Lois Klassen

Lois Klassen is an artist, writer, and artist book publisher based in Vancouver (Coast Salish territory). Her publishing moniker, Light Factory Publications, has produced the projects Reading the Migration Library and Practices of Everyday Ethics. Known for long-range projects that invite and engage participants in collective actions, Klassen’s projects deliberately face ethical demand by way of social, aesthetic and material methods. Her writing focuses on ethics and participatory art practices. She was a Fulbright Fellow at University of Texas in El Paso and a postdoctoral fellow at SFU's Critical Media Art Studio (School of Interactive Art and Technology, Surrey). Klassen is a research grant facilitator and research ethics advisor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.