Janna Ahrndt
“Archives of Digital Mourning: DeadWeb Lacrymatory“
Based Art from Purdue University in 2019. Janna is currently a resident of Windham, Maine. Their work explores how deconstructing everyday technologies, or even designing them yourself, can question larger oppressive systems and create a space for participatory action.
HC Berg
“How do digital technology processes affect artistic expression?”
HC BERG creates sculptures and optical installations that challenges our present perception of reality
The Artworks visually seduce and challenge the viewer to playfully discover and investigate the hidden artistic expression through ingenious digitally developed”visual illusions” a way to master our belief in this communal future challenge facing us in the near future.
Jamie Bradbury
“The Black Atlantic”
Jamie Bradbury, born in Toronto in 1981, is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans visual arts, music, and independent research-creation over the past two decades. Now living and working between Corner Brook and Burgeo, Newfoundland, Bradbury holds a bachelor’s degree in Painting from OCAD University (2006), a master’s degree from Central Saint Martins in London (2010), and a Bachelor of Education from Memorial University of Newfoundland (2024). His work explores the interplay between autobiographical narratives and collective histories, blending personal and found materials to challenge the boundaries between individual and shared experiences. In his recent series, ‘The Black Atlantic,’ Bradbury engages Paul Gilroy’s framework of trans- cultural exchange and resistance to interrogate AI’s potential as a tool for recovering subjugated histories and an agent of epistemological destabilisation. Through promptography- ritualistic crafting of text-to-image prompts that merge archival fragments, speculative fiction, and Afrodiasporic cosmologies- he generates digital artefacts that reimagine Black agency erased by colonial record-keeping, while also exposing the colonial logics embedded in AI datasets. Bradbury’s representations of land, sea, and environment frame the meaning of ‘home’ as both mutable and concrete, examining how identity is repositioned when its foundational roots are lost. His works have been exhibited across North America and Europe, most recently at the International Art Fair Venice 2025, Royal Cambrian Academy of Art in Conwy, with previous showings at Arte Fiera Bologna, Santorini Biennale, AACDD Festival London, Art Toronto, and AQUA Miami. He has been featured in Canadian Art, Voir Magazine, CBC News, and Garageland. He first gained national attention in Canada through the TV program Star Portraits, where he painted Canadian TV icon Debbie Travis. Bradbury’s works are held in collections such as the Portrait Gallery of Canada, Debbie Moore O.B.E., and the ALDO collection. In addition to his visual art practice, he collaborates with choreographer Marissa Wong on dance and soundscape projects, presenting at venues including The Dance Centre in Vancouver and TEDxSoma. Recently, Bradbury was awarded a Canadian Council of the Arts award for Movement and Sound creation, reflecting his ongoing commitment to interdisciplinary exploration and innovation.
Maggie Genoble
“Archiving a Body”
Maggie Genoble (b. 2001, Jonesville, South Carolina) is an interdisciplinary artist working within feminist and queer studies as it relates to the emergence of new technology. She works across a range of media, utilizing sculpture, video, and installation to generate hybrid figures in a time when the human body is highly digitized and politicized. Growing up in the conservative American South, she responds to rigid, normative performances of gender and sexuality, working through nontraditional modes of representation in her practice to expand on ideas of identity. Genoble recently completed a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Art History from Wofford College (Spartanburg, SC), where she received the Whetsell Fellowship, leading to a solo exhibition. She was the inaugural artist in residence at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville, selected as a Tri State Sculpture Association Memorial Fellow, and received grants from the South Carolina Arts Commission and the Foundation of Contemporary Arts.
GO Yeon-Jeong
“Navigating the Multiverse: At the Boundary Between the Virtual and the Real in Contemporary Art”
Ms. Go Yeon-Jeong is an art researcher and lecturer with a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1), where she also completed Ph.D. coursework in art history. Specializing in modern and postmodern art, her research focuses on cognitive interpretations of contemporary art and interdisciplinary methodologies. Currently, she teaches at Seoul National University of Science and Technology and Chonnam National University while serving as the co-director of ARTEP, a collective dedicated to art content planning and production. Her work bridges academic research and creative practice to foster a deeper understanding of art.
Jacqueline Heer
“Dancing at the Precipice: Art and the question of Authenticity in times of AI”
Jacqueline Heer is a Swiss/American conceptual artist who works across diverse techniques, media and materials to construct immersive mental and physical spaces. Her practice focuses on the relationship between perception and reality, challenging conventional boundaries and inviting viewers to engage in deeper contemplation of their surroundings and their role within them. In recent years she has been integrating technology (as it becomes available) with self made and found objects, painting and performances to create environments that aim to expand the mind, provoking new ways of seeing, thinking, and interacting with the world. Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally. In addition to her artistic practice, Jacqueline Heer is the founder and current operator of ping-pong between ART and Knowledge, a project space and residency program in Berlin.
Gustav Hellberg
“On Off Shore”
Gustav Hellberg (b. 1967, Stockholm) is a visual artist working with photography, installation, and interactive media. His work explores the relationships between people, place, and power, with a focus on themes such as real estate, ownership, and environmental sustainability. He studied at the Royal College of Art in Stockholm and the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. From 2000 to 2016 he was based in Berlin, and from 2016 to 2023 he taught as Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography at Chung-Ang University in Seoul. He now lectures at Suncheon National University. Hellberg has exhibited internationally at venues including Torrance Art Museum (LA), Malmö Art Museum, ThingWorld: Triennial of New Media Art (China), and Momentum 4 (Norway). Upcoming exhibitions include Ghost Memory (Daegu) and the Bandung Photography Triennale 2025.
Hodoo
“Project 09: Becoming Human“
Hodoo is an artist who explores a new form of art that breaks down the boundaries between humanity and technology, art and science. By integrating real-time brainwave communication, generative AI art, and emotion-responsive visualization systems, Hodoo creates immersive experiences where art becomes an interactive, living presence. His work goes beyond traditional interactive art; it is a bold attempt to explore communication between the human subconscious and machines. By detecting the audience’s brainwave and emotional data in real time and linking it with generative AI, Hodoo’s art responds and transforms instantly—functioning like a sentient being that reflects the viewer’s inner state. Hodoo’s artistic philosophy is rooted in the belief that “art is no longer a fixed outcome, but an organic system that breathes and reflects the human psyche.” His experiments suggest that in future societies, emotional connections between humans and artificial beings may be possible, and that technology can evolve into a tool for sensory and emotional expression.
Sung-A Jang & Dan Mikesell
“Verdant Echoes: The Martian Gardener Project”
Sung-A Jang’s multidisciplinary practice melds science, history, and data into experiential artifacts that invite playful exploration. Her immersive works have been exhibited in museums, science centers, and public spaces, engaging diverse audiences. In collaboration with Dan Mikesell—artist, educator, and engineer whose projects have been featured in The New York Times, BBC, and the Nam June Paik Art Center—they imagine how life might take root and adapt in distant worlds, guided by creative inquiry and scientific research.
Haein Kang
“13×17”
Haein Kang is a new media artist exploring the unknown. She holds a Ph.D. in Digital Arts & Experimental Media from the University of Washington, and her dissertation explores artistic illusion using brain-computer interfaces. Dr. Kang’s work pushes the boundaries of art through the poetic use of emerging technologies. Her data-driven sound installation received an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica. Dr. Kang is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University and lives and works in Nashville, Seattle, and Seoul.
Alex Jaehyun Kim
“Husk of the Heart”
As a contemporary artist, my work focuses on the practice of “drawing-writing” and “erasing.” As I grew up in both the West and the East cultures, my interest in art always relied on its multi-perceptional linguistic aspect. How do different individuals and cultures resonate with one another? What becomes vital as we practice ‘art’? Based on these questions, I try to capture the residue of my being in the practice of “drawing-writing” and “erasing.” I work in various forms of media, such as paper, painting, animation, installation, and performance.
Sang Woo Samuel Kim
“Myth, Center, and Religion: Fra Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli’s Fountain of Neptune in Messina”
Sang Woo Samuel Kim has been working in the localization, content production, and branding industries since 2016, gaining extensive field experience across multinational corporations and start-ups. Before embarking on a business career, he earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in art history from the Johns Hopkins University. His previous research focused on artistic localization in sixteenth-century Spain by traveling Italian artists. He also taught courses in Italian Renaissance art history at Johns Hopkins.
Carol Seungwon Lee
“Augmented “Resurrection” Through Generative Artificial Intelligence: An Artistic Tool or Destructive Weapon?”
Carol Seungwon Lee (she/her) is a New York-based performing arts manager with experience in Korea, China, and the United States. Her academic research centers around the role of the performing arts administrator in curating spaces and arts for the performance of cultural trauma and memory, with a particular focus on their applications in memorials. Her performance research explores the East Asian diaspora, explored through the narratives on stage and administrative efforts that facilitate dialogues for the establishment of brave spaces. Carol holds an MA in Performing Arts Administration from New York University and a BA in Theatre and International Studies from Northwestern University.
Yao Ruitian
“Digital media embraces the human spirituality”
Yao Ruitian lives and works in Guangzhou and London. His works combine performance, material, environment and space to explore the conflict between the individual and social characteristics such as vernacularity, urban development and interpersonal relationships in the context of East Asian culture. Based on this, he tries to deconstruct the current social norms and behavioural practices, provide a poetic perspective to give them new cultural and practical meanings, and reshape the reality of the contours of the living space.
Yehun Shin & Sangbin Rhie
“Creating and developing interactive media art: a research of web environment-based methods”
They are sound artists and audio researchers based in Seoul and Jeju. They are active in the fields of contemporary classical music, computer music, and audio-visual.
Apoorva Singh
“Potions of AI Femininity”
Apoorva Singh is a London-based artist and cultural producer specializing in fine art, printmaking, and time-based media. She holds an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the University of the Arts London. Her multidisciplinary practice explores technology, identity, and cultural narratives, with exhibitions at venues such as MONO (Rotterdam) and The Flying Dutchman (London). In 2024, she participated in the Crypto Residency-Blockchain Fieldwork at Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, investigating the intersection of digital culture and artistic practice. She has contributed to institutions such as the Barbican Centre and Hampstead School of Art as a cultural producer, tutor, and consultant. Currently, her research focuses on equity pathways in the arts for Global Majority practitioners.
Catalin Soreanu & Lavinia German
“Bridging Cultures: The ‘Commons’ Project Series”
Catalin Soreanu (b.1976) 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 (b. 1983) 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.
Joey Tigert & Joe Ren
“Point of Entry”
Joey Tigert is a multi-media artist and educator from Nashville, Tennessee. He received a BFA in Painting with a minor in Graphic Design from Middle Tennessee State University in 2004, and he earned his MFA in 2D Studio Art from Southern Illinois University in 2015. His work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, and he teaches as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Auburn University.
Joe Ren is a multimedia artist, designer, and educator. He is an assistant professor in Digital Media at California State University Bakersfield. He is also a co-founder / chief designer at Expose Art and a rotating-term vice-chair of the Executive Committee at the Association of Chinese Artists in American Academia (ACAAA). For the past few years, he has exhibited his works nationally and internationally in America, Sweden, Finland, South Korea, and China. His research and articles have been published in China, England, and America such as, Fusion + Evolution – Teaching and Learning of Design, New Media Art, International Academic Forum on Individualized Education of Art and Design in International Field of Vision, Chinese Literature Today, etc.