Presenters 2022

"The Art Iniative MOON ART Fair - or why we cannot live without art"

Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund is born in Zurich (Switzerland) and is living in Germany (Hamburg). She studied Art History at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Germany), University for Foreigners Perugia (Italy) and The London Guildhall University (UK). Study and working experiences at The Henry Moore Foundation (UK) and The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto (Canada). In 2002 Barbara earned her Ph.D. from the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel with a dissertation on the British sculptor Henry Moore. The art historian and curator organizes art iniatives and exhibitions with emphasis on cultural exchange. She is the founder and CEO of AHC PROJECTS and MOON ART Fair Hamburg.

"On-Real/Un-Real"

Jia-Rey (Gary) Chang is an artist, designer, and researcher. He received his Ph.D. from Hyperbody Lab at TU Delft, the Netherlands in 2018. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Art & Design department, the University of Delaware, actively researching the interdisciplinary topics of fashion design, creative coding, speculative/interactive design, Artificial Intelligence, generative art/sound, AR/VR/MR, and projection-based immersive environment. More info: archgary.com

"The Digital Transformation of Creative Market"

Dho Yee Chung is a graphic designer and media artist originally from South Korea. Her research and work examine how visual media has been shaped historically and how its related culture has proliferated in response to the evolution of technology. In recent years, she has delved into how cultural and social inequality is inherent in emerging visual media and technology. She has observed injustice related to identity, race, and social status in the digital space, and analyzed it from a graphic design perspective. She had group exhibitions and screenings at UCLA New Wight Gallery and MIT Museum, among others. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design at Yale University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at Oakland University in Michigan, U.S.A.

"New Digital Era, Understanding of TPACK and CoP: Where Are We Heading?"

Keirah Comstock is an artist and an educator. She has over a decade of teaching experience as a K-12 ENL teacher and as an art instructor. When she teaches, she not only focuses on the importance of understanding art from a global perspective with inclusive teaching, but she also focuses on how students can learn through instructional technology teaching. Keirah graduated with a BA in Graphic Design, Multimedia, and Photography from California State University, East Bay, an MFA in Photography from the Academy of Art University, an MS TESOL from Nazareth College, and she is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Rochester. Her research interests include technology integration, art and education, Multilingual learners education, and inclusive teaching.

"The Best Wishes Art Collection - The Direction of New Media Art"

Dr. Sinah Jo has a PhD and a master’s degree in Digital Design from The Graduate School of Digital Design Kyungsung University in South Korea, studied Graphic design at Central Saint Martins University Arts London, UK. She taught at Pusan National University, Kyungsung University, Kyungnam College University of Information & Technology. She has been Invited in international exhibitions since 2009. She is researches and analyzes Korean’s patterns and creates her artworks. She has won many competitions. She has received several scholarships and awards for her work and research, including scholarships from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and Hongik University Design Innovation Center (The 2nd UX Competition 2009 - The Silver Prize).

"Manipulative 3D and the Middle East"

Ronnie Karfiol is an artist, graduate of the Shenkar faculty of Art in Tel Aviv and H.A.W. University Hamburg, Germany. Her work has exhibited in museums such as Petach Tikva Museum of Art &  Guttman Museum as well as in galleries like SPEKTRUM Berlin, Galleria R+ Poland & the Center of Contemporary Art (CCA) Tel Aviv. Furthermore, her films screened in Europe and the US on national and international film and media festivals, including FILE Brazil, DocAviv, KFFK Cologne, EMAF - European Media Art Festival, Germany and Currents Festival USA. She is the recipient of Adams Prize for young artist (2017), the Council for Arts (2018) and the Ministry of Culture Independent Artists’ grant (2019) and the Rabinovich Foundation (2021). Her works are part of the collections in both the Guttman Museum [IL] and the Herzliya Museum of Contemorary Art [IL]. Karfiol’s work focuses on new media techniques, countering themes within the obscured borders of technology and humanity; and interrogating how new political, theological and social structures form and thrive in these new portals of being.

"Movement and Light"

Mimi Young-Mi Lee is a Korean-American artist living in Seoul, South Korea. She received her B.F.A. from University of Kentucky and her M.F.A. in New Projects from Columbus College of Art and Design, focusing on experimental animation and video installation. Her work makes use of ordinary objects to create an extraordinary environment, providing a window for the audience to reconsider the use and function of these objects. Her work was exhibited at ACC Asiaplex Studio in Gwangju, South Korea, at Bolivar gallery in Lexington, KY and at Beeler gallery in Columbus, OH. Her animation was screened at CubeArt Project, in Lincoln, NE. She participated in group installation, Summer Nostalgia at SOFA CONNECT in Chicago, IL.

"Thresholds"

Seyeon Park is a media artist from South Korea. She studied BA photographic art from kaywon university art and design, South Korea. She holds BA degree in Fine art: print and time based media from Wimbledon collage of art, University art of London, UK. She is currently studing in MA Computational arts from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

She collects ideas everywhere. it could be my personal happenings or political, national and global issues. She tries to keep her curiosity of her interest in humanity and observe its phenomenon and its environment deeply and use her own technical experimental creativity and thought in her work to express and question the audience. She had exhibitions her artwork in South Korea and United kingdom previously.

"Photographers Need Not Apply, Photography Doesn't Need You Anymore."

Stafford Hiroshi Smith is a 4th generation Japanese-American. His love of archaic art processes infuses his work as he strives to blend old with new to create tactile and thought-provoking imagery. Stafford was born in Seattle, but grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York and studied art at Wesleyan and Cornell Universities. His influences are diverse: Hieronymus Bosch, Eikoh Hosoe, Botticelli, Andy Warhol and Maggie Taylor to name a few.

A ten-year detour into the strange world of Japanese broadcast television took Stafford away from the traditional artworld, but placed him well into the world of the surreal. Many of his ideas are partially inspired by this hiatus that took him everywhere from a cat circus in Key West, to the Republican Convention in Houston, to a celebrity sports show in Tokyo. It was after this period that Stafford entered graduate school and immersed himself into photography full time.

Over the past few years, Stafford has become fascinated with the visual remnants of his bi-racial heritage and has been using the power of Photoshop to piece together a digital quilt of his past. This hodgepodge also includes his own photographs and the stray odd thrift shop find as he constructs his own version of his heritage. He currently teaches photography at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI.

"Visual Communication in New Media. A New Paradigm of the Globalizing Image" 

Catalin Soreanu is currently teaching visual arts and culture, and multimedia classes at the Photography & Video department of the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, within “George Enescu” National University of the Arts in Iasi, Romania, where he also acts as deputy-editor of the publication “Studies in Visual Arts and Communication – an international journal”. Catalin is a founding member of the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Iasi, Romania, which organizes the “CAMERA PLUS – biennial of contemporary photography and dynamic image”. His artistic approach investigates the contemporary mediums of artistic expression of photography, moving image or performance art, and his interest resides in using the internal mechanics of the processes of artistic communication as conceptual structures, to create relations between the meaning and the content.

Lavinia German is a visual artist, curator, and researcher from Romania, and her practice focuses on the medium of photography and film. Her artistic interests are the research of visual strategies of photographic practices and contemporary forms of the photographic image as means of communication and its objectual nature. Lavinia also teaches artistic photography, visual communication, and experimental film in the Photography & Video department of the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, “George Enescu” National University of the Arts in Iasi (UNAGE), with courses, workshops, and presentations at different art institutions and universities in Iasi, Timisoara, and Bucharest. She is also a founding member of the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Iasi, Romania.