Alexandra Bachmayer (she/her) makes art at the intersection of digital, textile, and biological media. Whether developing haptic performance garments, creating dyes from pigment-producing bacteria, or smocking soft biopolymers, her work is grounded in empathy, playfulness, and the ecology of materials. She has produced, published, or presented at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, Natural Dyes in Northeast America, HCII 2019, Make: Wearable Electronics, and Dinacon, and has shown collaborative work at the Centre Pompidou, Ars Electronica, and Mutek. Alex is the technician for the Speculative Life BioLab at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology at Concordia University.

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lee wilkins (they/them) is an artist and researcher focused on the intersection of the body and technology. They use e-textiles, natural and bio materials, and electromagnetic mechanisms to re-imagine the shape of technology. Their work has been exhibited internationally at the Festival of Curiosity in Dublin, the Lumiere Festival in Toronto, and the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, to name a few. wilkins is the Summit Chair for the Open Hardware Summit, which has been held in New York City (2023), Montreal (2024), Edinburgh (2025), and Berlin (2026). As a community leader, wilkins co-organizes the Digital Naturalism Conference, and has served as Program Director for Sketching in Hardware. They received a PhD from the University of Toronto where their research focused on how bodies are integrated within the design of spacecraft. wilkins is part-time faculty at Concordia University, and runs a small non-profit makerspace called Radio Snack.

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