Bruce Barber is an internationally known artist, writer and curator and Professor in Media Art, Historical and Critical Studies. He received MFA degrees from the University of Auckland and NSCAD U and a PhD in Media and Communications from the European Graduate School.

Barber’s interdisciplinary studio work has been represented in major international biennales, with solo and group exhibitions in cities on four continents. His interdisciplinary and media work is documented in Reading Rooms (Halifax, 1990) as well as several major books and catalogues.

Barber is the author of Trans/actions: Art, Film and Death (2005) and Performance [Performance] & Performers (2007); editor of Essays on [Performance] and Cultural Politicization (1983) and Conceptual Art: the NSCAD Connection 1967-1973 (1992); co-editor, with Serge Guilbaut and John O’Brian, of Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State (1996). His critical essays and reviews since 1972 have appeared in numerous book anthologies, journals and magazines. Barber’s artwork is included in various private and public collections in New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Poland and the United States.

Robert Bean is an artist, writer and teacher living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born in Saskatchewan, he moved to Nova Scotia in 1976 to pursue a career in contemporary art and education. He obtained a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University) in 1978, and an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Leeds, England in 1999. He is currently a Professor at NSCAD University. Bean has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Europe, South America and New Zealand.

Commissions include the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Toronto Photographers Workshop (Gallery TPW). He has published articles on photography, art and culture, written catalogue essays and undertaken curatorial projects. Bean has served on peer review juries for the Canada Council for the Arts and has received grants and awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In March 2007, Robert Bean received a SSHRC Research/Creation grant to conduct a three-year investigation on the subject of Obsolescence and the Culture of Human Invention. More information about Robert Bean's work is available at www.robertbean.ca.

A media artist and filmmaker from Calgary, Alberta, David Clark received a BFA from NSCAD in 1985 and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989. He also attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and the Interactive Arts and Entertainment Program at the Canadian Film Centre.

Currently a professor of film and media arts, Clark is interested in experimenting with narrative form through net art and interactive films such as Meanwhile. He is best known for his work on the internet and in particular the website aisforapple.net that has been shown at more than 50 film festivals around the world including Sundance, SIGGRAPH, Transmediale in Berlin and the American Museum of the Moving Image. It won best show at the 2003 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas and First Prize at FILE2002 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Clark’s work also includes the feature-length film Maxwell’s Demon and numerous shorter videos and installations. More information about David Clark's work is available at chemicalpictures.net and 88constellations.net

Sam Fisher is a Professor and Department Coordinator for the NSCAD University Film Program. He is also a professional film producer, writer and director with over twenty years of experience and involvement in the Canadian film industry. He has won several international awards for his film and video productions, including COE for Best Live Action short at the 2004 Chicago Children's Film Festival and Best Editor 2004 Atlantic Film Festival. His most recent theater play "Backseat" opened on the main stage at The 2007 Waterfront Festival, Nova Scotia and he has just completed his first novel for Young Adults.

His research focuses on reinventing cinematic workflow to reduce the inherited complexities and often unrecognized restrictions of a century old technology. By implementing advanced computer interface designs Sam hopes his work will enhance and revitalize intuitive creative processes by removing technological barriers and allowing artists to focus on the purely creative aspects of film production.

Kim Morgan is a sculptor/installation artist working in multi media. Born in Saskatchewan, she received a B.A. from McGill University, a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and an MFA, from the University of Regina. Currently Morgan is professor of Sculpture/Installation at NSCAD University.

Morgan's research involves the creation of public art installations combining art, science, and new technology, in collaboration with engineers and scientists. Within this framework, the work explores the impact of technology on people’s perceptions of time and space, and the shifting boundaries between the private and the public. Before moving to Halifax in 2008, she was the artist-in-residence for TRLabs Regina, an ICT research facility. Public Projects completed during the residency include: Data S p a c e d, Virtual Groceries, and Time Transit.

Her work has been shown in Canada and the U.S. and has been supported through funding from the Center for Sustainable Communities/Communities of Tomorrow the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Canada Council for the Arts, and The City of Regina.

Solomon Nagler is a Canadian filmmaker originating from Winnipeg.

"...working on the borders of narration and abstraction, Nagler's films invite us to explore the inner-selves of the characters he presents. Landscapes and symbols are continually mixed up, raising questions of identity and internal memories. It seems as though, removed from the smooth surfaces of beings, we can touch their true selves..."
(Sarah Darmon, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Paris, France)

Nagler's films, installations, and curated shows have played across Canada, in the U.S., Europe and Asia at venues such the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Lincoln Center in New York. His work was featured in a Retrospective at the Winnipeg Cinematheque in August of 2004, at the Excentris Cinema in Montreal in August of 2007 at the Festival De Le Cinéma Different in Paris in December 2005 and 2007. More information on his work can be found at www.cinemaofruins.com.

Nagler's research interests include Automated Video Data Analysis in Emerging Filmmaking Processes and Narrative Approaches to Multiperspective Imaging.

Ilan Sandler has received numerous awards including grants fom the Canada Council for the Arts, The Social Sciences Research Council of Canada and the Nova Scotia Department of Culture. Recent solo exhibitions of his sculptures, installations and videos were in the US and Canada.

Born in Johannesburg (South Africa) in 1971, Ilan Sandler and his family emigrated to Toronto six years later, in 1977. Ilan studied at the University of Toronto, where he received a B.Sc. in Physics, and at the Ontario College of Art and Design, where he completed an Honours Fine Arts certificate. In 2000 he was awarded an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Ilan then went on to teach at the University of the Arts and Moore College of Art and Design, and most recently at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He is currently living and running a studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the Executive Director of the Centre For Art Tapes, and a Research Fellow at NSCAD University. More information about Ilan Sandler's work is available at www.ilansandler.com.

Darrell Varga is Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Film and Media Studies. A specialist in Canadian cinema, he holds a PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University (Toronto), and teaches Film History and Documentary Film History and Theory at NSCAD. He has produced a number of documentaries, published widely on Canadian and other cinemas, and is editor of the books: Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and the forthcoming Rain, Drizzle, Fog: Essays on Atlantic Canadian Film and Television.

Funded by SSHRC, Dr. Varga's current project, Filmmaking Production Cooperatives in Atlantic Canada, will critically examine and situate the history of filmmaking co-operatives in the broader critical and theoretical context of studies on national cinema and the transnational flows of media and culture.