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Patrick Blenkarn (he/him) is an artist working at the intersection of performance, game design, and visual art. Frequently making use of interactivity, his research-based practice revolves around the themes of language, labour, and economy, with projects ranging in form from video games and card games to stage plays and books. His work has been featured in performance festivals, galleries, museums, and film festivals across Canada and internationally. He has a degree in philosophy, theatre, and film from the University of King's College and an MFA from Simon Fraser University. His writings on politics and performance have appeared in Performance Matters, Theatre Research in Canada, GUTS, SpiderWebShow, and Canadian Theatre Review. Patrick is also the co-founder of and a key archivist for videocan. 

Milton Lim (he/him) is a Vancouver-based media artist and performance creator. 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. His work has been presented across Canada, and internationally in the US, Argentina, the UK, Singapore, and Australia. Milton is a Co-Artistic Director of Hong Kong Exile, Artistic Associate with Theatre Conspiracy, key archivist with videocan, and part of the AI-focussed collective, Synectic Assembly. He was also a recent Sessional Instructor for Simon Fraser University’s theatre program.