 Rora Blue
“The Walk”
Rora Blue is a conceptual artist based in the United States. She actively produces artwork that is defined by color, text, and interactivity. Her work relies heavily on color to communicate a feeling to the viewer. Participation, and documenting the experiences of others is also essential to her artistic process. Rora Blue is best known for her series Handle With Care and for The Unsent Project, which has received over 32,000 submissions. Her work has been featured in news outlets such as The New York Times, Good Morning America, Teen Vogue, and Cosmopolitan.
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 Kris Casey
“Posthuman Painting: Aesthetics & Informatics”
Kris Casey is a visual artist and academic from Chicago, IL. She has a BFA in Painting from Columbia College, an MA in Digital Media: Technology & Cultural Form from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MA in Letters, Art, and Contemporary Thought from Universite Paris 7 Diderot in Paris, France. Her works have been shown in Chicago, London, and Paris. Kris was an artist-in-residence at the Cite Nationale des Art in Paris in 2015. She is a recipient of the DCASE Individual Artist Program grant as well as the Illinois Arts Council Professional Development grant. She is Consultant of Creative Strategies at SkyART, a nonprofit art center for young people on the South Side of Chicago.
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 Eun Hyung Chung
“Performance as Self-reflection and the Healing Process”
Eun Hyung Chung is a performer and sculptor who was born in Seoul, Korea. She is interested in fragile or impermanent things that break easily and do not last long. Currently the biggest theme that she explores is the sense of loss. She completed a BFA in sculpture from Seoul National University and now she is studying at Rhode Island School of Design for her MFA. In 2016, she was the winner of the University of Brighton Award. Eun Hyung has worked as an art teacher in various institutions and has exhibited in Korea, Poland, and the US.
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 Maria Dundakova
The Swiss artist Maria Dundakova works as an interdisciplinary artist with a strong focus on projects and installations, photography, video, performance, painting, sculpture, graphics, drawing, textiles, paper, public art, soundscape, landscape design, choreography and participative happenings. Her projects evolve in response to personal invitations and during major international art events in Switzerland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Brazil, the Netherlands, Argentine, South Korea and China. Her artistic work is a continuing cross-border venture within and between the media, seeking to establish an interaction between man and his living space, a choreography of life that celebrates life’s natural rhythms. She never loses sight of life and its events, both in nature and in urban spaces. In work that combines dancers, actors, musicians and the public itself, she creates highly emotional and poetic artistic events. Like nature itself, her public works show their uniqueness as an ever-changing process, forming precious moments of inspiration and bringing people together.
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 Cedric van Eenoo
Cedric van Eenoo is an award winning artist, musician and filmmaker. He is a member of Brooklyn Arts Council and affiliated with the Artists Rights Society in New York. His art is exhibited at Manhattan Graphics Center; Hammond Museum; Brooklyn Art Library; The Painting Center; Queens College Art Library of The City University of New York; Pelham Art Center; Marin Museum of Contemporary Art; Katonah Museum of Art; Rochester Contemporary Art Center; Artcomplex Center of Tokyo. He is represented in Japan by Tokyo Art Gallery, and World Fine Art Gallery in New York City.
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 Genesis Gonzalez
Genesis Gonzalez was born in Caracas, Venezuela and is currently living and working in Miami, FL as an artist, mass media producer & photographer. In her artistic photography and video art, she is experimenting with materials and creating a body of work that seeks to connect with the psychology of color. Genesis graduated from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, Caracas, Venezuela in 2012 with a degree in Mass Media Production, and graduated from Miami International University of Art & Design in Miami, Florida in 2016 from the Master of Fine Arts.
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 Steve Guynup
“The Design of Virtual Reality Art Galleries”
Dr. Guynup is an award winning virtual artist and published author. For 25+ years he’s been involved in virtual reality, new media, and education. First as a production artist who then grew into building multimillion dollar training software for UPS, Weyerhauser, CSX Rail & Georgia Pacific. During the dot.com boom, he explored VR poetry, early mobile apps, and multi-player online games. After the dot.com bust, he earned a Masters from Georgia Tech and a Doctorate from the University of Baltimore. He has presented work at diverse events including: SIGGRAPH, CHI, FILE, Sloan C, DiGRA, The William Blake Symposium, and the Arts Festival of Atlanta. For past decade, he’s been teaching game design, working with young artists, and exploring the cutting edge of 3D virtual design.
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 Suji Han
“Flattened Flat Space”
Suji Han is a multidisciplinary artist who is based in Providence. RI (U.S) and Seoul (Korea). Her multidisciplinary work considers contents of the fallacy of misplaced correctness that occur during datafication/systematization. Her work undergoes the process of coding, decoding, and recoding by illogical and unscientific c through certain criteria she set up. She employs various methods and approaches in the coding-decoding-recoding process such as linguistic, psychological, scientific, musical and statistical approaches. She received grants from Seoul City and Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation (2016) in order to co-curate and run the guerrilla exhibition <1st, 2nd,3rd Go!Go! Meatamong Field Day> with Korean artist Bobae Jeon (Haenghwatang, Post Terrirory Ujeongguk, Itaewon) (2016). The reason that she curated this exhibition was to encourage young artists to become financially independent. She is currently studying at the Rhode Island School of Design MFA in Sculpture.
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 Rhys Himsworth
“Error //:404”
Rhys Himsworth received his BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2003 and his MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art in 2009. Since the completion of his masters he has taken part in residencies in the United States such as The International Studio and Curatorial Program, and VCCA, Takt Academy in Germany, and in China where he researched ‘painting factories’ in the southern village of Dafen, exploring the changing nature of printmaking as it relates to painting. He has exhibited extensively in Europe, North America and the Middle East including solo shows such as ‘Avatar’ at Reynolds Gallery, Richmond Virginia, ‘Entropy’ in Doha, Qatar, and ‘Monoliths’ at CICA Museum in Seoul, South Korea. He also took part in the biennial ‘Locws International’ in Swansea, UK, 2011 and the India Art Fair in New Delhi, 2015. Himsworth has presented his work at The Royal Computer Society in their annual symposium- ‘Electronic Visualization and the Arts’, The International Symposium for New Media Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2018, served as a panel member for ‘Fast Media/Slow Knowledge’ at SGC Philigrafika, in Philadelphia, 2010, and in 2014 presented at the Arab Museum of Modern Art as part of their symposium on Art: Past, Present and Future in the city of Doha. He is a regular panel member to art, design and education conferences including The Spectres of Evaluation in Melbourne, Australia, Design Principles and Practices, Vancouver, Canada, and the Arts and Society in Rome Italy. He has also served on panels at the College Art Association in Washington D.C.
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 Jee Youn Hwang
“Nature: Making Dialectic Moment”
Jee Youn Hwang is currently New York-based artist living and working multidisciplinary art across sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Her works explore the intermediate character of contemporary space focusing on ‘How Space Forms Based on Time’ to link it metaphorically to cultural phenomena. She was born and raised in Seoul, and currently lives and works in New York. She has a BFA and MFA Sculpture from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. Now she is pursuing an MFA in Fine Arts at The School of Visual Arts, New York.
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 Nayoung Jeong
“Clay with Cultural Displacement (Art and Globalism/Localism)”
Nayoung Jeong is a sculptor, ceramist, and painter whose work takes form as performance and installation. Exploring identity rooted in heritage and uprooted by globalism, her process-oriented work evokes memories and questions to make the unfamiliar closer to familiar. Jeong was born and raised in Korea, and works and lives in New York and London. She received her BFA from California College of the Arts within the thesis was titled, Abstract Diary, and MFA at Rhode Island School of Design within the thesis was titled, Clay Structures and Psychological Space: A History. She is currently a PhD candidate at Slade School of Fine Art_ UCL.
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 Hyunsoo Kim
“Project Maxstrasse”
1975 born and raised in South Korea. From an early age on, she loved to express herself in arts: especially drawing and painting. After graduating high school, she studied interior design in Seoul; then after graduation college 2001, occupied as interior designer in Greater Seoul. Planning to become an architect and to live for a brief time abroad she was enrolled at a university of technology in Germany from 2004 to 2006. After some struggle and search for her meaning of life rediscovering her passion for painting. Since 2010 free lance artists living in Bonn, Germany. As she enjoys to exchange her ideas with other artists, especially with musicians – as music is one of her main sources of inspiration – collaborations with several musicians since 2012.
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 Zahra Komeylian
“Places Where Things Had Been Put Because They Had Been Violently Displaced, and Places Where Things Found Their Natural Ground and Stability”
Zahra Komeylian is a Toronto-based artist whose practice encompasses process-based engagement with ceramic sculpture, installation, video, and performance art. Her work seeks to grapple with the incommunicable aspects of human experience, particularly intergenerational trauma, grief performativity, and silence.
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 Eun Lee
“Sensory Being in between Crepuscular Spaces”
Since her first solo exhibition ‘GENESIS’ in 2005, Eun LEE has been working internationally having been selected and invited for her solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions. (USA, UK, France, Belgium, Japan, Thailand and China.) Her work has been added to the collection of Icheon International Ceramic Center, Museum of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO). She has been chosen as an international workshop artist at Gyeonggi International Biennale 2011 in Korea and also has been an artist in the residency of MMCA in 2014. She took her MA course in Ceramics at Cardiff Metropolitan University (UK). She also received her BFA, MFA in Ceramics and Art history from Ewha Womens University. She is currently working for Ewha Womens University as an adjunct professor.
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 Christina Ivelisse Morris
“IRL: Ta-Ta For Now”
Christina Ivelisse Morris is a light-based and new media artist, native to Chicago. Christina uses lights, color, sound and digital media to shift the surrounding environment, to produce a unique experience for her audience, and to create a new atmosphere as a whole. The intent of her artwork is to use sensory experiences to transport her viewers. Her work is inspired by the wonder and limitlessness of a youthful and playful mind, and she often cross-references that with deeper themes throughout her work. Christina earned a Bachelors of Arts in Art, Media and Design in 2015 from DePaul University in Chicago.
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 Ryohei Oba
“Architecture of (Dis)organization”
Ryohei Oba is a visual artist based in Tokyo, JP whose practice focuses on establishing a fresh perspective on the perception of human beings. Oba’s practice has expanded possibility of transformations of the human body through designed objects including both natural and manmade stuff. Conceptualised, built and photographed by Oba, his inspiration behind each series lies in the questioning of identity of the human beings and the relationships formed between the human body and our ever-changing environment consisting of both nature and technology.
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 Seungkyung Oh
Seungkyung Oh is an international award-winning New York based artist who uses nature and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. She earned a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts and a MFA at Parsons School of Design. She was awarded the North Georgia Distinguished Fellowship 2018, selected for a IBM Bluewolf Company Award 2017 in New York City, and Korean Culture Minister Prize for Painting in 2010. An admittedly shy person by nature, she finds refuge from the din of modern life and society in her deep connection with nature. In her art, she has created a utopian world and figures that are inspired by animals and natural environments. With each body of work, she continues to build the narrative of these figures’ lives and questions the utopian and dystopian possibilities they represent.
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 Nitzan Satt
“Events of Forgetfulness”
Nitzan Satt is an architect and artist by training. She tends to engage in architectural spaces and the human conflicts embodied
in them. Satt is a member of A group of architects and planners, Jews and Arabs, who are working together for Change established by the joint settlement Neve Shalom. She has received awards and presents in Israel and abroad and lives and works in Kibbutz Yagur.
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 s/n
(Jennida Chase and Hassan Pitts)
“Mobile Expanded Cinema”
s/n is a multi-disciplinary art group, which works extensively with, but not limited to, video, sound, animation, photography, and mobile media. The exhibitions often include performative elements and mediated footage, pushing both experimental and conceptual ideas around media. Members include Jennida Chase and Hassan Pitts who have been creating collaborative work since 2008. Their works have been exhibited and screened internationally in various festivals, galleries and museums worldwide. In 2015 s/n were awarded the William A. Minor Grant, the Pollination Project Seed Grant in 2016, and in 2017 received the Puffin Grant and were semi-finalists for the Sundance New Horizon Lab. Currently, Jennida and Hassan both teach at the University of North Carolina Greensboro in the Department of Media Studies.
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 Cecilia Suhr
“I, You, We”
Cecilia Suhr is an award winning interdisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist, composer (violin/cello/voice/piano), and researcher who is working at the intersection between art, music and digital technology. Her latest experiments include interactive media installations using a wide variety of cameras (webcam, phone camera, body cam, etc.), combined with sound and music compositions. Drawing from her media studies background, she is interested in creating an interactive media representation through the creative use of cameras to breakdown the normative concept of spectatorship, and to further use it as a candid tool to awaken our inner eye. Her work has been featured in various galleries, festivals, biennials, and museum in cities such as Washington, D.C, New York City, California, Ohio, Kentucky, Maryland, West Palm Beach & Miami, FL, Moscow (Russia), London (U.K.), Seoul (Korea), Rome and Venice (Italy) and Tokyo (Japan), Mongolia. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Creative Arts, as well as an Affiliate Professor of Art at Miami University, Ohio.
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 Rebecca Vickers
“Evidence. Signal. Gesture. Cue”
Rebecca Vickers is an interdisciplinary artist based in Bangkok, Thailand. She received her BS in Fine Art and graduated with academic honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA in 2007 and MFA in Visual Arts from Silpakorn University, Thailand in 2014. Vickers’ practice often utilizes a process of collection, framing instances of the everyday in a manner through which their extraordinary nature is brought front and center. She is the English editor of art4d magazine, co-founder of LIV_ID collective, teaches visual art at Mahidol University International Demonstration School and plays guitar in the indie-pop band VIPED.
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 Fu Wenjun
“My Exploration on Contemporary Photography Art: Digital Pictorial Photography”
Fu Wenjun, Chinese contemporary artist, creates principally through the art media of photography, installation, sculpture and oil painting. Fu Wenjun has developed his unique fine art photography style: Digital Pictorial Photography. With his Digital Pictorial Photography, Fu Wenjun aims at exploring to place photography art in dialogue with other art media, like Chinese painting, oil painting, sculpture etc, as a result to widen the border of photography art in the current digital age. His solo exhibitions were presented at National Art Museum of China, Museu Europeu de Arte Moderno, Guangdong Museum of Art etc.
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 Kyungjin Yoo
Kyungjin is a computer scientist who loves art & culture. After graduating from Seoul National University, he worked at Naver Corp and he received his PhD at the University of Maryland. He is now working for the trans-disciplinary program at the University of Maryland partnered with The Phillips Collection, where he does research and experiment with a range of methods and technologies to meet the needs of museum and arts, and new educational content for the arts in text, audio, video, and interactive multimedia formats.
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 Kay Yoon & Jonas Wiel
“Elsewhere is My Where”
Kay Yoon (1994, Seoul, Korea) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By mixing the handcraft and mechanical automation, Yoon blurs the border of originality in the making process and questions the artistic existence in our contemporary society. By applying poetics and often metaphorical language, she investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the modern meaning of the third landscape, where the diversification of bodies, spaces, and territories reconstruct in a form of urban habitats. |
 Jonas Wiel delves into architectural, urban and spatial research. Wiel’s educational background stems from an architectural field, making a double degree in Urban Design from Tongji University in cooperation with the Technical University of Berlin. Before this program, he studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, and he approached the topic of city, landscape and space in scientific analysis. Wiel also participates in various urban planning competitions in Germany and practices in the design of urban spaces. Currently, he is involved in various projects for the perception and transformation of space, including the collaboration with Kay Yoon for audiovisual works.
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