Candice Spykers is a graduate of York University, where she received a BFA in Dance and a BEd at the Intermediate/ Senior level. Candice also received specialized dance training on full scholarship at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York City. In 2022, Candice completed her MA in Choreography at Trinity Laban […]
Michael Wheeler is an Assistant Professor in Acting and Directing with Emerging Technologies. Michael is a director, researcher, producer, and arts curator with more than two decades of experience in Canadian performance. He is Co-Principal Investigator on several research creation projects ranging from emerging tech and collective behaviour (Creative Collectivities, Co-PI Dr. Laura Levin), immersive […]
Joy Wong is an artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto with Hong Kong/Cantonese settler heritage. Focusing on material connections with the shifting physicality of the body, they are interested in precarity and fluctuating surfaces, and have worked in painting, print media, and sculpture. Intrinsic to their material research are the impressions on the corporeal made […]
Atanas Bozdarov is an artist and designer whose recent projects have explored systems of access and accessibility, unnoticed conditions of disability and design, and architectural propositions for public space. He received his MDes from OCAD University.
Darren is a multi-disciplinary designer, communicator, and educator who has built his career around serial reinvention. From innovative branding, design, and communications in both traditional and digital spaces, to user experience consulting and strategy, to creative direction, product design, and higher education, each move has been a tangent spun off from a previous trajectory. Passionate […]
Kate J. Russell holds a PhD in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto, where she completed her dissertation, “John Waters and the Divine Comedy of Cult Cinema,” on the concept of cult in archives, film form, spectatorship practices, and extratextual influences in the films of John Waters (1964-1981). She has previously taught Cinema Studies […]
Alyson Richards is an award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, and educator known for bold, inclusive storytelling. In 2024, she won the Director’s Guild of Canada Award for Best Short Film for her documentary I WAS HERE. She also directed the ‘horror’ episode of CHILDREN RUIN EVERYTHING (CTV, The CW, Netflix), featuring legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg in […]
Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation) is an interdisciplinary artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, wearable art, film and social practice. Her solo and collaborative work engages questions of personal and cultural identity and its relationship to space. Susan is co-founder of Ogimaa Mikana, an artist collective working to reclaim and rename the roads […]
Doug Van Nort is an artist, scholar and composer/improviser of experimental and electroacoustic music. He regularly performs and presents his work internationally, with notable past venues including Casa da Musica in Porto, Betong in Oslo, Cafe OTO in London, Skolska28 in Prague, Liebig12 and QuietCue in Berlin, Ongaku no tomo hall in Tokyo, The Smithsonian […]
Sullivan has over a decade of software engineering experience, mainly with Electronic Arts (EA). Her research connects various fields and communities through a humanistic, artistic and technical lens, focusing on critical game design, co-creative AI and human-computer interaction. She examines and creates engaging, narrative-driven and inclusive interactive experiences for education, craft and gaming. An accomplished […]