[Master’s in Applied Computer Science]
Amarta is a Full Stack Developer. With a strong foundation in both front-end and back-end technologies, she is dedicated to creating seamless user experiences and robust applications. Her academic journey fuels her passion for innovative software solutions and highlights her commitment to advancing the field of computer science. Amarta’s current projects focus on integrating emerging technologies with practical applications, exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on software development. She aspires to contribute to the evolution of tech through her work and research.

Hazel Dreslinski is a percussionist and undergraduate student pursuing a specialization in music composition at Concordia University. A white-settler of Polish descent, they grew up just outside Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, ON and attended Trent University to study culture and communications before relocating to Tiohtià:ke/Montreal in 2023. They are particularly interested in exploring the diverse roles of rhythm in various cultural milieux, as well as the intersection of AI and music.

Sabrina Smith (she/her) is originally from Bdeóta Othúŋwe/Gakaabikaang/Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a white-settler of Irish and Scottish-Gaelic descent. Sabrina has a BA in Art History from Mount Holyoke College (2017) and an MA in Art History from Concordia University (2023). Her graduate thesis under Dr. John Povtin critically examined the exhibition, Le monde en tête (Lyon, 2019 and Montreal, 2022), and the Musée des Confluences’ curatorial politics and representation of Indigenous art history. Smith’s other works include a group exhibition, Confronting the Anthropocene: Theory, Activism, Art, exploring posthuman feminist phenomenology and the biotic and abiotic elements of ourselves. Sabrina joins the Abundant Intelligences program as Coordinator North, bringing her interest in phenomenology including AI phenomenology and the phenomenology of senses as bodily and cultural phenomena to the team.

Ceyda Yolgormez is a Postdoc at the Indigenous Futures Research Cluster, working in the Abundant Intelligences Research Program. Her PhD work brought together social theory and interactive technologies, such as large machine learning models or social robots, to consider how our conceptions of the social are changing. Her PhD dissertation proposes a framework for a sociology of machines that reimagines human-machine relations. Her research looks at playful and creative engagements with machines as a site to explore and experiment with human machine socialities, and is interested in methodologies that reveal and trouble the common-sensical way in which we understand such relations.