Esmée Colbourne is a writer, musician and first year student studying in the Communication and Culture programme at Ryerson University.

Rebecca Cairns is an analogue photographer and a first year student studying in the Photography Preservation and Collections Management program at Ryerson University.

Noor Bhangu is a curator and scholar, whose practice employs cross-cultural encounters to interrogate issues of diaspora and indigeneity in post- and settler-colonial contexts. Through curatorial intervention, she hopes to involve politics of history, memory and materiality to problematize dominant histories and strategies of presentation. She completed her BA in the History of Art and her MA in Cultural Studies: Curatorial Practices at the University of Winnipeg. Her curatorial practice includes projects: Overlapping Violent Histories: A Curatorial Investigation into Difficult Knowledge (2018), womenofcolour@soagallery (2018), Not the Camera, But the Filing Cabinet: Performative Body Archives in Contemporary Art (2018), Lines of Difference: The Art of Translating Islam (2019) and Digitalia (2019). In 2018, she began her PhD in Communication and Culture at Ryerson and York University in Tkaronto, Toronto.

Aaron Tucker is currently a PhD candidate in the Cinema and Media Arts department at York University where he is an Elia Scholar, a VISTA doctoral Scholar and a 2020 Joseph-Armand Bombardier doctoral fellow. His dissertation, "The Flexible Face: Uniting the Protocols of Facial Recognition Technologies" examines the intersection of citizenship, the management of mobility, and crisis throughout the histories of facial recognition technologies. Past film studies work includes the two monographs "Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema" and "Virtual Weaponry" both published by Palgrave Macmillan. 

In addition he is the author of three collections of poetry and two novels. His most recent novel "Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys" (Coach House Books) comes out in Spring 2023.

Marcus Jack is a curator and writer based in Glasgow, Scotland, currently a visiting UKRI-Mitacs Globalink doctoral researcher at York University, Toronto. He has recently submitted his AHRC-funded PhD thesis, “Artists’ Moving Image in Scotland: Production, Circulation, Reception, 1970–2021,” undertaken at The Glasgow School of Art, and is now investigating the work of Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren via the contexts of his political activism, queer identity and participation in transatlantic programmes of cultural nation-building. Jack is the founding editor of DOWSER (2020–), an open-access publication series concerning artists’ moving image in Scotland, and in 2015 founded Transit Arts as an itinerant platform for the support of artists’ filmmaking, working through public screening programmes and experimental publishing. He has written for the ICA, London; Square Eyes, Vienna; Open City Documentary Festival, London; LUX Scotland, Glasgow; and MAP Magazine, Glasgow.

Mary Hegedus is a PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at York University. Mary’s research seeks to expand her University of Toronto Master’s in Cinema Studies work on post-apocalyptic film and fungi to find deeper connections between fungal living and its relationship to cinema.

Jennifer LeBlanc (L’nu/Mi’kmaw) is a 3rd PhD student at Queen’s University, with the Faculty of Cultural Studies. Jennifer studies with Stó:lõ sound studies scholar Dylan Robinson. Her research interests include underground ‘heavy music’ including metal, goth, and experimental, affect theory, emotional knowledges, and Indigenous body sovereignty. Her research project asks what underground 'heavy music' does to and for Indigenous bodies, with a particular focus on how Indigenous sovereign bodies feel both heavy and light when engaging musical and affective heaviness in 'heavy music' and what Indigenous bodies do with these affective feelings and encounters.

Erin Chan is a graduate student in the Master of Publishing (MPub) program at Simon Fraser University. Her research is centred on zines and the zine community of the west coast of Canada, and she is interested in exploring zines as a crucial alternative to traditional publishing in giving space to and embodying marginalized communities.

Chris Chong Chan Fui works with varying materials and moving image formats in the fields of natural sciences, sport, space, and economics. Chong has exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Palais de Tokyo, Gwangju Biennale, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, and premiered his films at the Cannes' Directors’ Fortnight, Vienna, BFI London, and TIFF. As part of his research process, Chong was also a Smithsonian Artist Research fellow (National Museum of Natural History), an Asian Ford Foundation fellow, and a Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Arts fellow.

Don Bapst is a writer and filmmaker whose work explores alternatives in content, form, and style to give a voice to the marginal, the unnoticed, and the forbidden.