Ruth Beer is an artist and researcher whose artistic practice examines and envisions contested geographies and landscapes in transition. Her interdisciplinary artworks include sculpture, video, photography, and tapestry projects which have exhibited widely, including at such venues as the Vancouver Art Gallery, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Anchorage Museum, and Raglan St Gallery. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies and Art Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, and in books such as After Oil (West Virginia University Press, 2016) and Relate North: Lessons of the Land (UArctic, 2025). A member of the RCA, Ruth is based in Vancouver, where she is a Professor in the Faculty of Art and Graduate Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Ruth is the Principal Investigator (PI) of Land, Sea, Sky.

Tomas Walker-Borsa is a documentary filmmaker and critical infrastructures scholar whose research explores the infrastructural politics of fibre-optic infrastructures in non-urban contexts. An adopted member of the Skidegate Gidins/Naa ‘Yuuwans Xaaydaga (Big House People) clan of the Haida Nation, his ongoing research into the history and development of Haida Gwaii’s Fibre-to-the Premises (FTTP) network combines visual ethnographic, archival, and participatory methods, and received the 2025 Dissertation Award from the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Tomas’ writing has appeared in journals such as Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies and the Canadian Journal of Communication, while his film and media projects have been shown at galleries and festivals including the Richmond Museum, Raglan St Gallery, Glasgow Human Rights Film Festival, and Hot Docs. Tomas is based in London, where he is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. Tomas is the Project Manager of Land, Sea, Sky.

Hannah Andrews is a creative director, executive producer, and writer specializing in arts and advanced technology, who researches the internet infrastructures of the Faroe Islands. Currently, Hannah leads artist collaborations at Google’s Arts & Culture Lab; previously, she was the inaugural Director of Digital Innovation in Arts at the British Council. Hannah is a founding member of Utrecht University’s Inclusive AI Lab and is an advisor to the international collective Planetary Art Culture & Technology. Hannah is based in London and holds a BA in English Literature from Durham University and an MSc in Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute.

Darin Barney is a communications scholar whose current research and teaching interests include materialist approaches to media and communication infrastructures, emerging energy formats and infrastructures, and negative politics. His many books and edited volumes include Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology (University of Chicago Press, 2000), The Network Society (Polity Press, 2004), and most recently, Media Rurality (Duke University Press, 2026, with Patrick Brodie), which investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media systems and technologies that shape daily life in and across rural and urban settings alike. Darin is a member of the Petrocultures Research Group, the After Oil Collective, and the McGill Centre for Innovation in Storage and Conversion of Energy. Darin is based in Montreal, where he convenes the Grierson Research Group and serves as Grierson Chair in Communication Studies and Department Chair in Art History and Communication Studies at McGill.

Jisgang Nika Collison is Executive Director and Curator at the Haida Gwaii Museum at Kay Llnagaay. Nika belongs to the Ts’aahl Eagle Clan of the Haida Nation and has worked in the field of Haida language arts and culture for over 25 years. Deeply committed to reconciliation, Nika is a senior repatriation negotiator for the Haida Nation, pursuing reparation and relationships with museums across the globe, and is a recipient of the Michael M. Ames Award for Innovative Museum Anthropology from the Council for Museums Anthropology for her work in repatriation and Indigenous scholarship. Among her many roles, Nika is Co-chair of the Haida Repatriation Committee, a member of the Canadian Museums Association Reconciliation Council, a member of the Bank of Canada’s Indigenous Advisory Circle, and of the UBC Museum of Anthropology Directors’ Advisory Council. Nika is based in Skidegate, Haida Gwaii.

Zane Cooper is a multimodal scholar and educator whose work concerns the intersections and relations between data infrastructures, energy production, and resource extraction in the Arctic. His short VR film, ‘Alchemical Infrastructures: Making Blockchain in Iceland’, provided a sensory ethnographic glimpse into the spaces, sounds, and faces of Iceland’s blockchain industry, while more recently, his research has explored rare earth mining and the supply chains of data in Greenland. A Co-author of Digital Energetics (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), Zane has held positions at Intel, the Civic Software Foundation, and the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, where, in various capacities, he has explored the nexus of technology and environmental justice. Zane is based in upstate New York, where he is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Film at St. Lawrence University.

Mél Hogan is a critical media scholar whose work explores the various and vast environmental impacts of data infrastructures. The host of The Data Fix podcast, Mél’s research focuses on data infrastructure and extractive industries, understood from within the contexts of planetary catastrophe and collective anxieties about the future. Mél’s work on data storage, cloud imaginaries, and digital afterlives has appeared in journals such as New Media & Society, First Monday, Big Data & Society, PUBLIC, and many others. Mél has previously held positions at the Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Calgary, where she was Director of the Environmental Media Lab. Mél is now based in Kingston, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University.

Timo Jokela is a Finnish artist and art educator whose work takes a site-specific and participatory approach to developing art and design projects and relationships with Saami communities. The former Chair of Art, Design and Culture and lead on Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design (ASAD) at the University of the Arctic (UArctic), Timo’s work has been exhibited widely and makes use of natural materials (e.g. wood, snow, ice) and elements of local cultural heritage in an effort to unpack the relations between environment and aesthetic. Timo’s academic contributions have tended to focus on the phenomenological relationship between art, nature, and community, and include works such as Relate North – Practising Place: Heritage, Art, and Design for Creative Communities (UArctic, 2016, with Glen Coutts). Timo is based in Rovaniemi, northern Finland, and is Professor Emeritus of Art Education at the University of Lapland.

Lindsay McIntyre is a filmmaker and artist of Inuk/Scottish descent who works primarily in 16mm analog film and experimental, handmade, and documentary techniques. Interested simultaneously in the apparatus of cinema, portraiture, representation, and personal histories, Lindsay specialises in process-based film techniques and has contributed a significant body of knowledge to celluloid-based practices around the world. A recipient of the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (Hnatyshyn Foundation), the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Excellence in Media Arts (Canada Council for the Arts), and many others, Lindsay’s films employ place- and land-based methodologies, often dwelling on the stories of urban Inuit displaced from Inuit Nunangat. Her films have been shown at venues worldwide including Ann Arbor, Anthology Film Archives, Rotterdam, l’Alternativa, WNDX, Edinburgh International, and imagineNATIVE, while her short drama NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind, 2023) was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. Lindsay is based in Vancouver, where she is an Associate Professor of Film and Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, in addition to serving as the Executive Director of the Inuit Art Foundation.

Jeneen Frei Njootli is an interdisciplinary Vuntut Gwitchin artist and recovering academic who works across performance, sound, textiles, images, and feral scholarship. A finalist for the 2018 Sobey Art Award, Jeneen is a co-creator of the ReMatriate Collective, a group working toward better representation of Indigenous women in the media, and works with culturally intimate materials that manifest in sculpture, regalia, performance, and sound. Jeneen’s work has been exhibited at many galleries, museums, and artist-run centres around the world; recent exhibitions include The skies closed themselves when we averted our gaze (The Power Plant, Toronto, 2025), Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions (KADIST, San Francisco, 2024), Noise of the Flesh: Score for Gina Pane (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, France, 2023), Indian Theatre (CCS BARD Hessel Museum, New York, 2023), and Listen Up: Northern Soundscapes (Anchorage Museum, Alaska, 2021). Embracing the meme of closing one’s computer and running into the woods, Jeneen lives in the bush with their family outside of Old Crow, Yukon.

Matt Parker is a critical sound scholar and artist whose research engages with sound studies, media ecology, field recording, and environmental humanities through a spectral art practice. His current research explores the environmental impact of data centres and other emergent data infrastructures, using multimodal audio and documentary practice to investigate how sonic, electromagnetic, and vibrational phenomena shape our cultural and ecological relationships with them. Awarded the Deutsche Bank Creative Prize in Music 2014, Matt’s work has been exhibited, screened, and sounded internationally, including at ABC Radio National (AU), BBC Radio 4 (UK), Douglas Hyde Gallery (IE), Electronic Media Arts Festival (DE), Glitch Festival (MX), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (IN), Melbourne Fringe Festival (AU), RIXC Art and Science Festival Riga (LV), SXSW (US), Tate Britain (UK), The Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV) (IT), Without Words Film Festival (FR), ZKM Gallery (DE), and many others. Matt is based in Ningbo, China, where he is an Assistant Professor in International Communications at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo.

Boxi Wu is a doctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, whose research investigates the geopolitics of AI infrastructures in relation to local political and cultural transformations. Boxi’s work on the ethics and governance of AI and digital infrastructure has appeared in journals including Big Data & Society, Philosophy & Technology, and AAAI/ACM AI, Ethics & Society. Prior to their doctoral studies, Boxi led policy collaborations with organisations such as the OECD’s AI Policy Observatory, The AI Now Institute, and the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), work which has been featured in magazines and newspapers such as Jacobin, Time, The New York Times, The Economist, and Forbes. Outside of academia Boxi is a community organiser with ESEA Green Lions, a UK-based climate justice collective working within the East and Southeast Asian community from a decolonial and anti-racist perspective. Boxi also co-convenes the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group (OxDEG) and is a member of the Oxford-Aalto University Digital Economic Security Lab (DIESL).