Congratulations to our DARC Media Art Production Fund recipients for 2026! 🎉
Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC) is proud to present Gaganpreet Singh and Tiffany April with the DARC Media Art Production Fund for 2026! DARC’s Media Art Production Fund supports Extended Access DARC members in the creation of independent video and media art projects.
Gaganpreet Singh
Gaganpreet Singh is a director, cinematographer, dolly grip, and visual storyteller with a passion for uncovering authentic stories. Born in Faridabad, India, he stumbled upon this path when his brother bought him a DSLR back in 2012. Expressing through pictures seemed easier to Gagan than talking and he started chasing that feeling. He eventually went to study Master’s in Fashion Design from Milan, Italy. After completing, he went on and graduated from Algonquin College’s Film and Media Production program, earning the cinematography award and is now teaching there.
He has worked globally on projects like television commercials in India, travel documentaries around Europe, and films in Canada. As DP and Director his recent project November is currently travelling internationally around different film festivals.
He believes storytelling through visuals transcends language and culture, and wants to craft work that inspires, moves, and brings real stories to life.
One of his biggest goals in life is to put people from his culture, people who look like him and other underrepresented communities on the map and tell their stories worldwide.
Tiffany April
Tiffany April is a visual artist using painting, assemblage, and digital-based installation to capture the transitory and mutually affective relationship between human and more-than-human beings, both digital and (im)material. Informed by research into the interrelations between human and non-human biology, morphology, evolution and ecology, April considers the human body as a continuum between the ecological and digital to question categorizations of “Otherness”; an exploration rooted in her embodied experience as a queer and neurodiverse individual. April uses sensuality and simplicity of forms woven in space to decenter identifiers of the human and place the sensing body on the same plane as the technological and the organic.
April completed her MFA at the University of Ottawa (2019), and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts (Honours) at Concordia University. Her recent solo exhibition Ouroboros at Voix Visuelle Artist Centre, has been selected for the Ontario Arts Council initiative Connexions Visuelle facilitating its sister presentation at the Leamington Art Centre in Fall 2026. Recent group exhibitions include the Every Woman Biennial, Pen + Brush Gallery (New York), ECHOS, Tian Contemporain (Montreal), Softening, Janey Gallery (Cambridge), and Eco-Art Expressions, Withrow Common Gallery (Toronto). April has presented at The Artist Project (2026, 2025), and was an Untapped Emerging Artist Awardee (2022). She has received multiple grants from; the City of Ottawa: Creation and Production Grant (2021, 2025); the Canada Council for the Arts: Creation and Production Grant; and the Ontario Arts Council; Exhibition Assistance Grant (2025).
In 2020, April was shortlisted for the RBC Emerging Artist Award and invited to create a public installation for the City of Ottawa’s Microcosm Project. Her MFA thesis exhibition, The Surgeon and the Magician, was presented at the Ottawa Art Gallery. April’s work is nationally and internationally exhibited and collected in private and public collections including: exhibitions in New York, London, Berlin and South Korea; and Invest in Canada (2021) and the City of Ottawa’s art collection (2018, 2021, 2024).
What is the Media Art Production Fund?
DARC’s Media Art Production Fund supports Extended Access DARC members in the creation of independent video and media art projects. The Media Art Production Fund was created to grant assist independent artists at any stage of their artistic practice. Extended Access members are invited to submit a detailed project proposal of any scale. Selected applicants will receive production support for their proposed project.
Grant support includes:
- Access to DARC technical support as required.
- Up to 80% of DARC equipment rental for the proposed project;
- Access to DARC’s equipment library;
- Access to DARC’s production facility (Soundstage) and post-production facilities (Digital Edit Suite, Recording Studio);
DARC is proud to have Gaganpreet and Tiffany as our 2026 Media Art Production Fund recipients, and we continue to be excited to support the work of independent artists through our resources, programming and education!
