Taya Ismail

Taya Ismail obtained her BA in Communication Studies with Great Distinction at Concordia University and has received her Minor in Media Psychology from the Hogeschool Utrecht in the Netherlands, she is also graduate of the Graz International Summer School Seggau 2026 cohort. She is also a member of Concordia’s Post Image lab. 

Taya’s research interests lie in the intersection between bureaucratic and personal affects in everyday experiences and objects. Her work on passports, paperwork, and travel consider the implications of objects in relation to the personal and public spheres. 

Her current master’s project explores historical passports from Egypt and Canada as media objects, including their importance (or lack thereof) to governments and people, even after an expiration date. She uses a research-creation practice that involves painting and projection mapping as ways to remediate historical documentation.