Amory Abbott is an American visual artist, illustrator, author, and publisher, with a creative practice that spans gallery exhibitions, illustrated media, writing, publishing, and community outreach. He approaches course curriculum with professional insight, curiosity, joy, and rigor. Beyond his work at ECU, Amory publishes an art book series on wildfire called Fire Season, showcases local comic makers through his publishing company Cauldron Books & Comics, and is the Executive VP for Vancouver Comic Artists Association that hosts VanCAF.

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.

Ruth Beer is a Vancouver-based artist and researcher whose interdisciplinary work includes sculpture, video, photography and tapestry projects that have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a Professor in the Faculty of Art (Sculpture and Interdisciplinary Visual Art) and in the Faculty of Graduate Studies teaching undergraduate students as well as teaching and supervising graduate students.

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.

Randy Lee Cutler is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator. She has a PhD in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art and an MA in the History of Art from the University of Toronto. Her work has shown nationally and internationally including Gallery 881 in Vancouver, Spring Art Show on Salt Spring Island, Into Nature Biennale in the Netherlands, Wil Aballe Art Projects in Vancouver and the Sydney Biennale NIRIN 2020.

Hélène Day Fraser is a founding member and co-director of the Material Matters Research Commons at ECU, and a member of ECU’s DESIS lab. From 2013 to 2018 she led the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight-funded cloTHING(s) as Conversation project. In her role as ECU’s Academic Co-ordinator for Sustainability she established Creatives with Intent, a group that promoted agency and communication around sustainability. In 2018 she founded the Material Matters Textile Adaptation Research Program (TARP).

Dr. Alla Gadassik is a film scholar and curator of animated media. She founded the Animate Materials Workshop at ECU, developing animation as an exploration that bridges arts and sciences. Alla is the author of Graphite: Animated Traces and writes on the histories of animation, cinematography and film editing. Her curatorial projects include special screenings for festivals like GIRAF and OIAF, as well as Interlaced: Animation and Textiles, a large-scale survey exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre.

Jamie Hilder’s practice stretches across writing, video, performance, installation, curation and sculpture, often addressing intersections of text and image. Jamie is currently focused on how economic conditions function aesthetically in an era of global finance capital. He seeks to foster collaborative relations with colleagues, students and materials where possible, and gratefully resides on the unceded, ancestral and traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Ingrid Koenig was the inaugural Artist in Residence at TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator centre, where she co-organized collaboration between artists and physicists in a project called Leaning Out of Windows. Her art practice traverses fields of physics, social history, and feminist theory. Ingrid is the recipient of grants from Canada Council for the Arts, Goethe Institute, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). She has exhibited work in public galleries across Canada, Europe, New Zealand.

Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist based on the traditional unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. Kelly investigates how objects and images are placed and displayed in the world and the cycle of value they experience. She has taught at ECU since 2013 and is a sessional lecturer at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Her work has been exhibited across Canada, the US, Europe, and the Middle East.

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.

Jonathan Middleton is an artist and curator working between Toronto and Vancouver. His work has been exhibited, screened, and performed at VIVO, Plaza Projects, Contemporary Art Gallery, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver International Film Festival, InsideOut, and Chicago International Film Festival, No Soul For Sale Festival (at Tate Modern), and Slakthusateljéerna (Stockholm). Jonathan has worked extensively in curatorial and directorial positions since 1999 at organizations including Western Front, Fillip, Or Gallery, Art Metropole, C Magazine, and Vancouver Art Book Fair.