Dr. Jean-René Leblanc, Co-Director

Art and Art History, UCalgary

jrleblanc@calgary.ca

https://jrleblanc.com/ 

@jeanreneleblanc 

Jean-René Leblanc (he/him) is Associate Professor of digital arts in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Calgary (since 2006). He was born in Montréal in 1967, and attended Concordia University, which he left in 1993 with a Bachelor in Studio Arts. In 1996, he graduated from the University of Windsor Ontario with a Master of Fine Art in Multimedia and Photography and in 2006, completed a PhD in study and practice of art from the Université du Québec à Montréal. For over a decade his funded research (SSHRC) has focused on the affordance of Augmented Reality as a tool for digital storytelling. He is co-director of the Energy Stories Lab at UCalgary. His artworks have been presented in exhibitions in Canada, the United States of America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.