Dorothy Woodend is the culture editor for The Tyee. Dorothy holds degrees in English from Simon Fraser University and film animation from Emily Carr University. She has worked in many different cultural disciplines, including producing contemporary dance and new music concerts, running a small press, programming film festivals, as well as writing for newspapers and magazines across Canada and the U.S. Dorothy is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Vancouver Film Critics Circle, and is the senior festival advisor for DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver.

Jesse McKee is Head of Strategy at 221A, organization working with artists and designers to research and develop social, cultural and ecological infrastructure. McKee is the lead investigator on 221A’s Blockchains & Cultural Padlocks Digital Strategy and also co-founder (with the artist Neïll Beloufa) of ebb.global, a node and platform for the distribution of cultural experiences and products, in digital and physical spaces, specializing in the emergence of Web3 tools; blockchain, NFTs and new community tokenization projects.

Philippe Pasquier is a Professor at SFU School of Interactive Arts + Technology, and is bullish on distributed systems and decentralization since 1999. Recent Web 3 technologies are changing the way art is being owned, exchanged and monetized, but this movement is also powering new cultural developments and impacting how we relate to art and the creative processes themselves.

Rhea Myers is an artist, hacker and writer originally from the UK now based in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Her work places technology and culture in mutual interrogation to produce new ways of seeing the world as it unfolds around us. Rhea stands out as perhaps the most important and overlooked artist in the crypto art movement; few have quietly offered more to the medium. Myers was one of the earliest creatives to adopt blockchain technology as an instrument for artistic creation in 2014. Myers’ pioneering role in the digital art space is yet to be fully recognised. Myers’ also works as a Senior Smart Contract Developer for Dapper Labs, Vancouver.