Saturday, November 14th, 2020

Faiyaz Jafri Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away, everything turns rainbow, rainbow, and rainbow. Faiyaz Jafri is appropriately subversive, and a postmodernist. His artificial plastic perfect digital aesthetic is occasionally misunderstood. It is all good. He never set out to make Disneyfied art that can match the couch. His work is pop-surreal, post-everything, memetic, and hyper-unreal, infused with Jungian neo-archetypes, it is so different, so appealing.

R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. His work is a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography - just as a long camera exposure fuses motion into a single image, his projects reveal the average sonority, visual language, and vocabulary in music, film, text, or cultural information. An active visual and musical collaborator, DuBois is the co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data developed by San Francisco-based software company Cycling'74. DuBois has lived for the last twenty-seven years in New York City. He co-directs the academic program in Integrated Digital Media at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and is on the Board of Directors of the ISSUE Project Room and Eyebeam. His records are available on Caipirinha/Sire, Liquid Sky, C74, and Cantaloupe Music. His artwork is represented by bitforms gallery in New York City.

Sean Capone is a Brooklyn-based video artist who has worked across many different aspects of the digital animation field for over twenty years. Sean’s current practice is focused on animation art and moving-image based public art installation, and he has presented works internationally in numerous festivals, museums, galleries and urban screen environments. He holds a MFA in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent works include an original commission for Night Lights Denver and the Supernova Digital Animation Festival, the SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah GA), Penn State University, and 150 Media Stream (Chicago IL). He co-curated and exhibited in the group show Apocalyptic Screensavers at 5-50 Gallery (Long Island City, Queens). Sean also works as a writer and curator on subjects related to art practice, animation, and moving image culture. His interviews appear regularly in BOMB Magazine. He curated the online video program ToonPunkx for Outpost Artists Resource (Queens NY) which will air online in October.

Snow Yunxue Fu is a New York-based International New Media Artist, Curator, and Assistant Arts Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She obtained an MFA degree in studio art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. Fu’s artwork has been shown internationally including New York Gallery of Chinese Art, Ars Electronica, Venice Architecture Biennale, Pioneer Works, Sedition, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Current Museum of Art, Thoma Art House, The Wrong Biennale, and etc. Her work has been collected by institutions such as the Currents Museum in New York, and she remains the youngest artist collected by the National Art Museum of China. Her interviews and reviews have been covered in The New York Times, the Boston Globe, Guangzhou Today’s Focus in China, and etc.

Surabhi Saraf is a media artist, composer, organizer and founder of Centre for Emotional Materiality. Her practice explores our complex relationship with technology using embodiment as a tool, and the body as a site for transformation. Surabhi is the recipient of the Eureka Fellowship Award (2015) by the Fleishhacker Foundation, the Djerassi Resident Artist Award (2012) and the Artist + Process + Ideas (2016) Residency at Mills College Art Museum. Surabhi has shown her videos and performed at museums and festivals internationally. She was 2019 Technology Resident at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn and is a 2020 resident at Harvestworks, New York.

Shaghayegh Cyrous is Iranian-American multimedia and social practice artist and curator based in the bay area. She creates poetic installations and interactive performances focusing on cross-cultural communication and translation strategies, addressing predicaments of estrangement and distance caused by political and cultural power dynamics. Cyrous received her BA in Visual Arts from Science and Culture University in Tehran and her MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts. She has exhibited and performed internationally at venues including the Tehran MOCA, Asian Art Museum, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago, British Museum in London, and Anchorage Museum in Alaska.

Sherie Weldon “For over twenty years I have worked within the filmmaking and photography industry, traveling the United States and Cuba to document the impacts of place on social justice, racial politics, and identity. Over the course of my career, I began to question the relations between my photography and their digital ties to place. How can environmental and spatial data affect the physical realities of place and memory? How can data address trauma, misuses of justice, to remap and reorient these events?”
Sherie L. Weldon (born 1962, Seattle, WA) is a Black Queer Female multidisciplinary artist. She holds a BFA from The School of Visual Arts, Masters in Arts Education from The City College of New York and an MFA from Pratt University

Noth (Qinyuan) Liu is a multimedia artist and designer living in Brooklyn currently. In May 2020, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute. She finished her undergraduate degree in China Academy of Fine Arts in 2018, and the major was digital display design. She received the Silver Braids and Pratt Circle Awards at Pratt Institute in May 2020. She participated in the “EVO.DVO.REVO” at the group exhibition CYFEST-12: International Media Art Festival in December 2018, which had been shown in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY and Petersburg, Russian on November 2019. She had also been a guest speaker/visiting artist to the “Remixing Reality” class at the Department of Integrated Digital Media at New York University in February 2020. She is also involved in the publication: Artists in the time of Coronavirus, an ongoing virtual exhibition, Part 43. Published by Artblog on Jun 19, 2020.