Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak have profoundly influenced the developments in video and media art in Canada, and received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2005 for lifetime achievement. Since 1983, they have collaborated on videotapes, performances, and photo/text works that explore and document social realities from subjective viewpoints. They are professors at the University of Toronto's Visual Studies Programme and co-founders of Vtape.