Patricia Alvarez Astacio is a Puerto Rican anthropologist and filmmaker whose scholarly research and creative practice develops in the folds between ethnography, critical theory, sensory ethnography and the documentary arts. Her most recent works converge on issues of indigenous politics and aesthetics, labor and capitalism. She is currently working on her book manuscript, “Moral Fibers:,” an ethnographic account of how alpaca wool and indigenous handwork become part of supply chains for ethical and sustainable fashions. Her films have screened in national and international film festivals, museums and galleries. She is currently the producer for the film Backside which explores the life and labor of the mostly Latinx grooms that care for the thoroughbreds that compete in the Kentucky Derby. Her current film project explores the expanding cochineal pigment industry looking at the entanglements of indigenous histories, labor and aesthetic traditions and capitalism. She is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Brandeis University.

Vanessa Campbell is a member of the Musqueam Indian Band. She is a passionate advocate for the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language, working for UBC’s First Nations and Endangered Languages Program and in the Musqueam Language and Culture Department to revitalize the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language. She sits on the Musqueam Cultural Committee and the Inter-Community hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ Revitalization Committee.

Dante Cerron is a software engineer by trade with a focus on emerging media. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, and is passionate about user centered design and computer graphics. He aims to use his knowledge to facilitate the pursuit of software projects at and beyond the University though the CEDaR space.

Elizabeth Chin is an anthropologist and ethnographer with a varied practice that includes performative scholarship, experimental ethnography, vernacular electronics, installation, and community collaboration. She has published widely on her work in the US and Haiti. Currently editor in chief of American Anthropologist, her aim is to remove the mystery from publishing, support and develop good work, and explore the breadth of anthropological knowledge-making.

Jon Corbett is a nehiyaw-Métis computational media artist and professional computer programmer. He holds a BFA from the University of Alberta in Art and Design, an MFA from the University of British Columbia in Interdisciplinary Studies, and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of British Columbia. His doctoral research crosses the domains of Indigenous Studies and Digital Humanities and focuses on creating digital tools for Indigenous artists and nehiyawewin learners. His research products thus far include a nehiyaw-based programming language, physical hardware designs for the nehiyaw syllabic orthography, and software/application solutions that use Indigenous Storywork as design tools. In addition to being showcased in several books and articles, his artwork has been featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, NY, and at the Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone / Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA) in Montreal, QC.

Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and co-editor of the Multimodal Section of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. He received a joint PhD in Anthropology and Education from the University of Pennsylvania

For almost a decade Gabriel has utilized collaborative, multimodal, and speculative approaches to research how media consumption, production, and circulation shape understandings of migration, gender, race, and urban space. His first book, The Globally Familiar: Digital hip hop, masculinity and urban space in Delhi (Duke University Press, 2020), narrates how Delhi’s young working class and migrant men adopt hip hop’s globally circulating aesthetics— accessed through inexpensive smartphones and cheap internet connectivity that radically changed India’s media landscape in the early aughts— to productively re-fashion themselves and their city. Recently, Gabriel has become interested in the ways that corporate owned social media platforms have become a site for a rearticulation and disruption of enduring forms of coloniality. His second book, co-written with Sahana Udupa and titled Digital Unsettling:Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media (NYU Press, forthcoming), explores these developments and their material consequences.

Prior to joining NYU, Gabriel was a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London where he co-directed the Centre for Visual Anthropology.

Steve DiPaola (Professor, School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University) is a cognitive scientist, artist, and AI scholar whose primary research areas are cognitive, character and expression based artificial intelligence, interaction and computer graphics. His computational artwork was notably commissioned by video artist Nam Jun Paik for his work Fin de Siecle II, which was recently reinstalled as part of the new computer programmed art retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC, “Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018”).

David Gaertner is a settler scholar of German descent and an Assistant Professor with the Institute of Critical Indigenous Studies at UBC. His articles have appeared in Canadian Literature, American Indian Cultural and Research Journal, and Bioethical Inquiry, among other publications. He is the editor of Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe and Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island (with Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, and Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill). His most recent book, The Theatre of Regret: Literature, Art and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada, is available from UBC Press.

Imposter Media is the documentary studio of Brett Gaylor. His recent releases are Fortune!, an AR documentary released at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and Discriminator, an interactive film that had its world premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. Brett’s documentaries The Internet of Everything, Do Not Track, OK Google, and Rip! A Remix Manifesto chronicled the Internet’s peril and promise. Brett has received the International Documentary Association award, a Peabody Award, the Prix Gemaux and three Webbys. Brett is currently a PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology.

Danya Glabau is a feminist STS scholar and medical anthropologist who studies medical activism and body-technology interfaces. Her first book, Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care examines food allergy patient activism in the United States, and her second, forthcoming book, Cyborg, co-authored with Laura Forlano, seeks to bring cyborg theory to everyone. She directs and teaches STS at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

For award-winning documentary filmmaker and visual anthropologist Harjant Gill, making films is about casting a spotlight on urgent and often overlooked social issues, and making marginalized members of society feel less isolated and more understood. Dr. Gill’s research and films explore the intersections of gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, transnationality and notions of belonging with a particular focus on Indian and diasporic masculinities. His films have screened at film festivals, academic conferences, and on television networks worldwide including BBC, Doordarshan and PBS. Born and raised in Chandigarh, Dr. Gill studied film and anthropology at San Francisco State University before pursuing his PhD at American University. Dr. Gill resides in Washington DC where he is an associate professor at Towson University. Funded by the Performing Arts fellowship by American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) and the Fulbright-Nehru Research Award, Dr. Gill is currently living in Delhi while developing an eight-part immersive virtual reality web-series on Indian masculinities titled “Tales from Macholand."

Mary L. Gray is Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She maintains a faculty position in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. Mary, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how people’s everyday uses of technologies transform labor, identity, and human rights. Mary earned her PhD in Communication from the University of California at San Diego in 2004, under the direction of Susan Leigh Star. In 2020, Mary was named a MacArthur Fellow for her contributions to anthropology and the study of technology, digital economies, and society.

Kate Hennessy is an Associate Professor specialising in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology. As an anthropologist of media and the director of the Making Culture Lab, an interdisciplinary research-creation and production studio, her work uses collaborative, feminist, and decolonial methodologies to explore the impacts of new memory infrastructures and cultural practices of media, museums, and archives in the context of technoscience. She is a founding member of the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective.

Trained as a filmmaker and anthropologist, Maryam Kashani is an assistant professor in gender and women’s studies and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work focuses on theories and theologies of liberation, geography, race, Islam, visual culture, and social movements. Her book project Medina by the Bay: the Ethics of Knowledge and Survival in the Bay Area (under contract with Duke University Press) is based on ethnographic research and filmmaking conducted amongst Muslim communities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Her films and video installations have been shown at film festivals, universities, and museums internationally and include things lovely and dangerous still (2003), Best in the West (2006), las callecitas y la cañada (2009), and Signs of Remarkable History(2016). As a RITM fellow, she is working with composer/musician Wadada Leo Smith on the Ten Freedom Summers Film Project, which examines the ongoing relationships between the struggles for Black freedom, music, and religion. Kashani is also a part of Believers Bail Out, a community-led effort to bailout Muslims in pretrial and immigration incarceration towards abolition.

Reese Muntean is a visual storyteller and Ph.D. candidate at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include the collaborative development of ethnographic new media projects, including tangible computing, 3D scanning, and virtual reality applications. Her current work examines how virtual reality and 360° video can be used to foster cultural and environmental sustainability. She has partnered with communities in Canada and Thailand, as well as with the United Nations, to create images and interactive installations to communicate values, cultural knowledge, and complex environmental issues.

PhD Student, Anthropology, University of South Florida. Born-and-bred in Brooklyn, exposure to its Caribbean community sparked my interest in anthropology. I’d love to merge ethnography and visual storytelling to unearth matters concerning migration as it relates to creolization, cultural plurality, and new identities with Haiti and the Caribbean serving as the backdrop.

Daisy Rosenblum is an Assistant Professor in the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program within the Institute of Critical Indigenous Studies, and Anthropology, at UBC. She focuses on methods, partnerships, and products that contribute to community-based language reclamation, the decolonization of linguistic research, and the community-led deployment of technology to support intergenerational linguistic and cultural continuity. As a linguist, she specializes in collaborative multi-modal documentation and description of Indigenous languages of North America, with attention to how people talk about place, space, motion, and their relationships with land.

Dr. Shankar is an anthropologist, critical pedagogue, and mediamaker whose work falls into three broad areas. First, he is concerned with the politics of help and its role in upholding systems of racial capitalism. In his book, Brown Saviors and their Others (Duke, 2023), he takes India's burgeoning help economy, specifically the education NGO sector, as a site from which to interrogate these ideas. He shows how colonial, racial, and caste formations undergird how transnational and digitized NGO work is done in India today. Second, he is a visual anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker who has been interested in developing decolonial, participatory visual methodologies. He has primarily focused on the neocolonial politics of representation, global circulation, and reception of the "impoverished" and "suffering" child figure and offers new multimodal methods as alternatives to these paradigms. He is also interested in multimodal evaluation and publishing, asking questions regarding the possibilities that might accompany non-textual knowledge production. Towards this end, he is a current editor with the multimodal section of American Anthropologist. Finally, he is an advocate for Curiosity Studies (with Perry Zurn), an emerging interdisciplinary field which challenges us to think anew about scholarly production, pedagogic praxis, and the political role of the academician. Arjun asks: what might a radical curiosity make possible and what political, economic, and social constraints prevent the flourishing of curiosity?

Trudi has a PhD in Studio Art and Anthropology and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. She specializes in research-creation, post-studio practice and somatic and expressive art therapies. She focuses on collaborative practices with various experimental communities to rethink art, creativity and image making. Her approach is grounded in feminist methodologies to consider expressions of belonging, impermanence and change in communities of art, archives, ecology and collections. She works as an expressive ecotherapist, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at University of Victoria and is a member of the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective.

Stephanie Takaragawa is Associate Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Chapman University. Her research broadly focuses on media, art, performance, exhibition, and theme parks and their relationship to racial representation. Much of her work specifically looks at the Japanese American incarceration during WWII and how that is understood, represented, and memorialized in the present. Her teaching areas include cultural anthropology and visual culture, Asian American studies and race and ethnic studies. She is founding member of the curatorial collective Ethnographic Terminalia