Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was an artist and writer born in 1951 in Pusan, South Korea. Over a ten-year period in the 1970s, she received four degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, and in 1976 studied at the Centre d’Etudes Americaine du Cinéma in Paris. Cha was awarded an artist’s residence at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, taught video art at Elizabeth Seton College and worked in the design department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From 1980 until her death in 1982, she was an editor and writer at Tanam Press in New York. Cha created a rich body of conceptual art that explored displacement and loss. Her work has been shown at the Berkeley Art Museum; Artists Space, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Bronx Museum of Art, New York, among other venues. Her book Dictée, which was published posthumously in 1982, is recognized as an influential investigation of identity in the context of history, ethnicity and gender. A major retrospective exhibition of her work, entitled The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982) was organized by University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2001, and traveled to five cities, including Seoul, Korea.

Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer and music composer. The recipient of numerous awards and grants, her films have been given over 48 retrospectives in Argentina, Croatia, Columbia, Mexico, Finland, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Korea, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, the UK and the US, and were exhibited at the international contemporary art exhibition Documenta 11 (2002) in Germany. They have shown widely in the US, Canada, Senegal, Australia and New Zealand, as well as in Europe and Asia. Minh-ha has traveled and lectured extensively on film, art, feminism and cultural politics. She taught at the National Conservatory of Music in Dakar, Senegal (1977-80); at universities such as Cornell, San Francisco State, Smith, Harvard, Ochanomizu (Tokyo), Ritsumeikan (Kyoto), Dongguk (Seoul); and is Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

Midi Onodera is an award-winning filmmaker and media artist who has been making films and videos for more than 35 years. In 2018, Onodera received the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts. Her work is laced with markers of her experiences as a feminist, lesbian, Japanese-Canadian woman. She has produced over 25 independent shorts, ranging from 16 mm film to digital video to toy camera formats. Her film The Displaced View (1988) was nominated for Best Documentary at the Gemini Awards. Skin Deep (1995), her theatrical feature, screened internationally at festivals including the Rotterdam International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. Since 2006 she has made over 500 Vidoodles (defined as bite-sized 30 second to two minute video doodles). From 2006-07 she published a vidoodle a day for 365 days. Since then, she has released a video project every year, addressing themes of language, media, politics and everyday life.