Intertwining discourses around labyrinths, social anxiety, and post-truth, Junshu Gu’s work is rooted in rhizome theory and draws from her 13 years of experience in interdisciplinary, culture-related media work and her profound expertise. Her practice incorporates painting, sculpture, and time-based media, appearing minimal and abstract, yet formally lithesome and precise.
Hanna Tzong-Han Wu is a Taiwanese choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles, California. The dance language that lies between Western contemporary, hip-hop, and martial arts punctuates her signature style. Hanna is most interested in creating works that reflect on humans and humanity and believes that arts are the reflection of society. In her work she blends arts, culture, society, humans, and self.
Zihao Zhou is a Chinese fashion designer based in London. His art explores the connections between the macro and the micro, revealing the hidden wonders of the world. In 2024, he took a leap of faith and launched his own eponymous brand, Illogic, in London. With a blend of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary aesthetics, Zihao aims to carve his unique mark in the fashion industry.
Tong Tong is a cutting-edge fashion designer and creative based in New York City. Tong's designs draw inspiration from a rich tapestry of influences, including personal memories, a profound passion for fashion history, and an adventurous exploration of materials. His collection Home Alone draws inspiration from a cherished childhood memory, the clandestine explorations into his parents' wardrobe.
Qibai Ting is an artist currently based in Beijing and London. Her practice mainly focuses on narrative objects and sculptural installations. Qibai is interested in stargazing activities, and she considers her works as “constellations”. Living very close to forests and mountains, she identifies with the philosophy of nature and practices within landscape.
Yimei (Emair) Zhu is an interdisciplinary artist. Her art, spanning interactive wearables to bio-art, challenges conventional views on disability, aiming to redefine human interaction and perception through the fusion of art and technology. By exploring new sensory worlds and advocating for posthumanism, Yimei invites audiences to experience life from diverse, inclusive perspectives.
Di Tian is a New York-based new-media artist from Chongqing, China. Through his current interactive and time-based artworks, Di challenges the notion of art as a solitary experience. His current body of work doesn't adhere to a specific theme; instead, it is a canvas for exploration that covers a diverse range of subjects, including folk culture, artificial intelligence, contemporary social issues, and so on.
Ziyi Zhang is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. Currently teaching at SAIC, her work encompasses painting, installation, and interactive media, delving into unconventional explorations of human conditions. Her series Family Photo Album is an interactive, browser-based work of art, an exploration of notions of truth, cultural and generational disconnect, and the relationship between social class and art.
Formed and influenced by a family legacy of glass artistry, Yue Wu began his journey by accompanying his father on global artistic expeditions. Drawing inspiration from giants, childhood memories, urban life, and human consciousness, Wu's art deeply resonates with our world. His diverse portfolio includes videos, handcrafted installations, and photographs.
Daphne is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and lighting designer for interactive installations, spatial experiences, audiovisual arts and live performances. Teng is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative journey traverses the realms of architecture, virtual reality, installation art, film, and experiential design. Together they created the interactive installation Parallel.
Tairan Hao, based in New York, is a new media artist. His work serves as an exploration and a dialogue, delving into the complexities of identity within the shifting landscapes of politics, culture, and technology. His work, rooted in personal experiences of conformity, offers a lens to examine the individual's place among the collectivism of society.
Tianyi Sun is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based between New York and Beijing. She uses a diverse range of strategies, including installation, film, sculpture, painting, and physical computation. Her latest project, Disposable Utensils, is an interactive installation that incorporates focused and ambient sound, multi-channel projection mapping, motion sensors, along with sculptural assemblages.
Seph Li is a Chinese multidisciplinary artist, currently based in London, UK. His interactive works vary in many different forms, but they are all self-contained systems that run on computational rules. Seph searches for dynamic equilibriums in nature and re-imagines them into interactive systems through digital technology. His works are now focusing on dynamic fluids, accumulative interaction, and physics hypotheses.
Yuguang (YG) Zhang is a New York-based new media / AI artist. His current practice, which incorporates interactive media, installation, and live performance, explores the connections we make with the ubiquitous AI systems embedded around us, the surprises and struggles we have when we (partially) surrender our authorship to intelligent algorithms, and the cultural & ethical shifts that come along in our society.
Vinitte Chen is a young artist whose main works break away from common art forms such as painting and installation art. Instead, she opts to create unique interactive and multidimensional pieces as to generate an impactful experience for the viewer. Her art allows the viewers to break through the artist's intended interpretation and find their own meaning.
DINO Ahmad Ali is a Syrian artist currently based in France. His work focuses on two main elements: the interactive relation between the artwork and the audience and the human eye's visual capabilities. His new project, Interactive Colours, focuses on the material and its color to produce interactive optical illusion artworks formed by three colors: blue, red, and yellow.
Lab212 is an interdisciplinary art collective, founded in 2008 in Paris by friends who all graduated in Media & Interaction Design at Les Gobelins Paris. Using new media, the collective creates installations that explore Lab212 Collective’s perceptions of space and sound provoke a loss of bearings and offer a sensitive interpretation of impalpable phenomena by giving them materiality as through light and sound beams in space Passifolia, 2020.
