North America

M Bethancourt
Concordia University

“Notsalgia”, making the ordinary weird

Alex Custodio
Concordia University

Gameboy, forgotten game console histories

Nathan Ferguson
Anthropologist

Third Places, water ways, oral history

Dany Guay-Bélanger
Université de Montréal

Oral history and video games, Let’s Plays

Dr. Pauline Hoebanx
Educator

Histories of the Internet

Dr. Michael Iantorno
University of Waterloo

Video game afterlife, Gameboys, solar

Dr. Jean Ketterling
University of Saskatchewan

Sexual videogames, queer utopia, censorship

Dr. Katharina Niemeyer
Université du Québec à Montréal

Politics of nostalgia, solastalgia, media

Elena Rowan
McGill University


Libraries, archives, psychology

Swarm
Intermedia Artist

Media archeology, cosmology, time punk

M Shahrom Ali
(Founding Member)
Concordia University

Batman, the past, time and death

Poki Chan
(Founding Member)
Concordia University

VR, Kowloon Walled City, video games nostalgia

Rowena Chodkowski
(Founding Member)
Concordia University

Vaporwave, Frutiger Aero, generative AI

Annie Harrisson
(Founding Member)
Concordia University

Let’s Plays, video game forums, zines

Leo Morales
(Founding Member)
Concordia University

Myths, Magic, Memory

Derek Pasborg
(Founding Member)
Concordia University

Affect, video games, ethnography

Richy Srirachanikorn
(Founding Member)
Concordia University

Club Penguin, virtual worlds, lost futures

Anash Croker
Columbia University

Irish history, queerness, indie games, erasure

Dr. Cristian Zaelzer
McGill University

Neuroscience of creativity, memory

Christopher Anderson
The University of British Columbia

Sound, hauntology, generative AI

Dr. Morgan Bimm
St. Francis Xavier University

iPod, consumer culture, sound, capitalism

Esther Clarke
Concordia University


Murals, robots, sculpting

Lisa Conway
Concordia University


Alphorn, Swiss identity, music composition

Kelly Day
Concordia University


Play, trauma, textiles, healing, grief, family

Nancy Long
Concordia University

Candy, sensorial nostalgia, food, family

Russell Gendron
Sound Artist

Stories, soundscapes, forestry workers, sound

Owen Hellum
Video Game Developer

Indie games, death, memory, relationships

Guillaume Jabbour
Concordia University

Sound, relationships, soundwalking

Kamyar Karimi
Concordia University

Modification, tech, poems, storytelling

Dr. Marc Lajeunesse
Concordia University

World of Warcraft, video games, media, Nu metal

Aislinn Leggett
Concordia University

Food, cooking, sensorial nostalgia, family

Dr. Maxime Deslongchamps-Gagnon
Université de Montréal

Video games, coming of age experiences, childhood

Dr. Rainforest Scully-Blaker
University of Michigan

Wholesome games, radical softness, hegemony, time, capitalism, slowness

Dr. Nicolas D. Bowman
Syracuse University

Video games, personal and historical nostalgia

Debora Alana
Concordia University


VR, art, sensorial memory, myths, media

Professor
Christopher Moore
Concordia University

Retrofuturism, objects, lost futures, materials

Dr. Matthew Horrigan
Simon Fraser University


Hauntology, capitalism, media, music

Dr. Jonathan Lessard
Concordia University

Video games, coming of age, childhood, life

Jessica Villarasa
McGill University

Design, housing, family, immigrant, Philippines

Dr. Andrew Bailey
Concordia University

ROM hacking, indie games, counter archives

Dr. Buddhika Bellana
York University

Episodic memory, narratives, thoughts

Safa Hachi
Concordia University

Music subcultures, records, sonic studies

Syd Hamidreza Hosseini
Concordia University

Homesickness, dramaturgy, theatre

Meg Hutchison
Concordia University

Grief, death, narrative, video games,

Marie Khediguian
Concordia University

Displacement, Armenia, family, immigrants

Malte Leander
Sound artist

Sound, ecology, live performance, smells

Dr. Raymond A. Mar
York University

Literacy, neuroscience, social psychology

Geneviève Moisan
Concordia University

Grief, textiles, caregiver, embroidery, memory

Gabrielle Mulholland
Artist

Memory, loss, resilience, community

Julia Pingeton
University of Guelph

Memory, climate anxiety, solastalgia, shoreline

Vanessa Racine
Concordia University

Beadwork, video games, linguistics, family

Dr. Sarah Ganzon
Simon Fraser University

Video games, otome games, colonialism

Dr. Treva Legassie
Simon Fraser University

Wind, sound, sensorial nostalgia, silence

Leo Litke
Concordia University

Perfume, smells, sensorial nostalgia

Mouna Douab
Université du Québec à Montréal

Morocco, family, Immigrant, home

Kenza Mellouki
Université du Québec à Montréal

Palestine, home movies, cinema, archeology

Alice Deng
The University of British Columbia

Movies, video games, escapism, indie games

Melanie Garcia
Concordia University

Figures, family, photos, memory, textiles, death

Emilie Kvist
Concordia University

Carousel, memory, photos, false memories

Killaq Enuaraq-Strauss
Concordia University

Indigeneity, Inuit, family, colonialism, poetry

Vanessa Hauguel
Université du Québec à Montréal

Bottles, scents, perfume, smells, materials

Alexey Lazarev
Concordia University


Carpet, Soviet, textiles, tension, materiality

Alex Côté Hallée
Université du Québec à Montréal

Capitalocene, plastic, ecology, environment

Elliot Stocking
Concordia University

Home, family, identity, materiality, weaving

Vanessa Randall
Concordia University

Wool, textiles, stories, closure, weaving

Thomas Tam
Brock University

Poptropica, coming of age, childhood, games

Zo Kopyna
(Organizing Committee)
Concordia University

Worm on a string, toy, childhood, play

Dr. Cate Cleo Alexander
(Organizing Committee)
University of Toronto

Digital memory, Titanic, social media, tragedy

Ruth Webber-Juggoo
(Organizing Committee)
Concordia University

Time, space, embodied memory, self, identity

Nyambura M. Waruingi
Intermedia Artist
Concordia University

Kenya, tea leaves, coffee, ritual, colonialism

TJ MacPherson
(Organizing Committee)
Concordia University

Narratives, ergodic media, fountain pens