Chris is a PhD student in Digital Arts and Humanities within the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He is a research assistant position at SPIRAL and his research is focused on exploring temporal musical aesthetics, Music Hauntology, and affect in music recording technology through machine learning. Chris is also a multi-disciplinary music artist and performer, investigating alternative approaches to compositional and performance models utilizing various generative based audio systems.

Manjot Singh is an undergraduate student and research assistant studying computer science and economics at UBC Okanagan. He enjoys using AI to play games, make music, procure interesting stories from the internet and control craft simulators. This led him to work with local industries to automate, remotely monitor and control environments.

Yashvardhan Joshi is a second-year undergraduate student from India in the Bachelor of Media Studies program at UBC Okanagan. His passion for visual arts started when he was in eighth grade and picked up street photography as a hobby. This led him to create photo projects that showcase mundane happenings of life from a documentary perspective. His work also involves recording audio for creating narrative-driven soundscapes of the Kelowna area. This has led to his work in sound design and audio programming to explore a cohesion in photography, filmmaking, generative art, and sound design towards experimental film making

Renaud Bougueng T. is a Ph.D. student at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in the fields of computational creativity, artificial intelligence and design research. In particular, he focuses on generative systems and algorithms for music, and interaction software design for musical creativity. He is a software engineer by trade, a music producer, designer and artist.  

Dr. Philippe Pasquier is a professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology of Simon Fraser University. In his artistic practice, focused primarily on sonic arts, he is interested in studying and exploiting the various relationships and synergies between art, science and technology. He has been acting as a performer, director, composer, musician, producer and educator in many different contexts.                    

Dr. Aleksandra Dulic is an artist-scholar working at the intersections of interactive multimedia installation and live performance with research foci in cross-cultural media performance, interactive animation and computational poetics. She has received a number of awards for her short animated films and interactive media works. Her work is widely presented in exhibitions, festivals, conferences and television broadcasts across Europe, Asia and North America.

Bethany is Graduate of the UBCO Bachelor's of Media Studies program with a minor in Visual Arts. She has a love for design and technology and is using her degree to persue her artistic passions in several mediums. She has made the Dean's list for academic achievement in every year of her full-time study and has worked as a TA for the Introduction to Digital Media class. She has contributed on multiple projects for UBCO as a website designer including Audio Metaphor and Waterways.           

Craig Carpenter is a graduate from the Master’s in the Digital Humanities theme of the  at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. His thesis takes the form of an interactive digital edition prototype of the Theytus Books titled Kʷu sqilxʷ/ We are the People and explores the potential role of Automatic Speech Recognition systems in the field of Indigenous Language Revitalization.                    

Joshua Kranabetter holds a Master's from University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus. He is interested studying in generative sound design and music creation through machine learning and artificial intelligence. In the future, he would like to explore novel applications of sound in film, video games, and music.