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Jessica Turner is a PhD student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. As a curator, her research broadly encompasses the intersection of art and climate. Climate communication, relational aesthetics, audience evaluation, and place-based research all inform her work. Jessica is currently a Research Assistant in the Art and Media Lab.

Eric von Roenn is a PhD student in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program at Â鶹¹ÙÍø's University. He is a graduate of the Film Production program at Confederation College and completed his BAH and MA in English at Lakehead University. Before starting at Â鶹¹ÙÍø's, Eric spent two years as a contract lecturer at both Lakehead and Confederation, and has taught courses on Academic Writing, Film Studies, and Popular Culture. Eric's research-creation project is an interdisciplinary study combining historical research, literary and cultural theory, and creative production, in which he approaches cinema as a site for innovative historical discourse.

Ariel is a PhD student in SCCS. She received a BA in Anthropology/Archaeology from Brigham Young University, and a MA in English: Film Studies from National University. Research interests include intersectional feminism related to post-war trauma, Easternism, diaspora communities, and identity, in film, television, and video games.

Xunan Wang is an independent filmmaker specialising in documentary and cinematic virtual reality. He explores the shifting boundaries between fiction and reality, challenging conventional narratives while engaging with the limits of the screen. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Hong Kong Baptist University and a Master’s degree from the University of Hong Kong.

Sarah is a PhD student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. Her SSHRC-funded dissertation takes up the figure of the serial killer as a discursive construction key to establishing and securing interconnected categories of criminality, deviance, and identity in the popular imagination throughout the 20th century. Her other research interests include monstrosity, true crime, and horror media. 

I'm only really curious about why we live: what kinds of faith subtends the mechanics of our day-to-day survival; the manner & the style through which we express our vitality. In the language of the University, I translate this curiosity into such terms as "experiential performance-based research": for my PhD I want to gather a collective of multimodal artists who are interested in spirituality and mystical experience to work at the limits of their practices, and to dissolve their limits into the mutation-structure of the group. Call it a cult but with no centre, no dogma, no direction.