Sabrina Ratté is a Montreal based visual artist, mainly working in the field of video. She completed a BFA and a MFA in the Film Production Department of Concordia University in Montreal. Her video work explores the possibilities of mixing together a diverse array of tools and techniques in order to create environments where architecture and landscapes fall into abstraction. Her work is also inspired by the relationship between electronic music and the video image, and she often collaborates with musicians. Ratté is also the visual part of Le Révélateur, with the electronic music composer Roger Tellier-Craig. Her videos can adapt to different contexts, online and IRL, as well as live performances, installations, or projections.

Kim kielhofner is an artist working in video, drawing, and artist books. She holds a BFA from Concordia University (2007, Montreal, QC) and Master’s from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2010, London, UK). Her work has been shown in festivals and galleries in North America, Europe and Asia. Her work in video, uses techniques and footage from diverse cultural spaces, from cinema to the music video to the home movie, brought together under narrative forms. The narrative sometimes punctuates, sometimes connects the image and sound. Timing, pacing, and the quality of the image itself play off of each other to expand the space and create a layering of histories and meanings.

Lamathilde’s work investigates identity through sexuality and gender using low-grade video, super 8, manipulated film footage and stop-motion animation. Sound is at the core of her practice. Her work has been shown in many galleries and international festivals, including Pink Screens – Brussels, Festival des films gais et lesbiens – Paris, London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival , Mix Festival – New York, and as well as in Germany, Italy, Holland, Philippines, Canada, Slovenia, Australia, Lebanon. Born in France, Lamathilde lives and works in Montreal. She is part of the sound-performance collective WWKA, has hosted a radio show for 5 years and is an active member of the Montreal visual arts scene.

Eugénie Cliche works and lives in Montréal. Over the past decade, she has created a no-holds-barred video world in which the fields of performance art, photography and video production are brought together. Cliche’s video works combine playfulness, mockery, irony, and pathos, with a just a hint of violence. Cliche’s exuberant productions resemble commercials, video clips, video games, or children’s television programs laced with double entendre. Other times, they take the form of dramatic pastiches or parodic nods to reality TV. The artist’s work has also been exhibited in festivals and other venues across Quebec and Canada, as well as in Europe, Northern Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Central America. Cliche is also a co-founder and active member of Les Fermières Obsédées (www.fermieresobsedees.com).

Ilse Gassinger is interested in the female gaze, home movies and faux advertising.

Élaine Frigon studied Architecture and Fine arts. She is a multidisciplinary artist since twenty years. Her work has been shown recently to many festivals. Élaine Frigon is also implicated in the Montreal art scene. She was, among other things, La Centrale/Powerhouse programming coordinator. She teaches video and Fine arts since 2001, at Lionel-Groulx College.

Karen Trask is a multidisciplinary artist living in Montreal. Creating works in installation, artist-books, video and performance, she has had numerous solo exhibitions in Quebec, Canada and Europe. She has participated in many group exhibitions in Canada, India, Mexico City, USA and Europe and artist residencies in Helsinki and in Paris. Her work can be found in public and private collections: Qube Arts, Oswestry, UK, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. USA, La Collection Prêt d’oeuvres d’art du Musée du Québec, Art Bank of the Canada Council, Loto Quebec, The National Library of Quebec, The National Library of Canada, Le Centre Félix-Antoine-Savard, Papermill, St-Gilles, Quebec, Musée du Bas St-Laurent, Quebec.

Victoria Stanton is a performance artist, video-maker, and published writer. Stanton has presented actions, exhibitions, and videos in Canada, the U.S., Europe, the U.K., Australia and Japan. She co-authored Impure: Reinventing the Word (conundrum press, 2001), with Vincent Tinguely and is currently working on a book with the TouVA Collective (Anne Bérubé, Sylvie Tourangeau and Stanton) developing salient notions on how performance is practiced and on the question of the performative.

Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina in 1967, Inès Szigety moves between video, installation, photography and performance. Her videos are experimental or documentary. She is interested in the quotidian, the discontinuity of linear time and in mechanisms that allow deconstruction. The video expresses through its silence, the sense of the work is produced by this loss. Studies/ Professional Training/ Scholarships: 2006 Artistic Exchange Program in Montreal , Canadá. CALQ and Nación Argentina. 2004 Visual Arts Scholarship for artist from the interior granted by Fondo Nacional de las Artes. 2003-05 Workshop programme for the Visual Arts Ricardo Rojas Cultural Centre- UBA / Kuitca. 2002-01 Fundación Antorchas scholarship for the Analysis and Production of works, aimed at artists of Buenos Aires.

Nikki Forrest is a visual and media artist based in Montreal. Her practice includes video, drawing, installation and sound projects. She is best known for her short experimental videos which have been shown at many festivals, galleries and museums in Europe and North America including: The Mix Festival (New York), The Glasgow Film and Video Workshop, Dundee Contemporary Arts, The Oberhausen Short film and Video Festival (Germany), Ausland (Berlin), Le Center d’Art Santa Monica (Barcelona), Signal and Noise (Vancouver) Mount Saint Vincents University Gallery, Halifax, The Images Festival (Toronto) and the Festival International du Films sur l’Art (Montreal)

soJin Chun is a Toronto-based artist working in video and installation. Using a whimsical and humorous approach, her work examines cultural multiplicity and complexities of immigration through local narratives. Chun has participated in video screening and exhibitions internationally. She recently had a solo exhibition at Tragaluz Digital in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain as part of Fotonoviembre, a Biennale photography festival. Chun has a B.A. in Applied Arts from Ryerson University and a Masters in Communications and Culture from Ryerson/York Universities. She is currently the Head of Education and Community Outreach at Gallery 44.

larose s. larose works with video, performance, installation and intervention. Their practice involves accessible mediums (karaoke, television, cooking, etc.) to allow the reappropriation of cultural codes through media texts, reconstructed under a feminist, queer, activist angle. They graduated from Intermedia/Cyberarts at Concordia University, (Montreal, Canada) and have a technical background in video postproduction. Their work and curatorial projects have been presented in artist-run spaces in Canada and Europe.

Sheena Hoszko (b. 1982, Outaouais, Quebec) is a Montreal-based interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, video, and performance. Her projects attempt to re-contextualize emotion by dissecting and highlighting everyday interactions. Her recent work focuses on ways of representing desire. Hoszko has exhibited at various galleries across Canada, including The Helen Pitt Gallery, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, articule artist-run centre, and The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. Her video work is distributed through Groupe Intervention Vidéo.

kimura byol-nathalie lemoine is a conceptual multimedia feminist artist who works on identities (diaspora, ethnicity, colorism, post-colionalism, immigration, gender), and expresses it with calligraphy, paintings, digital images, poems, videos and photography. kimura-lemoine’s work has been exhibited, screened and published internationally. As a curator, kimura-lemoine has developed projects that give voice and visibility to minorities and as an activist archivist, ze is working on ACA (adoptees cultural archives) to document the history of adoptee’s culture through media and arts. she doesn’t like capital letters.

Coral Short was born on a beautiful island off the west coast of Canada and was raised by a lively river in the countryside where her eccentric family lived off the land. She spends a fair amount of time dispersing her magic around the globe – in the air, on railroad tracks and highways all the while curating and doing artist residencies. Coral has lived and created art in Asia, North America, and Europe for the last 15 years. She has many beloved people, communities, and locations that she calls home. Short and her countless projects move at the speed of light; ironically she is the most still when she travels.