Artists

Katherine Melançon

Bertrand Laverdure

Iris Godbout

Andrée-Anne Roussel

Aude Guivarc’h

Paolo Almario

David Jhave Johnston

Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin

Mel Izanami was born and raised in Mexico, where he became aware of deep contradictions in his identity—contradictions that, over time, shaped not only his academic development but also his experience as an immigrant in Argentina. These experiences have influenced his thinking and his ongoing quest to rethink the structures we take for granted as Mexicans, Latin Americans, or inhabitants of a colonized continent. Mel Izanami currently resides between Argentina and Mexico, creating and collaborating on multidisciplinary audiovisual projects. His work explores themes related to memory, technology, and decolonization.

Gauthier Gidel

Gauthier Gidel holds a Canada-CIFAR Chair in AI, is associated with the Institut québécois d'intelligence artificielle MILA, and is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) at the Université de Montréal. Her research interests lie at the intersection of game theory, optimisation and machine learning.

Fédération culturelle canadienne française (FCCF)

Based in Ottawa, the Fédération culturelle canadienne-française (FCCF) has been promoting and defending the place of arts and culture in French-speaking Canada and Acadia for over 40 years. As the spokesperson for its 21 provincial, territorial, and national members, the FCCF represents their interests both disciplinarily and regionally. The arts and culture sector in French-speaking Canada and Acadia, not including Quebec, employs more than 36,100 people and generates more than $5.63 billion annually, making it an important pillar of the socio-economic development of our communities. The Federation is proud to have been the sole political voice for arts and culture in the Canadian and Acadian Francophonie since 1977, the year it was founded in Winnipeg.

Pascale Tétrault

Pascale Tétrault is a pluridisciplinary artist and poet based in Montreal, whose work unfolds at the intersection of writing and electronic art. With a background in literature and interactive media, she then completed a Master’s in Studio Arts at Concordia University in 2024, where she explored through the creation of machine-sculptures themes related to language, memory, and technological craftsmanship. Since 2019, she parallelly has collaborated as a creative technologist and programmer, developing interactive systems for and with various artists and designers. Also an educator, she has been teaching programming and digital creation for the past seven years in various artist-run centers and schools such as SAT, Eastern Bloc, and AdaX. Pascale’s works take the form of hybrid objects that merge materiality, poetry, and electronics to recount stories in the physical space. Her practices as an artist, collaborator, educator, and technologist are now inseparable, continuously informing and nourishing one another.

Camille Lavoie

A multidisciplinary artist, Camille Lavoie holds a master's degree in multimedia from UQAM. In 2009, her web film Il a neigé à Beyrouth was part of the official selection at the Ici et ailleurs festival in Brest. In 2010, she contributed to the collective comic book Du bitume au grenier, published by Drozophile in Geneva, and illustrated in 2008 Ikuma, a film diary, published by Mémoire d’encrier. Since then, over the years, she has written several children's books and continues her work as an illustrator. Camille exhibits regularly and her work is featured on the web, notably on ICI Radio-Canada. She lives and works in Montreal in the Rosemont-Petite-Patrie neighborhood, home to Le Studio Blanc, her creative and reflective space.