Interviews Platform

INTERVIEW | Chang Chen

INTERVIEW | Chang Chen

Chang Chen is a Chinese artist based in Vancouver, Canada. The artist is willing to open her mind to the scope of the world of visual art, holding speculative and optimistic attitudes toward the unknown challenges. She values the effective communication between the artwork and the viewers and she believes that expressing oneself and making voices for the social currencies are indispensable as an existence in this Anthropocene.

INTERVIEW | Minh Vinh

INTERVIEW | Minh Vinh

Minh Vinh is an American artist based in San Francisco. His work involves a mixture of illustration and design techniques. The artist has devised a number of concepts with various iterations to be a part of the subsequent choosing. The resulting creations were the products of several rounds of shooting and revising physical-world graphic layouts. The pictures that he presents are his personal narratives and commentaries.

INTERVIEW | DINO Ahmad Ali

INTERVIEW | DINO Ahmad Ali

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.

INTERVIEW | Yijun Ge

INTERVIEW | Yijun Ge

Yijun Ge is a Chinese artist based in San Francisco. Yin and Yang are the basis of her visual language, representing passion and calmness. The contrast creates balance and tension, often represented through warm and cool colors. The elements that show up in her dreams, such as spiders, sailboats, cats, and dragons, help create a painting's theme. They are a unique symbolic language representing larger concepts.

INTERVIEW | Dipo Doherty

INTERVIEW | Dipo Doherty

Dipo Doherty is a Nigerian artist based in Lagos. As an artist, engineer, and entrepreneur, he seeks to define a vocabulary in his work that unites his African heritage and scientific background. Doherty has interpreted the human anatomy in his own ideology, increasing its dimensionality in abstraction in his paintings, while expanding his visual language to other forms of media that reference socio-economic issues.

INTERVIEW | Michael Filimowicz

INTERVIEW | Michael Filimowicz

Michael Filimowicz is a Digital Artist based in St. Louis, USA. He has a background in computer mediated communications, audiovisual production, new media art and creative writing. His research develops new multimodal display technologies and forms, exploring novel form factors across different application contexts including gaming, immersive exhibitions, and simulations.

INTERVIEW | Xiao He

INTERVIEW | Xiao He

Xiao He is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on painting and visual communication design. In her works, Xiao records ordinary life moments such as soaking in the warm bathtub as well as random conversations that she had with a stranger in Mexico. Consciousness the magician would fabricate these fragments together, and she records them faithfully, in the form of paintings and artist's books.

INTERVIEW | Olga Shcheblykina

INTERVIEW | Olga Shcheblykina

Olga Shcheblykina (1986) is a visual artist currently based in Steyr (Austria). Her main media are painting, installation and photography. She is exploring themes of sensitivity, vulnerability, corporeality and feminism. Living the experience of isolation and changes in the world around me in 2020, she explored suppressed and hidden emotions and manifested sensitivity.

INTERVIEW | Sam Kelly

INTERVIEW | Sam Kelly

The drawings that Sam Kelly creates express a raw and energetic approach. He repeatedly works and reworks the image. The surfaces are dense and textural. Often using a somber color palette, his work takes on a mysterious and darkened mood. The imagery in Sam’s work is not pre-determined, but rather discovered through his laborious process.

INTERVIEW | Fernando Madera Alvarado

INTERVIEW | Fernando Madera Alvarado

Fernando Madera Alvarado is a Mexican artist. His work is mostly composed of bidimensional surfaces: paper of all sorts, canvases, walls, or wood panels. For the last couple of years, his work has been focused on acrylic ink compositions. He also works with digital software to modify his ink sketches and compile them for use on larger compositions.

INTERVIEW | Zhou Song

INTERVIEW | Zhou Song

Zhou Song is a Chinese artist, famous for his hyper-realistic oil paintings. His recent work explores the shifting political and social landscapes of urbanized societies developed according to principles of technological advancement. Imagining a dystopian future, Song’s latest series probes human realities shaped by technology as much as nature.

INTERVIEW | Evgeniia Kazarezova

INTERVIEW | Evgeniia Kazarezova

Evgeniia Kazarezova is a ceramic designer based in Bratislava, Slovakia. She primarily works with clay as with one of the ancient and natural materials humans worked with. The combination of traditional techniques and modern technologies allows Evgeniia to achieve unobvious results during the design process.

INTERVIEW | Andreea Vasile-Hoxha

INTERVIEW | Andreea Vasile-Hoxha

Andreea is an award-winning architectural & landscape architectural designer and researcher. "After Plastics: The Gardens of the Glacial Foreland" is a transitional landscape – from glacial to post-glacial. The project questions the potential emergence of microplastic particles in the most pristine places on Earth over the next two centuries and the imminent implications on landscape systems and their formation.

INTERVIEW | Clemens Gritl

INTERVIEW | Clemens Gritl

Clemens Gritl is a German artist based in Berlin. His work focuses on the interaction between space, dimension, monotony and materiality of urban megastructures. His black and white photorealistic presentations can be aligned with 1960s architecture photography which documents a singular, unbroken optimism and the radical zeitgeist of its era.

INTERVIEW | Noah Spivak

INTERVIEW | Noah Spivak

Noah Spivak is a Canadian artist, currently based in Melbourne, Australia. His fascination with the human senses, the ambiguity of everyday life, and the space in which the art experience occurs culminate in a body of work exploring how we experience visual art and the subconscious decisions we make leading up to this moment.

INTERVIEW | Chenglin Xue

INTERVIEW | Chenglin Xue

Chenglin Xue’s work uses Arduino, processing, Maxmsp, and other interactive software in synergy with photography, video, printmaking, and other media. His work explores the nature of video and objective reality, focusing on the relationship between people and nature, attempting to harness interactive media to explore an invisible reality.

INTERVIEW | Sebastian Mueller-Soppart

INTERVIEW | Sebastian Mueller-Soppart

Sebastian Mueller-Soppart is a former advertising executive and creative director. His work has an intentional criticism towards the impact we, as humans, have on the planet, our generation's out-of-control consumerism, and the shared concern of how effective recycling really is.

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Weisman

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Weisman

Rebecca Weisman is a conceptually driven maker and thinker who makes deconstructed films of sculptures that are then re-embedded into the sculptures creating dreamy installations with layers upon layers of visual narrative and meaning. Her project Skin Ego centers on an immense, eight by twenty foot sculptural reconstruction of a section of a Finback whale, modeled after a photograph found on the internet of a real-life stranded whale.

INTERVIEW | Alejandro Áboli

INTERVIEW | Alejandro Áboli

Alejandro Áboli is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer and The RedLine is his debut as an artist. Combining reality with fiction, Áboli reduces images to their simplest forms to capture the delicate relationship between real and imaginary worlds. The Redline photos catch the viewer’s eye using a contemporary theme and creating a comfortable ambiguity between reality and fantasy and spiced with a touch of humor.

INTERVIEW | Marcel Schwittlick

INTERVIEW | Marcel Schwittlick

Marcel Schwittlick is an artist based in Berlin, Germany. With his work, he is examining the cybernetic aspects of generative systems and modern technology. He is interested in digital culture, its influence on society, and chances for alternative types of communication. He is working in strong connection to various practices, forging a relationship between physical and digital media, traditional and modern approaches.