Jacquelyn Hébert has worked in Arts Administration and Education since 2005, holding positions at Concordia University, Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ECUAD), Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Film Group to name a few. She is currently the Community and Programming Manager for VUCAVU.com as well as the Website Manager for the "Un Canadien errant" research project led by principal investigator Monica Heller at the University of Toronto. Jacquelyn is also an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in moving image, photography and fibre-based practices. She has presented her work both nationally and internationally and, in 2011, was awarded a research-creation SSHRC grant in support of her project "Francophone-hybride". In addition to an MFA from Concordia University, she holds a Bachelor in Film, Video and Media Arts from ECUAD and a B.A. with a major in Anthropology from the University of Manitoba. She is currently participating in a yearlong residency for mid-career artists led by Le Labo in Toronto.

Pascaline Morincôme is a French researcher and curator, member of the curatorial team of Treize, an independent exhibition and production space located in Paris. Since a couple of years, She has been leading a research with Sibylle de Laurens with whom she organized, among other events, a program focused on the links between filmed and printed forms, hosted at the Bibliothèque Kandinsky at the Centre George Pompidou. Together, they are now working on a project dedicated to the archives of the independent video space EZTV in Los Angeles in collaboration with the 18th Street Arts Center of Santa Monica. Since 2018, she has also been working with Olga Rozenblum and Julien Laugier on the films of Guillaume Dustan. She is started a PhD in Art History at the University of Saint-Etienne.

Professor Hayashi specializes in Japanese cinema and media studies. Her research focuses on the intersection of visual culture and history. Her current research interests include digital mapping, architectures of cinema, and the resurgence of artistic and political collectives in urban Japan. She has published articles on Japanese pink cinema and the travel films of Shimizu Hiroshi, and is currently creating Mapping Protest Tokyo, a historical mapping website that analyzes the new media work of artistic collectives and new social movements in relation to artistic performance and political protest in Japan and globally from 1960 to the present.

Kristin Moriah is an Assistant Professor of African American Literary Studies at Queen’s University. Her research interests include Sound Studies and Black feminist performance, particularly the circulation of African-American performance and its influence on the formation of national identity.

Marie Bernard-Brind'Amour studies alternative media social movements at Concordia University.

Heather Home has been the Public Services/Private Records Archivist at Queen's University Archives since September 2001. Prior to arriving at Queen's, she worked at the Provincial Archives of Alberta in the Private Records Division, as well as CBC Vancouver within the film archives. Heather holds a Master of Archival Studies (M.A.S.) from the University of British Columbia and a B.A. (Honours) in Cultural Studies from Trent University. Over the past decade she has served on a variety of local, and national, boards and committees for the Association of Canadian Archivists, the Cataraqui Archaeological Research Foundation, Archives Association of Ontario, Kingston Association of Museums, Art Galleries, and Historic Sites and the City of Kingston. Ms. Home’s research interests include the documentation and conservation of media arts heritage, early 20th century Canadian women artists archives, and the use of archival material in the creation of imaginative works.

Julia Minne is a Phd student at the Département de communication of the Université de Montréal and the Département d’Arts plastiques at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and is also in charge of the initiative Savoirs communs du cinéma, carried out by the Cinémathèque québécoise. She has a master’s degree in film archives from the University of Paris VIII.

Genevieve Flavelle is an independent curator and PhD student in the Art History program at Queen’s University. She is a white settler of Scottish and French ancestry raised and currently living in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her doctoral research investigates the work of contemporary visual artists who are challenging traditional forms of historical research to give voice to underrepresented, forgotten, or imagined histories. Her broader research and curatorial interests include queer theory, queer feminist art histories, contemporary art, archives, public art, and feminist curatorial strategies. She holds an MA from Western University and a BA from NSCAD University, both in Art History. She has curated exhibitions at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre (Kingston, ON), Younger Than Beyonce Gallery (Toronto, ON), The Khyber (Halifax, NS), and the Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax, NS). She has also held the positions of Operation Director at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and Programming Assistant at Eyelevel Gallery. Her writing has appeared in C Magazine, BlackFlash, Esse, and various exhibition catalogues.

Laura Pannekoek is a Ph.D. student in Communication Studies at Concordia. Her research focuses on political ecology and technology at sites of resource extraction. She received an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Amsterdam with a thesis that traces a geological index in cultural production and energy policy. Laura is a member of Feminist Media Studio at Concordia and the Grierson Research Group on Media, Environment, and Infrastructure at McGill. She is the founder of Soapbox: Journal for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam.

Katrina Cohen-Palacios is an archivist at the York University Libraries Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections. She holds a Master of Information and Master of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. She is currently the co-chair of the ACA Sound and Moving Image Special Interest Section; having previously served as co-chair of the AAO’s Professional Development Committee and as an executive member of the Toronto Area Archivists Group. Her work includes processing donations from community based archival projects (Egypt Migrations: a Public Humanities Project and the Home Made Visible collection).