Nak Alariaq is a first year PhD student studying Art History at Concordia University with a focus on Inuit art from Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island Region), Nunavut. She has completed her Master in Arts in Art History and Curatorial Studies from Western University with a focus on Inuit art history in Kinngait, Nunavut.

Dhvani is a PhD student in Cinema and Media Studies at York University. Her research and curatorial practice focuses on experimental moving image, particularly attuned to queer, feminist, and speculative archival practices in contemporary exhibitions. Her curatorial interests also extend to sound art, and multi-sensorial experiences more broadly; in 2021 she curated places where sounds turn to dreams…a multimedia group exhibition in Toronto that centred artists who engage with sonic ecologies and world-making in their practices. She is also a graduate research associate at Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology at York University. 

Becka Barker is an interdisciplinary artist and educator of settler ancestry who uses animation, collaboration, and process cinema as key strategies for research and studio practice. Her SSHRC-funded PhD project traces developments in experimental animation through community-based movements over the past quarter century. Becka’s work has been supported by agencies such as the National Film Board and the Canada Council for the Arts. She has presented at venues such as Ottawa International Animation Festival, EXiS Seoul (Winner, Best International Film, 2007), Society for Animation Studies and Universities Art Association of Canada. 

Becka comes to York after 15 years as Regular Part-Time Faculty at NSCAD University and five years as Visiting Faculty in the Film/Animation Department and School for Global Education and Exchange at Soonchunhyang University (ROK). She holds a B.Sc. (Hons) from Mount Allison University, a BFA from NSCAD University, and an M. Ed. from University of Calgary.

Johanna Laub is a PhD candidate in the research group “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt. After her bachelor and master studies in Art History at the University of Leipzig and Université de Tours, she worked as a curatorial assistant at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt on exhibitions of contemporary and modern art. There, she also collaborated as a co-curator on the screening and artist talk program “Double Feature". Johanna’s PhD project focusses on contemporary moving image art as a site of history production and deconstruction, where film and video challenge conventions of written historiography and develop alternative archaeological and historiographical practices. Her interests as a writer and curator lie in the field of artistic research, media archaeology, philosophy of technology, and decolonial thinking. From August to December 2022, she is an academic visitor at Concordia University. 

Anjo-marí Gouws is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto. Her current project, Personal Clutter: The Diary as Domestic Archive, 1960-1980, is a continuation of her interest in women’s work, feminist archives, and forms of personal documentation. She is also writing a monograph on experimental filmmaker Anne Charlotte Robertson.

Alannah Taylor is a student of the Communications and Culture Masters program at both Ryerson and York University. She is currently working on a research project that focuses on the destigmatization and reeducation of sexual health for the public. Holding a Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University in Theatre & Film and Communication Studies, Taylor would like to link these two fields by culminating her research in site specific, testimonial based theatrical work.

Helen Lee is a writer and researcher, currently pursuing an MA in the Film Preservation and Collections Management program X University. Her research interests include experimental filmmaking techniques, ecology, and the living archive. Helen has a BA from the University of King’s College in Contemporary Studies. She has formerly worked as the Collections Assessment Assistant at Vtape Artist-Run Distribution Centre, and as the Archive Intern at C Magazine. Her writing has been published in MOMUS and Peripheral Review.

Rebecca M. Gordon is a film studies scholar and archivist-in-training. She has taught cinema studies and literature at Northern Arizona University, Reed College, and Oberlin College. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Film Quarterly, Reception, and other venues. She currently serves as the Precarious Labor Organization Representative on the Board of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and is a Masters candidate in the Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management program at X University in Toronto. Her research interest is US National Parks visitor center films and videos, especially in parks that have recently begun to change out audiovisual stories of what the parks mean, which often take for granted a settler-colonialist or "white-environmentalist" approach to the parks and the parks' patrons, for updated media that define the parks at least in part as indigenous spaces.

Shannon is a second year student studying Film Preservation and Collections Management at Ryerson University. Her background in Art History has shaped her current research interests in the preservation of performance art, and will be focusing her research on documentation practices conducted at the Western Front in Vancouver. Most recently, Shannon worked with the Regent Park Film Festival's project Home Made Visible, and has previously interned at VTape and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.

Laurel Day is a first year student of graduate studies in Ryerson University's Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management program. She holds a degree in Radio-Television-Film and a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to her arrival in Toronto, she interned at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, where she designed exhibit cases related to Civil Rights-era photography and time-coded segments of the television news program 60 Minutes for a fiftieth anniversary exhibit. Currently, she is helping Dr. Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof catalog and commemorate Canadian independent filmmakers whose works aired on CBC in the 1960s and 1970s. Through this research, she hopes to highlight the cultural diversity of early Canadian independent cinema and apply such research methods to her own interest: the challenges of preserving works by Eastern European women filmmakers who worked under the Iron Curtain.