Ryan Stec is an artist, producer, and designer working in both research and production. Beginning his relationship to the moving image through documentary, his practice has slowly expanded off the edges of the screen, increasingly combining light, color, structure and material with deeper consideration of site and the city.
Stec is a PhD candidate at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University. His research is focused on the political potential of temporary and informal interventions in the city, and the exploration of new approaches to mapping temporal phenomena.
He has also been heavily involved in the artist-run culture of Ottawa, Canada since 1998, and since 2005 he has been the Artistic Director of Artengine, a non-profit center for art and technology.