Hyemin An
“Metro Project 2022_a record of space“
Hyemin An is an artist based in South Korea. She graduated from Seoul Institute of Arts majoring in Digital Art. She is currently studying Printing making at Hongik University as a graduate student. She has shown her prints and working on various animations based on her drawing work.
Shengwei Chen
“Dialogue Across Time and Space: Diversified Experiences of Immersive Installations in the Hong Kong Palace Museum“
Shengwei Chen is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. He is interested in the museum, new media installation and audiences’ field, which results from his previous series of museum-based new media art practices. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Creative Media (SCM), City University of Hong Kong. Before he joined SCM, he held an MRes degree in communication design from the Royal College of Art in London, a Master of Contemporary Art from the University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Queensland University of Technology. He hopes his research can provide more valuable theoretical and practical experience for integrating new media installations in museums.
Bo Choi & In-Ho Yi
“The Zeitgeist – AI-Generated Fashion Collection (Art and Artificial Intelligence)“
Bo Choi is a fashion designer and innovative artist. With a primary focus on new media art and fashion design, she envisions clothes as both renderings explicitly their capacity to represent the self, as well as building upon, and breaking with, past conventions to allow an endless refashioning of the self disallowed by the limited vocabulary of much art and fashion today. For the last ten or more years, she has been known as a visual artist, a digital media artist, and a fashion designer and invited to numerous shows worldwide. She completed her MFA in 2009 in Fiber at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Her undergraduate studies were at the University of California, Davis, in Fashion Design and Studio Art. Previously, as a fashion designer, she created a fashion line that explores and transgresses the typical ways the body contour interacts with clothing. Choi’s solo fashion show “Second Skin” was presented at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle. She was a finalist at the InspirAsain Fashion Competition, hosted by International Examiner, where her wearable art line was presented at the Bell Harbor Conference Center. Internationally she has given her designs at the Wearable Art Awards in Port Moody, BC, Canada, and was invited to Spell on the City, The 7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale. In addition, she had residencies at Kulturprojekte in Berlin, Germany, and at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences in GA with The Rogers Fellowship for Textiles Arts at NMAR in Seoul, South Korea. She taught design for over ten years at Sanford-Brown College, Seattle, and computer graphics design/digital art at North Seattle College. Also, she was a faculty at Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University, Bloomington. Gallery IMA in Seattle represents her. Currently, she is a professor of practice at Tulane University.
Dongwook Choi
“Shaping the Unformed”
Based in South Korea, Dongwook-Choi creates objects that can play suggestive roles in space.
Computational design, organic form, deconstructive tendency, and material exploration are keywords that represent his work. Breaking the boundaries, Transferring objects from imaginary digital scenes to physical reality is the most important progress in his workflow.
Mila Dayan
“Make Something People Want“
Mila Dayan is an artist and co-founder of Beau, a tech startup funded by Y Combinator and a number of notable Silicon Valley VCs and angels. She received her MFA from the St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. She previously worked in advertising as an art director at Leo Burnett Tel Aviv, where she won several advertising awards, including Cannes Lion. Mila has exhibited internationally including Cannes Lion Festival 2022, CICA Museum, Korea and a gallery in Barcelona in 2023.
Victor Drouin-Trempe & Jean-Philippe Côté
“Empreintes Sonores”
Victor Drouin-Trempe is an artist, researcher and professor in sound creation and philosophy. He holds a master’s degree in philosophy and is currently pursuing a PhD in Art Studies and Practices at UQAM. He also produces electronic music under the pseudonym v.ictor and is mainly inspired by the microminimal scene. His pieces have been published on many labels such as Archipel or Klangscheiben.
Jean-Philippe Côté creates interactive art using cutting-edge technologies just as he does repurposing outmoded devices and providing them alternate futures. A recurring theme in his work is the mirroring of the visitor’s body. By generating distorted and liminal representations of the self, he underlines the dislocation between who we are and the ways in which we present ourselves in a world heavily mediated by technology.
Alex Frost
“Unboxing Passive Aggression“
Alex Frost is an artist based in Manchester, UK. He works between the physical and virtual to explore the inter-relational character of contemporary digital life. He seeks to identify the new concepts, places, and objects that arise as physical life merges with virtual life. His series of 100+ Wet Unboxing videos explored the fluidity of virtual consumption, as seen in the unboxing video, by unpacking a range of products in a glass tank filled with water. These Wet Unboxing videos were featured in 30+ articles across all continents, in 10 languages and were awarded a listing on knowyourmeme.com. His most recent physical solo exhibitions were at TACO! London (2021) and First Site (2020). He has a PhD in Visual Cultures from Northumbria University, UK and teaches Art and Design on the Masters at Salford University.
Hodoo
“Exploring the Boundaries of Artificial Intelligence and
Neuroscience through Artistic Experimentation“
One of the most controversial topics among the issues that humanity faces is the issue of artificial intelligence. Nobody knows whether it will be beneficial or harmful to humanity. I became interested in artificial intelligence after watching the movies “The Matrix” and “Contact” and feeling a strong sense of empathy. Although “Contact” is not a movie about artificial intelligence, it reinterpreted a language that people use frequently as a science fiction language. They use a language that transcends space and time, similar to the language of artificial intelligence that integrates the knowledge of all humanity. So, since I was young, I have been interested in math, algorithms, science fiction, art, computer engineering, and neuroscience. Instead of just trying to expand my knowledge, I broadened my perspective. When we die, we return to our dreams. I think neuroscience might be able to delay or facilitate that process. So, I became an artist to conduct experiments. Of course, this plan will be dealt with after 2123 because there is still so much we do not know about the brain. What I can do is use artificial intelligence to collaborate with the space and human memories and emotions to bring back parts of the past or move them to ideal places. This project is just a basic element to realize these things.
Jeesoo Im
“Real Feel”
Korea based artist, Jeesoo Im, graduated from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with Textiles BFA. With a great interest in human psychology and how the fast-forward technology affects human emotions, Jeesoo continued to explore the interaction between one of the greatest advancements of modern day society with humanity through textiles. Using soft materials, she intends to deliver warmth and color to the modern-day people, whose lives have been disconnected from natural elements of life due to the rising involvement and inevitability of the virtual world.
Jeon Sur
“Copyright Protection of Artificial Intelligence Artistic Creatures“
One thing that has stuck in the artist’s mind as he has been on the journey of life so far is the series and repetition of infinite questions about the artist’s final destination. From Yonsei University, Korea University’s Ph.D. in English education, Essex University in the U.K., Seoul National University’s Master of Law and Ph.D., and now art school, he has walked various and diverse paths. In the process, the author has always craved for more than 20 books as a writer, including communication with numerous students from the dean of the department to the professor of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, long broadcasting on EBS, lectures at MBC, SBS Vocational Broadcasting, Legal Training Institute, large corporations, Dankook University Hospital, and Capital Command. Constantly trying to find the way of a writer has always been made, and perhaps now he has found the way of a writer in the back of his life.
“Stay hungry, stay foolish” is what Steve Jobs likes to say, still craving for something, realizing that he is stupid and moving forward with a vision. Perhaps it is in line with Socrates’ words to know yourself, which means that you can move forward in the right direction only when you have a good grasp of your value and fully understand the true value of your experience, knowledge, and even technology. Since your talent that you didn’t know before can shine at some point, or your experience of being the best can be ruined at some point, you should not settle for your current position or success that was your heyday in the past. The writer himself is always hungry and perhaps, as always, he feels stupid and wants to move forward while learning and exploring new things. The reason for doing this is simple, abandoning the easy path. Because I’m still “Stay hungry, stay cool” as the author himself.
Minyoung Kang
“Apocalypse“
Minyoung Kang is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Seoul, South Korea. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Kookmin University. She is currently a residency artist from Guro cultural foundation in Seoul. She uses extended reality, painting, photography, and installation as her main medium. Her research interests are the understanding of the relationships between the environment and human impact in regard to materials, light, and space. In her virtual reality project, she experimentally blends physical and virtual spaces while approaching environmental problems that are meaningful, poetic, and artistic.
Sinae Kim
“This Is Urine.”
Kim Sinae graduated from the MA Material Futures program at Central Saint Martins in London, UK, and has been working as a material artist and researcher. She explores the cultural, historical, and environmental significance of materials and reinterprets their potential for contemporary contexts. In particular, her “This is urine” project, she places a particular emphasis on the potential of human waste, challenging the notion that it is merely a discarded byproduct and prompting us to reevaluate our perceptions of materials that we encounter in our daily lives.
Since 2017, the project has been recognized for its potential and has been exhibited at various venues such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in the UK, Museum De Fundatie in the Netherlands, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in the US, Georgetown University Art Galleries in the US, and London/Milan/Dutch Design Week. The works from “This is urine” are also collected by several leading material banks in Europe, including the Future Materials Bank at the Jan van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands and various material banks in the UK, Spain, and Germany.
Dilara Koselioren
“Aura and Us”
My name is Dilara Koselioren. 25 years old Digital Artist based in London. After finishing my course at UAL (University of Art London) I started building my portfolio and growing and focusing on my art career.
Song Lu
“Snow Drawing：Occupational Segregation in AI-Generated Art“
Song Lu is an artist born in China. She obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she graduated in 2021. Song Lu artistic endeavors center around capturing and reproducing different emotions and feelings in various visual formats such as photography, video, and 3D animation. Her work has been exhibited in several art exhibitions and screenings in different cities and regions, including the School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery (2021), School of Visual Arts Theater (2021), New York ZAZ 10 TS (2021), Miami Untitled Art Fair (2021), Seoul Floor_ Gallery(2022), Hangzhou Yes! Art Festival (2023), Unfold Shanghai Art Book Fair (2023), Beijing Yes! Art Festival (2023), and Milan La Vita dell’Arte IV (2023), London Boomer Gallery (2023).
Nikhil Mandalaparthy
“Voices of Bhakti: Challenging Religious Nationalism Through Social Media, Poetry, and Performance“
Nikhil Mandalaparthy is a writer, organizer, and arts curator who serves as Deputy Executive Director of Hindus for Human Rights and Executive Board Member of Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus. He also curates Voices of Bhakti, a digital archive showcasing translations of South Asian poetry on religion, caste, and gender. Mandalaparthy’s work reflects a commitment to promoting religious pluralism and social justice both in South Asia and North America. With the Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program, he helped launch a national network of civic and faith leaders advancing religious pluralism. He has presented at national and international forums including the 2018 and 2021 Parliament of World’s Religions. His writing and reporting has been published in several outlets, such as Foreign Policy magazine and Religion Dispatches, and has been supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. He has been quoted and interviewed by publications including BBC World Service, Al Jazeera, and the Huffington Post. Nikhil completed undergraduate and master’s degrees in public policy at the University of Chicago.
Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette
“Environmental Performance Art in the French Caribbean Curation of a Political, Patriotic, Decolonial or Mending Act?“
Nèfta Poetry (aka Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette) is a performer, dancer-choreographer, poetess and independent scholar. She has been exhibiting her work for a few years now, through the exhibitions and hosting festival she has been curating. CRI DE FEMMES is a Feminist festival she founded in the French territories and Paris, interculturally discussing with other cities (New Delhi India, Havana Cuba, United States…) since 2012. With the pandemic, her exhibiting video performances multiplied: a way of transposing immaterially her body and art in other spaces. This medium has taken a bigger place in her work. Still, she remains an in vivo performer artists so as her proposals to be fully received, as they often entail a multisensorial dimension, left incomplete through the audiovisual medium. Among the themes redundant in her practice — of which are environmental performances, are memory, ecology, sexuality/feminism and some more in the postcolonial sphere, and from the francophone Caribbean to the world.
Okyoung Noh
“The Feebly Antagonistic Interaction between Asian Ghosts and American Media“
Okyoung Noh is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working with multimedia installation, socially engaged performance, workshop, publication, and archival website. Noh’s intersectional practice involves antagonistic interactions with (Asian) diasporic people, asking about their experiences between assimilation and resistance in the United States, conflicting with racism, displacement, and optimistic promises of an American “better life.” Noh’s works have been shown at the Hangaram Museum in Seoul Arts Center, CICA Museum, Seoul Artist’s Platform_New & Young (SAPY), Hongik Museum of Art (HOMA), and many other galleries. She has been nominated as the Young Korean Artist by CICA Museum (KR); the New Artist from Boomer Gallery (UK), a fellow of the Nam Center for Korean Studies (MI, USA), and many. Noh is currently an Elsie Choy Lee scholar and co-teaches Integrative Project at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan.
Masafumi Oda
“Anti-Automationism“
Born in Saitama, Japan, in 1986. Enrolled in Department of Philosophy, Sophia University. Having got master’s degree by writing a master’s thesis about Deleuze’s philosophy. Participated in many international music and art festivals with music, audio-visual pieces, performances, and paper presentations in US, Italy, German, Belgium, England, Korea, China, Thailand, Argentina, Chile, NY, and Japan. A member of ASCAP and Japanese Society for Electronic Music.
Sasha Opeiko
“Uninvited Dark Objects“
Sasha Opeiko is a candidate in the Phd in Art and Visual Culture program at Western University (London, Canada). Her research explores intersections of artistic production, machine-oriented ontology and new definitions of melancholy to explore the “dark” reality of objects in the context of late capitalism. In addition to academic research, she works in a variety of media including video, installation, new media, and painting, utilizing remediation of found objects and fragments of visual culture. She holds a BFA from University of Windsor (2009), an MFA from University of Victoria (2012). Her work has been exhibited widely at galleries such as Artcite Inc. (Windsor), Thames Art Gallery (Chatham), and Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH). She is a recipient of several grants, such as the Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant to Visual Artists (2015), the Ontario Arts Council’s Visual Artists: Emerging Grant (2016) and Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant (2019).
Claudi Piripippi
“May You Be Rooted in Loving Kindness”
Claudi(a) Piripippi (Borgna) were born in Germany and raised in Italy. Their cultural formation developed at the University of Genoa in Italy, at the London Metropolitan University in the UK, and at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Their latest works explore their gender eco-glitch-fluid-gender-divinity. By setting it in relation to the environment, they re-articulate their senses to creatively disrupt and reprogram their body away from patriarchal inculcations.
Kylie Rah
“Scattered Abstraction”
Kylie Rah is an performance and interdisciplinary artist based in New York and Korea. She is currently studying at the School of Visual Art. She has shown her work and performance in New York and Korea.
Dominick Rivers
“When the Seeds Say Enough: Videographic Memory & the Personal Archive”
Dominick Rivers is an experimental filmmaker and musician based in Bloomington, Indiana,
USA. By integrating technically outdated forms, he uses video work, framed by larger
installations, to examine the popular media used to capture and sentimentalize memory. His
research is focused on developing eco-friendly substitutions to alternative photographic
processes that can be implemented with motion picture film. These substitutions demonstrate
that commonly accepted techniques can be made more accessible and environmentally
sustainable while remaining emotionally exigent.
Susie Suh
“The Bittersweet Process“
Susie Callista Suh (b.Oct.31,1993) is an emerging Korean American artist from Philadelphia, PA. She attended the University of the Arts and has BFA with honors in Interdisciplinary art and a concentration in art therapy. Suh creates sewn images on canvas and soft sculptures. Her art exists to address her experience with the Korean American Diaspora. Her work sheds light on microaggressions and overt racism that she and her family faced and internalized. The themes of her work include: identity, memory, history, and grief. Suh presents her work as a collection of visual vignettes, which are categorized into three chapters: her personal memories, moments in Korean American history, and stories from her family’s past in Korea.
Kyungjin Yoo
“Computer Vision Into the Arts”
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 has been working and teaching for the trans-disciplinary program at the University of Maryland, relating research and experiments with a range of methods and state of the art technologies to meet the needs of museum and arts, and new educational content for the arts in text, audio, video, and interactive multimedia formats.