAAV and IMAA fee schedules and was responsible for developing IMAA’s Online Presentation Standards for Media Arts project.