Anna Friz creates media art, sound and transmission art, working across platforms to present installations, broadcasts, films and performances. Her creative and scholarly works often reflect upon media ecologies, land use, infrastructures, time perception, radio and transmission art histories, and critical fictions.

In 2015 she joined the Film and Digital Media department at University of California Santa Cruz, where she is currently Associate Professor. Anna is currently a Guggenheim Fellow (2023), and has been a Rydell Visual Arts Fellow (2022) and a Hellman Fellow (2018). 

Anna is an itinerant collaborator with the Toronto-based Public Studio collective, whose work together includes One Hundred and Twenty Mirrors, a permanent sound installation in the Lee Lifeson Arts Park, among other multi-channel film installations and sculptures which critically consider the social politics of landscape, environment and urban systems.

John Filion is a former Toronto city councillor who represented Ward 18 Willowdale.

Olivia is a chaotic weirdo, noisemaker, sound designer, wannabe fashion icon, video artist, and composer. Shortt is an Anishinaabe off-reserve member of Nipissing First Nation and of Irish descent through their mother.

Described by Musicworks Magazine as a “glittering, rising star in the exploratory music firmament”, Shortt was named by CBC as one of “6 Indigenous composers you need to know in 2024”. Shortt has been presented at The Whitney Biennial (NYC), The Holland Festival (Amsterdam) and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, DC). Iconic moments include appearing and playing saxophone on CBC Kids’ ‘Gary the Unicorn’ and Atom Egoyan’s film ‘Guest of Honour’, as well as lending their voice off-screen for Stephen King’s film ‘In the Tall Grass’ and S. 3 of ‘Chucky’. Shortt is a graduate of the U of T and Dartmouth College in the US. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at the U of T Mississauga at the Indigenous Creation Studio.

Shak and Trina are both members of the Frog Lake First Nation in Treaty 6 territory, Northern Alberta, they are of Plains Cree descent. Their work sits at the intersection of Indigenous oral tradition and emerging technology. As an actor and performer, Trina shares traditional Indigenous stories, and Shak merges those stories with 3D modelling, augmented reality, and spatial computing to tell them in new ways. Together they ensure that Indigenous worldviews, culture, and histories are future-proofed by adapting them to new modern tools. In addition to this creative tech, They work in public and Indigenous engagement, ensuring that major projects across Tkaronto embed Indigenous voices, community priorities, and cultural needs at their core.

Shak and Trina are both members of the Frog Lake First Nation in Treaty 6 territory, Northern Alberta, they are of Plains Cree descent. Their work sits at the intersection of Indigenous oral tradition and emerging technology. As an actor and performer, Trina shares traditional Indigenous stories, and Shak merges those stories with 3D modelling, augmented reality, and spatial computing to tell them in new ways. Together they ensure that Indigenous worldviews, culture, and histories are future-proofed by adapting them to new modern tools. In addition to this creative tech, They work in public and Indigenous engagement, ensuring that major projects across Tkaronto embed Indigenous voices, community priorities, and cultural needs at their core.