Auriea Harvey is a 3D Artist based in Rome, Italy. She creates sculpture for real-time simulation and 3D printing, blending digital and handmade, the virtual and the real, mirror loops of Antiquity and the Future. Choosing polygons as her material, she explores Baroque forms, mythologies and performative (inter)action with/in simulated environments.

Who controls the images and stories that define the people and cultures of the world?

I use the concepts of identity and community as a way to study and deconstruct, ideas of beauty, value, and reciprocity. Additionally I examine how identity and community form the basis of human interactions and social systems. I scrutinize preconceived notions and stereotypes, and when if ever, they are valid. A key point of reflection is examining how identity is both a performance as well as a set of characteristics. This analysis extends to examining who controls the images and media that define people and cultures globally, in a time that is defined by ease of access to information and user generated and disseminated media. Social and community engagement is therein a crucial element of my work. Both artistic and anthropological research further informs my creative process.

My work is interdisciplinary, using the medium and platform, best suited for each idea. I create photographs, videos, sculptures, performances, and multi-media works, all of which intend to highlight our personal investment in the identities we create for ourselves, and others. I am invested in how those identities impact our understanding and engagement with other people interpersonally and on a societal level, as well as in humanity’s past, present and future.

Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of natural language processing, artificial intelligence, abuse, online harassment, and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning, user research, designing for public good, and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher, she has worked with Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others. Currently, she is a fellow with Ars Electronica AI Lab with the Edinburgh Futures Institute and a visiting fellow with the Weizenbaum Institute looking at labor and systems in AI and platforms. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School, the Mozilla Foundation, Pioneer Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eyebeam, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been featured in the Tate Exchange in Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA PS1, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Slate, Quartz, and the Channels Festival as well as others. Sinders holds a Masters from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Christina is a British-born video artist and media scholar currently with a PhD in Film and Digital Media from UC Santa Cruz. She has publishing her work in the online journal Media Fields, as well as The Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture and has presented at many international media conferences. Christina has exhibited in Europe and across the US, most recently as part of CultureHub’s ReFest 2020 art and technology festival, and at Johansson Projects in Oakland, CA. Her scholarly and artistic work focuses on media history, specifically focusing on the representation of science and technology in popular culture.

I’m a Practice-Based Researcher dealing with the word identity through my experience as an Afro-Caribbean American woman. My practice fluidly utilizes material tools but has included performance lectures, virtual reality, writing, time-based media, photography, physical computing, and installations. I have disseminated my research in London, New York, Chicago, France, and Cyberspace. I also contributed to various peer-reviewed Journals in Europe and New York. I have my MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and I’m finishing up my Ph.D. in Art Research at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. I’m currently an Eyebeam Rapid Response Fellow (Phase 1).

Claudia Hart emerged as part of a generation of 90s intermedia artists in the identity-art context. She still examines issues of identity, now focusing on how technology affects cultural constructions of gender identities and issues of the body, perception, and nature collapsing into technology and then back again. Hart was an early adopter of virtual imaging, using 3D animation to make media installations and projections, then later as they were invented, other forms of VR, AR, and objects using computer-driven production machines, all based on the same computer models. At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she developed a pedagogic program based on this concept - Experimental 3D - the first program dedicated solely to teaching simulations technologies in an art-world context. Hart is also an occasional curator and art historian, focusing on simulations. She lives in New York, works with bitforms gallery there, and is married to the Austrian media artist Kurt Hentschlager.

Siembieda is an Alter Eco-Artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area Siembieda works at the intersection of community, emerging technologies, and the environment. She is also an artist in residence at the University of Santa Cruz Genomics Institute home of the Genome Browser through UCSC's Arts Research Open Lab. Siembieda has an MFA in Digital Media Art at San Jose State University at the CADRE Laboratory for New Media with a focus on green technology and sustainable materials. As the founder of Art Inspector: Saving the Earth by Changing Art, Siembieda has turned this social practice project into a business, acquiring funding from Silicon Valley Energy Watch and working with the City of San Francisco Department of Environment to help artists work healthier and safer. She defines her art at “Alter-Eco Art” bridging Eco-Art practice and New Media at the intersection of environment, technology, and community. Her work has been presented globally including the 01SJ Biennial in the heart of Silicon Valley, the National Gallery in Copenhagen and the Education Center of the National Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Darrin Martin creates video, sculpture, and print-based installations that engage the synesthetic qualities of perception as mediated by both old and new technologies. His videos have screened internationally at festivals and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archive, Impakt Festival, and European Media Art Festival. His installations have exhibited at venues including The Kitchen, Moscow State Vadim Sidur Museum, University of Toronto, Aggregate Space Gallery, Grand Central Art Center and and, most recently, at SOMArts. He is a Professor of Art at University of California, Davis.

David Bayus lives and works in San Francisco, CA. His work is a cross-disciplinary practice centered around experimental film-making with a focus on the dualistic relationship between science and spirituality. He received his MFA from The San Francisco Art Institute in 2010 and is a co-founder of BASEMENT art collective located in San Francisco's Mission District. He has exhibited his work extensively in the Bay Area, most recently at Bass & Reiner, Et Al Etc, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Further afield, his work has been exhibited at Vacancy, Los Angeles; Field Contemporary, Vancouver; and at Material Art Fair, Mexico City. Editions of his work can be found in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Faith Holland is an artist, curator, and educator whose multimedia practice focuses on gender, intimacy, and technology. She has exhibited at venues such as The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), NRW Forum (Düsseldorf), Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder), Human Resources (Los Angeles), and DAM Gallery (Berlin). Her work has been written about in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times UK, Elephant, Hyperallergic, Broadly, and The Observer. She has been a NYFA Fellowship Finalist in Digital/Electronic Art, an artist-in-residence at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and Harvestworks, and a finalist for Fotomuseum Winterthur’s Post-Photography Prototyping Prize. She opened Hard/Soft, her third solo exhibition with TRANSFER, online and offline in 2020.

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.

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo is a mixed media artist whose work focuses on collections, memorialization and the act of leaving one's digital imprint for the next generation. His work takes the form of video sculptures, immersive performances, large scale projections and vending machines that sell human DNA. His work plays upon and questions this modern exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic, an idea which Barcia-Colombo renders visually by “collecting” and preserving human portraits on video.

Gretta Louw is an Australian artist and curator based in Munich, Germany. Working across digital media, textiles, and installation, Louw’s practice explores a broad range of psycho-social and environmental phenomena in relation to advancing technologies. Her work has been exhibited widely—including at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia (AU), Zuccaire Gallery (US), Kunstmuseum Solothurn (CH), Watermans London (UK), and Villa Merkel (DE). Louw has been recognised with a number of awards including most recently the Visual Arts Prize Munich and an Australia Council career development grant. Her work has been covered by Motherboard, Hyperallergic, AQNB, and Kunstforum, amongst others.

Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist working with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. His work is included in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. His collaborative projects include Question Bridge: Black Males, In Search Of The Truth (The Truth Booth), Wide Awakes and For Freedoms, an artist-run initiative for art and civic engagement. Thomas is also a recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2018), Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), the AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize (2017), the Soros Equality Fellowship (2017), and is a member of the New York City Public Design Commission.

Jakob Kudsk Steensen is a Danish artist based in New York City. He is interested in how imagination, technology and ecology are intertwined. In a practice that emphasizes fieldwork and collaboration, Steensen develops immersive installations that invite visitors to new ecological realities. His projects culminate as virtual and sensory simulations of radical ecological scenarios. The main collaborators include composer and musical director of the Philip Glass Ensemble Michael Riesman, ornithologist and author Dr. Douglas H. Pratt, architect Sir David Adjaye OBE RA, Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Natural History Museum London, among others.

Jamel Mims (b. 1986) aka Jam No Peanut is a bilingual rapper, multimedia artist and revolutionary. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study hip hop in China in 2008, he frequently returns to China to perform. and switches between English and chinese in politically charged verses over globally-sourced, experimental beats. Recently awarded the USC Annenberg Civic Media Fellowship supported by Macarthur Foundation, and recognized as a “Protest Leader Taking On The Establishment” by the New York Times, his work has been featured in i_D, Variety, VICE, The Nation and more.

James X Patterson (COMPUTR X J∆MØ). Recently graduated from San Francisco Art Institute with a Masters of Fine Arts. Born and raised in Roanoke, VA.

Jenifer K Wofford is a San Francisco-based artist whose work plays with notions of hybridity, authenticity and global culture, often with a humorous bent. She is also 1/3 of the Filipina American artist trio M.O.B. Her work has been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum, OMCA, YBCA, SJMA, Southern Exposure, Kearny Street Workshop, Wing Luke Museum (Seattle), DePaul Museum (Chicago), Silverlens Galleries (Philippines), and Osage Gallery (Hong Kong). Wofford is a 2017 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Her other awards include the Eureka Fellowship, the Murphy Fellowship, and grants from SFAC, Art Matters, and CCI.

Laura Gillmore is a San Francisco based artist and product designer. She recently received an MFA in Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts in 2018. She typically makes videos and sculptures that engage with topics of social media, consumerism, and their engagements with one another. Fascinated with the construction of identity, she uses a persona in her work to reflect the anxiety and self-obsession experienced within online consumer​space.

Laura Hyunjhee Kim is a multimedia artist who reimagines on/offline (non)human interactions and feelosophical experiences of the body. Thinking through making, she performs moments of incomprehension: when language loses its coherence, necessitates absurd leaps in logic, and reroutes into intuitive and improvisational sense-making forms of expression. Kim received the inaugural ArtSlant Award in New Media (2013) and was an artist-in-residence at the Internet Archive (2017). In 2020, she received the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award and the Black Cube Video Art Award. Kim is the author of Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs (The Accomplices / Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2019).

Laura Splan mines the materiality biotechnology for poetic subjectivities. Her interdisciplinary artworks have been commissioned by The Centers for Disease Control Foundation and exhibited at the Museum of Arts & Design and Beall Center for Art + Technology. Her work is represented in the collections of the Thoma Art Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Her research and residencies have been supported by the Jerome Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She’s been a lecturer at Stanford University teaching creative technology courses including “Embodied Interfaces” and “Data as Material”. She is a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator.

Leila Weefur (She/They/He) is a trans-gender-noncomforming artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Through video and installation they examine the performativity intrinsic to systems of belonging present in our lived experiences. The work brings together concepts of the sensorial memory, abject Blackness, hyper surveillance, and the erotic.

Weefur is a recipient of the Hung Liu award, the Murphy & Cadogan award, and the Walter & Elise Haas Creative Work Fund. Weefur has worked with local and national institutions including McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, SFMOMA, The Wattis Institute, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York. Their writing has been published by Sming Sming Books and Objects, Baest Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, and more.

Weefur is a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and California College of the Arts. They are a member of the curatorial film collective, The Black Aesthetic.

Liss LaFleur is an interdisciplinary artist currently based out of Texas. Combining video, performance, and installation, her projects address issues of sexism, queer culture, protest, and telepresence. She is the recipient of a John F. Kennedy Citizen Artist Fellowship (2020-21), and an Immersive Scholar grant awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2018). Notable representations of her work include the TATE (London); the Reykjavik Art Museum (Iceland); Contemporary Art Museum (Houston); and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea). Liss is a Professor of New Media Art at the University of North Texas and is represented by Galleri Urbane.

Lorna Mills has actively exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions since the early 1990's. Her practice has included obsessive Ilfochrome printing, obsessive super 8 film & video, and obsessive on-line animated GIFs incorporated into restrained off-line installation work. Recent exhibitions include “Dreamlands” at the Whitney Museum, NY, “Wetland” at the Museum of the Moving Image, NY and “The Great Code” at Transfer Gallery, NY. For the month of March, 2016, her work “Mountain Time/Light” was displayed on 45 Jumbo monitors in Times Square,NYC, part of the Midnight Moment program curated by Times Square Arts. Lorna Mills is represented by Transfer Gallery in L.A., Ellephant in Montreal and DAM Gallery in Berlin.

Lynn Marie Kirby works in a variety of time-based forms, including film, public installations and performance, engaging our relationship to place, often with text, often with collaborators. Lately Lynn has performed site interventions outside and alongside established art systems enlarging the idea of the exhibition and its relation to the public. James Kirby Rogers is a choreographer and dancer with the Kansas City Ballet. James began his dance training in San Francisco and graduated from the Houston Ballet Academy as a member of HB2 in 2016. James has performed a variety of works both classical and contemporary. Notable roles include Siegfried in Swan Lake, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, as well as lead roles in works by William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, and Twyla Tharp.

Mads Lynnerup’s practice incorporates video, performance, sculpture, and installation. Lynnerup’s work is influenced by societal and economic issues and is a commentary on its own playful manner on everyday experiences as well as tendencies and trends within the art world.

Lynnerup received an MFA from Columbia University in New York City and a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Lynnerup has an extensive national and international exhibition record including commissions and exhibitions at Creative Time, PS.1, MTV, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; The Mori Art Museum; Tokyo; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany to mention a few. He is a Eureka Fellowship recipient as well as an Artadia, and Toby Devan Lewis Award winner. In addition, he is currently the chair of the New Genres program and an assistant professor at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Mark Amerika’s solo exhibitions have taken place at the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and at gallery 9 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. His comprehensive retrospective exhibition entitled UNREALTIME was held at The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece. His net art work, Museum of Glitch Aesthetics, was commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices in conjunction with the London 2012 Olympics and various curators remixed the online components for exhibitions in Manchester, London and Preston. In 2017, his exhibition "GlitchMix: not an error" premiered at Estudio Figueroa-Vives and the Norwegian Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Amerika's seminal work of net art, GRAMMATRON, was a selection for the 2000 Whitney Biennial of American Art.

Mark Klink has swept floors, been a factory hand, an athlete, a minor government official, a life guard, a computer programmer, and a traditional print maker. For twenty years he taught children and other educators how to use computers. But the thing he likes best (beside family) is making curious pictures.

Martina Menegon (Italy, 1988) is an artist working with interactive and extended reality art.
In her works, Martina creates intimate and complex assemblages of physical and virtual elements that explore the contemporary self and its synthetic corporeality. She experiments with the uncanny and the grotesque—including the self, the body, and the dialogue between the physical and virtual realities—to create disorienting virtual experiences. Martina is a University Assistant and Lecturer at the department of Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she teaches “Digital Design and Virtuality.” She also teaches multimedia tools for interactive arts at the IUAV University in Venice (MA Digital Exhibit, BA Multimedia Arts) together with Klaus Obermaier and Stefano D’Alessio. She is currently Head of Extended Reality and Curator at “Area for Virtual Art,” a platform for immersive experiences and get-togethers. She is also part of the curatorial team of the new media art festival of Vienna, CIVA Festival. Martina Menegon currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

Mary Flanagan is an artist, author and game designer with works exhibited at museums around the world such as The Whitney Museum, The Guggenheim, Tate Britain, and museums in Spain, New Zealand, South Korea, China and Australia. In 2018, Flanagan won the Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica in the Interactive art+. Flanagan was awarded an honorary PhD in Design by Illinois Tech, has held numerous honorary fellowships, and holds a distinguished professorship at Dartmouth College, USA. Flanagan is also author and co-editor of numerous books, such as Critical Play and Reload: Rethinking Women in Cyberculture.

Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist who makes visible the emotional and psychological reflections of her mind's eye inspired by nature and her environments. Zomorodinia earned her MFA in new genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has received several awards, and residences including the Artist in Residence (AIR) Program at Recology, the Kala Media Fellowship Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, and more. She has exhibited locally and internationally such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, Pori Art Museum, and ProARTS. Her work has been featured in SF Chronicle, Hyperallergic, and KQED.

Mohsen Hazrati was born in 1987 in Shiraz, Iran. He graduated with a BA in graphic design from Shiraz Art Institute of Higher Education in 2012, minoring in new media and digital art, where he was also acted as a teachers’ assistant. His works focus on digital culture, new-aesthetic and the integration of these two issues into the Shirazi culture and its mystical literature, and have been exhibited in Transfer and Babycastles Gallery - New York, Matchbox Gallery - Texas, V-Gallery Tehran, Espronceda gallery Barcelona etc. Since 2013, in collaboration with Milad Forouzande, he has been the co-founder and curator of “Dar-AlHokoomeh Project”; a new media art project and activity based in Shiraz, Iran. And has been the co-curator of “Dar Al Wrong”, The first Iranian pavilion and embassy of the wrong biennale inside Iran, Patch Room, new media art section of Teer art, the first Iranian Art fair and etc. In 2016, Mohsen began lecturing as an assistant professor in his alma mater, teaching Digital Aesthetics and VFX courses. In 2017, Mohsen was invited as one of the guest speakers on the “Mollasadra St” episode of TEDx video series.

Molly Soda is a visual artist working in video, installation, interactive art, performance and print media. Her work is often hosted online, specifically on social media platforms, allowing the work to evolve and interact with the platforms themselves. Soda engages with questions of revisiting one’s own virtual legacy, how we present ourselves and perform for imagined others online and how the ever shifting nature of our digital space affects our memories and self concept.

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.

Penelope Umbrico’s installations, video, and digital media works utilize photo-sharing and consumer-to-consumer websites as an expansive archive to explore the production and consumption of images. Umbrico’s work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in numerous museum collections including the Berkeley Museum of Art, CA; Denver Art Museum, CO; Guggenheim Museum, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Milwaukee Art Museum, MI; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Perez Art Museum Miami, FL, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; a NYFA Fellowship; Anonymous Was a Woman Award.

Porpentine Charity Heartscape is a writer, game designer, and dead swamp milf in Oakland. She has exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, is a Sundance Institute and Tiptree fellow, and has been commissioned by Vice and Rhizome. She is the author of With Those We Love Alive, Psycho Nymph Exile, and Eczema Angel Orifice.

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.

Ranu Mukherjee makes hybrid work in moving image, painting and installation to build new imaginative capacities. She draws inspiration from the histories of collage, black feminist science fiction and Indian mythological prints of the late 19th century. Solo projects and exhibitions have been presented by The Asian Art Museum, De Young Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, San Jose Museum of Art, Tarble Art Center, Galerie, Barbara Thumm and her representing Gallery, Wendi Norris. Mukherjee is currently a Lucas Arts Fellow (2019-2022) and the recipient of a Krasner Pollock Award (2020). 

Menkman's work focuses on noise artifacts that result from accidents in both analogue and digital media (such as glitch and encoding and feedback artifacts). Through her research, which is both practice based and theoretical, she uncovers these anti-utopic, lost and unseen or simply "too good to be implemented" resolutions -- to produce new ways to use and perceive through and with our technologies.

RUBEN NATAL-SAN MIGUEL is an architect, fine art photographer, curator, creative director and critic. His stature in the photo world has earned him awards, features in major media, countless exhibitions and collaborations with photo icons such as Magnum Photographer Susan Meiselas. Gallery shows include: Asya Geisberg, SoHo Photo, Rush Arts, Finch & Ada, Kris Graves Projects, Fuchs Projects, WhiteBox Gallery, Station Independent Projects Gallery, LMAK Gallery, Postmasters Gallery Rome & NYC and others. His work has been featured in numerous institutions: The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Griffin Museum of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, African American Museum of Philadelphia, The Makeshift Museum in Los Angeles, University of Washington, El Museo del Barrio and Phillips Auction House and Aperture Foundation.
International art fair representation includes: Outsider Art Fair, SCOPE, PULSE, Art Chicago, Zona Maco, Mexico, Lima Photo, Peru and Photo LA. and Filter Photo Festival in Chicago Ill. His photography has been published in a long list of publications, highlights: New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Time OUT, Aperture, Daily News, OUT, American Photo, ARTFORUM, VICE, Musee, ARTnet and The New Yorker. In 2016, Ruben’s Marcy’s Playground was selected for both the Billboard Collective and website for Apple. His photographs are in the permanent collections of El Museo Del Barrio in NYC, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, The Contemporary Collection of the Mint Museum Charlotte, North Carolina, The Bronx Museum for the Arts, School of Visual Arts, NYC, The Fitchburg Museum of Art, Massachusetts and The Museum of The City of NY.

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.

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.

shawné michaelain holloway is a new media artist and poet. Known for using sound, video, and performance, HOLLOWAY shapes the rhetorics of technology and sexuality into tools for exposing structures of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC, NY), Sorbus Galleria (Helsinki, Fi), The Kitchen (NYC, NY) Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, UK), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL). Currently, Holloway teaches in the New Arts Journalism and Film Video New Media and Animation departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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

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.

Susan Silas is a visual artist working primarily in digital photography, video and sculpture. She received her Masters in Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts. Her work was recently included in exhibitions at Stadgalerie Saarbrücken, in Germany, at Haus N Athen, in Greece and at bitforms gallery, in New York City. Her multi-screen video Leda and the Swan will premiere at Festival Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques in Marseille, France in November of 2020. Silas’s work has been featured in AntiUtopias, CameraAustria, Fotómúvészet and Artnet Magazine. She has been interviewed by the Yale University Radio, Rabble magazine, the BBC, ArtonAir, Adult Magazine and Digital Dying. Reviews of her work have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, the Village Voice, The New Yorker and Hyperallergic. She has been awarded fellowships at Everglades National Park, New Space Arts Foundation in Hue, Vietnam, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ucross Foundation. Susan Silas is a dual Hungarian and American national living and working in Brooklyn, New York.

Awarded 2018 SAT Montreal Visionary Pioneer Award for 30+ years of political/socially critical media artworks. Lead product designer on "Connection Machine CM1/CM2" AI supercomputer, in 1989 world’s fastest computer; now in MoMA NY. First VR: "Starbright World" (1994 -1997) w/Steven Spielberg. VR installation "Beyond Manzanar" (2000, w/Zara Houshmand) in collection of San Jose Museum of Art; "Land of Cloud" (2017) won Audience Award at 2018 VRHAM Hamburg. First AR: "ARt Critic Face Matrix" (2010) AR intervention into MoMA NY, "Shades of Absence" AR intervention at 2011 Venice Biennial. AR commissions include "Unexpected Growth" (2018, with /p), in Whitney Museum.

Tiare Ribeaux is an interdisciplinary Hawaiian-American artist, filmmaker, writer and artistic director based in the Bay Area. She founded B4BEL4B in 2014 as a platform and community space to prioritize critically underrepresented artists in technology and media arts. She co-founded REFRESH Art, Science, and Technology in 2016 as a collaborative + politically engaged platform. As an artist, her work explores the interfacing of technology with our human bodies and the environment, and employs storytelling to make visible social and ecological imbalances while imagining more regenerative futures. She is interested in re-centering indigenous technology, and stories that include indigenous futures and the modern indigenous experience. Her recent work at the intersection of art + biology aims to redefine and subvert the binaries of the natural versus the unnatural, and technology versus nature.

Yuliya Lanina is a Russian-born multimedia artist, whose works exist at the intersection of visual, performing arts, and technological innovation, and explore social issues like gender perception, sexuality, loss, and motherhood. Lanina has exhibited and performed extensively both nationally and internationally, including SXSW Interactive (TX), Seoul Art Museum (Korea), SIGGRAPH Asia (Japan), 798 Beijing Biennial (China), Cleveland Institute of Art (OH), Museum Ludwig (Germany), Creative Tech Week (NYC), Teatro Santa Ana (Mexico), Blanton Museum of Art (TX), and Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia). Lanina's honors include Fulbright (Vienna, Austria), Headlands Art Center (CA), and Yaddo (NY). Lanina is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin.