Cam Hunters: the podcast

Cam Hunters

CAM HUNTERS is a collaborative art and media performance between artists STÉFY and Julia Chan. Cam Hunters: the Podcast is one or our projects in which we discuss all things surveillance - from reality television to watching animals. For more information about Cam Hunters and our other projects, visit camhunters.org. The Hunters (Hosts) Voyeur Cam Specialist: Julia Chan Julia Chan is a mixed-race settler, writer, artist, and academic living in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work is broadly concerned with sexualized surveillance, image-based sexual abuse, critical race and whiteness studies, and technology and culture. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen's University at Kingston. Recently, she was a Mitacs Postdoctoral Visitor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University and the Managing Editor of PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas. In 2021, she was the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow at Carleton University's Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She trusts no one. Rural Cam Specialist: STÉFY STÉFY is a white settler, queer (non-binary femme of centre) artist-scholar based in Katarokwi/Kingston. They are an Assistant Professor in the Bachelor of Media Production and Design at Carleton University. Their work explores surveillance as a contemporary form of colonialism in Canada post-9/11 through the methodology of research-creation. STÉFY is interested in the ways that citizens use surveillance cameras in rural and forested areas, white fear of terrorism, and function-creep as a creative method of producing knowledges. STÉFY's life goal is to have Julia trust them.

  1. 07/28/2025

    S3-EP3 Lo-Fi Fun

    In this episode, Cam Hunters Stéfy and Julia pick another two cards from the pleasure deck. Julia's cards prompt her to discuss care, individualism and the general lack of care in the global north, and all the systems that support this carelessness. The discussion continues to explore meditation, being present in the moment, the importance of mindfulness, and the challenge of integrating mindfulness into an institutional setting. Stéfy's cards spark a discussion about play and how children's toys and television series, such as Paw Patrol, influence children's views and interactions with the world. How Ontario, in so-called Canada, is increasing policing budgets and how police will be incorporated into schools starting in 2025/2026. This all results in the larger question: Does play normalize surveillance and policing?

    S3-EP3 Lo-Fi Fun

  2. 07/21/2025

    S3-E2 “A Visual Regime of Delight”

    In this episode of Cam Hunters, we pull cards from our Pleasure and Surveillance deck, inspired by Trisha Hersey and Paula Champagne's Rest Deck. Stéfy discusses what pleasure and joy mean to them and how they can create a regime of delight in their art practice. Julia discusses what self-care means to her and how her definition has changed over the years as she has explored its necessity. She discusses self-surveillance and how the patriarchy enforces it, as well as what home feels like to her and where she can find it. The cards prompt a conversation that is both self-reflective and reflective of our society at large, exploring how surveillance categorizes us and much more! Show Notes: Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety by Cara Page and Erica Woodland https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710523/healing-justice-lineages-by-cara-page/

    S3-E2 “A Visual Regime of Delight”

  3. 07/11/2025

    S3-E1 Surveillant Pleasures: Seeing Caringly

    Welcome back to Season 3 of Cam Hunters: the podcast! We’re pleased to be recording this season, while travelling cross country in our very own "cam-mobile." In this episode we walk listeners through our exciting project SURVEILLANT PLEASURES. We explain our proposal of using surveillance technologies in a pleasurable way as a method of resistance for BIPOC, 2SLGBTQAI+, Disabled, and anyone marginalized from the hegemony of the western system of oppressive and violence surveillance systems. Show Notes can be found on our website link in bio

    S3-E1 Surveillant Pleasures: Seeing Caringly

  4. 09/12/2023

    S2-E7 Cam-Chat with David Murakami Wood

    This week we are fortunate to chat with one of the biggest names in surveillance studies, Dr. David Murakami Wood. We have known David for years, as our supervisor, committee member, and mentor. One of David's not so hidden interests is sci-fi. David talks to us about sci-fi and its connection to surveillance. Dr. David Murakami Wood is a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and a Professor of Critical Surveillance and Securities Studies in the Department of Criminology of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Murakami Wood is an interdisciplinary specialist in surveillance, security and technology from a global urban perspective, working mainly in Canada, Japan, the UK and Brazil. He is a leading organizer in the field of surveillance studies as co-founder and now co-editor-in-chief of the international, open access, peer-reviewed journal, Surveillance & Society, co-founder and a current director of the Surveillance Studies Network, co-editor of Surveillance Studies: A Reader (Oxford University Press, 2018), Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence (UBC Press, 2021), and the forthcoming International Handbook of Surveillance Studies (Edward Elgar). Educated at Oxford and Newcastle, UK, Dr. Murakami Wood joined the University of Ottawa in 2022 from Queen’s University at Kingston where he was Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, and a former Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies.

    S2-E7 Cam-Chat with David Murakami Wood

  5. 02/15/2023

    S2-E6 Cam-Chat with Torin Monahan

    This week we are pleased to talk to our colleague Torin Monahan on the release of his new book "Crisis Vision". You can purchase it at Duke University Press for 30% off with promo code "E22MONHN". Torin Monahan is a Professor of Communication at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society, the leading academic journal on surveillance. He primarily researches the social and cultural dimensions of surveillance systems, with a specific focus on gender and racial inequalities. He has published over fifty articles or book chapters and six books, including Surveillance Studies: A Reader (with David Murakami Wood) and Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity, which won the Surveillance Studies Book Prize of the Surveillance Studies Network. His forthcoming book, Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance (Duke University Press), investigates the racializing effects of contemporary surveillance through the lens of visual and performance art.

    S2-E6 Cam-Chat with Torin Monahan

  6. 01/11/2023

    S2-E5 Cam-Chat with Drs. Susan Cahill and Mél Hogan

    Happy new year dear listeners. To welcome all of you to 2023, we are kicking off this year talking about care and healing with collaborators Drs. Susan Cahill and Mél Hogan from the University of Calgary. Dr. Susan Cahill (she/her) is a white settler scholar who lives and works in Moh’kinsstis | Calgary on the traditional territories of the peoples of the Treaty 7 region. She is an independent filmmaker, curator, and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Calgary. Dr. Mél Hogan is Director of the Environmental Media Lab (EML) and Associate Professor of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary. Her research focuses on data centers, death in the cloud, and genomic media – each understood from within the contexts of planetary catastrophe and collective anxieties about the future. Website: https://www.melhogan.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/mel_hogan

    S2-E5 Cam-Chat with Drs. Susan Cahill and Mél Hogan

  7. 12/12/2022

    S2-E4 Cam-Chat with Azadeh Akbari

    This week we are pleased to share our mics with the brilliant Azadeh Akbari. In this episode she talks about her desire for a free global internet, especially in relation to Iran's morality police, and their policing of women. About Azadeh: My name is Azadeh Akbari, and I am Assistant Professor in Public Administration & Digital Transformation at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. I studied sociology (BA) and journalism in Iran and gender research (MSc) at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. I obtained my PhD in human geography from the University of Heidelberg. I then joined the University of Münster as a postdoctoral research associate in political geography. I have been a journalist for many years and worked as a communication manager and community outreach specialist at the UNHCR, UNICEF, and the British Council. I am a professional amateur in lindy-hop dance, documentary filmmaking, and cooking. I enjoy writing and reading a lot (obviously!) and combine all my skills and passions in being a digital editor for the journals Surveillance & Society and Territory, Politics, Governance. I have founded Surveillance in the Global South Research Network to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Western discourses and practices and create a place for exchange, collaboration, and activism against the undemocratic use of surveillance technologies.

    S2-E4 Cam-Chat with Azadeh Akbari

  8. 11/24/2022

    S2-E3 Cam-Chat with Miles Kenyon

    Welcome back! This week we have a brand new episode featuring our wonderful Cruising Cam Specialist Myles Kenyon! He's with us to talk about cruising, surveillance, and his MA research that took a deep dive into the world of "Squirt". Miles has a MA in Communications and Media Studies from Carleton University, where he studied how queer communities discuss surveillance in the context of casual sexual encounters. He reads tarot, pets dogs, and fantasizes about being stranded on a desert island.

    S2-E3 Cam-Chat with Miles Kenyon
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CAM HUNTERS is a collaborative art and media performance between artists STÉFY and Julia Chan. Cam Hunters: the Podcast is one or our projects in which we discuss all things surveillance - from reality television to watching animals. For more information about Cam Hunters and our other projects, visit camhunters.org. The Hunters (Hosts) Voyeur Cam Specialist: Julia Chan Julia Chan is a mixed-race settler, writer, artist, and academic living in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work is broadly concerned with sexualized surveillance, image-based sexual abuse, critical race and whiteness studies, and technology and culture. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen's University at Kingston. Recently, she was a Mitacs Postdoctoral Visitor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University and the Managing Editor of PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas. In 2021, she was the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow at Carleton University's Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She trusts no one. Rural Cam Specialist: STÉFY STÉFY is a white settler, queer (non-binary femme of centre) artist-scholar based in Katarokwi/Kingston. They are an Assistant Professor in the Bachelor of Media Production and Design at Carleton University. Their work explores surveillance as a contemporary form of colonialism in Canada post-9/11 through the methodology of research-creation. STÉFY is interested in the ways that citizens use surveillance cameras in rural and forested areas, white fear of terrorism, and function-creep as a creative method of producing knowledges. STÉFY's life goal is to have Julia trust them.

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  • Creator
    Cam Hunters
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Explicit
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