Julie is an artist and educator based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish people. Their research explores more-than-human ethnographies and multispecies creativity, experimenting with land-based methods combined with video, sound and performance technologies. At ECU, they co-developed the New Media + Sound Arts major, the Ecological Practices in Art minor, and the course Animal Ethics + Creativity. Julie has a PhD from Simon Fraser University.

Annie Briard’s photography has been the object of exhibitions at Royale Projects (Los Angeles), AC Institute (New York), the Quebec Biennale, Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver), MKG127 (Toronto) and Joyce Yahouda Gallery (Montreal). Group exhibitions have spanned The Three Shadows Photography Centre (Beijing), the Lincoln Film Centre (New York), the Switzerland Architecture Museum (Basel), the Canada Council for the Arts and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Her 2024 artist book The Glow of 100 Moons is distributed in Canada and the US.

Peter Bussigel is a composer and sound artist working on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish People. Peter builds sound systems that become instruments, performances, sculptures and videos. His research focuses on ways that electronic technologies shape and shift how we communicate, and specifically, how we listen. Peter also performs live with brass instruments and electronics and holds a PhD in Electronic Music Experiments from Brown University.

Yani Kong is a writer, editor, and scholar of contemporary art. Her writing appears in publications across Canada and internationally. Their research areas are reception aesthetics, contemporary art history, digital ecology and eco-aesthetics. As a member of the Low Carbon Research Methods Working Group and director of the Small File Media festival, they explore sustainable practices in streaming media.

Brady Ciel Marks is a computational artist and interactive-arts mentor. Brady is concerned with our technological entanglement and creates media configurations that express a middle way between technological fetishism and dystopian fantasies. She works with technology and against technological thinking. Brady holds an MSc in Interactive Arts from Simon Fraser University. She has a broad understanding of the contemporary issues and technologies in our mediated digital environment, with a specialty in sound, light and interaction.

Lauren Marsden is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker and media artist of European and Trinidadian descent living on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her work has been presented by the British Film Institute, Pacific Cinémathèque, the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, New Media Gallery, Inside Out Film Festival and Cineworks among others. She holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts and a BFA from the University of Victoria.

Pietro Sammarco is a sound producer who listens with curiosity and improvises with found materials and field recordings. He is currently doing sound design for a multichannel horror movie about a ghost town in Kitsault, B.C., and composing a soundscape about elementary students designing a chocolate bar with Big Rock Candy Mountain. He has taught at ECU, UBC, SFU, Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre and the VPL’s Inspiration Lab. He studied soundscape composition with Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp.

prOphecy sun is an artist, movement, video, soundmaker and mother of three. Her practice celebrates the in-between where art, performance and life overlap. They have a PhD in Philosophy in Arts + Technology from Simon Fraser University and held a Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in Arts and the Humanities. prOphecy appears in music festivals, conferences and galleries. She has written on sound design, installation, performance, media arts and domestic spheres for Routledge Press, Taylor & Francis and MIT Press.

Valérie d. Walker is a Renaissance artist, alchemyst, trans-media maker, educator, curator, Indigo Griot and BIPOC Femme Afro-Futuristic time-traveller. They hold 5th level Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) and Chado (tea-ceremony) with Urasenke-Kyoto, along with lifetimes of Indigo knowledge. Valérie landed on Gaia in Honolulu, exploring the planet on her way to the Salish coast. Holding degrees from UC-Berkeley and NSCAD University, Valérie taught Computation Arts and is a research advisor at Concordia University.