Hank Bull (Canadian, b. 1949) is an artist working in performance art, radio, shadow theatre, publishing and curation. Bull’s artistic practice utilizes ephemera and targets unconventional spaces and modes of improvisations. This involves his extensive work in radio and television, which he considers a medium of art.These works have included a collaboration with Patrick Ready in their production of an original radio show, The HP Dinner Show, which ran for eight years on Vancouver Co-operative Radio. Alongside his art practice, Bull is noted for his role as an arts organizer who produces networks and collaborations with artists nationally and internationally. He was an early member of the Western Front Society and a founding director of the Pacific Association of Artist-run Centres. In 1998, he co-founded Centre A, the Vancouver International Centre of Contemporary Asian Art. His work has been shown internationally, including at the Venice Biennale (1986) and Documenta (1987), and is held in the permanent collections of Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Bull was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2014.

Robert Filliou (French, 1926-1987) was a French artist and economist associated with the Fluxus movement who produced works as a filmmaker, action poet, sculptor and director of artistic happenings. His practice emphasized the autonomy of the individual and was rooted in the life/art intersections that exist in Fluxus philosophy. Filliou was influential in the development of the Mail Art practice and is well known for his proclamation of Art’s Birthday, which continues to be celebrated to this day.

Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).