Olivia Michiko Gagnon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre & Film at UBC. She is currently completing her first monograph––On Closeness: Archives, Aesthetics, and Forms of Relation––which theorizes closeness as a minoritarian method that moves between the aesthetic and the social. Their writing has appeared in ASAP/Journal, Text & Performance Quarterly, Canadian Theatre Review, emisférica, Syndicate, C Magazine, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. She has also written for the Vancouver Art Gallery (with Monika Kin Gagnon), the Belkin Gallery, Gallery 44, and the New Museum, and was formerly Managing Editor of HemiPress at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in New York City. They received their PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at NYU.

Coleman Nye is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, exploring the intersection of feminist science and technology studies, graphic medicine and performance studies. Nye is co-author of Lissa: A Story of Friendship, Medical Promise and Revolution, the inaugural graphic novel in the ethnoGRAPHIC series by University of Toronto Press, earning the 2018 PROSE Award. Her forthcoming monograph Biological Property: Race, Gender, Genetics (Duke University Press) investigates how genomic research approaches biological inheritance through frameworks of property. Her research is featured in journals including Social Text, TDR: The Drama Review, Women and Performance, Global Public Health and ADA: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology. In 2017, Nye curated a special issue of Performance Matters focused on “Science and Performance.” Nye holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies and an MA in Anthropology from Brown University.

Laurie White is a curator and writer whose research explores modes of ecological practice in contemporary art and theory. Recent curatorial projects include Surface, Sample, Site, an exhibition of eco-materialist photography for Gallery 44, Toronto. Her writing appears in the catalogues Beginning with the Seventies (Belkin, 2020), Wetland Project: Explorations in Sound, Ecology and Post-Geographical Art (Figure 1 Publishing, 2022) and A Dream in the Eye: The Complete Paintings and Collages of Phyllis Webb (Talonbooks, 2023). White holds an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from UBC, where she is currently pursuing doctoral studies in art history.