Daniel Dugas was born in Montréal and graduated with an MFA in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre both in the Visual Arts and in the Music Department, at Sculpture Space in New York, and recently at EMMEDIA in Calgary, 2003. Upon completing his residency at EMMEDIA, he exhibited the interactive network installation: do_wild_loops; do_wild_jumps; [big ceo’s talking to small bugs]. For several years, his practice has evolved around themes of Economy, and issues of Power. Boom or bust economies, mechanisms of exchange, the rise and the collapse of opportunities, all are elements that he has used to explore the nature of wealth.

Dugas is a founding member of IMAGO, an artist run print shop in New Brunswick; the TRUNK© gallery, an alternative exhibition space and; the EMMAX Club in Calgary, a Max /MSP Jitter software based club hosted by EMMEDIA. Dugas is a published poet, his fourth book of poetry: La Limite élastique, 1998, was published by Les Éditions Perce-Neige. Daniel has recently received a creation / production grant from Editions et Lettres - Littérature orale - création parlée, (Writing section - Spoken Word) at the Canada Council for the Arts to create a series of poetry-videos on DVD. This project launch is scheduled for the fall of 2005. He is currently teaching in the Media Arts and Digital Technology Department at the Alberta College of Art and Design.