The Circle Project was created in 2019 by filmmaker Brenda Longfellow and restorative justice advocate Brenda Morrison, as an evolving collaboration of artists and people with lived experience of incarceration dedicated to producing provocative art together. We are inspired by Indigenous modalities of community-based justice and are committed to imagining alternatives to the violence and dehumanization of carceral systems and logics. Broadly accessible online and disseminated through multiple platforms, our art projects use imagination, storytelling, performance and play to generate rich and intimate encounters with the complex and layered experience of people with lived experience of incarceration.

Jonathan Middleton is an artist, curator, and publisher working between Vancouver and Toronto. His work has been exhibited, screened, and performed at OHCE-ECHO, VIVO Media Arts, Plaza Projects, Dazibao, Contemporary Art Gallery, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver International Film Festival, InsideOut, Chicago International Film Festival, the No Soul For Sale Festival (at Tate Modern), and Slakthusateljéerna (Stockholm). Middleton has an extensive history working in artists’ organizations, serving in curatorial and directorial roles at Western Front, Or Gallery, Art Metropole, and the Bodgers’ and Kludgers’ Cooperative Art Parlour, among others. He is in the second year of his MFA at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts. 

Adrien Tinchi is a pluri-disciplinary artist. His practice explores how stories, images, gestures, and traces circulate, transform, and persist through time. In 2020, he co-founded The Left Place The Right Space, an artist-run space and publishing platform. Alongside his artistic work, he develops interdisciplinary projects involving artists, scientists, educators, researchers, and public audiences through exhibitions, workshops, publications, and collective forms of inquiry.

His work has been presented at the CAPC, Bordeaux (2024, 2025); POUSH, Aubervilliers (2024); Turbulence, Marseille (2023); The Right Space, Reims (2023); DOC!, Paris (2019); and the Mulhouse Photography Biennial (2018). He has also performed at the CAPC, Bordeaux (2024), Galerie gb Agency, Paris (2023), and the Centre d’art contemporain La Traverse, Alfortville (2019). He has participated in residencies at IASPIS Stockholm (2026), the International Cultural Center of Cerisy-la-Salle (2025), Cosmos, Sciences and Societies (formerly the Paris Center for Cosmological Physics), Paris (2022), as well as several supported by the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (2021–2022). Tinchi lives and works in Paris, France.

Milka Njoroge is a writer and researcher based in Burbaby. Milka's work examines the flow of still and moving images and their impact on surveillance, algorithmic narratives an border regimes. Milka is the Ruth Wynn Wood Ward Jr Chair and Assistant Professor in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies.

Helena Krobath is a SSHRC-funded PhD student at SFU School of Communication, with practices in multi-media arts that especially explore sound, place, and narrative interaction. They/s/he studies public world-building and shared futures, fascism in Canada, and game theory ideologies. Previous projects include audio/print-guided experiences, soundwalks, mentorship programs, web/installation, and radio arts. Helena consults with organizations on contemporary concerns of misinformation, radicalization, and AI influences; designs audio for storytelling productions; and is currently a MITACS intern with an SFU-TRAC partnership exploring imminent and emerging impacts of AI on tenancy and housing rentals.