Emi Kusano is Tokyo-based multidisciplinary artist, who employs AI to explore the intersections of retro-futurism and modern technological acceleration. By merging past and future aesthetics she challenges our perceptions of art and technology. 

Her unique AI-infused art has graced the cover of WWD Japan and been featured in Christie's and Gucci auctions. Internationally recognized, her work has been exhibited at venues such as the Saatchi Gallery and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and has been collected in more than a dozen countries around the world.

Emi is co-founder of Web3 Anime Project Shinsei Galverse, CEO of Fictionera Co., Ltd. and co-director of Wagami Labs Co., Ltd. In addition to her visual arts career, Emi is the lead singer and self-producer for Satellite Young, a band that creatively reinterprets 80s J-POP styles through a modern, technologically-driven, sci-fi lens. This innovative approach has garnered international recognition, including an appearance at SXSW 2017, and extends their creativity to installations.

Emi's work was exhibited among others at Art Basel Miami 2023 (Ferena Forum), Long Live London (Saatchi Gallery), or "Christie's 3.0 presents Future Frequencies: Explorations in Generative Art and Fashion in collaboration with Gucci" (Rockefeller Center). 

Lagos-based visual artist, Osinachi pushes boundaries by creating art entirely within Microsoft Word. His work explores personal experiences within a technological environment, and touches on social issues like LGBTQ+ rights, equality, and conservation. It has been exhibited at renowned galleries like Kate Vass Galerie, Galerie Nagel Draxler, and Room57 Gallery, among others; and fairs like Art X Lagos, 1-54 and Art Basel, alongside collaborations with prestigious auction houses like Bonhams and Christie's – some of these collaborations marking historic moments in art.

In 2023, he was involved in MoMA’s “Postcard” project. Same year, he completed a groundbreaking digital artist-in-residence program at the Toledo Museum of Art, further bridging the gap between traditional and digital art forms. His work can be seen in the collection of the museum as well as the collection of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

In 2021, Osinachi co-curated the first digital art exhibition at Art X Lagos and onboarded over 70 African artists onto a major digital art marketplace in 2022. His dedication extends to speaking at events like Forbes Under30, Africa Investment Forum, the Milken Institute Global Conference, and Christie's Art+Tech Summit, solidifying his position as a leading voice in the art world. He was named one of 100 Most Influential Africans for 2022 by New African Magazine; and just recently, one of 2024 most influential people of African descent by MIPAD.

Orkhan Mammadov is a new media artist & creative director, working with a focus on representing eastern culture through innovative art-making methods. Orkhan immersed himself in new media flows in global trends and became fascinated by local youth subcultures to investigate the redemption of history and culture. He examines the alternative conditions of cultural heritage perception with artificial intelligence & generative art. As a primary core of his practice, Orkhan focuses on how the cultural and historical codes integrate a new forward-looking medium, virtual reality, into contemporary views of our everyday life.
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Born and raised in Azerbaijan’s culturally rich Ganja city, Orkhan was immersed by his deeply personal interest in digitizing and regenerating cultural heritage. His spatial juxtaposition is a kind of experiment that emerges for the audience, raising questions about the intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic implications of artificial visual cultural artifacts. By strong research-based practice, Orkhan’s works unquestionably display the significance of the traditions and history to understanding and caring for the legacy of tangible and intangible heritage assets from Azerbaijan and the Middle East.
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Internationally he is recognized for his cultural data sculptures and dynamic carpet installations, which explore the alienation and escapism felt by a disaffected and displaced culture that casts itself as a fictional but physical element. The interplay between virtual and real worlds, utopia and dystopia, and the body and technology would remain major themes for Orkhan as his cultural commentary became increasingly pointed. Orkhan exhibited at several international biennales, festivals, and fairs, including Venice Biennale, Italy (2019), B3 Biennale of Moving Images, Frankfurt, Germany (2022), Art Dubai in UAE (2022), Art Basel in Miami, USA (2021), Moscow International Contemporary Art Biennale in Moscow, Russia (2019), Nasimi Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan (2018), Gamma Festival in ST. Petersburg, Russia (2018), IF Istanbul International Film Festival in Istanbul, Turkey (2017), ACCU Festival in Prague, Czech Republic (2017), Dave Festival in Dresden, Germany (2017).

Dr Ivona Tau is a generative A.I. artist from Vilnius, Lithuania who works with neural networks as a medium in experimental photography and motion painting. Her goal is to find and evoke emotions through artificially intelligent tools, this way making them more human.  She was awarded the best award in the Digital Ars 2020 contest for art created with AI, Computer Animation category award in Computer Space International Computer Art Forum 2021, elected as one of the TOP 10 Women in AI 2022 by Women in Tech foundation. Her work has been showcased and auctioned worldwide, including Sotheby’s X Burning Man, Frieze, Duran Arte y Subastas, Ars Electronica Garden NYC, Stratosphere Beijing, Crypto Art Week Asia, Athens Digital Art Festival, CAFA, Art Basel Miami and more.

Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, literary artist, AI researcher, and author of the “instant techno-classic” Technelegy, as well as co-founder of theVERSEverse. A pioneer of algorithmic authorship, blockchain poetics and publishing innovation, Stiles became the first writer to bring AI-powered literature to a major auction house when her poem, “COMPLETION: When it’s just you,” sold at Christie’s in 2022. Recent honors include a Future Art Award, nominations for the Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and finalist status for the Christopher Smart Prize and Palette Emerging Poet Prize. Stiles has been invited to speak at Art Basel, The Brooklyn Museum, SXSW, Digilogue Istanbul, the Ai4 Summit, Miami Art Week, NFT.NYC and VCA Invites: London, and has exhibited at venues around the globe including Annka Kultys Gallery, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Art Cologne, SuperRare Gallery, SCOPE Art Show, Superchief Gallery, the Carousel de Louvre, New York Fashion Week, the billboards of Shibuya, Tokyo, virtual Times Square, and elsewhere. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, Stiles has served as Poetry Mentor to the humanoid android BINA48 since 2018, and lives near New York City with her husband and studio partner, Kris Bones.

GIF artist A. L. Crego walks comfortably in the midpoint between the stillness of a picture and the continuous, but finite, frames of film. This self-taught digital artisan utilizes impressive loops to directly represent his own mental images in GIF format, generating a hypnotic visual mantra.

Crego, who discovered his passion for this art form after recognizing how moving images made people think more quickly and accessibly than other forms of art, creates images with a sci-fi classical aesthetic that seem to speak for themselves, often as if culled directly from his subconscious.

Using his own original content and royalty-free pictures and videos, and seeing the web as the new street, Crego also collaborates with street artists to give motion to their pieces on these new digital walls.

His inspiration comes not from specific software or hardware used to create GIFs, but from people, books, quotes he writes, poetry, sociology, psychology, and more. Now a prominent figure in the GIF-making industry, Crego has been approached by various DJs, artists, and agencies interested in having their personal work animated.

In his effort to take GIF format beyond the web, he projects his pieces through projectors, digital canvases, cinemas, and, more recently, Augmented Reality apps, exploring the newly emerged 'digital public space' and raising questions about the concepts of museums, art, and even reality.

For Crego, the GIF format is not only a way of creating and viewing art but a new way of thinking.

Willea Zwey is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Chicago. Drawing from her background in architecture, Willea’s artwork depicts otherworldly scenes with unconventional perspectives, surreal elements, and deep storytelling.

Since her 2021 debut in the digital art world, Willea's distinctive styles have gained global recognition, with her artwork auctioned on platforms including Sotheby's and exhibited worldwide, including Times Square, New York, Art Dubai, Digital Art Fair Hong Kong, NFT Paris, and Tokyo.

Zigor Samaniego is a renowned contemporary artist specialized in digital art. He was born in the 80's in a small town in the Basque Country, in a convulsive social and cultural time. With a curious and imaginative nature, since he was a child he felt the need to express himself through his creations. He experimented with plastic arts and noble materials until he found in digital art his true way of expression. At the age of 20 he moved to Barcelona, where he combined his studies with precarious jobs, while dedicating all the free hours he had left to perfect his true passion: the creation of characters.

Over time, and in a self-taught way, he ended up creating his own style, for which he is internationally recognized. During his time working in the world of animation and advertising, he has worked with companies such as Nickelodeon, Wicked and Prada. In 2020 he sold his first NFT and, since then, he has not stopped progressing as a digital artist reaping numerous successes and loyal collectors who love his characteristic style that perfectly combines sweetness and friendly punk with an artistic and technical quality of the highest level. Zigor has exhibited his works all over the world: NFT NYC, Artbabel Madrid, NFT Berlin, Awwwards Amsterdam, OFFF Sevilla, NXTMadrid, and Sothebys Paris.

Yoshi Sodeoka is a renowned artist known for his innovative exploration of various media and platforms, including video, gifs, and print. With a deep-rooted passion for music, his neo-psychedelic style directly reflects his love and background in the field. Drawing inspiration from music culture such as noise, punk, metal and prog-rock, Sodeoka has developed a unique artistic vision encompassing complex and mind-altering visuals.

His artistic practice involves a captivating blend of digital video feedback, footage sampling, online imagery, and collaborative audio soundscapes, resulting in immersive sensory experiences. Sodeoka's creative journey has traversed multiple artistic domains, including fine art, music collaborations with notable acts such as Metallica, Psychic TV, Tame Impala, Oneohtrix Point Never, Beck, The Presets, and Max Cooper, editorial illustration for renowned publications like The New York Times, Wired, The Atlantic, and M.I.T. Technology Review, as well as partnerships with fashion brands such as Adidas and Nike, and advertising projects for industry giants like Apple and Samsung.

Sodeoka's works have achieved global recognition and have been exhibited in prestigious venues worldwide, including the Centre Pompidou, Tate Britain, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Deitch Projects, La Gaîté Lyrique, the Museum of the Moving Image, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Laforet Museum Harajuku. His artistic contributions have earned him a place in the permanent collections of esteemed institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of the Moving Image, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Originally hailing from Yokohama, Japan, Yoshi Sodeoka relocated to New York in the 1990s to pursue his passion for art, enrolling at Pratt Institute. Since then, he has called New York home, establishing a strong presence in the city's vibrant art scene.

Max Osiris is an avant-garde digital artist who has emerged as a key figure in the crypto art movement, leveraging blockchain technology to redefine how art is created, owned, and experienced. His work blends vivid surrealism with abstract and glitch art, creating dynamic visual narratives that explore themes of consciousness, transformation, and the digital age. Originally self-taught as a painter, Osiris transitioned into the world of digital art, where his creations have garnered widespread attention on leading NFT platforms such as SuperRare, KnownOrigin, and OpenSea.

Osiris’ art challenges traditional boundaries, utilizing the decentralized nature of blockchain to ensure authenticity and provenance while allowing for global access and interaction with his pieces. His work is characterized by its bold, colorful style and philosophical undertones, inviting viewers to question the nature of reality in a rapidly evolving digital world. With a global audience and collectors from all corners of the art world, Max Osiris continues to be a trailblazer in both the digital and fine art spaces, pushing the envelope of what art can mean in the 21st century.

His pieces are not only visual experiences but also intellectual explorations, engaging with the broader philosophical implications of blockchain technology and digital identity. Osiris remains an influential figure within the crypto art community, regularly featured in exhibitions and interviews around the world.

GLITCHOFMIND (Leonel Piccardo) is a 3D and Digital Fashion Artist from the Dominican Republic based in The Netherlands. His visual artwork is characterized by his blend of character designs and digital fashion with visual symbolism, and storytelling that explores themes of identity, self-awareness, and Afro-surrealism.

In 2024 he founded INTERLÔR Atelier, a digital fashion house that explores the intersection of nature and technology to create avant-garde biolux design with a focus on innovative nature-based materials. In 2024, he was featured in HUG100 Artist to Watch 2024 with judges from MoMa, Christie's, Art Dubai, and more. His work has been featured and exhibited in Vogue, NFTnow, London Fashion Week, Miami Art Basel, and in cities across the world.

Florencia S.M. Brück is an Argentine artist and visionary, who explores the intricate connections between the digital, virtual, and natural worlds through her innovative projects and installations. Her work delves into themes of time, perception, mortality, and parallel universes, consistently pushing boundaries and challenging conventions.In her immersive "Out-of-Body" installation, Florencia employs a visual algorithm to create a transformative experience that invites introspection and self-awareness. Her "Tension and Interlude" pliage works artfully fuse traditional artistic painting methods with modern technological concepts, showcasing her ability to bridge distinct realms of artistic expression. The "Being Human" collection offers an exploration of the essence of humanity, blending surreal and dreamlike visuals with cutting-edge AI technology. These captivating portraits serve as ontological gateways, encouraging viewers to embark on a journey of exploration and rediscovery. Florencia's thought-provoking piece, "Far From Home," presented at the Venice Biennale of Art, addresses global population migration through an interactive portal, providing a unique perspective on pressing global issues. Her work was featured in Venice Art Biennale, Centro Cultural Borges, International Houston Fine Art Fair, Kunsthalle Faust Hannover, Palazzo Zenobio, Berlin Art Spring, Venice Architecture Biennale, Evita Museum, Espacio Cultural Donceles 66 Mexico, Art Basel Miami and more. Florencia has been active in the Metaverse since 2004, when she produced the entire island for the America's Cup Valencia for Alcatel Lucent. She is co-founder of 9th.com, a metaverse and web3 company working for brands including Discovery Channel, the World Bank, Mediaset, Xbox, Alcatel Lucent, among others. Florencia both creates and collects NFTs on the Tezos and Polygon chains. As a collector, she focuses on fine-art artists entering the digital world. As an active member of prestigious art organizations and the co-founder of Decentral Art Pavilion, Florencia contributes to the development of the art community by participating as a speaker at various conferences like IKT & Plus Tate Talk, The Role of NFTs in Cultural Institutions, NFT.NYC London, Dubai Boulevart and more. Her commitment to artistic exploration and innovative expression makes her a true pioneer in the ever-evolving world of art and technology.

Vratislav Pecka (A.K.A. PosterLad) is a Czech artist whose work breathes new life into the traditional medium of posters. Pecka sees posters as a form of fine art, and his minimalist designs are visually stunning, captivating and delighting viewers. His success is all the more remarkable considering he originally planned to pursue a career in film. However, his passion for graphics won out, and he established himself as a graphic designer. In 2016, Pecka started the PosterLad project on Instagram. Ever since then, he made around 900 artworks which he sells as prints as well as NFTs at SuperRare.

PosterLad's artworks work have been exhibited around the world both physically and also virtually: The PosterLad cryptoart pieces were featured at The Burnt auction, France's first NFT auction, among the likes of Beeple, Fewocious, Larva Labs, and XCopy. His work was a part of NFT.NYC 2023 in New York as well as NFTs What the F**k in Andorra in 2022. He received a handful of major design awards for his traditional work.

For PosterLad, it's all about creating beauty and inspiring others. Influenced by the Bauhaus school, his goal is to visually impress his audience and find a balance between colors and composition in each of his posters.

Lance Weiler is a storyteller and emerging media artist working in film, theatre, games and code. He is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University School of the Arts and serves as the director of the school's Digital Storytelling Lab.

An alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriting Lab, Weiler is recognized as a pioneer in mixing storytelling and technology. Wired magazine named him “one of 25 people helping to reinvent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood.”

His projects include Collapsus: The Energy Risk Conspiracy, Body/Mind/Change in collaboration with David Cronenberg, Frankenstein AI and Where There’s Smoke.‍

American artist and designer Chris Maestas began his creative journey immersed in the urban environment of Los Angeles as a graffiti writer and skateboarder in the 1990s. Inspired by the beauty of graffiti art and 90s street culture, his early work reflects the disruptive and rebellious energy of these movements.

Currently, Chris's work spans various mediums, including acrylic, oil-based enamel, spray paint, 3D, and digital art. He is focusing on generative AI processes to explore new avenues of creativity. His AI artworks often depict city scenes infused with the punk and avant-garde spirit, adapted to the digital age.

Chris's artwork has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, and Europe.

Kate Armstrong is a writer, artist and curator who has dedicated two decades to exploring the nexus of art and technology. Renowned as a pioneer in generative art and literature, her work spans generative text and image systems, speculative fiction, blockchain text-poetry, video, dynamic graphic novels, and location-aware fiction, among other conceptually driven hybrid forms.  Her speculative provocation Report from Future Times, which takes the form of a video report by an unnamed source from the future who outlines the contours of a world transformed by artists and designers, was presented to the European League of Institutes of the Arts in 2021. Her poem I, Sinkhole, which is written on products in a Zazzle store - including a ping pong paddle, a trucker hat, and a shot glass – was part of Poeme Objkt Subjkt curated by the Verseverse for Librarie Metamorphose and L’Avant Gallerie Vossen in Paris and has been shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize in Crypto Art.  
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Other works focus on creating narrative through recombinant text and image systems, such as Space Video (2012) that addresses ideas of inner and outer space exploration through a generative system that mixes an original non-linear narrative with YouTube videos uploaded in real time, and Why Some Dolls Are Bad (2007), a dynamically generated graphic novel built on the now-defunct public Facebook API that engages themes of ethics, fashion, and artifice in order to re-examine systems and materials such as mohair, contagion, and environmental decay. Other projects focus on generating narrative through dynamic inputs in physical space, such as PATH, a 12-volume bookwork with text generated by the movement of an anonymous individual living in the city of Montreal between 2005-2007, and PING (2003) which distributed psychogeographic commands to participants calling in to a custom software platform from their cell phones.  
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Armstrong has written for P.S.1/MoMa, Blackflash, Fillip, SubTerrain, and the Kootenay School of Writing, contributed to DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Arts (Anvil Press, 2008), and is the editor of Ten Different Things (2018), Art and Disruption (2015), and Electric Speed (2013). She is the author of Crisis & Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture (Michigan State University Press, 2002) in addition to numerous essays. She contributed to For Machine Use Only: Contemplations on algorithmic epistemology (&&& c/o The New Centre for Research and Practice, 2016) and #WomenTechLit (West Virginia University Press, 2017). Other books include Medium (2011) and Source Material Everywhere (2011). 
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As a curator she has produced exhibitions, events and publications in contemporary art and technology internationally. She founded Upgrade Vancouver as part of an international network of art and technology organizations in 30 cities, and was a founder of the Goethe Satellite, an initiative of the Goethe Institut that produced ten exhibitions between 2011-2013. Armstrong was an Artistic Director of the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2015), which presented the work of over 150 artists in Vancouver in 2015. 
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Her exhibitions include the Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania), Yerba Buena Centre (San Francisco), Psy-Geo-Conflux (New York), and Akbank Sanat (Istanbul), and her work was included in Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905–2016 at the Whitney Museum in New York as part of Lorna Mills’ Ways of Something (2017).  Armstrong’s artworks are held in collections including Rhizome, Turbulence, the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at York University, the Rose Goldsen Archive at Cornell University, the Library of the Printed Web, and by collectors on Objkt. 
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Armstrong is Chair of the Acquisitions Committee at the Vancouver Art Gallery, leads the writing and research initiative AI Futures for Art and Design at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, and is engaged in making new work in the context of web3.

Mark Amerika is one of the pioneers of net art, glitch art and remix art. His work playfully investigates digital culture from the perspective of a language artist who uses fiction as his primary medium. His experimental audio-visual stories and online performances challenge the viewer to rethink their co-dependent relationship with network and mobile media while deconstructing the platforms, venues and cultural institutions these works operate in.

His artwork has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial of American Art. Solo exhibitions of his work have taken place in venues such as the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, and the Marlborough Gallery in Barcelona, Spain.

He is the author of many books including his most recent title, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence (Stanford University Press 2022).

UBERMORGEN (‘the day after tomorrow’) is a clean and ungrateful artist duo. Rebels with a steady ascending worldwide presence, they represent the apex of risk in contemporary art. The synthesis of autistic actionist lizvlx aka Liz Haas & hyperactive visionary Lúzius Bernhard, and amplified by linguistic contrarian Billie Bernhard. Net.art pioneers, master deducers’, and media hackers’ is widely recognized for their online actionism, haute couture websites & NFTs, their polarizing social experiments, radical empathy, dark AI, nonbinary primitivism, and conceptual research. Artfacts proclaim their work as the epitome of ‘hyper contemporary’. CNN called them 'Maverick Austrian Business People' during their Vote-Auction project, reaching 500 million worldwide & challenging the FBI, CIA, & NSA (US presidential election 2000). A series of conceptual hacks (EKMRZ Trilogy, 2005-08) shook the foundations of the dominating e-commerce giants: ‘Google Will Eat Itself’, ‘Amazon Noir’, & ‘The Sound of eBay’. In 2021, ‘The Next Biennial Should be Curated by a Machine’ used AI-TikTikPop to catapult visitors into 64 twisted parallel universes. Today ‘UNINVITED’ AI Horror Film and crypto Art collide to create deeply nostalgic synthetic organisms, and ‘The D1cks’, hand-pixelated 1 of 1 Haute Couture NFTs reveal ‘L‘Origine du pixel’ and are leveraged by indirect Art Washing commissions such as PMC Wagner Arts.Mark Amerika is one of the pioneers of net art, glitch art and remix art. His work playfully investigates digital culture from the perspective of a language artist who uses fiction as his primary medium. His experimental audio-visual stories and online performances challenge the viewer to rethink their co-dependent relationship with network and mobile media while deconstructing the platforms, venues and cultural institutions these works operate in.

UBERMORGEN's work has been exhibited worldwide, often in digital spaces. Exhibitions: Liverpool Biennial, Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, Centre Pompidou, Gwangju Biennale, Louvre Paris, Biennale of Sydney, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, SFMOMA, MOCA Taipei, ICA Miami, The National Museum of China, Serpentine Galleries, Kunsthal Aarhus, Chronus Shanghai, Museo Reina Sofia, New Museum, Somerset House, Haifa Museum of Art, The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Wei-Ling Kuala Lumpur, HKW Berlin, ZKM, HMKV, National Art Gallery Sofia, Ars Electronica, Busan Biennale, The Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, ArtScience Singapore, 3331 Tokyo, WRO Media Art Biennale, Prague Biennale, ICC Tokyo.

jo+kapi is a collaboration between media artists and creative technologists Jo Ho & Kapilan Naidu. Along with creating new work using emerging technology to explore its effects on society and human perceptions of rapid mechanization and advancement of computational tools, jo+kapi also produce artist-led exhibitions to showcase media art in Singapore, a city that traditionally focuses on fine arts.

In the last two years, jo+kapi were granted funding from the National Art Council of Singapore to produce two exhibitions, the first, an installation-as-exhibition that critiques the perceived value of digital art, and the second, an exhibition with five new works exploiting real-time generation and/or automated tools.

Connie  is an artist based in Los Angeles (b. Atlantic City, NJ), trained as a classical pianist and biomedical engineer. She is descended from the ancestral shamans of Taiwan. Working predominantly with artificial intelligence, she probes postcolonial narratives that emerge on the boundaries between the synthetic and organic, material and immaterial, the human and nonhuman. Her works often re-code language, lore, and ritual to unfold the binaries of colonial canon.

Her accolades include the Lumen Prize Crypto Art Award Shortlist with theVERSEverse, the Red Dot: Best of the Best Award for Concept Design and the International Takifuji Arts Award. Her artwork has exhibited with bitforms gallery, Feral File, the Knight Foundation, FEMGEN at Art Basel Miami, VellumLA, EPOCH Gallery, the MUD Foundation, MoCDA, NFCastle, Elsewhere Gallery in London and NYC, unpaired gallery in Zug, and SaloneSatellite in Milan. Her art and practice have been covered by Outland, Right Click Save, Forbes, and TechArt Talks. She is an alumna of the Wild XYZ residency, the VerticalCrypto Art residency, and NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for art, technology, and design. Connie holds degrees from Duke University and ArtCenter College of Design.

Ira is Director and Professor of the Center of Creative Computation, at SMU in Dallas, TX. His creative practice and research focus on the integration of traditional studio arts practices, primarily drawing and painting, with computation. He is the author of three texts on creative coding and computer science pedagogy, including the first major reference on the Processing language. His work is shown throughout the world, with an emphasis in recent years on blockchain art and generative AI.

Mark is a visionary in the intersection of art and technology, stands at the forefront as the founder of Felt Zine, an innovative internet artist collective renowned for its groundbreaking digital art, immersive experiences, and pioneering web3 and metaverse projects. His tenure as Senior Director of Innovation at the Museum of the African Diaspora showcased his exceptional ability to integrate cutting-edge AR/VR technologies, establishing a significant digital footprint. Furthermore, as the Creative Director and Head of Marketing and Digital Strategy at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Mark demonstrated unparalleled expertise in marrying digital strategy with artistic vision.

Currently, as the Director of Digital Content at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, he continues to push the boundaries of digital and traditional art, fostering a space for innovation and cultural exploration. Mark's work not only enriches the cultural landscape but also inspires future generations to explore the limitless possibilities of artistic creation.

The Viennese Georg Eckmayr is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and lecturer. He studied digital art at the class of Peter Weibel under whose supervision he also completed and defended his doctoral thesis on technical images. 
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As an artist, he is interested in the (non-conscious) interconnection of physical and machine-based perception. To address this field his art operates with contrasts and ambivalences, with contradiction as a productive force. Georg specializes in moving imagery, films and installations in space or in the form of coded structures. He also uses sculptural approaches, scientific methods, documentary and journalism to produce a body of work, coming full circle despite its multiformity. 
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He participates in workshops, lectures, exhibitions and festivals around the world, and also publishes papers and articles as a researcher. In 2008, he received the Saatchi Gallery ́s Showdown award for photography in London. Currently he is working on research on digital knowledge production and distribution.

Lucas Aguirre is an artist based in Argentina. He studied Visual Arts at the National University of Córdoba. His work combines elements of physical reality in a digital space, where paint strokes, people and places are scanned three-dimensionally and reconfigured using virtual reality. The results of these operations can return to the physical plane and be continued analogically, creating a dynamic interplay between traditional modes and new media. The artist views digital tools as a means to subvert everyday elements and generate new visions.

Aguirre has held solo exhibitions such as “A Constructive Instability” at Art Mûr Gallery in Canada and “Una grieta en todo” at Museo Genaro Pérez in Argentina. His works have been shown in museums like Museo Della Permanente (Milan, Italy) and Museo Emilio Caraffa (Córdoba, Argentina), and in art biennials such as Bienalsur.

Lucas has participated in exhibitions such as “Este es mi lugar” (2024 CCK Buenos Aires, Argentina) "Dimensionalisti" at CADAF Art Fair x Kate Vass Gallery (2022, New York, United States) alongside digital art pioneer Charles Csuri and AI artist GanBrood; “A Constructive Instability” at Art Mûr (Montreal, Canada, 2021); "Friso" at the Hall of the Famaf Faculty (Córdoba, 2018); and "I Do Not Speak of Fire’s Representation, I Speak of Fire" at the Lino Enea Spilimbergo Museum.

His works have been finalists in the ITAU Award (2019-2020) and selected in the ITAU Award (2015-2016), the UADE National Competition (2016), and the Córdoba City Hall Award (2016). In 2017, he was selected for the national program "Plataforma Futuro" with the project "Alteridad: Explorations on the Intersection of Virtual Reality, Psychology, and Art," under the tutorship of Martín Bonadeo. He also participated in the municipal prize "Programa Obrar" with Marcela Bosch, tutored by Eduardo Stupía.

Danielle King is an artist, writer, and curator based in Western Massachusetts. She studied studio art and art history at Harvard University, working primarily in photography, film, and mixed media.

Her recent work utilizes AI technologies to create alternative art histories, explore memory and the duality of self, and investigate capitalist and art historical ideals of beauty and femininity.

After receiving her MBA from the Yale School of Management, she spent eight years managing the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

She is currently the CFO & COO of and Right Click Save. Danielle is a partner artist with ThreeSpaces, a member of the MAIF artist collective, and an advisor to Emergent Properties. She is an alumna of the VerticalCrypto Art Residency and serves as a mentor for the program. She is also the mother of two boys.

Roope Rainisto is a Finnish artist, designer, and photographer with a passion for storytelling.Roope’s work explores the boundaries between the real and the virtual, combining AI-generation procedures with traditional art methods, creating artworks that invoke emotional impact in their viewers. His NFT collections include “Life In West America”, “Reworld”, and "Vacation".

Previous to his current art career, Roope had a prestigious 25-year career as a professional designer. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Information Networks from the Helsinki University of Technology.

Jonas Lund creates paintings, sculpture, photography, websites and performances that critically reflect on contemporary networked systems and power structures. His artistic practice involves creating systems and setting up parameters that oftentimes require engagement from the viewer. This results in performative artworks where tasks are executed according to algorithms or a set of rules. Through his works, Lund investigates the latest issues generated by the increasing digitalization of contemporary society like authorship, participation and distribution of agency. At the same time, he questions the mechanisms of the art world; he challenges the production process, authoritative power and art market practices.

Lund earned an MA at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and a BFA at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (2009). He has had solo exhibitions at Francisco Carolinum, Linz (2022), The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2019), König Galerie, Berlin (2021), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2016), Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2016, 2015, 2014), Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam (2013), New Museum, New York (2012) among others and has had work included in numerous group exhibitions including Centre Pompidou, Paris, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Vienna Biennale 2019, Witte De With, Rotterdam, Kindl – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. His work has been written about in Artforum, Frieze, Kunstforum, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Metropolis M, Artslant, Rhizome, Huffington Post, Furtherfield, Wired and more.

Uczine is an artist specializing in multimedia and printmaking. Drawing inspiration from perceptions of the past, he blends these with the methods of today and frequently addresses themes such as mortality, technology, dystopia, social sciences and transformation.

Bård Ionson, a digital alchemist featured in prestigious venues from Oxford's Bodleian Library to the Museum of CryptoArt in New York and Paris, as well as Expanded Art Berlin, conjures visions that bridge reality and the supernatural. His boundary-pushing creations—ranging from AI-generated conceptual art and custom AI models to smart contract art, glitch scanography, and blockchain-based installation art—have established him as a pioneering voice in the digital and artificial intelligence art community. His work explores the concepts and emotions of navigating a world defined by the confusing distortions between physical, digital, and spiritual realities. A self-taught artist following a career in software, he was one of the first to enter both the AI art and cryptoArt (NFT) communities simultaneously in 2018 with SuperRare.

Kalen Iwamoto and Julien Silvano are the art couple behind Wen New, an art and language atelier dedicated to conceptual experimentations in literature and art. Together, they have produced book-objects, paintings generated from texts, a blockchain play co-written with AI, and other works that straddle the divide between the physical and the digital, literature and art. They have been exhibited in Paris, New York, Berlin, Budapest, among other places.

Kalen Iwamoto is a conceptual writer and artist. Her concept-driven work is based on a transdisciplinary and transmedia practice at the intersection of art, text, and technology. She takes a playful and experimental approach in exploring unconventional reading and writing experiences, giving visual and material form to literary concepts that invite us to contemplate the meaning of text, and our relationship to it in contemporary culture. She is also the founder of the crypto writers discord and co-founder of theVERSEverse, a literary gallery where poems are works of art.

Julien Silvano is a multidisciplinary artist, who lives and works in France. He holds an MFA (DNSEP) from the School of Art in Grenoble (École Supérieure d’Art de Grenoble). His work interrogates our relationship to systems of communication and information-sharing through visual and plastic works that bring physical and digital material into dialogue. His work offers critical reflections on contemporary social and cultural phenomena through dying machines, the design of imperfection, the encounter of traditional practices and new technologies, retro-futuristic objects, and human-machine interactions.

OONA, an anonymous conceptual artist, has been a prominent figure in the crypto art scene since her birth in 2021, shaping the discourse around technology, identity, and gender in the cryptoart landscape. Known for her distinctive mask and signature sunglasses, OONA has been instrumental in defining the role of anonymity and body within performance art and blockchain technology. Her works, often deemed provocative and confrontational, interrogate power and value - using technology to question the commodification of the female form in the digital age.

Through her performances and visual artworks, OONA has become a key figure in discussions about the role of technology in artistic sovereignty, and the representation of gender and identity in the blockchain space and contemporary art landscape at large.