Daria Marchenko (Ecoist Club)

Company: Ecoist Club

Title: Founder and president

Born in Moscow in 1985, she immigrated to Quebec in 2007. She has also lived and worked in France and Hong Kong. Photojournalist, visual artist and digital artist, recipient of the CALQ scholarship, with more than 15 years of experience in management and realization of media projects as photo director / photo editor. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in photojournalism (2007 – Moscow), a Master’s degree in media communication (2011 – Montreal), a Bachelor’s degree in film production (2015 – Montreal).
Her artistic works like “Occupy Central” (2015) – a mobile application / alarm clock in support of pro-democratic demonstrators in Hong Kong, or “Barometer – sound portrait of Montreal” (2021), are the fruit of her reflection on human relations with technology.
Since 2020, she has been working on a project « Ecoist Club » to raise awareness about digital sobriety. Ecoist Club helps to develop healthy and eco-responsible relationships with digital technology using multidisciplinary and inclusive initiatives.