Anne Jarry
Anne Jarry is a member of the Board of Directors and the Cultural Access Committee of the Regroupement des Aveugles et Amblyopes du Montréal Métropolitain (RAAMM). She holds a master's degree in adult education, a 2e cycle in visual impairment rehabilitation and a BA in psychology. After losing her sight at the age of 24, she devoted her adult life to helping blind and partially sighted people cope with the world and facilitating their access to information. She held the position of Executive Director of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB Quebec) from 2001 to 2007, and then that of Professor in the 2e cycle option Intervention en déficience visuelle at the Université de Montréal School of Optometry from 2008 to 2020.
Thomas Gaudy
Thomas Gaudy has a doctorate in computer science and is co-founder of Ludociels pour tous, a Montreal-based social economy enterprise dedicated to promoting digital inclusion. He is interested in all forms of digital projects with a social vocation, as well as the accessibility of video games. The organisation contributes to the creation and promotion of inclusive, participatory and collaborative digital leisure activities and cultural facilities.
Mouloud Boukala
Mouloud Boukala is an anthropologist and full professor at UQAM's École des médias, Canada Research Chair in Media, Disability and (Self)Representation and co-director of the Handicap, Sourditude et Innovations (HSI) Laboratory, his research is part of an anthropology of the media, focusing on the study of situations of disability and how they are portrayed in film, television and comic strips.
Mylène Augustin
Snack Witch Joni Cheung
Snack Witch Joni Cheung 🍡 is a grateful, uninvited guest born—and knows she wants to die—on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, Stó:lō, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh peoples. They are a Certified Sculpture Witch with an MFA from Concordia University (2023). She holds a BFA with Distinction in Visual Art (2018) from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. As a wicked #magicalgirl ✨ who eats art and makes snacks, she has exhibited and curated shows, off- and online, across Turtle Island. Currently, they are based on the stolen lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka peoples. Aside from art-making, Joni likes wandering down grocery store aisles and drinking bubble tea.
Michel Delage
Dale Elinarson
Denis Giguère
Judith Vienneau
Danielle Thibault
Mathieu Samaille
Diane Morin
Elody Sanchis (Libe)
Michel Lefebvre
Michel Lefebvre is an author and cultural manager who has entered the field of digital arts with a multidisciplinary and collaborative artistic practice. A pioneer of interactive fiction in Quebec with the multimedia photo novel Liquidation (web, radio, and CD-ROM, 1998), he continues to explore new forms of narrative as director of TOPO, an artist-run production and distribution center at the crossroads of literature, visual arts, and digital media.