Jamie Hilder is Associate Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Culture and Community at Emily Carr University. His practice, which stretches across writing, video, performance, installation, curation and sculpture, often addresses intersections of text and image, and is currently focused on how economic conditions function aesthetically in an era of global finance capital. His book Designed Words for a Designed World: The International Concrete Poetry Movement, 1955-1971 (McGill UP, 2016) contextualizes concrete visual poetry within a moment of emergent globalizing technologies such as nuclear weaponry, radio transistors, air travel and commercial graphic design. He seeks to foster collaborative relations with colleagues, students and materials where possible, and gratefully resides on the unceded, ancestral and traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.