Okanagan Hover is a large-scale landscape diorama depicting the area surrounding Kelowna at several different times past, present and future. The entire diorama moves relative to viewers, giving the impression that they are flying slowly over the landscape. Buis uses various model-making techniques, electronic and mechanical equipment, video and analog projections to portray a seamless landscape. This installation examines the subjective and imprecise nature of perception through hand-crafted virtual reality.

Doug Buis was born in London, Ont., and earned an MFA at York University in Toronto. He currently lives in Kamloops where he is a professor in the visual arts department at Thompson Rivers University. He has exhibited across Canada, the United States, Holland, Belgium and Korea. He has also curated several exhibitions in Canada, Europe and the United States.

Dufaux uses the photographic image as an imprint, a two-dimensional flattened-out transfer of a three dimensional reading of spatial reality. His work reveals the visual substance of the human body - face and trunk -much like a cartographic transcription through his invention, a neon-lit motorized image-recording device, the PdVR_0. This motorized recording device captures the photographic image of a person on a 360-degree circumference in 36 digital clips, which are subsequently assembled in one panoptic view. The raw, almost clinical gaze of the panoptic image captures an image of the self that eludes the traditional frontal standpoint of the camera and eliminates classic criteria of what is considered photogenic.

Pascal Dufaux lives in Montreal where he earned a BFA from Concordia University. He has exhibited in Montréal, Switzerland, Finland and Mexico.

Jason Baerg will work with the local Indigenous community to learn about the people and customs of the Syilx nation while participating in a visiting-artist-in-residency project as part of The Intervening City. He will develop an exhibition that takes inspiration from the medicine wheel - an inclusive ground for all people of the red, yellow, black and white nations.

As a visual artist, Baerg has presented at such institutions as the Walter Philips Gallery in Banff, the Canadian Indian Art Centre in Ottawa, and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Baerg has won numerous awards through the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. He is a founding member of the Metis Artist Collective, one of three official officers of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus for the Creative Rights Alliance, a board member for both the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective and the Independent Media Arts Alliance.