Renowned for their versatility and innovative use of mixed media, Chen Yang specializes in digital media art, moving images, as well as painting and sculpture installations. Their creative practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach, through which they investigate and articulate the nuanced dialogues between human societies and their habitats.
Xinyu Zhang, also known as DayDay, is a contemporary artist originally from Wuhan, Hubei, China, and currently based in New York. Drawing inspiration from daily observations, existential reflections, and a relentless curiosity to explore diverse materials, Xinyu's art is distinguished by minimalist lines and symbols, continually seeking a delicate balance between design principles and fine art.
Delphine Cuelenaere is driven by curiosity in both subject and method. The technique of woodcarving gives her the opportunity to be surprised by the material. Open-minded departures from the unknown and a radical openness to not knowing what will come are the essence of her artistic process. Slowly and unpredictably, scenes emerge in which voyeur and protagonist, spectator and artist, intertwine.
Jiangshengyu Nova Pan is a moving image and installation artist, currently based in Baltimore (USA). work focuses on human mobility. Working from the perspective of the individual, Pan’s work explores the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks faced by a mobile population through sculptures and videos, appropriating everyday life scenes based on her semi-fictional writings.
Jiaming You is a painter and installation artist based in Chicago. You utilizes found imagery and photos taken by themselves to construct scenes of bodies in non-existent scenarios as an attempt to critique the limiting nature of social norms in depicting individuality and uses their experience and positionality as a non-binary immigrant as a source of knowledge and site of exploration to the confines of social norms and the distribution of power.
Wen Liu is a Chinese-born artist and interaction designer currently based in Beijing, China. With over a decade of experience in the United States and Europe, she brings a diverse cultural perspective to her practice. Wen's artistic journey revolves around exploring connections between individuals, nature, and environments, through sculpture, painting, and installation.
Ole Tersløse is a Danish artist. The artist deliberately positions himself in a realm of ambiguity, rendering his work difficult to categorize. This ambiguity partly arises from Tersløse's technique. He crafts the majority of image elements from scratch using 3D computer programs also employed in gaming and film visual effects. In these programs, he can manipulate the illusion to his liking, resulting in images that are simultaneously realistic and alienating.
Renowned for their versatility and innovative use of mixed media, Chen Yang specializes in digital media art, moving images, as well as painting and sculpture installations. Their creative practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach, through which they investigate and articulate the nuanced dialogues between human societies and their habitats.
Yukang Tao is an interdisciplinary artist who works in the fields of electronic arts, animation, video, and performance. While all of his artwork alludes to the concept of gender and observes the relationship between technology and humanity, it also encompasses themes such as surveillance and self-absorption of society in media. Art and technology, virtual and accurate, the boundaries begin to blur and combine to form a new utopia.
Eunju Park is a Korean multidisciplinary designer and artist who specializes in 3D, motion graphics and speculative design, currently based in the Netherlands. In her artistic practices, she attempts to reflect the current phenomena that are caused by and deeply related to humans, such as the environmental crisis. Her works serve to captivate by storytelling through mesmerizing graphic images, questioning the present, and imagining the future.
Shuwan (b.1994) is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. She is the co-founder of the :iidrr Gallery, located in New York. Her work explores the bridge between physical and digital spaces, objects, and experiences. She uses digital data from an archive of glitched images to make new photographs and sculptures with modeling software and machine learning to explore the vision of the future.
Xuechen Chen, a dynamic architect and visionary visual artist, was born in China and is currently based in New York. Central to her work is the concept of layering, where elements like perspective, emotion, and media converge to create entirely new forms of digital art. Xuechen's belief in the power of layering leads to innovative, emotionally resonant creations.
Esther Tang is an illustrator and designer based in New York City. Her approach involves seamlessly blending traditional drawing techniques with modern computer-aided methods to craft her pieces. As an illustrator, she thinks that her value resides in expressing her opinions and presenting issues through her work, inspiring her audience, and igniting discussions.
Jiang Geping is a senior concept designer, illustrator, comic artist, and lecturer based in China. The artist questions whether robots should have the same rights as humans and what that would mean for our society. The series depicts robots with human-like features, raising the question of how we define humanity and where we draw the line between humans and machines.
Known for her immersive and evocative media installations, Jiayu Liu is a media artist based in Beijing. Jiayu's artwork often recreates and augments the natural world and focuses on relationships between humans, nature, and the lived environment, exploring human behavior and response. Her latest project, Streaming Stillness, has been presented at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 for the China Pavilion.
Asmae Mouayn, alias ‘Asmyn’, is a Moroccan fractal artist based in Marrakesh. Her artwork attempts to demonstrate that science and art go hand in hand and that equations can be set up to an artistic visualization. By using mathematical formulas, she creates unique fractal art pieces. She wants to arouse the public’s curiosity and push people to imagine the narratives and stories behind every fractal.
Paria Peyravi is an illustrator and designer from Iran. When a story comes to an end, the storytelling begins. For a storyteller, it is only the beginning of imagination, exploration, and ideation. A new project is a new chance to discover an inner voice and the world outside. A new story is a chance to create an intersection of words, imagination, and perception.
Elaine B. Chao is a traditional-digital hybrid artist working in Queens, NY. Expanding on traditional techniques, she first composes paintings on canvas or paper using acrylic, oil, and other mixed media. She then imports the paintings into image manipulation programs to blend, apply filters, and run actions. The final digital work is printed or uploaded to an AR app for display.
Marco Lando's work is influenced by his New York theatre background. Combining existential plot lines, dramatic lighting, and surrealist stage design, the otherworldly mise-en-scenes he creates operate on a visceral, symbolic level. His latest series, the post-apocalyptic realm of Alchemy, evokes a timeless spiritual abyss where atonement and purification seem forever out of reach.
Patricia Rabbiosi is a composer, sound architect and visual artist from Argentina. She explores sound architecture and objects as source material in her music. Her visual work is self-taught, exploring different techniques from real images, which are then digitally processed. Her other works include performances and interventions with social themes.
Taweechob Pinthong is an artist and illustrator based in Bangkok. His illustration translates the unwavering love you feel for all living things without question, that you extend knowingly without expectations for anything in return. His style and technique are very dynamic because he is still in the process of experimenting. His body of work based on philosophy seeks to understand fundamental truths.
Galla is the artistic pseudonym of Alessandro Marcus Ferreira, a crypto artist, enthusiast of the decentralized world, and the "head" behind CryptoArtCulture. Galla's creative process is triggered by the availability and alignment of a human, a computer, the internet, blockchain, and electricity. The result is a digital art that finds the decentralized platforms the perfect setting for its diffusion and a disruptive business angle in NFTs.
The artist behind XCPinata (Kevin Ferreira) is one of the first artists to combine art and blockchain, having worked on Bitcoin, NFTs, and blockchain (Crypto Art) projects since 2014. Through a history of trying to create "digital originals" and working with cutting-edge technology, the artist brings awareness to the perceived value in the cryptographic tokens in and of themselves.
Serena Marija is a multidisciplinary artist and experimental filmmaker based in Buckinghamshire, England. Her surreal films and works of art draw purely from real-life experiences, her inner memory museum, imagination, and dreams. Apart from being immersed in a dreamy process of creation, Serena is in the final year of her MA Creative Business degree at the National Film & Television School.
Liu Gongjie is a designer and visual artist based in London. His latest project, Emotionally Harmonious Cyborg Future, is a speculative design work. It explores a possible future in the form of a dance drama, where human beings take the initiative to transform themselves into a cyborg that combines the physical and mechanical and can perceive the emotions of others directly.
