Glenn Alteen is a Vancouver based curator and writer and founding program director of grunt. He was cofounder of LIVE Performance Biennial (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005) and the Blue Cabin Residency Program (2018). His writing was recently published in Other Places – Reflections on Media Art in Canada (MANO 2019), Wordless – The Performance of Rebecca Belmore (grunt 2018) and Unceded Territories Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (MOA 2016). Currently Alteen is a member of the Vancouver Public Art Committee for the City and for two years on the City’s Arts and Culture Advisory committee as a representative from PAC. In 2018 Alteen was awarded Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art for Outstanding Contribution to Contemporary Practice.

Daina Augaitis was interim director (2019-2020) and chief curator/associate director (1996-2019) at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, where she played a key role in shaping the museum’s exhibition program and building its collections. In the last decade Augaitis organized solo exhibitions of artists such as Vikky Alexander, Geoffrey Farmer, Douglas Coupland, Song Dong, Rebecca Belmore, Brian Jungen, Paul Wong, Nancy Spero, Stan Douglas and Ann Hamilton, and thematic exhibitions that have featured socially-based works. She was formerly director of the Visual Arts Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts, where she organized residencies for artists and curators, and has held curatorial positions at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Western Front, Convertible Showroom and Franklin Furnace. Augaitis curated the exhibition Muntadas: Entre/Between at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, which toured to Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon and Jeu de Paume, Paris. Among her honours are the Alvin Balkind Curator’s Prize, the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence, the Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research and the Emily Award from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.

Kimberly Phillips is Director of SFU Galleries at Simon Fraser University. Over the past 15 years, in her roles as gallery director, curator and teacher, she has worked to  create meaningful and unexpected ways for contemporary artists and their publics to find one another. Phillips’s curatorial practice maintains a particular interest in the spectral and the resistant, as well as the conditions under which artists work. She has curated over 50 exhibitions and public projects, most recently as Curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery (2017-2020) and Director/Curator of Access Gallery (2013-2017), and has served as editor for numerous publications. Phillips holds a PhD in art history from UBC (2007), where she was an Izaak Walton Killam Doctoral Fellow.