Born and raised in Montreal, Demetrio Barreca started performing at the age of 16. Influenced by musicians such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and RUSH as well as drummers like Elvin Jones, Bill Stewart and Philly Joe Jones, Demetrio developed an eclectic taste and a unique sound on the drums. Throughout his formal training at Vanier College and a Bachelors of Fine Arts with a specialization in Jazz Studies from Concordia University, he had the opportunity to study alongside Jim Doxas, Rich Irwin, Max Sansalone, Josh Rager and many others. After graduating with honors in 2020 as well as being nominated for the Oscar Peterson scholarship in 2019, Demetrio made a name for himself as a talented sideman with an ability to adapt to a multitude of different styles and band settings. From jazz bars such as Upstairs Jazz Club, corporate events, cocktails and weddings at venues such as The Ritz Carlton, The Four Seasons and Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Demetrio has performed in numerous venues across the country with multiple different bands at multiple levels and continues to perform as of this day. As a band leader, Demetrio composes and arranges music in line with the jazz and electronic style. Although well versed in a multitude of styles, his main passions and sources of artistic satisfaction come from jazz and electronic music. Recently accepted for a master’s degree at McGill University in Jazz Performance, Demetrio will be returning to school in the Fall of 2024 where he aims to further hone his skills as a band leader and performer as well as establish himself as one of the premier drummers in Montreal.

Eduardo Perez Infante is an architect and artist born in Chile who currently resides in Montreal. Engaged in the visual and performance arts, technological and sound arts, he conducts research-creation projects and in situ actions at the intersection of architecture, design, and new media. His practice, which draws on co-creation processes, focuses on how actions, objects, images, and environments embody and enact the dynamics of power.

Sophie Kuijper Dickson is a writer and researcher currently living and working in Montreal. She explores questions of provenance, how landscapes, environments, and atmospheres resonate within us and how they affect our bodies in visible and invisible ways, as well as the process of adapting to them. She is interested in the use of video, sound, and all media that compel her to listen and reflect on these questions.

Using unconventional performance techniques, Martín Rodríguez explores resonance in combination with transducers and his electric guitar to expose the rhythms, harmonies, and melodies that are found in the cracks of the radio spectrum, creating emotive soundscapes which are living, listening, and engaging in the present. As the son of a Mexican immigrant and Polish-American, identity has always played a central role to Rodriguez's artistic explorations. Projects such as Open La Puerta (2013) explore fragmented memories of his heritage; and after a surgery from a brain tumor left him temporarily paralyzed, Rodríguez began exploring new ways to play his guitar as a copping mechanism that led to Radio Therapy (2015). In June of 2019, he was featured in a group show entitled Los Subrogados simultaneously presented by the The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, The Musée d'Art Contemporain à Montréal, and The Darling Foundry. In addition to producing his own work Rodriguez has recorded 2 EPs with the microtonal psychedelic synth collective Chienvoler as well as explored free electronic hardware improvisation with his duo Data Slum. From 2014 to 2018, Rodriguez worked as Technical Director, Lab Director, and Co-director of Eastern Bloc, an artist run centre dedicated to presenting emerging media artists in Montréal, Canada.

Diego Briceño is a media creator born in Colombia with over 20 years of experience as a producer, director, designer, and editor of social, fiction, and transmedia documentaries in Montreal, Canada. He holds a BFA in Film (Film Production) and a Graduate Certificate in Digital Technologies and Art Practice in Design from Concordia University. Driven by a passion for storytelling, ethics, and collaboration, his work often focuses on issues of exploitation, the environment, and North-South relations. He has directed and/or produced eight documentary projects, including a television series, an interactive project, and a short fiction film, all of which have been broadcast on television and/or screened at national and international film festivals. Through his company Cuiba Media Inc., he specializes in the co-development of transmedia projects with a strong international reach. He is the co-founder and current president of Makila, a non-profit media incubation platform, and is the co-creator and lead developer of the Cuban Hat Project, a documentary pitching competition that has been presented at events such as RIDM (Montreal), Hot Docs (Toronto), IDFA (Amsterdam), and Sunny Side of the Doc (La Rochelle).He also sits on the board of directors of the Alter-ciné Foundation, which provides financial support to documentary filmmakers from the Global South.

ULO (Iris Godbout) is a multidisciplinary artist (music, singing, visual arts, and multimedia) originally from Canada. She holds a bachelor's degree in fine arts and music from Concordia University. Having studied visual arts and music, specifically singing, for several years, her artistic approach has converged on these two practices. She first took to the stage, then moved on to studio composition, before turning her attention to the visual and digital arts.

Influenced by her background in music, specifically world music, the artist explores the parallels and complementarity of organic materials with digital elements. In recent years, she has immersed herself in digital arts and created, among other things, Holodio, an ambient and narrative sound station including a mobile app designed to awaken the senses and imagination of its listeners.

More recently, she has incorporated electronic concepts into her approach and created tactile sound installations inspired by organic elements. Exploring minimalist abstract and symbolic structures, her practice combines mysticism, indigenous art, natural elements, minimalism, technological art, and electroacoustic sounds.

Musician, visual artist, and designerRodrigo Velasco (yecto) explores the cross-cutting movements of thought and feeling by writing algorithms like thoughts, deploying processes and trajectories that come alive like frequencies and vibrations across space-time. Rodrigo is a Master of Design student at Concordia University in the Department of Design and Computation Arts. Through workshops, installations, and performances, his explorations have been shared as part of Codex_Traversée du silence at the Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension Cultural Center, Live Coding Atelier 2018 – 2020 at TOPO and Eastern Bloc, MUTEK Montreal Edition 19, Metarythmes 2017 at OBORO ~ Studio XX, Libre Graphics Meeting 2018, Nuit Blanche, NOCHE EN BLANCO : LATINX (RE) – Eastern Bloc + Never Apart, live => music coding at IMPA Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada – Rio de Janeiro, /*vivo*/ 2014, Simposio Internacional de Música y Código.

Digital artist and writer Philippe Boisnard explores the constitution of humanity through the materiality of codes and representations linked to political, social, and economic dimensions. His installations and performances have been presented internationally in more than 20 countries, including at FIMAV (Canada), the TOPO agency (Canada), the Mapping Festival (Switzerland), and Digital Choc (Japan). In addition, in 2016, he was the exhibition curator for the Accès(s) festivals in Pau.

Creative programmer Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt specializes in software development and web programming. He is responsible for programming the Plongeons app. He was a member of TOPO (2012-2016) and has collaborated on several digital art projects, including Stratotype Digital-ien, Pröspect, and Hektor by Isabelle Gagné, and LabàLab for the Conseil québécois des arts médiatiques (CQAM).

By exhibiting his digital works in venues associated with the visual arts, Oli Sorenson questions the status of the artist as a creator of unique, one-off objects. He highlights the contradictions between notions of authenticity and current means of mass reproduction in an era of digital image overload. In particular, he seeks to destabilize the idea that art is created in a vacuum, favoring gestures of quotation and creative appropriation. When he copies, transforms, and combines existing images by recognized artists, his works provoke confrontations between new images and familiar forms in order to interact more closely with the collective memory of art lovers who frequent galleries.

Oli Sorenson's remix art was first recognized in London (UK), where he participated in several media art events at the Institute of Contemporary Art (2003-06), Tate Britain (2006), and the British Film Institute (2008-10). He built an international profile with performances at ZKM (Karlsruhe, 2002), ISEA (Helsinki, 2004), and the Mapping (Geneva, 2009) and Sonica (Ljubljana, 2012) festivals. Based in Montreal since 2010, Sorenson has shown his work at Power Plant (Toronto, 2014), FILE (Sao Paulo, 2015), Monitoring (Kassel, 2017), Art Mûr (Berlin, 2018), Elektra (Montreal, 2019), and TOPO (Montreal, 2020, 2016).

Artist, digital designer, and landscape architect (AAPQ), Yannick Guéguen completed his studies in landscape architecture (École nationale supérieure du paysage de Versailles) and holds a degree in arts and a master's degree in design and complexity from the University of Montreal. His career has been complemented by teaching at the Centre de recherche sur l’espace sonore in Grenoble. His works have been exhibited in renowned contemporary art venues.

Composer, researcher, and teacher, Alejandro Brianza holds a master's degree in scientific research methodology and a bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Studies. He teaches at the Universidad del Salvador and the National University of Lanús (Argentina). He is a member of the Andamio collaborative platform, coordinator of the Soundscape Research Group, and coordinator of the Latin American Sound Artists Network.

Professor, critic, and author Guylaine Massoutre holds a doctorate in Quebec literature from Paris. Her publications include Pavane (Le Noroît, 2018, mentioned by the Académie des lettres du Québec), Matière noire. Les constellations de la bibliothèque (Nota Bene, 2013), Renaissances. Vivre avec Joyce, Aquin, Yourcenar (Fides, 2007), L’Atelier du danseur (Fides, 2004), and Escale Océan (Le Noroît, 2003). She received the Raymond-Klibansky Prize (1996) for her essay on Hubert Aquin and the Spirale-Eva-le-Grand Prize (2004) for her essay on dance. In her essays, she explores the relationship between the arts and life.