Monica Alder received her BFA in Painting from the University of Calgary in 1997, and her MFA in Visual Art from York University in 2002. She taught visual art at Sir Wilfed Grenfell College, Memorial University, in Newfoundland from 2004 to 2005, where she was also artist in residence at The Pouch Cove Foundation. She has had numerous exhibitions of her work across Canada and in the United States, and has been the recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Production Grant to Professional Artists, the du Maurier Arts Council Project Grant, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Study Grant.

Monica currently lives and works in Toronto. Her practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, graphic design, and animation. Her most recent work continues to explore her understanding of merging laden content with vapidity (that is to say, her understanding of the nature of the very strange world around her), and with the pure potential of language to pose the ultimate existential question.

In 1995 Vanessa received her BFA with Honors from The University of Manitoba School of Art. Since 1994 her work has been in several exhibitions, screenings and festivals around the world. Some of these include the works "to run to fall to fly", 1999 (XX Video Art Festival, Locarno, Switzerland; Video Poem Festival, Vancouver), "Catastrophe Machine", 2002 (from "two minutes when the sky remained the same" at The AGYU, Toronto and TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, 2004). Her work has been included in groups exhibitions at the Redhead Gallery, Toronto, and Plug-In, Winnepeg. In 2002 Vanessa completed her MFA at York University in Time Based Art.

From 2002 until summer 2005, Vanessa worked in Thailand, where she taught at the Fine and Applied Arts Faculty at Khon Kaen University.

Atsmon was born in Israel and practiced in Tel Aviv until he moved to Canada in 2000, where he now lives and works. His artwork has been shown in the Janco Dada Museum, the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Givon Gallery in Tel Aviv, Noga Gallery in Tel Aviv, and the Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem. His drawings and animations have also been included in various group and solo exhibitions in Toronto, including the AGYU.

Chris Ironside is a Toronto based artist working in photography and drawing. He obtained his Specialized Honours BA from the University of Guelph in 1996 and his MFA from York University in 2002, and teaches photography in the Department of Fine Arts at both of these universities. His current body of work, "Mr. Long Weekend", continues his investigation into representations of masculine ideals and their shift from the real to the hyper-real through performance, documentation and the staged image. His work has been exhibited in Canada and in the United States.

Justin Lawrence is a fourth-year Visual Arts major at York University. His current practice includes photography, film, illustration, and painting. He recently directed two independent films derived from characters he knew. He has also participated in various group shows in Toronto. His inspiration comes from the people around him – fellow artists, instructors, and contemporary cultural figures and events that elicit emotions people often neglect to acknowledge. Justin is interested in finding new ways to "visually" convey the idea of emotion and feeling through the depiction of the people around him. Upon graduation, Justin intends to pursue his Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Film Studies.

On October 28th, 1963 Gédéon Thibodeau was born. On December 24th of the same year, he was adopted and became Pierre Noël LeBlanc. At the age of thirteen he received his first 35mm camera, but he still had his sights set on becoming a scientist. In 1984 a particularly astute invertebrate biology professor told him that he had nothing resembling a scientific thought process, not even a bit. In 1984, Pierre becomes a student at the Visual Arts Department of the Université de Moncton (1984-88); he then continued to follow his research and passions at the MFA programme at Montréal's Concordia University (1989-92).

In 1991, the Commission GEDEON Commission was born. The C.G.C. is the agent provocateur of Mr. LeBlanc's cultural enterprises. It offers a philosophical space that allows for the incorporation of the ideas and the identities of the artist and his processes. The C.G.C. encompasses all his influences; his inspirations coming mostly from literary, cinematographic and televisual spaces. The C.G.C. seeks to subvert the cult of the personality, the ivory tower and the notion of the absolute originality of the creator of visual culture, and to give homage to Gilles Deleuze's words.

Since 1992, Pierre N. LeBlanc has taught Digital Imaging, Photography and Printmaking first at Concordia University, then at the Université de Moncton and today at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, the West Coast campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Born in Sandusky, Ohio and raised in northeastern Tennessee, Claire completed her undergraduate work at the University of Maine. Her graduate work at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill was completed in the spring of 2004 with the installation Body Plunder. Claire has taught printmaking and sculpture courses at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and was the recipient of the Book Arts & Printmaking Fellowship at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy in 2006. Currently, Claire is working on several new projects, including a new body of work inspired by booby traps. She has recently exhibited at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York and the Other Gallery, after a successful residency at the Banff Centre in Canada. This fall, Claire will be showing work at the Kansas City Art Coalition, and next year at the Open Studio in Toronto, Canada.

Sam Shahsahabi is a visual artist whose machine constructions and fantastic drawings first came to fruition in Iran where he studied both modern and classical art skills and received his BFA from Azad University. His recent works have developed during his years in Canada while he was a graduate student at York University. His creations appear to be complicated notations combined with academic life model drawing. Hidden in each work is a hook to catch our funny bone and our memory briefly glimpsed and forgotten moments of terror or recognition of the human state of fragility and uncertainty. His art plays on the antithesis of control; they are elaborated metaphors for the passage of time, the letting go of the pain of lost love, and the abiding profound melancholy. As we try to make order of the drawings and figures, all the images make reference to a menacing transit through decay towards resurrection.

Sam is currently working as director/curator at T.A.G & FILM, House of Art. He established T.A.G in 2007 in Sudbury, Ontario, to showcase alternative arts in Northern Ontario.