Digital

INTERVIEW | Jiaoyang Li

INTERVIEW | Jiaoyang Li

Li Jiaoyang is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. She co-founded Accent Accent and the Accent Sisters Bookstore and currently resides in New York and New Jersey. Her cross-disciplinary works have been presented at various venues, exhibitions, and institutions internationally. Li Jiaoyang has taught creative writing at New York University, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Library, and New York Cultural Salon.

INTERVIEW | Chen Yang

INTERVIEW | Chen Yang

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.

INTERVIEW | Jiayin Song

INTERVIEW | Jiayin Song

Jiayin Song is a background and visual development artist from China, currently based in SoCal. Her inspiration comes from a variety of animated shows and movies that capture a sense of nostalgia, magic, and sentimentality through the visuals. Her work focuses on storytelling, creating magical but believable illustrations that capture similar emotions.

INTERVIEW | Urilic

INTERVIEW | Urilic

Urilic (Nan) is a highly talented graphic designer, visual artist, and UX designer passionate about exploring and re-imagining traditional nomadic culture through her work. She is driven to find innovative ways to bridge cultural divides and bring people together. Her designs are centered around visual appeal, user experience, systems, and technology and are a testament to her expertise in the field.

INTERVIEW | Danni Zheng

INTERVIEW | Danni Zheng

Danni Zheng is a new media artist with a spatial design background, currently based in London. Her work often explored the relationship between physical and virtual space by investigating the status quo and speculating the future in a digital way, such as through 3D animation, immersive experiences, live performances, and creative coding. She aims to inspire audiences through her work.

INTERVIEW | Kang Ma

INTERVIEW | Kang Ma

Kang Ma is a human being born and raised and currently based on the planet Earth. He could also be referred to as a visual artist, currently living in New Haven, CT, and occasionally goes to New York City to teach. Kang believes that artists shouldn't limit themselves to only a few topics and media. However, there are two topics that he has been interested in and explored more than others, translations and connections.

INTERVIEW | Nora Papp

INTERVIEW | Nora Papp

Nora Papp is a Swiss artist born and based in Zürich, Switzerland. Nora Papp combines her interest in human perception and the digital photographic picture with her investigation of the image as an object. She develops her works with the help of common image processing programmes on the computer, where she collects "aesthetic data" through the dissection of the digital image.

INTERVIEW | Ali Fawad

INTERVIEW | Ali Fawad

Ali Fawad is a self-taught digital sculptor/teacher, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Through working with both camera and computer, he creates images that seek to challenge and problematise traditional conceptions of photography, sculpturing and painting. Techniques and understandings from these fields – such as carving, layering of colour or the interplay of light - are used to produce images that capture the spirit of the locality.

INTERVIEW | Leroy Brothers

INTERVIEW | Leroy Brothers

Belgian brothers Nicolas, Gilles, and Gregory are the creative minds behind the art collective Leroy Brothers. Their platform “Witness Your World” is an internet-based workflow that creates user-generated artworks and NFTs, mashed up by automated algorithms and AI. Pictures and messages are submitted by the users and integrated into the creation of the works, functioning as an instant mirror of society.

INTERVIEW | Stepan Ryabchenko

INTERVIEW | Stepan Ryabchenko

Stepan Ryabchenko is a leading Ukrainian media artist and Art Laboratory chief curator. His work spans conceptual architecture, sculpture, and light installations. He focuses on the boundary between the real and virtual world and the new nature of art. Stepan creates his digital universe with its heroes and mythology. Well-known for his monumental prints and video-art installations of non-existent characters, including Computer viruses, Electronic winds, Virtual flowers, etc.

INTERVIEW | NAOWAO

INTERVIEW | NAOWAO

Tokyo-based media artist Nao Sakamoto, known as NAOWAO, With a background in filmmaking, interior architecture, visual effects, and animation. She explores hybrid worlds between the physical and the digital. NAOWAO creates a story that invites the viewer to explore another perspective of the current world. She questions the meaning of authenticity and how our digital life is affecting it.

INTERVIEW | Tomoki Uematsu

INTERVIEW | Tomoki Uematsu

Tomoki Uematsu is a Japanese Artist who interprets the sense of subconsciousness experienced by meditation and qigong as emotional memory memorized in the body and expresses the micro and macro world view from the cells of the body to the universe using the motif of nature in the world of surrealism. All work steps are improvised in order to give an intuitive sense of subconsciousness.

INTERVIEW | Vanlawrenc

INTERVIEW | Vanlawrenc

Contemporary surrealist digital images. Lawrance is an artist, designer, and photographer based in Indonesia. Self-taught, Evan began to explore and turned his intricate feeling into a surreal vision mixed along with his ambiguous perspective on reality. The delusion of the beautiful things inspires his work till the weird moments, represents by the emotional feeling of himself.

INTERVIEW | Yar

INTERVIEW | Yar

Yar creates in a variety of techniques, from analog collage to digital illustration, from motion collages to mixed media graphics. Yar's works are dreamlike and thought-provoking, he experiments with surreal figurative imagery, finding inspiration in southern gothic aesthetics, street culture, turn-of-the-century esoteric narratives, and psychedelia.

INTERVIEW | Philip McKay

INTERVIEW | Philip McKay

A self-taught award-winning digital artist from Liverpool, UK. Inspired by the surrealist Rene Magritte and graphic designer storm Thorgerson, who was known for designing music album covers for pink Floyd. Philip describes the art he creates as idiotic with scenes of unreality and imaginary places that come from his imagination.

INTERVIEW | Abdo Hassan

INTERVIEW | Abdo Hassan

Abdo Hassan is a Visual artist, based in Cairo, Egypt. Specialized in digital visual arts, digital collages, and mixed media, Abdo hassan’s collages images with artistic vision following no rules, making artworks with wild colors and surreal concepts. This expression has no boundaries, and this is the freedom he finds in the surreal and collage arts.

INTERVIEW | Ale Shack

INTERVIEW | Ale Shack

Every time Ale takes a sheet and ink; she feels the task of portraying the soul, feelings, fears, and desires of a person, a situation, or a memory. Her work is based on details: "Everything is composed of small things that together create great wonders." Therefore, in her work has a purpose, many times, some details will be invisible to the eye, but that contribute significantly to her work.