​David Bobier is a hard of hearing and disabled media artist whose creative practice is researching and developing vibrotactile technology as a creative medium and language of expression. This ongoing work led to his establishment of VibraFusionLab originally in London, Ontario, a creative multi-media, multi-sensory centre that has gained a reputation as a leader in accessibility for the Deaf and disability arts movement in Canada and internationally. The Lab has recently been re-established in Hamilton, Ontario.
 
As a prac­tic­ing artist his exhi­bi­tion career includes 18 solo and over 30 group exhi­bi­tion projects across Canada and in the United States, France, Costa Rica and the UK. Bobier’s independent work as an artist and as Director of VibraFusionLab has received funding from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ontario Centres of Excellence, Grand NCE (National Centres of Excellence), Province of Quebec and British Council Canada, QC-UK Connections, Farnham Maltings, the High Commission of Canada in the UK, Stimuleringsfonds Begroting Grant, Amsterdam.
 
Bobier has served in advisory roles in developing Deaf and disability arts Equity programs for both Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and was an invited participant in the Canada Council for the Arts – The Arts in a Digital World Summit and a panel presenter at the Global Disability Summit in London, UK.