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James Kirkpatrick

Well known for his participation in the early Canadian avant-garde hip hop movement as Thesis Sahib, Kirkpatrick works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, sound sculptures, murals, zines, comics, and mask-making. He incorporates kinetic and auditory elements, combining his 2D aesthetic with altered electronic toys and compositions on modified Gameboys that have become part of his music and on-stage performances as Thesis Sahib, for the Nintendo Switch game SPINCH, and for the European band AWARDS.

He joins a long tradition of artists whose art-making is entwined with an exploration of everyday life and a search to understand our place in the world.

Kanika Gupta

Kanika Gupta is a multidisciplinary artist who uses visual arts and storytelling to create dialogue and foster deeper human connections. Through multimodal and sensory-based work, Kanika is passionate about engaging public audiences with art in ways that are meaningful and inclusive to them. Kanika

is the author and illustrator of BRAVE and her artwork has been presented in public spaces, outdoor festivals, museums, and galleries. She also collaborates with cultural institutions and organizations to make their practices and physical environments more inclusive through breaking both physical and invisible barriers to access. Kanika’s artwork and community building endeavours have been profiled internationally. Her work can be seen at www.byKanika.com.

Kanika is the artistic director of Soundprint. This is part of Soundprint: a multimodal and evolving art installation on noise pollution intended to evoke thought on
what choices can be made today to allow for a quieter and more inclusive future. Soundprint is made up of a series of stand-alone artistic research experiments that use art and technology to make visible our individual soundprints (audio footprints) and explore how our collective soundprints shape our mental and physical health as well as social behaviours.

Tosca Terán

Tosca is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art and ecology. By developing work incorporating metal, glass, and electronics, Tosca has received scholarships from The Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, and The Penland School of Crafts. Tosca’s work has been featured at SOFA New York, Culture Canada, Metalsmith Magazine, The Toronto Design Exchange, the Memphis Metal Museum, MOCA in partnership with the Ontario Science Centre, Music Works Magazine, and Vector Festival. In 2019, Tosca was one of the first Bio- Artists in residence at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto in partnership with the Ontario Science Centre. As a recipient of the 2019 BigCi Environmental Award at Wollemi National Park within the Greater Blue Mountains, Tosca further explored the bio-sonification of fungi and trees with local mycologists and botanists throughout Wollemi, the Sydney Botanical Gardens, and with Māori rangers concerned with Kauri dieback at the Arataki Visitor Centre, New Zealand. Tosca was recently awarded a Remote Realities Residency with Trinity Square Video and Dames Making Games.

FOO/SKOU

Danish-born collaborative duo FOO/SKOU (Louise Foo and Martha Skou) work with smartphone technology, physical computing, graphics, printmaking, textiles, and sculpture to explore the possibilities of composing, making, and experiencing sound in the digital age. The graphic score, a form of musical notation that utilizes visual symbols to represent music, is central to their interest in experimental sound. FOO/SKOU have shown their interactive sound installations at venues such as The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in NYC, Maison Du Danemark in Paris, Telfair Museums in Savannah, and Pioneer Works Center for Art + Innovation in NYC and has been accepted to residencies together at NARS, Pioneer Works Center for Art + Innovation, and The Centre for the Holographic Arts. The duo is currently working on a large-scale interactive sound installation commissioned by Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kanika Gupta

Kanika Gupta is a multidisciplinary artist who uses visual arts and storytelling to create dialogue and foster deeper human connections. Through multimodal and sensory-based work, Kanika is passionate about engaging public audiences with art in ways that are meaningful and inclusive to them. Kanika is the author and illustrator of BRAVE and her artwork has been presented in public spaces, outdoor festivals, museums, and galleries. She also collaborates with cultural institutions and organizations to make their practices and physical environments more inclusive through breaking both physical and invisible barriers to access. Kanika’s artwork and community building endeavours have been profiled internationally. Her work can be seen at www.byKanika.com.

Kanika is the artistic director of Soundprint. This is part of Soundprint: a multimodal and evolving art installation on noise pollution intended to evoke thought on
what choices can be made today to allow for a quieter and more inclusive future. Soundprint is made up of a series of stand-alone artistic research experiments that use art and technology to make visible our individual soundprints (audio footprints) and explore how our collective soundprints shape our mental and physical health as well as social behaviours.

Luisa Ji

Luisa Ji is a Chinese-Canadian designer. Her work spans creative direction, digital strategy, digital products, and visual design. With a strong sense of curiosity, her approach to designing and organizing digital interactions draws from patterns from her experiences in architecture, urban studies, and Chinese vernacular knowledge. She worked on projects focused on digitally-mediated civic engagement, participatory design, and performative works based on spatial interactions alongside artists, architects, cultural initiatives, and municipal departments. In 2018, Luisa co- founded Nomadic Labs, a digital studio, working with community groups, social impact organizations, and non-profits globally on digital solutions through the lens of design ethics and digital equity. As a community-builder, Luisa is currently the Global Chapters Director of Speculative Futures, a program of the Design Futures Initiative, supporting and facilitating meaningful conversations to connect an amalgamation of educators, designers, futurists, and foresight strategists in 50+ cities across 6 continents.