Malini Guha is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University. Her research and teaching are broadly concerned with spatiality and the cinema, with an emphasis on postcolonial and post-imperial modes of mobility, migration, displacement and settlement. She is the author of From Empire to the World: Migrant London and Paris in Cinema, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2015.

Corina MacDonald is a PhD Candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University. She previously completed a MLIS degree in Library and Information Studies at McGill University, where she researched documentary strategies for the preservation of new media art. Her current research interests include knowledge organization, dissemination, and research infrastructures. Her doctoral project focuses on self-archiving practices and platforms as a site of inquiry for understanding changing conditions of academic labour and value regimes within humanities scholarly communication.

Michelle is completing a PhD in the Cultural Studies program at Queen's University. With a background in film and animation studies, her research explores fan-made archives of anime (Japanese animation) and manga (Japanese comics and graphic novels) in a transnational context. Currently she works at the Vulnerable Media Lab at Queen's University as a technical assistant, digitizing analog media "marginalized" sources.

Elisa Arca Jarque is a PhD student in Communication and Culture at York University. She holds a Master's degree in New Media and Contemporary Art from Paris 8 University. She has worked as a project coordinator for ePPA Space/ Platform for Audiovisual preservation, a repository for Peruvian video art. At Alta Tecnología Andina (ATA), she conducted research in media arts with an emphasis on Latin America. She coordinated and contributed to the essay collection The future was now: 21 years of video and electronic art in Peru. As a researcher and consultant, she worked for the Directorate of Audiovisual, Phonography, and New Media at the Ministry of Culture of Peru. She is the general coordinator of MUTA- Festival Internacional de Apropiación Audiovisual, a Lima-based found footage festival. Her current research interests include the use of audiovisual media in religious contexts and Latin American media history.

Catherine Russell is Distinguished Professor of Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She is the author of five books, including Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video (1999), and Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices (2018). She has published articles on experimental film, Japanese film, and Hollywood cinema in Cinema Journal, Camera Obscura, Criticism, Visual Anthropology, Scope, Transformations, Framework, and she is a contributing writer for Cineaste Magazine.

I'm a researcher, writer, community organizer, and PhD student interested in archive theory, media archaeology, audio-visual preservation, and the concept of the living archive in promoting elements of care, community, and agency in the archival sphere.

With a deep interest in community building and collaborative programming, since 2012 I managed multiple arts projects while working in various institutions and presented at conferences across Canada and internationally.

Currently, my research explores the preservation of new media, cinematic, and digital art forms and the role of the institution in archiving obsolete technologies, ephemeral art, and collective memories. My theoretical and experiential research interrogates the ways institutional archives are shifting their preservation and conservation methods in order to manage the constant cycles of obsolescence, disposable, and changing technologies. By completing field placements at Vtape, Video Cabaret, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Niagara Artists Centre, and TIFF's Film Reference Library, I have been identifying processes, trends, protocols, strategies, and issues related to media preservation, while considering alternative archival projects and digital community network.

Verónica Sedano Alvarez holds both a Master's degree in Art History from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2019) and a Bachelor's degree in Art History from the University of Havana (2003). Her research, which focuses on the absence of Central American contemporary art in Latin American art historiography, received the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s program from the SSHRC. In 2001, the University of Havana granted her the Alma Mater award for the most relevant contribution to the higher education. She taught Latin American Art History at the University of Havana from 2003 to 2008. Additionally, she collaborated with major institutions such as Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Vienna), Hayward Gallery (London, UK) and Mori Art Museum (Tokyo). From January to June 2019, she was coordinator of the visual art project Montréal ~ Habana: Rencontres en art actuel. Currently, she works as Communications and Special Projects Coordinator at Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV).

Elina Lex is an interdisciplinary researcher, media artist, and PhD student in Communications Studies at Concordia University. Working across VR, 360° video, sensory ethnography, interactive documentary and digital archives, she investigates how emergent digital media formats might transform the way cultural information, knowledge, and memory is expressed and exchanged. Her current doctoral research-creation project explores potential applications of VR in the design of future archival interfaces and architectures, examining how they might produce new modalities for diverse communities and audiences to share, preserve, and interpret tangible and intangible cultural heritage material. Elina is an active member of the Immersive Media Lab at the Post-Image cluster located at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology as well as researcher in the Technology: Innovation working group of the Archive/Counter-Archive project.

Jess Stewart-Lee is a graduate student in the Film Studies program at Concordia University. After completing an undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in Cinema Studies and Diaspora & Transnational Studies, Jess wanted to continue her studies in film. She is currently pursuing research into the use of archival media in autobiographical documentary films, with a focus on films by people of colour. She is specifically interested in questions of family history, liminality, and depictions of race on-screen.

Muxin Zhang is a first year PhD student in Film & Moving Image Studies at Concordia University. She had curating experience as a student organizer of “Zoom-In,” a screening series and thesis showcase for Columbia University’s Film & Media Studies Class of 2020. Her MA thesis, “Meeting Women of the World: Hollywood’s Ambivalent Encounters with the Vamp Actresses,” analyzes the intersection of popular cosmopolitanism and the stardom of female performers specializing in playing “vamps” in early and studio-era Hollywood. For her PhD studies, she expects to further examine archetypes of cosmopolitan consciousness in the first decades of Hollywood. The broader concern would be how people of different ethnic backgrounds develop “habits of coexistence,” using Kwame Anthony Appiah’s phrase, and how cinema as a mass cultural institution can be regarded as a space for such negotiations of identity.