Mustafa is an artist, filmmaker, and PhD student in Cinema and Media Studies at York University. His current research explores the archival archaeology of an autonomous neighborhood in Istanbul through a more-than-human lens, integrating political ecology and ethnographic fieldwork. His broader interests include online communities, film festivals, curatorial practices, and experimental media forms.

Luke Kuplowsky’s work is interested in cinema’s radical potential for challenging the way we perceive the world around us. His MA project at UofT explored non-anthropocentric forms of attention and a cinematic fascination for cats in the works of Chris Marker and Kazuhiro Soda. He is a York Elia Scholar and SSHRC research fellow whose current project explores imaginings and philosophies of community in contemporary documentary and fiction film and media, attending to their capacity to give rise to creative forms of attention, care and responsibility. Luke is also a practicing musician currently working on a series of albums that interpret and respond to the poetry of Ryōkan Taigu and Bohdan Ihor Antonych (among others) through a Canada Council Research/Creation grant and the Boris Horodynsky Music Fund.

Miguel Soriano is a current MA student in Media Studies at Concordia University and holds a BA in International Development from McGill University. His research intersects Filipino-Canadian studies and Diasporic studies to critically theorize the diasporic experience in the context of Canadian policy infrastructures. He was previously an intern at the National Film Board of Canada, where his work sought to counter-archive Canadian Indigenous documentaries to better organize the works based on their true contextual origins. His research also intersects his creative directive work with his research on the Filipino-Diaspora to gain a deeper understanding of how the diasporic experience can be unraveled through artistic practice.

Mikhel Proulx is a historian of contemporary Canadian art and digital culture. He is the Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et culture (FRQSC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Vulnerable Media Lab in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University.

Mikhel recently defended his doctoral dissertation—a study of network-based art by Canadian women—which was awarded the 2022 Leonardo Journal top thesis prize. His research considers network culture from queer-feminist and settler-colonial perspectives, and has recently been presented at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Toronto), Yale University (New Haven), Foundation PHI (Montreal), MediaArtHistories (Venice), Goldsmith’s College (London), and the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York City).

In recent projects, Mikhel has collaborated with the artists Margaret Dragu, Anna Boghiguian, Vera Frenkel, Anna Banana, Rita McKeough, and Skawennati.

Easton Arnouse is a 19 year old creative artist, and photo documenter. Based in the home of his ancestors Native to the lower mainland of British Columbia. Son to Roxanne Charles from Se’mya’me’, and Joseph Arnouse of the interior Secwépemc people. His interest in Art creation outlines the importance of cultural identity, self, furthermore ones interconnection with nature and tradition. Easton is on a path to represent the need in preserving Indigenous methods, belief systems, and ways of living. “Although our lives as Indigenous people have changed; we are still rooted in ceremony and we are still in contact with our traditions. It represents our ability to adapt to these colonial ways of living without forgetting who we are as a people” Arnouse says. The influence of traditional art forms, and cultural teachings have led Arnouse to emerge as an Artist in an effort to improve the quality of Indigenous life. He uses Art as a tool to make these things possible for the coming generations of young Indigenous people and Artists. Easton Arnouse began this path as a young boy working alongside his mother Roxanne Charles and Master Carver Leslie Wells as an apprentice and Artist in training. His Artworks appears on the likes of the Semiahmoo Minor Hockey jersey design “Honouring the children and survivors of residential schools” crest, which was unveiled on National Truth and Reconciliation Day in 2022. Arnouse also has designed for the City of Surrey “Skelkelosen” pollinator seed package that housed a blend of traditional medicines. The intent of his future work entails the personal connectivity with nature, and reclamation of native land/space and resources through photo documentation and Coast Salish design.

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.

I am a Ph.D. student at York University Cinema and Media Studies. I am also a multimedia artist and researcher focusing on the liminal relationship between the virtual and reality. I have exhibited works in various locations virtually and physically, including the CICA museum in South Korea, Walter Otero Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Hunan Museum of Art in China, and many more. I founded a Mixed Reality collective, Chameleon Gallery, in 2017.

David Clark is a media artist interested in experimental narrative and cinematic use of the internet. Recent works include interactive narrative works for the web: 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein, Sign After the X, and A is for Apple and also the non-linear film Meanwhile and the feature film Maxwell’s Demon. His work has been exhibited at Sundance, SIGGRAPH, EMAF, Transmediale, and the Museum of Moving Images in New York. His work has won awards at FILE, Sao Paulo, and the SXSW Interactive Festival. 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein was included in the Electronic Literature Collection #2 and won the $25,000 2011 Nova Scotia Masterwork Award. He teaches Media Arts at NSCAD University in Halifax.