Justin Love is an entrepreneur and multimedia artist based in Victoria, BC, Canada. Justin is a partner and President at Limbic Media – a company that specializes in real-time, interactive media control technologies. Justin’s work has been featured in conferences, performances and galleries in Canada, Switzerland, USA, China, and Mexico and Turkey. Recent projects include: Exploding, Plastic & Inevitable Redux (large-scale collaborative multimedia performance), Grand Theft Bicycle (video game art), Praystation (interactive multimedia installation), Borealis (interactive public art), and running the G++ interactive media gallery.

Manj Benning received his Masters of Applied Science from the University of Victoria in 2007 in Electrical Engineering with a focus on computer music and interactive technology. Manjinder has collaborated with dancers, musicians, engineers and visual artists to realize performances in interactive art. Under his arsenal are technologies such as voice recognition, computer vision/audition, machine learning, wearable sensors, and musical robotics.

Jorge Aranda received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2010, after studying how teams of software professionals work together. In his work he focuses on the transfer of research results into practical applications, and has consulted on fields such as Agile development practices, knowledge management, social network analysis, organization design, machine learning, and project evaluation. Jorge also has over five years of experience developing and managing software projects.

Gabrielle Odowichuk is an electrical engineer and recent graduate from the University of Victoria. During her master’s degree, her research focused on the use of human motion and gesture to control sound and music. Her work has been presented at many international conferences in the field of computer music and multimedia signal processing (ICMC 2011, ICMC 2012, NIME 2012, and MMSP 2012). Gabrielle now works as a project engineer at Limbic Media, where she collaborates with artists and musicians on interactive installations and performances.

Chris Gat joined Limbic Media in May of 2014. In 2011, he completed a Masters Degree at the University of Victoria. His thesis focused on the feasibility of using computer vision techniques to aid in the image registration process of historic repeat photography for the Mountain Legacy Project (www.mountainlegacy.ca). When Chris isn’t trying to create beautiful software, you can find him exploring the forests, mountains, and coasts of Vancouver Island. His artistic expression comes in the form of photography, documenting the people, nature, and places he’s come across in his personal website, www.thelittlepicture.ca .

Simon Pearson received a B.Eng. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada in 2003.  From 2003-2008 he worked as a hardware and systems designer at JASCO Research Ltd. designing underwater sensor and acoustic systems.  From 2008-2015 he worked as a senior software designer for Loud Technologies Inc. designing consumer and professional audio products including the award winning Martin Audio MLA and EAW Anya line array speaker systems.  His areas of interest include distributed systems, Linux kernel programming, and IoT product development.

Steve Bjornson graduated in 2017 from the University of Victoria with an M.Sc. in a combined program between the faculties of Computer Science and Visual Arts. His research specialties include data science and machine learning techniques for music information retrieval (MIR). He also has years of embedded system development experience under his belt. His interests include interactive digital media and techno. When he’s not coding, you can find him drinking coffee, riding his bike, or spinning records.