Janine Marchessault is a professor in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University. She is the Project Director for Archive/Counter-Archive (2018-2025) counterarchive.ca that is activating Canada’s moving image heritage. Her publications include Ecstatic Worlds: Media, Utopias and Ecologies (MIT 2017); Cosmic Media: Marshall McLuhan (Sage 2005); Process Cinema: Handmade film in the Digital Age (w/ S. Mackenzie MQUP 2019); Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67 (w/ M. Gagnon MQUP 2014);). She has co-curated several monumental projects for Nuit Blanche Toronto including “Death of the Sun” (Director X 2016). Her most recent curatorial project is Outer Worlds (2019)– five Imax films by artists.

Nicholas Fernandes is an independent researcher with a critical interest in media phenomenology, theories of cinematic spectatorship, moving image aesthetics, and continental philosophy. He has taught courses on film authorship, the cinema of Agnès Varda, and the history of stereoscopic moving imagery. He received his BA and MA in Cinema and Media Studies from York University. 

Patricio Dávila is a designer, artist, and educator. He is currently Associate Professor in Design at OCAD University, Co-director of Public Visualization Lab, and a member of the OCADU Mobile Media Lab and Visual Analytics Lab. His research focuses on developing a theoretical framework for examining data visualization as assemblages of subjectivation and power.

In his creative practice he has created mobile applications, locative media projects, essay videos, new media installations, and participatory community projects including: Powers of Kin, Chthuluscene, Tent City Projections, The Line, and In The Air Tonight. His curatorial projects, including Multiplex and Diagrams of Power, investigate the essay film, data, and critical media practices. His research and practice focuses on the politics and aesthetics of participation in the visualization of spatial issues with a specific focus on urban experiences, mobile technologies, and large-scale interactive public installations.

John Greyson is an award-winning Toronto video/film artist. Since 1984, his many features, shorts and transmedia works use humour and song to explore such queer activist issues as police entrapment, prison, AIDS activism, global solidarity, homo-nationalism and apartheid. The winner of 4 Teddies, 4 Canadian screen awards, and Best Film Prizes in over 30 international festivals, his works include: Photo Booth (2022),  International Dawn Chorus Day (2020), Mercurial (2018), Gazonto (2016), Murder in Passing (2013), Fig Trees (2009), Proteus (2003),  Lilies (1996), Zero Patience (1993), The Making of Monsters (1991) and Urinal (1989).

Jean-Pierre Marchant is a filmmaker and graduate of the York MFA program in Film and Media Studies. He has worked as a video editor and colourist for many years, and has taught various workshops and classes at York University and other institutions.

His works have screened and won awards in several festivals and art galleries including Photophobia in Hamilton, ON, Trinity Square Video, the Calgary International Film Festival, WNDX, the Winnipeg, Montreal and Toronto Underground Film Fests, Antimatter [Media Art], International Portrait Film Festival, Galvanized Suns, and the Northwest Film Fest.