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Brice Ammar Khodja is an artist, graphic designer, and Ph.D. student based in Montreal . His work examines active materials, residual matter, and low-technologies to explore the socio-environmental and political interconnections pertaining to materiality and visual information. He is currently pursuing a thesis jointly supervised in Concordia University – Montreal (Individualized Program) and EnsAD, EnsadLab – Paris (Reflective Interaction research group, SACRe program). He is a member of the Speculative Life Research Cluster (Milieux Institute), the Centre for Sensory Studies, and the Concordia’s Canada Excellence Research Chair in Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Cities. Brice is a current member of the international research-creation network Hexagram. Co-director of the typography magazine Pied de Mouche, Brice Ammar-Khodja, creates workshops and educational tools for the general public. His works have been exhibited at Ars Electronica, MUTEK, Centre Pompidou, Biennale internationale du Design, la Cité internationale des Arts, V2_Institute for Unstable Media, Musée historique de la Ville de Strasbourg.


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Alexandra Bachmayer is a Montréal/Tiohtià:ke-based artist and researcher exploring hybrid materialities through her digital, textile, and bioart practice. Whether developing haptic performance garments or textile dyes from pigment-producing bacteria, her work is largely focused on empathy, playfulness, and the deep ecology of the materials.  She worked at XS Labs and matralab, contributing to the fields of electronic textiles and music performance through the body:suit:score project and is the costume designer for Petrikor Danse’s Habitat, fusing soft electronics, bioplastics, and contortion dance. Her work has been presented at the Visual Voice Gallery, HCII 2019, and the Centre Pompidou. She is currently the technician for the Speculative Life BioLab at Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology at Concordia University.



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Natalia Balska graduated in Graphic and Media Design from the University of the Arts in London. In 2014, she obtained an MA degree from the Faculty of Intermedia, Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Part of her degree work was B-612, an installation exploring the relations between plants and artificial intelligence, which was later displayed at the TEST EXPOSURE 2015 WRO Biennale, winning the Main Prize of the 1st Competition for Media Arts Graduation Projects. She is currently a student in PhD INDI program at University of Concordia.

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Jacqui Beaumont is a transdisciplinary bio-artist, researcher and material practitioner based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang. Her practice investigates queer ecology, trans-theory, material transfiguation and genetics. She holds a BFA and fellowship status from Concordia University in Fibers and Material practices, Researcher status at the Milieux Institute in both Speculative life cluster and the Textiles and Materiality cluster. She has exhibited, lectured and collaborated internationally. Her research weaves together Artificial Reproductive Technologies (A.R.T), Trans theory and speculative life. It is from this intersection that her quest to transfigure biological fertility emerges, prototyping futurities in which kin of all genders, races, softwares and species can function as one and many - to beat the womb at its own game.

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Jean-Michael Celerier, born in France in 1992, is a freelance researcher, interested in art, code, computer music and interactive show control. He studied software engineering, computer science & multimedia technologies at Bordeaux, and obtained his doctorate on the topic of authoring temporal media in 2018. He develops and maintains a range of free & open-source software used for creative coding, digital and intermedia art, which he leverages in various installations and works; in particular, most of his work is centered on the ossia platform for which he is the main developer. He enjoys organizing events centered on programming and media art - most recently the Linux Audio Conference, and a C++ meetup in Bordeaux. He teaches all sorts of creative coding languages (PureData, Processing, OpenFrameworks, etc) to both computer science and graphics design students.

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