Rosika Desnoyers is a post-doctoral fellow at the École des arts visuels et médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal. She is a graduate of Concordia University's Humanities Doctoral Program, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, where she completed a thesis in research-creation titled A Genealogy of Berlin Work: A History of Errors (2013). Since the 1990s she has worked with needlepoint as a means to explore the social function of art as a disciplinary formation. She has exhibited her work at SAW Gallery in Ottawa, at Galerie Diagonale in Montreal and at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University. She has also worked in several museums, including the National Gallery of Canada, the McCord Museum and the George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography. David Tomas is an artist and writer whose multimedia and photographic works explore the culture and transcultures of imaging systems. He has exhibited in Canada, the US and Europe and has held visiting research and fellowship positions at the California Institute of the Arts, Goldsmiths College, and the National Gallery of Canada. He is the author of several books, including Transcultural Space and Transcultural Beings (1996), A Blinding Flash of Light: Photography Between Disciplines and Media (2004), Beyond the Image Machine: A History of Visual Technologies (2004), and more recently, Escape Velocity: Alternative Instruction Prototype for Playing the Knowledge Game (2012) and Vertov, Snow, Farocki: Machine Vision and the Posthuman (2013).

Tomas is Professor in Visual Arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Marc James Léger is an independent scholar based in Montreal. He is editor of the collected writings and interviews of Bruce Barber in Performance, [Performance] and Performers (2007) and Littoral Art and Communicative Action (2013), as well as editor of Culture and Contestation in the New Century (2011) and The Idea of the Avant Garde - And What It Means Today (2014). He is author of Brave New Avant Garde (2012), The Neoliberal Undead (2013), and most recently, Drive in Cinema: Essays on Film, Theory and Politics (2015).