Biographies:
Lynn Hughes (CA)
Lynn Hughes is Prof. Emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal where she held the Chair of Interaction Design and Games Innovation (2004 to 2018). Between 2000 and 2015, she was instrumental in the founding of 3 major research centres that radically changed the context for interdisciplinary training in new media art/design and other disciplines in Montreal. Her own production focuses on the design of hybrid physical/digital experiences -currently in the area between digital games, participatory theatre and larping.
Alain Thibault (CA)
Artistic director of ELEKTRA is an international media and contemporary digital art organization based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.