Born and raised in Italy, Giorgio Magnanensi currently lives in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. His diverse artistic practice includes composition, conducting, improvisation, circuit–bending and video art. From the early 80’s to date he has been working as a composer, conductor, teacher, and performer in Europe, Japan and Canada. He is artistic director of Vancouver New Music, Laboratorio Arts Society and lecturer at the School of Music of The Vancouver Community College.

Sara Gold is a non binary experimental  interdisciplinary film maker and sound artist operating on unceded Coast Salish Territories. Their sound art practice includes extensive live performance and recording experience. Gold is a member of the Media Arts Committee, administrating sound art programs through MAC CRES, a longstanding series of calls to artists to produce original works under a theme. Their curatorial work also includes founding a festival dedicated to local experimental low frequency music and many years of one off events all over Vancouver including instructing workshops on experimental audio techniques.

Emily Thacker is a audio visual artist located in Vancouver, BC. Previously based in Montreal where she completed a BFA in the Film Production Department of Concordia University and initiated two festivals (Sonic Meltdown 1 and 2). She has performed her music and video pieces in Montreal, Vancouver and Washington.

Frederick Brummer is a musician, designer, and sound artist. His sonic inventions have been shown as interactive installations and featured in live performances at such illustrious venues as the VAG, SAG, Western Front, Vancouver New Music’s Circuit Cabaret Festival, and VIVO’s own Signal+Noise Media Art Festival.

Kiran Bhumber is a composer, performer, programmer and music-educator from Vancouver, Canada. She completed her Bachelors of Music (2014) degree majoring in Secondary Music Education (Clarinet Concentration) from the University of British Columbia.

Kiran Bhumber’s work focuses on motion-tracking technology and new interfaces for musical expression to create both sonic and visual interactive environments for performers and audiences.

Norah Lorway is a Canadian live coding laptop performer, composer, software developer and pianist based in UK. She recently completed her Ph.D in Computer Music at University of Birmingham with Scott Wilson. Norah is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia where she teaches SuperCollider and laptop orchestra. Her current [Canada Council for the Arts funded] research project deals with writing software to facilitate an accessible system for gesture control and live coding. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Birmingham where she is a researcher with BEER (Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research) and teaches SuperCollider and interactive programming.

Bella McKee is a musician, composer, teacher, artist, and aerialist from Vancouver.  She is a member of VETO (Vancouver Experimental Theremin Orchestra) and works for a local engineering company manufacturing electric bicycle conversion kits.When she’s not flying high in the sky, or playing with her band, she is in her bedroom recording music and messing around with synthesizers and other electronics.

From early childhood experiments trying making his parents clocks run backwards and robot controlled curtains Dave quickly moved into the world of circuit bending and building. His current artist practice includes design, photography and sound art as well as construction of analog synthesizers/electronics. Current he is developing custom Max/MSP/Jitter software for both audio compositions and multi-media installations which has been exhibited recently in the Patterns show at Aberthau, Thru The Trap Door (On Main Gallery with LocoMotoArt), Queen Elizabeth Park and VIVO’s Signal & Noise Festival.

Rob started working with electronics at the age of twelve, long before every electronic store had kits – back then it was a trip to the library to get a book on scratch built projects.  The first was a crystal radio that worked surprisingly well.  The next years were followed by light sensing, relay control and other projects that are lost in the sands of time…  At sixteen he bought an acetylene welding set and started making metal art.  His work history encompassed custom sheetmetal shops, machine shops, marine fabrication and electrical.  Now he works full time creating kinetic sculptures and sound art in his home machine shop.

Russell creates interactive audio visual environments through repurposing obsolete technology.

Johan Thornton is an engineer-turned-artist based in Vancouver, B.C. With his love of technology, he programmed games for the Game Boy and Super Nintendo, analyzed nuclear waste storage for Atomic Energy of Canada, and founded a company developing DJ performance gear before turning his focus to art. His largest urban art installation was when he hacked into the Lions Gate Bridge lights and made them blink in Morse code. He has been producing and performing dance music since 1995, and is one of the founders of Soundproof, Vancouver’s longest running underground rave group. Since joining the Burning Man community, Johan has done engineering work on the Temple in 2011, and did engineering work for large art in Burning Man 2012 and 2014.

Chris Hixon is the brains behind local weirdo band Baboon Torture Divison.  A longtime explorer of sonic frontiers, he began circuit bending in in 1997 when he stepped on the voicebox of a singing Santa Clause, causing it to glitch.  After obtaining some soldering knowhow, the board was installed in a toy gun with a speaker in the barrel, and the glitch hooked up to the trigger.  Since then he has been an avid bender of talking toys and old Casios and has been continuously involved in noise one local noise band or another.

Dr. Garnet Hertz is Canada Research Chair in Design and Media Arts and is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media at Emily Carr. His art and research explores themes of DIY culture and interdisciplinary art / design practices. He has shown his work at several notable international venues in thirteen countries including SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, and DEAF and was awarded the 2008 Oscar Signorini Award in robotic art. Hertz is founder of Dorkbot SoCal, a monthly Los Angeles-based lecture series on DIY culture, electronic art and design. He has worked at Art Center College of Design and University of California Irvine. His research is widely cited in academic publications, and popular press on his work has disseminated through 25 countries including The New York Times, Wired, The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, NBC, CBS, TV Tokyo and CNN Headline News. More info: http://conceptlab.com/

Vincent van Haaff is a multi-disciplinary media artist working with computer code to explore virtual and real spaces defined by rule-based systems.  Originally from Southern California, he went from a record label co-founder and audio hacker in Los Angeles to an environmental club founder in Santa Barbara before moving to Vancouver to become a software developer and media artist.  His expertise spans from data and music visualizations to computer vision, event and community installation, and user-centred design.

Holly Beckmyer is a classically trained soprano, folk fiddler and thereminist. Holly has been a member of VETO since the summer of 2015 and has since played her theremin in both experimental electronic and orchestral concerts.