Dr. Maria Lantin is the Director of the Intersections Digital Studios (IDS) research centre at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. For many years she has been joining her love of Computing Science with her belief in the innovative potential of the arts. A circuitous route led her from obtaining her PhD in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University to leading the Visualization Research Lab at the Banff Centre’s Banff New Media Institute (BNMI). Working primarily in teams, she has had the joy of bringing to life many artist projects involving digital technology, and continues this practice at Emily Carr where the IDS provides an ample playground for experimentation.

Jim Budd is an Associate Professor in the Industrial Design Program at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. He is head of the Wearables and Interactive Products Lab (WIP) in the Intersections Digital Studios (IDS) at Emily Carr. His research and teaching interests focus on a human-centered approach to the combined areas of industrial design, interaction design, interactive products and rapid prototyping.

As the SIM Centre's partner liaison, Morgan Brayton works with ECUAD faculty staff to organize events and support collaborations with industry partners. Morgan has a unique hybrid background in arts and administration. She is a familiar face on stage (30 Helens, Girls Like Me) and screen (The L-Word, Scooby Doo Two). She served as the Artistic Director of the Vancouver International Comedy Festival before founding Pink Vixen Comedy Arts, a not-for-profit production company that created socially provocative and entertaining productions, including SketchFest Vancouver, Canada's first festival of sketch comedy. Morgan is well known in Vancouver as an active volunteer and fundraiser with not-for-profit organizations including Haro Park Seniors Centre, Out on Screen Film and Video Society and DOXA Film Festival. She's a regular speaker, panelist and guest instructor at festivals and conferences and an in-demand emcee for celebrations and awards ceremonies.

Louise St. Pierre is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Industrial Design at Emily Carr University. She previously taught industrial design at the University of Washington for 10 years (7 years as Chair of the program). She is co-author of Okala Ecological Design, a curriculum that helped to establish ecological teaching methods in design schools across North America. She has received numerous awards for her Industrial Design, Exhibit Design and Sustainable Design work, such as from the Industrial Designer's Society of America, The American Center for Design. Her work has been published in ID Magazine, Print Magazine, Innnovation, and Communication Arts. St. Pierre has received funding for a broad range of collaborative research projects including funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for exploratory curriculum on sustainable product design. She writes on sustainable design and product longevity, and is a regular contributor to Sustainable Minds.com.

As a new media installation artist, Suzi Webster's practice is concerned with exploring and critiquing the ways in which technologies, specifically but not solely digital technologies, impact and shape our experiences of being human. In particular, Webster is excited by the possibilities offered by digital media to create work that is collaborative, responsive and dynamic, rather than fixed and static, and that undermines traditional fine art distinctions based on medium specificity. Her current research interests center around wearables that explore intersections between sculpture and performance, fashion and computing, the body and its context, public and private, in a critical way. Recent exhibitions have included Node London; Artefact, at FACT in Liverpool, UK; and Cyborgs: man or machine at the Science Museum in Newcastle UK. Webster completed a BFA at Emily Carr University and an MFA Media at the Slade in London, UK and will be participating in electromode codelive in 2010.

Dr. James, Assistant Dean in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, is a writer and educator working in the areas of critical and cultural theory and aesthetics. Her research focuses on visual culture and art situated in the interstices of science, art, and technology, and the impact of cultural production on an individual’s, a group’s, or a population’s sense of possibility and potentiality. Current research and writing projects focus on the aesthetics of affect, new media art, the implications and applications of biotechnological imaging systems and changing definitions of what it means to be human in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Rubén Möller works as an independent animator in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He pursues film and digital production to evolve his theory and practice of new media structures. Through his own production company along with television and theatrical organizations he branches out these ideas into industry and education.