Zhi-Jiang Shan is an interior designer known for his cross-cultural design sensibility and poetic spatial expression. He often draws inspiration from classical Chinese landscapes, local craftsmanship, and symbolic spatial rituals, transforming them into immersive environments that resonate with modern life. His projects are not only functional but emotionally engaging.
Doug Winter is a semi-sighted North American conceptual photographic artist and filmmaker whose artworks focus on the preoccupation of light and non-figurative forms. Doug's non-representational photographs of conventional objects and their environments are derived from the human body's resilience to adapt and accommodate a physical disability and emotional trauma.
Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.
Yixuan Nie is a rising multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in New York, whose work has been celebrated for its bold narrative power and innovative vision. Originally from Beijing, she draws profound inspiration from the layered textures of hutong life, infusing them with global relevance and artistic depth. She also works across styling, printmaking, and illustration.
Can Cui, originally from Beijing and currently based in New York, is known for her sculptural silhouettes and thoughtful explorations of material. Her work combines technical precision with conceptual depth, often engaging with themes of identity, transformation, and emotional texture. Can continues to challenge conventional structures and explore the expressive possibilities of fashion.
Ziggy Yang is a Chinese installation and new media artist based in New York. His practice explores the complex dialogue between human emotions, cultural conditioning, and technology, positioning technology as both an interactive medium and a conceptual framework. Yang employs mechanical systems, programmable physical computing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic materials.
Lili Shen is a London-based artist working at the intersection of interaction design, data visualisation, and embodied experience. Her practice centres on the body, both physical and emotional, as shaped by technology. Exploring themes of sleep, digital tracking, and exercise in immersive environments, Shen transforms physiological data into visual and sonic narratives.
Zhiqiang Li (b. 1993) is a multimedia artist and educator. Li’s practice-based research focuses on employing digital technologies, such as facial recognition and the Internet of Things, to create digital artworks that reanimate and reinterpret cultural heritage. He investigates the dynamic relationship between digital art and cultural heritage, seeking to dissolve the boundaries between them.
Zhuyang Liu is a trans-media artist whose practice spans sound, performance, film, moving images, writing, and installation. Their work interrogates identity, labour, technocracy, and the body through immersive, often surreal narratives. Zhuyang’s hybrid works challenge perception, collapsing reality and fiction into multisensory experiences that question how we live, relate, and imagine.
Halim Madi is a programmer, poet, and modern-day storyteller born in Beirut, Lebanon, who now lives and works across San Francisco, Beirut, and Paris. Halim explores migrant, queer, and cyborg consciousnesses, weaving new understandings from the collisions of disparate worldscapes. Their work collects and performs stories of border-crossing bodies that unlock the imagination of new futures.
Rose Ansari is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and computational media researcher. Her research-based art practice explores cyborg and post-human theories, sensory distortion, and telecommunication through laboratory-driven processes. She creates immersive environments that blend technology, cognitive science, and poetic expression.
Marcus Brown is a sculptor, painter, inventor, musician, and educator. Brown developed a form of painting called Electro-sonic Painting in which the artist paints with sound/data-producing instruments. HIs mission is to create artworks that educate the public about important issues while transcending both media and societal boundaries.
Hanqi Li is a practice-based media artist based between London (UK) and Shenzhen (CN). Her work primarily engages with interactive art, narrative films, generative art, and 3D rendering, while her research explores media archaeology, speculative fiction, and the intricate relationship between nature and technology, with a focus on environmental issues.
Yuwen Huang is a Chinese media artist based in San Francisco, USA. Yuwen works across video, internet, installation, GAN-generated images and videos, blockchain, and creative writing. Through the lens of technology, her art investigates the human relationship with society, the environment, and culture, exploring how these connections have been shaped by technology over time.
David Thomas Smith is a visual artist who specializes in Post- Photographic Processes. His work interrogates the evolving relationship between technology, imagery, and the human experience. Engaging with Post-Photographic Processes, his practice explores how the digital realm reshapes our perception of reality, history, and memory.
Xingyu Huang is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, known for her innovative work in sculpture, installation, and video. Her practice explores spatial dynamics and sensory perception, using these elements to delve into themes of human connection, isolation, and environmental impact. Huang creates immersive environments that reflect on the relationships between humans and non-humans.
Originally from Shanghai and now based in London, Flo Yuting Zhu navigates the shifting boundaries between the 'witnessing' and the 'witnessed'. Her works challenge the audience's perception by recontextualising everyday digital forms such as vlogs, livestreams, and horror trail cams. She creates a language that both appropriates and reinterprets the conventions of mass media.
Alice Zakharenko is a London-based interdisciplinary artist, who works in print media, papermaking, painting and drawing. Exploring the temporal qualities of repetition and difference, Zakharenko’s bodies of work explore memory, movement, rhythm, time and identity. She investigates how individuals measure time through their bodies and in the environment without relying on technologies.
Yasaman Aghili, the founder of YDESIGNSTUDIO, is an Iranian-Canadian Multimedia Artist/Designer who works at the intersection of Art, science, technology, and visual media/culture. As a multimedia artist, she uses a diverse range of mediums and techniques to blend different aesthetics for visual storytelling and express to blend different aesthetics for visual storytelling and expression.
Xiangyu Wang is a London-based digital media artist passionate about how to create poetic or interesting interactive installations, moving images, and performance art by new technologies. He focuses on the issues of the relationship between humans and nature and the impact of technology on the future to inspire the audience to reflect on the themes explored in his work.
Andy Newmerge seamlessly blends traditional iconography with modern technology through his innovative use of reverse perspective. Drawing from ancient techniques, Newmerge reinterprets spatial dynamics within 3D digital art, challenging conventional visual norms. This method allows him to create thought-provoking compositions that bridge historical and contemporary art.
Gumi Guihan Lu is an interdisciplinary artist, originally from Chongqing, China, and now based in New Jersey, USA. She works at the intersection of technology, mythology, art, and culture. Her creative philosophy stems from a dual exploration of world order and personal memory, aiming to build a network of contrasts that are far removed from reality yet capable of explaining it.
FEYU (Yu Li) is a Chinese multimedia artist and filmmaker based in London, known for creating alternative realities and fantasies using emerging technologies. Her practice researches emotional introspection, examining how technology shapes spatial, philosophical, and cultural infrastructures. She focuses on themes like agency, shame/desire, and cultural identities in digital landscapes.
