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David Cecchetto is an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. candidate in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought at the University of Victoria (Canada). David's artistic work has been presented in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Russia, and his recent research publications include "vagrant(ana)music: Three (four) plateaus of a contingent music" (Radical Musicology, 2007), "Ethical and Activist Considerations of the Technological Artwork" in Transdisciplinary Digital Art (Springer, 2008) and "Sounding the Hyperlink: Skewed Remote Musical Performance and the Virtual Subject" (Mosaic Journal, 2009). See www.davidcecchetto.netNancy Cuthbert teaches in the Department of History in Art at the University of Victoria (Canada), where she is a doctoral candidate. Her current research, on the modernist fountain sculptures of Japanese-American artist George Tsutakawa (1910-1997), is focused on interrelationships between post-war public sculpture, architecture and urbanism. Her essay, "Westall's Peasants: British Identity and the Crisis of Nation in 1799," is included in the forthcoming anthology Us and Them: Perceptions, Depictions and Descriptions of Celts, edited by Pamela O'Neill, Tony Earls and Julianna Grigg.Julie Lassonde works independently in the areas of physical theatre improvisation, performance art, feminist law and translation. Her publications include "Performing Law" (International Journal of the Arts in Society, 2006). In 2007, she received an Innovative Electronic Theses and Dissertations Award in Uppsala, Sweden for her interdisciplinary Master's thesis in law and visual arts. She has been on the Board of Directors of InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Toronto, Canada since 2006.Dylan Robinson teaches courses in the Music Department at the University of Victoria (Canada) and is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre at the University of Sussex, UK. His publications include "Distracting Music" (Musicological Explorations, September 2008) and "Collaboratively Knowing Music" in Ways of Knowing: (Un)Doing Methodologies, Imagining Alternatives in the Humanities, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). His most recent research project is on Representations of First Nations and Indigenous Cultures in Opera.