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Brandon Hocura is a sound artist, filmmaker, writer, and archivist. He is the founder and creative director of the record label and publisher Séance Centre. His research intersects with experimental poetics and ethnography, exploring the complex relationships between music, language, technology, geography, and culture. His recent research areas include iterative sound, autonomous distribution networks, visual & sound poetry, material histories, rogue archives, archipelagic theory, and diasporic traditions. 

Ahmed is an award-winning filmmaker, film scholar, and film programmer. His career spans over 19 years where he has made numerous shorts and features that played myriad international film festivals and picked several prestigious awards. Nour’s area of expertise comprises screenwriting, producing, video-editing, and directing. His work varies between experimental, documentary, and fiction films. However, his particular interest is in hybrid nonfiction filmmaking.

Hilary Jay is a PhD student in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program. Prior to this, she completed her B.A. in Philosophy and Art History at McGill and her M.A. in SCCS at Queen’s in 2022. Her research is engaged with the contemporary relevance of archives, time-based media, and curation. Hilary is also currently a Research Assistant in the Vulnerable Media Lab. 

Naomi Jaye is an artist, filmmaker, educator and PhD candidate in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial studies program at Queens University. Naomi's main research interest lies in research-creation, through which she explores the architecture of installation and immersive experiences. Naomi holds a MFA from York University and is a lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University.

William Jennings is a PhD student in the Film and Media department. He holds an MA in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies from Â鶹ÍøÕ¾, and a BA in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Victoria. Interests include slow cinema, continental philosophy, memory, materiality, and new media. Not to be confused with the 41st US Secretary of State.

Sana Kazemirashid (she/her) is a PhD student in the Screen Culture and Curatorial Studies program. With a BSc in Computer Engineering and an MA in Animation, she is a filmmaker and animator whose doctoral research explores women’s emotions, narratives, and struggles through immersive and innovative storytelling. 

Jung-Ah Kim is an artist-curator, researcher, and PhD candidate whose work bridges media and textiles through conceptual and material experimentation and re-enactment. She uses weaving as an entry point to explore broader questions of technology, media, and culture. Her research engages with the history of computing, feminist media critique, and the politics of remembering and cultural amnesia embedded in diasporic objects such as a Korean carpet discovered in a Canadian museum. Through the reconstruction of an ancient loom, she examines the tacit knowledge produced through hands-on creation and the intersections of craft, technology, and cultural memory.

Michele Lawson is an internationally recognized journalist and social justice media producer. Since graduating from Queen’s University with a BAH in Film, she has worked primarily in the charitable sector advocating on behalf of highly vulnerable individuals. As an MA student, she is interested in the ethics of representation and consent as it pertains to engaging those with lived experience in social justice media projects and programs. Her current focus includes building a case for supporting social change to help abandoned children in Muskoka by employing community-based participatory research (CBPR).

Andrea Malus is a PhD candidate in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies at Queen’s University. Born in former Czechoslovakia, she trained in puppet and traditional toy making at a vocational school before emigrating to Canada. She holds an Honours BA in Visual Arts and studied animation at Sheridan College. Her research explores allegory in communist-era Czechoslovak animation, the relationship between the body and the performing object, and the tactile nature of materials in stop-motion animation.

A PhD student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, Faten considers herself an activist artist who seeks to contribute to the appreciation of various cultures and acceptance of the others in her own community and around the world. She works with various mediums ranging from handicrafts to digital photography and video to create her sight specific installations.

Lindsay K. Muir is a Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies Ph.D. student within the Film and Media department at Queen’s University. She recently completed her M.A. in the same department with her thesis, Where the Willow Meets the Moon: Lessons in Settler Curation Through Indigenous Storytelling. Prior to graduate school, Lindsay earned a double major in Art History and English Literature with a minor in World Cinemas from McGill University. Her current research revolves around the representations of Celtic and Indigenous women in various media.

Naomi Okabe is a media artist, writer, and creative researcher working at the intersection of documentary and speculative fiction. She is currently pursuing a PhD in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program (Film and Media, Queen’s University), where she is thinking about space media and decolonial outer space imaginaries. Naomi’s films have premiered at festivals such as Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival and Kingston Canadian Film Festival, and her writing is soon to be published by Silver Press, Mattering Press, and KOSMICA Magazine. Naomi also co-runs , a record label and publisher.