Tianyi Zhang lives and works in Shanghai and Los Angeles. Her work explores patterns of behavior and communication within our over-saturated media and social environment. Through interactive performances, often featuring her own portrait, Zhang emphasizes simple habitual gestures to examine the connection between private and collective experience, cultural pressures, expectations, and identity.
INTERVIEW | Alina R.J
Alina R.J. is a London-based multidisciplinary artist with a Central Asian background, currently pursuing her Master's degree at the Royal College of Art. Alina's recent research focuses on Eastern philosophies, Jungian psychology – specifically Individuation and The Self – as well as tools to reconnect with this part of our psyche, including meditation.
INTERVIEW | Xiangyu Wang
Xiangyu Wang is a London-based digital media artist passionate about how to create poetic or interesting interactive installations, moving images, and performance art by new technologies. He focuses on the issues of the relationship between humans and nature and the impact of technology on the future to inspire the audience to reflect on the themes explored in his work.
INTERVIEW | Gumi Lu
Gumi Guihan Lu is an interdisciplinary artist, originally from Chongqing, China, and now based in New Jersey, USA. She works at the intersection of technology, mythology, art, and culture. Her creative philosophy stems from a dual exploration of world order and personal memory, aiming to build a network of contrasts that are far removed from reality yet capable of explaining it.
INTERVIEW | Qian Chen
Qian Chen is a visual artist based in London and Xi'an. Her latest project, Dreamania, explores new dimensions of childhood memories, nostalgic culture, fancy dreams of irrationality. By observing and recording life trajectories, and reprocessing frozen memories, Qian create a tangible concept of spatial iteration, presenting the product of the interaction between daily life and dreams.
INTERVIEW | Suly Bornstein-Wolff
Suly Bornstein-Wolff’s latest project, Vessels, is part of the Personal Structures exhibition at Palazzo Mora in Venice, held on the occasion of the 2024 Venice Biennale. In the installation, the white glass objects represent a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and with their smooth reflective surfaces that symbolize beauty, symmetry, and perfection.
INTERVIEW | Wanrong Zhu
Wanrong Zhu is a multimedia visual artist from China and based in London. Her work focuses on the relationship between AI and society. Her latest series, the Dream Series, three distinct works, each delving into different facets of the human psyche—death, inner shadows, and anxiety—drawn from the artist's meticulous collection of 100 recurring dream archives.
INTERVIEW | Qibai Ting
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.
INTERVIEW | Jiayun Chen
Jiayun Chen is an interdisciplinary artist who manifests ideas through forms of installation, ceramics, painting, and drawing. In searching for poetics and humor within failed translations, Chen investigates the aesthetics of failure in the experience of cross-cultural encounters. Having divided time nearly equally between China and America, Chen's artistic journey is heavily influenced by straddling the cultural divide between the two.
INTERVIEW | Angel Jiaqi Qin
Angel Jiaqi Qin is a post-human image weaver. Having lived and studied in Rochester, New York, Beijing, and London, Angel's practice seeks out an exploration of disruptions in the otherwise straight, smooth, and flat narratives. She weaves patterns of imagery from a non-human-centric perspective, questioning the ontological nature of humanity and its relationship with ecology.
INTERVIEW | Yimei Zhu
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.
INTERVIEW | Di Tian
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.
INTERVIEW | Devika Pararasasinghe
Devika Pararasasinghe is currently living and working in London by trade as an artist and writer. Her practice deals with[in] the working-class [invisible]-labour ecosystem[s] and [invisible]-reproductive labours, giving into the visuals between low-fi and high-art aesthetic scenarios. In addition, writing for Devika is an act of monological autonomy and re-narrativising.
INTERVIEW | Yue Wu
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.
INTERVIEW | Lisa Rommé
Lisa Rommé, also known under the pseudonym Shtormit, is a curator and art producer originally from Moscow and currently residing in Paris. Lisa mostly works with olfactory installations and interactive objects, where she examines the embodiment and interactions with the social environment and humor. She has participated in more than 140 exhibitions, received 8 art grants and worked in 8 art residencies.
INTERVIEW | Anna Skoromnaya
Anna Skoromnaya is an artist who lives and works in Genoa, Italy. She works predominantly with installations and media based on moving images, such as videos, holograms and computer- and software-generated figures. Skoromnaya’s artistic practice incorporates both sophisticated, innovative media and intentionally contaminated materials, with a language that focuses on and magnifies the paradoxes present in our society.
INTERVIEW | Daphne Ting-Yu Chu & Teng Xue
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.
INTERVIEW | Yuqing Liu
Yuqing Liu, an esteemed olfactory interaction artist and immersive experience designer, is celebrated for her groundbreaking work in human olfaction and memory. Utilizing advanced multisensory technologies, Liu explores how scents influence memory preservation and formation. Her art is not just interactive; it's a mission to tap into the deepest recesses of memory and emotion through scent.
INTERVIEW | Daiqing Zhang
Daiqing Zhang (b. 1998, Beijing, China) now lives and works in Providence, RI, and Los Angeles, CA, USA. Her practice is informed by phenomena in everyday life and their transcendental and celestial significance. Zhang’s work often takes form in highly crafted experimental instruments underscored by phenomenology, recreating and staging serendipitous moments with hot glass.
INTERVIEW | Jingyi Gao
Jingyi Gao, a multimedia artist based in New York, specializes in photography, video, and sculpture. Formerly a dancer, Jingyi's journey began with capturing the fleeting beauty of bodily movement on stage. In her interdisciplinary practice, she aims to evoke contemplation on the complexity of the human form, inviting viewers to engage with its diverse perceptions.