Joel Ong,PhD is a media artist whose works connect scientific and artistic approaches to the environment. His works have been shown internationally. Joel was a recipient of the Petro-Canada Young Innovators Award in 2020 and is current Director of Sensorium:The Centre for Digital Arts and Technology at York University.

Roberta Buiani, PhD is an interdisciplinary artist, media scholar and curator based in Toronto. She is the co-founder and current artistic director of the ArtSci Salon at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Toronto) and co-organizer of LASER Toronto.

Nicole Clouston, PhD is a practice-based researcher and teacher. Nicole has exhibited across Canada and internationally, most recently in Detroit, Michigan. She was the artist in residence at the Coalesce Bio Art Lab at the University at Buffalo and the artist in residence at Idea Projects: Ontario Science Centre’s Studio Residencies at MOCA. www.nicoleclouston.com.

Sarah Choukah, PhD is a Toronto-based researcher, educator and artist. She currently invents and explores a hybrid creative approach to media and information technologies: a practice of gaze-shifting and interrogating everyday textures and contours —in particular those that seemingly, seamlessly define boundaries between form and matter, self and other, human and non-human, living and non-living, individual and collective.

Bioartist and scientist (Ph.D. in plant science). I am particularly interested in our skin, not as a barrier but as a communication and exchange space, and by our dermal microbiota, our millenary non-genetic and only maternal identity. Born in France and living in Montreal, Canada, I am affiliated with the Speculative Life Lab Cluster, Milieux Institute, Concordia University.

Jess Holz creates artworks which give the viewer a peek into invisible worlds. She holds an MFA in Art+Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Her award winning micrographs have been exhibited nationally and as far away as South Africa, and have garnered the support of the Frederick Layton Fellowship and UW-Milwaukee Chancellors Award.

Mick Lorusso is a cross-disciplinary artist whose work addresses questions about biophysics, energy, water, climate, and health. His residencies include: PLAND / ISEA 2012:Machine Wilderness (Taos, NM, USA), the Rauschenberg Rising Waters Confab (Captiva, FL, USA), and Matza Aletsch in the Swiss Alps. Lorusso's work Microbial Schöppingen received a hybrid art honorary mention at Ars Electronica 2013.

Maro Pebo, Ph.D.(Mexico City, 1987). Weaving collaborations, Maro Pebo works on defying anthropocentrism and on skeptical environmental accountability. Her transdisciplinary work subverts the monopoly of the life sciences to think biological matter and indomitable living cells. Ph.D. in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong, her research revolved around art and biology, epistemology, history of science, new materialism, biohacking, wetware, and bacteria.

Natalie Plociennik is a Surrealist Painter and Multimedia Creative in Toronto. She draws inspiration from her background in Earth & Environmental Sciences from McMaster University, Fine Arts from Centennial College and her professional experience in graphic design. Natalie’s biomorphic art has been featured in a myriad of venues such as the TTC Life on the Line Mental Health Campaign, North Carolina State University, Toronto Maker Festival, and the Artist Network Gallery. See her artwork at www.natalie.gallery

Felipe Shibuya, PhD in Ecology (Federal University of Paraná) and MFA in Studio Art (University at Buffalo), has been working at the intersection between biology and art, specifically with pigmented bacteria. Currently, he is a Hyundai Biological Programs Fellow at Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, at Rhode Island School of Design. Felipe’s work has been exhibited in the United States, Canada, Portugal, and Germany, and has citations published in magazines such as National Geographic, Citylab, and Ecology.www.felipeshibuya.com