Richard Fung
Richard Fung is an award-winning Trinidad-born, Toronto-based video artist and cultural critic. He joined the faculty of OCAD in 2003 and teaches in Integrated Media and Art and Social Change. Other teaching positions include Chancellor's Visiting Associate Professor at University of California- Irvine, Visiting Assistant Professor at State University of New York- Buffalo and Visiting Scholar at the Mass Communications Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. A former Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University, Richard has lectured across North America, and in Europe, Asia and Australia. Richard has been an active member of Canada's art community and served on the founding board of directors of the Images Festival, the first Racial Equality Committee of the Canada Council, the board of the Toronto Arts Council, and was an editor and contributing editor to FUSE Magazine. Before coming to OCADU he coordinated the Centre for Media and Culture in Education at OISE/UT.