Evie Johnny Ruddy is a trans nonbinary settler, artist, and scholar living in oskana kâ-asastêki, colonially known as Regina, in Treaty 4 territory. 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. They were program coordinator and sound editor for Buffalo Futurism, a collaboratively created Indigenous futuristic AR experience that was exhibited at imagineNATIVE in 2025. Their work has also been exhibited at Nuit Blanche Saskatoon and nominated for a Canadian Screen Award in the category of Best Production Interactive. They are a recipient of a Digital Dozen: Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award from Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab.

Queer, Trans, and Two Spirit Worldmaking in AR

Building on the collaborative creative process of Buffalo Futurism, and implementing design justice principles (Costanza-Chock, 2020), this research will initiate meaningful relationships and partnerships with queer, trans, and Two Spirit organizations to offer skills-sharing workshops on 3D scanning, 3D modeling, and AR to their members. These relationships and workshops will lay the foundation for collaboratively creating a new AR project that joyfully reimagines and digitally transforms colonial cisheteronormative spaces in Treaty 4.