Dr. Hiba Ali is a digital artist, scholar, and educator working across immersive environments, installation, moving image, garments, and sound. At the intersection of technology, embodiment, and care, their practice explores how digital space can become a site of rest, healing, and collective transformation. Rooted in worldbuilding and digital somatics, Ali creates XR-based environments that center refuge, agency, and embodied connection, particularly for bodies shaped by migration, diaspora, and colonial histories.

Saffron Maeve is a Toronto-based critic and film programmer. She is a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail, and her writing has appeared in Film Comment, Sight and Sound, Reverse Shot, MUBI Notebook, Documentary Magazine, and more. She is the curator of the screening series CONTOURS at Paradise Theatre and Apparatus Theory at Revue Cinema, and the quarterly reading series Crit Salon. Saffron has curated programs for TIFF, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Cinematheque (BC), and Spectacle Theater. Presently, Saffron is pursuing a PhD in Cinema & Media Studies at York University.

Montréal-born eunice bélidor is a curator, author, and researcher. She is a scholar-in-residence at Concordia University, teaching in the Graduate Curatorial Practice Diploma. Her current curatorial methodology focuses on epistolary writing and its intersection with radical hospitality, care, as well as affective and speculative archiving and racial issues. She has published essays and reviews in various publications, books and journals, notably in C Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Vie des Arts and Espace. Her exhibitions have been presented in Canada and Europe, more recently at Centre Clark, the MAI, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d'art Contemporain, and at Galerie de l'UQAM. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation–TD Bank Group Emerging Curator in Contemporary Art Award. She has held curatorial and managerial positions at articule, the FOFA Gallery at Concordia University (Montréal), and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. She is currently a film curator and programmer at the Montreal International Arts Film Festival (FIFA).