Dorothy Chang is a composer and professor of composition at the UBC School of Music. Chang’s catalogue includes over 70 works for solo, chamber and large ensembles as well as collaborations involving theatre, dance and video. Her interest in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaboration has led to projects including a radio play adaptation of Gertrude Stein’s White Wines for four vocalists and speaking percussionist; Flying White (飞白) for mixed Chinese and Western ensemble in collaboration with with Wen Wei Dance; Shelter, a collaboration with harpist Janelle Nadeau and filmmaker Sean Shaul; and more recently, Precipice, a work commissioned in 2021 by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra that reflects on the catastrophic effects of climate change.

Adam Frank is a professor in the UBC Department of English whose research and teaching areas include affect theory and poetics in US literature and culture. His essays have appeared in ELH, Criticism, Critical Inquiry, Science in Context and elsewhere. He is the author of Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol (Fordham University Press, 2015), co-author (with Elizabeth Wilson) of A Silvan Tomkins Handbook (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) , and co-editor (with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) of Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader (Duke University Press, 1995). He has also produced a dozen recorded audiodramas in collaboration with composers locally, nationally, and internationally.

Olive Shakur belongs to an association of tendencies in a mad, queer, Brown settler body. They are a composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist. Her work is often concerned with the epistemic framing of how we play instruments. His music has been featured by Arraymusic, Art Gallery of Calgary, FUSE, LIVE Biennale, neither/nor, Open Space, Powell Street Festival, Western Front, and the Vancouver Jazz Festival. It studied at Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria, and York University.