Samantha Blumenfeld
“Shouting Into the Void: Adapting Emotional Expressivity For the Web”
Samantha Blumenfeld is a screenprint, new media, and installation artist living and working in Seoul. She studied printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design and Visual Art at Columbia University. Through her attempts to reconcile her own past, as a young internet user in the late 90s, with her experience in image-reproduction as a classically trained printmaker, she appropriates both mediums into her work. She has exhibited domestically in South Korea including at Alternative Art Space Loop, Space XX, and Cica Museum, and globally including Tate Modern and in collaboration with Serpentine Gallery. She was a previous curator for The Wrong New Art Biennale. She currently co-runs a printmaking studio that also collaborates on fine art editions, as well as creates her own work alongside other artists.
Natalia Fedorova
“To Be the Wind for The Tree: Quercus Robur. Diary of the Summer 2020“
Natalia Fedorova is an artist, curator and educator. The themes she is working around include interspecies communication, objective onthologies, philosophy and history of technology, conceptual and language art. Natalia’s recent works include “To be the wind for the tree” that translates in words the physiological parameters of the tree. Her previous work “To bee” (Innovation 2020) is a semiotic simulator that allows you to create the basis for a common umwelt of a person and a bee. At the moment, together with the philosopher Pierre Cassou-Noguez, she is working on a VR installation “Six Rooms for René Descartes”, which presents virtual reality as an “evil genius” that creates multiple distortions.
David Hamlow
“Foreign Correspondent”
Hamlow exhibits work regionally, nationally and internationally. Recent solo installations include Immiscible at the Washington Pavilion Visual Art Center, Sioux Falls South Dakota, Mirror Stage at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul Minnesota, and Preservationist at the Lamar Dodd school of Art in Athens, Georgia.
Hamlow is the recipient of several artist grants and residencies, including a 2020 PRAC McKnight artist grant and a fall 2020 residency at Joshua Tree Highland, Joshua Tree CA. While in Joshua Tree, Hamlow developed a site-specific temporary installation practice wherein he spent his days collecting human-generated and natural debris from the Pipe’s Canyon Wash, and his afternoons and evenings transforming his finds into a daily installation vignette. The result of this process was 35 daily installations, each mounted in the same location, each replacing the last. The natural materials were returned to the environment, and the sculptures were auctioned off to benefit the residency, leaving essentially no physical traces on site of his residency activities. While not on his wanderings, Hamlow lives and maintains a studio in Good Thunder Minnesota, USA.
Ham ran ae
“Xabadu”
Ham ran ae is an artist based in Korea. She was the seventh featured artist of Korean Art History Hall and Korean Art Agency, and was featured in Lamer Gallery and Hong Lee Gallery in France. Ham’s works were also featured in the movie “Bogota” that will be released in the near future.
Kim Jung Wuk
“Illusion Spectrum”
Kim Jung Wuk is a new media artist based in Paju, Korea. His works were housed in Byul-bit-nu-ri Park Gallery in Jeju, Gallery KNOT, and Gallery Si-so. His works were featured in 2021 Bank Art Fair, AHAF Seoul 2021xInsadong Art Fair. He studied at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and Keimyung University and received his MFA from Korea National University of Arts.
Moksha Kumar
“A Fragment of Time”
Moksha Kumar is an artist and art writer who graduated with a BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, New York, and then completed her MFA in Art History from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. She is currently located at the Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai and has an active studio practice. Currently, she is selected for the COCA (Center for Contemporary Artists) project based in Italy, for her ground breaking research and archival documentation of Kolkata architecture. She was a part of the show ‘Inception’, on view at the Niv Art Gallery, New Delhi; and also, a part of the Madras Round Table 1, Auction for Charity 2020 – 2021 (Chennai, Tamil Nadu).
A participant of several group exhibitions and art events, including the first edition of The Other Art Fair organised by Saatchi Art in Chicago and the World Art Dubai, she held her first solo show at Kalakriti Art Café in 2015. She was also featured as one of the top five artists to look out for on the official Saatchi Art blog (during the Chicago fair).
Actively involved in various art projects around the world, such as Sing for Hope Pianos, the Prithvi Theatre Festival, and the St+art India project, Moksha was also a part of the Space 118 residency program in 2017. Her creative prowess is not limited to the arts as she has also worked as an illustrator, designer, social media manager, curator, art writer, and art consultant.
Jieon LEE
“Humans, Be Ambiguous”
Obtained a BA in Environmental Design(Space Design) at the Sookmyung Women’s University in 2017 awarded creative and outstanding student scholarship, and worked for the Seoul Museum of Art. Awarded Think Big International Scholarship at the University of Bristol, obtained MA History of Art with a Distinction on the dissertation. Published a book Me, Book(2013; M&K) and an anthology Therefore, we decided to do a side hustle (2020;playject). After work in Munshin Sculpture’s Museum and Seoul Museum of Art, currently working for the exhibition team of the Busan Biennale Organising Committee.
Sooji Lee
“A Very Personal Methodology of Crafting the Graphic”
Sooji Lee is a Korean who was raised in Jakarta, Indonesia since she was 6. She studied her BA in industrial design department in Seoul, Korea and worked in New York as a graphic designer. Now she is living and working in The Netherlands as a visual artist / graphic designer after studying information design MA at Design Academy Eindhoven.
Nicole Lenzi
“Temporal Installations with Light”
Nicole Lenzi’s work questions what a drawing is and its link to thinking. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to expand the concept of drawing that includes installation, photography, and works on paper. Lenzi has exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, South Korea, and the United Kingdom and has a B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art. Lenzi is based in Baltimore, MD, United States.
Monica Lopez
“Stocks, Ruins and Rewards”
Mónica López studied Visual Arts at the Technological Institute of Arts of Ecuador (ITAE) and got her bachelor’s degree at the Arts University of Ecuador, majoring in Pictorial Poetics and Digital Media. She explores ideas about the incidence of the global visual culture, the role of industries, and the post-internet era circulation of online images and information upon foreign influences, aesthetics conditionings, and consumption-driven identities. While using different art mediums, her work re-contextualizes audiovisual material existing in the contemporary world to transform its representation meanings. Her work in drawing and painting has been awarded in Salons exhibits by national Museums. She has received the 1st prize at the 55th Salon de Julio (2014), the 3rd International Huaylá award (2019), and honorary mentions in the Salon de Julio (2015) and the Salon de Riobamba (2015). She has participated in group exhibits in various cities of Ecuador. In 2019 she opened her first solo show, “55 Cancri e”, at DPM gallery. Internationally she has been selected as a featured artist by Hoax Publications in the UK and the Contemporary Landscape exhibit in CICA Museum in South Korea.
Brian McSherry
“Glitching the Legalese: Research-based methods to create questionable multimedia installations”
Brian McSherry is an attorney, designer, artist, activist, and educator. In 2016, McSherry received his Juris Doctor and Master of Fine Arts from SUNY Buffalo School of Law and the University at Buffalo Graduate School. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Multimedia Production at Georgian Court University and an Instructor at Rhode Island School of Design’s Continuing Education Program. His scholarship focuses on national and international case law relating to visual design and innovative ways to use design for social change through the justice system. Recently, his work touching on areas of graphic design, augmented reality, copyright, celebrity, and the law has been exhibited by Ethan Cohen Gallery, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, and Greenpoint Gallery.
Riad Salameh
“The Post-Biological Body: Performance of the Internet Self as an Agent of Surveillance Capitalism”
Riad Salameh is a researcher and art practitioner with a graphic design, art mediation, and media arts cultures background. His work often follows a praxis method that uses micro-transformations to respond to the urgency of collective socio-economic transformations. Looking into the ownership of bodies in cyberspaces, investigating internet capital and physiological needs of the everyday, he critically investigates economies and its interlink to biopower. His interests relate to the abstraction of the physical and digital self through performance, web-navigation, irony, humor, and intimacy. His research and artistic work were presented in Lebanon, Denmark, Georgia, England, Pakistan, Latvia, UAE, Oslo & online. He is currently based between Rotterdam & Beirut.
Stefanie Schairer
“Blind Date with the Artists”
Stefanie Schairer (1965) is living and working mainly in Berlin, Germany. During the last years she often collaborated with artists from South Korea and NYC, USA. Collaborations with other artists to the same theme but in different places. She is working mainly in painting, video, installation and interactive/immersive happenings/performances in public space. During the last 14 years she participated in national and international exhibitions, primarily in Germany and the United States. For twelve years she has been developing performances/happenings/interactions in public space. Her background is art therapy (MA) and social work.
Yea Shin
“A Study on Developing a Visual Art Unit utilizing New Media Art with Sustainability Development Goals as a Theme”
Yea is an art educator at an international school who passionately explores an innovative approach to art, design, and education. Her work revolves around figurative and interactive typography to reflect her concerns about inequality, well-being, and other forms of ethical problems we often overlook. Whether in a classroom or an exhibition space, she sees the importance of intrinsic motivation for students and viewers to learn, reflect, and think critically. With her experience in education, she actively finds ways to initiate the interaction by incorporating digital media and exploring the boundaries between virtual and physical space.