Patrick Blenkarn

(he/him) is an artist working at the intersection of performance, game design, and visual art. Often engaging with the politics of participation and interactivity, his recent works feature sustained investigations into the subjects of language, labour, and the art economy, with projects ranging in form from video games and card games to stage plays and books. His work has been featured in film festivals, galleries, and performance festivals across Canada, and recently in Argentina, Mexico, and Germany. He is a co-founder of and key archivist with videocan; the Producer for The Elbow Theatre in Vancouver; and one half of the Ontario-based theatre company, Guilty by Association. Patrick has a degree in philosophy, theatre, and film from the University of King's College and an MFA in interdisciplinary art from Simon Fraser University. He is passionate about languages—he currently speaks English, French, Spanish, and German.

Milton Lim

(he/him) is a media artist and performance creator based in Vancouver, Canada. His research-based practice entwines publicly available data, interactive digital media, and gameful performance to create speculative visions and candid articulations of social capital. This line of inquiry aims to reconsider our repertoires of knowledge aggregation and political intervention in the contemporary context of big data and algorithmic culture. Milton holds a BFA (Hons.) in theatre performance and psychology from Simon Fraser University. His work has presented in venues, festivals, and galleries nationally and internationally at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Carrefour international festival de theatre, Seattle International Dance Festival, artsdepot (London), soft/WALL/studs (Singapore), and Darwin Festival (Australia), and more. He is a Co-Artistic Director of Hong Kong Exile, an Artistic Associate with Theatre Conspiracy, a key archivist with videocan, and an Artistic-Leader-in-Residence at the National Theatre School of Canada.