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.

Almudena Escobar López is an independent curator, archivist, and researcher from Galicia, Spain. Her interdisciplinary research centers around documentary and artist’s moving image practices, but opens onto larger questions regarding decoloniality, visual historiography, anthropology, and alternative information ecologies. As a guest curator, Almudena has curated and co-curated a number of film and video series which have been presented at Film Society Lincoln Center, Anthology Film Archives, Museum of Modern Art, Aspen Museum of Art, Cinemateca de Bogotá, UnionDocs, Cineteca Nacional de México, among others. She was program advisor of the 2020 and 2022 editions of Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and with Sky Hopinka, she co-curated the 67th Flaherty Film Seminar, Continents of Drifting Clouds. She is Assistant Professor on Film History, Film Preservation and Collection Management at the School of Image Arts of the Toronto Metropolitan University.

Lani's interests include the decolonization and de-Westernization of how we study film and media, and in the politics of representation.

Sigurdson has dedicated her career to empowering teaching, learning and research communities through the development of responsive university library services and collections. She is a graduate of York University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts Studio) program and holds a master’s degree in Library & Information Studies from Dalhousie University. 
In addition to an established history of collaborative projects with diverse stakeholders, her library experience includes visual materials management, reference and research services, digitization activities, accessibility services, as well as intellectual property and licensing consultation. 
Her research focuses on library accessibility, specifically in relation to media materials. Current interests include the role of arts funding programs and media organizations in providing equitable access to media works, developing media accessibility curriculum, and how legislation shapes library accessibility services in the academic environment. Other topics of interest include the phenomenology of artmaking and creative spaces, analog and instant photographic processes, and olfactory art.

Ryan Conrad is Adjunct Research Faculty at the Feminist Institute for Social Transformation at Carleton University and previously held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship with Archive/Counter-Archive from 2019-2022. He is currently working on his manuscript entitled Radical VIHsion: Canadian AIDS Film & Video. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Concordia University and an MFA from Maine College of Art. He is an active film and video maker.

Amber Berson is a writer, a curator, and an Art Historian. She holds a doctoral degree from Queen’s University where her SSHRC-funded research examined artist-run culture and feminist, utopian thinking. She most recently curated Souper Spaghetti (2021, with Manon Tourigny), Utopia as Method (2018); World Cup! (2018); The Let Down Reflex (2016-2018, with Juliana Driever); TrailMix (2014, with Eliane Ellbogen); and *~._.:*JENNIFER X JENNIFER*:.~ (2013, with Eliane Ellbogen); The Annual Art Administrator’s Relay Race (2013, with Nicole Burisch); The Wild Bush Residency (2012–14); and was the 2016 curator-in-residence as part of the France-Quebec Cross-Residencies at Astérides in Marseille, France. She is a co-lead at Art+Feminism, a project that works for a more equitable Wikipedia, and was the 2019-2020 Wikipedian in Residence at Concordia University. She is also the Executive Director of The Visual Arts Centre in Montreal.

Dr. Desirée de Jesús is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC. She holds a PhD from Concordia University and an MA (with Distinction) from Kings College London. Dr. de Jesús is also a video essayist and moving images curator. Her videographic work analyzes films centering girls, women, and folks of color. Her previous curatorial work supported the Visual Collections Repository (Concordia University) and the Toronto International Film Festival. Dr. de Jesús’s research and teaching explore the intersections of race, gender, aesthetics, and technology in narrative film and media through traditional, creative, and curatorial methodologies. She is currently a co-investigator for a Connection Grant participatory filmmaking project about racialized girls, their futures, and experiences of COVID-19 inequalities. Her previous research was supported through various awards.

Jean-Pierre (JP) Marchant is a recent graduate of the MFA program in film at York University. His films, which span multiple genres, are concerned with things that grow in the ‘spaces in between’: between capitalist promises and suburban disappointments, urban landscapes and their hinterlands, personalities in conflict, and diasporic lives and the memories left behind. His most recent work uses found and archival footage, his parents’ home movies, narration, and remediation to tell stories that complicate conventional narratives of trauma, Latin American migration, and exile.

He is the newly minted Director of Operations of the “Cinemobilia” mobile media digitization lab, a CFI-funded project through York University and A/CA.

His works have screened and won awards at several international festivals and galleries including aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Toronto), Photophobia (Hamilton, ON), Video Fever (Toronto), the Calgary International Film Festival, WNDX, the Winnipeg/Montreal/Toronto Underground Film Fests, Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria), International Portrait Film Festival (Sofia, Bulgaria), Galvanized Suns (Toronto), Northwestfest (Edmonton), and Trap\Door Artist Run Centre.

Dr. Desirée de Jesús is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC. She holds a PhD from Concordia University and an MA (with Distinction) from Kings College London. Dr. de Jesús is also a video essayist and moving images curator. Her videographic work analyzes films centering girls, women, and folks of color. Her previous curatorial work supported the Visual Collections Repository (Concordia University) and the Toronto International Film Festival. Dr. de Jesús’s research and teaching explore the intersections of race, gender, aesthetics, and technology in narrative film and media through traditional, creative, and curatorial methodologies. She is currently a co-investigator for a Connection Grant participatory filmmaking project about racialized girls, their futures, and experiences of COVID-19 inequalities. Her previous research was supported through various awards.

Dr. Mary Bunch is an Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Arts, and Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability, Vision and the Arts. Her research interests include critical disability, queer, and feminist theory, social and political thought and philosophies of new media. Her current project, a monograph titled Ecstatic Ethics, explores a shift in contemporary queer, crip and decolonial social movements from individualized, neoliberal forms of freedom, to an emancipatory concept based on an ethics of relationality, solidarity, and nonmastery.  In other emergent projects, Dr. Bunch’s examines extended reality (XR), virtual worldmaking and immersive storytelling in media arts and performance studies to better understand how artists and community members from marginalized communities use digital technology to creatively transform social imaginaries. Dr. Bunch is a core member of Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA), an Associate of Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, a Fellow of the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies (U of T), and Affiliate of Revision Centre for Art and Social Justice (UGuelph). She is also affiliated with graduate programs in Theatre and Performance Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Digital Media, Communication and Culture, and Interdisciplinary Studies. postdoctoral fellowship the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies (U of T). She has published articles in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Culture, Theory and Critique, Feminist Theory, Studies in Social Justice, and the Canadian Journal of Human Rights, among others.