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Lillian O’Brien Davis (she/her) is the Associate Curator at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. She previously held the position of Curator of Collections and Contemporary Art Engagement at the Goldfarb Gallery of York University. She has curated independent projects at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto), and School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba. Her writing has appeared in BlackFlash Magazine, Peripheral Review, Canadian Art online, C Magazine, and RACAR Art History Journal. 

Liz Ikiriko has over 20 years of experience working with national and international institutions, publications and artist-run centres as an artist, photo editor, writer and curator. Most recently she is the curator and head of programming at Gallery TPW. In consideration of lens-based histories and praxis, Ikiriko’s work engages questions of power, systems of oppression, and the social conditions that shape how we see, relate, and consider identity and belonging. She resides in Toronto. 

Ignazio Colt Nicastro is a Toronto-based contemporary art curator, writer, and community builder. He is the founder and curator of IC Contemporary, and is currently the Director of Development and Programming at the Textile Museum of Canada. With over five years of professional experience, Nicastro has curated exhibitions that explore themes of queer identity, intersectionality, migration, diaspora, and cultural diversity. In recent years, Nicastro has also been curating Noxte, a New Media festival in Toronto. 

Xuan Ye makes noise. Their multifaceted practice unfolds in vibrational world-building through software, sound, image, installation, performance, publication, and teaching. Supported by organizations such as Pro Helvetia, the Canada Council for the Arts, and SSHRC, their work has been exhibited internationally at the Centre for Culture and Technology (2025), Kamias Triennial (2024), MOCA Toronto (2022), UCCA Shanghai (2022), MUTEK Montreal (2021), and the Goethe-Institut Beijing (2018), among others. In 2018, their work was shortlisted for the Emerging Digital Artists Award. X lives in Toronto/Tkaronto and serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo.