Urilic (Nan) is a highly talented graphic designer, visual artist, and UX designer passionate about exploring and re-imagining traditional nomadic culture through her work. She is driven to find innovative ways to bridge cultural divides and bring people together. Her designs are centered around visual appeal, user experience, systems, and technology and are a testament to her expertise in the field.
INTERVIEW | Ellis Yu
Ellis Zhixuan Yu is a multidisciplinary graphic designer and illustrator. She combines in-depth research and dynamic visual language with transmedia storytelling in her works. Ellis explores the vast systems of design, ranging from typography and brand development to intricate visual system mapping. She explores cross-culture conversation and fusion with a particular emphasis on typography and brand identity.
INTERVIEW | Eugene Ofori Agyei
Eugene Ofori Agyei (1993) is a ceramic sculptor, fiber, and installation artist, and an educator originally from Ghana living in Gainesville, Florida. Agyei creates sculptures and installations that incorporate African batik fabrics, yarn, ceramics, and everyday objects filled with personal and cultural meaning to explore cultural identity, belonging, displacement, memories, and place.
INTERVIEW | Ivad Bassil
From mixed media on canvas, wooden sculptures, and murals to digital graphic art and photography, Ivad Bassil tells his story in various forms and shapes. His artwork is constantly evolving, driven by tireless personal quests and an unbound curiosity for new techniques. In his latest series, Wonderland, he captured the negative energy of the lockdown and transformed it into Beauty, Construction, Positivity, and Dialogue.
INTERVIEW | Yun Yao
Yun Yao is a Chinese artist and illustrator, currently based in California. She finds inspiration in the diversity of materials and the endless possibilities they offer for visual storytelling. Yun's work aims to explore a range of themes, from personal experiences to abstract concepts, with the ultimate goal of connecting with her audience on an instinctual level.
INTERVIEW | Yu Chin Tseng
Born in Taiwan, Asia, Tseng Yu-Chin began his creative career as an experimental filmmaker and now works mainly with video and photography and mixed media installations, living with his partner in Amsterdam and Berlin. His work is based on the human body and the subjective mind, using the body to discuss self-existence, identity, politics, society, and contemporary values.
INTERVIEW | Skyler Yixian Liu
Skyler Yixian Liu is a Chinese artist and printmaker who works and lives in London, UK. Her works focus on traumas, memories, grief, the spirituality of human experiences, and loss. The artist explores the internal struggles of anxiety and traumas throughout her series of stone lithography prints. She questions the existence of nothingness in the distortion of portraits.
INTERVIEW | Yixuan Wu
Yixuan Wu is a visual artist, which currently lives and works in New York. Her sculptural arrangements address the subtle gestures that endow the objects of sensual qualities, the incongruous systems, and the uncanny. By weaving personal narratives into multiple cultural references, Yixuan's practice delves into fragmented memories through layered intricacies
INTERVIEW | Jiaxin Jiang
In the past nine years, Jiang Jiaxin's works have been exploring the documentation and expressiveness of art, revolving around the representation of the narrative and the surreal nature of art. Both relying on images and videos for creation, his works are inseparable from his research on photography in the context of art. In terms of theme, he is interested in self-identity and cultural perception.
INTERVIEW | Xinyu XuXX
Xinyu XuXX is a Chinese-born, London-based artist and screening organizer. Xinyu XuXX’s practice focuses on feminist eroticism and cares about the erotic capacity to form connections - transmit energy and empathy across time/territory, creating a moment of intimacy. Her work is interested in how image as a non-human body creates visionary erotic experiences as a method for activism, inhabiting space for those bodies behind it.
INTERVIEW | Danni Zheng
Danni Zheng is a new media artist with a spatial design background, currently based in London. Her work often explored the relationship between physical and virtual space by investigating the status quo and speculating the future in a digital way, such as through 3D animation, immersive experiences, live performances, and creative coding. She aims to inspire audiences through her work.
INTERVIEW | Forenext Design
Johnny Jiasheng Chen, born in Taichung, Taiwan, is a Chicago-based creative industrial/graphic/UX designer/artist. He is recognized for his innovative design skills and cross-disciplinary practices in design and art. His practice includes digital fabrication, product design, graphic design, and crafts, reflecting on the purpose of design, and seeking new perspectives. He is the founder of the Forenext Design studio.
INTERVIEW | Jooyoung Ko
Jooyoung is a tattoo artist active in Korea. To her, color is a tool for the senses, and she believes that it is the best tool to express subjectivity well and properly communicate the content with others. Tattoos are usually delicate, and a lot of colors are used. She is trying to establish a positive connection between humans and nature and to give customers bright and positive tattoos through various colors.
INTERVIEW | Zheng Wu
Zheng Wu is an experimental filmmaker born and raised in China before moving to the USA. Her works range from realistic to abstract and always involve social issues, philosophy, poetry, and photography. She dives into traditional narrative filmmaking and explores experimental filmmaking, art installation, multi-media, and video art, focusing on contemporary youth's thoughts and their rebellion against reality.
INTERVIEW | Caroline Kampfraath
Caroline Kampfraath is a Dutch sculptor from Amsterdam. Her works consist primarily of elements that she fuses into the total artwork, often thematic pieces and installations. Caroline is socially driven, both as a person and as an artist. In her work, she highlights the urgency and impact of global crises, which are currently upon us and permeate our collective consciousness.
INTERVIEW | Adrianna Wasinska-Fabian
Adrianna Wasinska-Fabian is an Australia-based artist, a horse-riding instructor, and a passionate naturalist and traveler. Adrianna's work evokes nature. It is her biggest and finest inspiration. Nature enables her to be a part of something bigger; it expands her perspective and liberates her from the outside world. The strong connection she has with it gives her freedom and power during the process of creating.
INTERVIEW | Minzhi Zheng
Zheng Minzhi is a multidisciplinary artist from China, based in Chicago. Her work reveals the hidden and complex connections between the human body, machinery, and the inherent violence within these relationships, drawing from personal narratives. Within this private narrative framework, decaying spaces, blurred tragedies, dreams, and indulgent bodies roam freely, embracing their nomadic nature.
INTERVIEW | Ryan Muchen Wang
Ryan Muchen Wang is a visual artist and filmmaker based in New York. His film and video work often use a mixture of fiction, documentary, and experimental genres to examine place, displacement, and the issue of memory. His recent video and installation also examine and construct different kinds of storytelling and visual narratives. Many of his moving image work embraces the avant-garde and essayistic modes of fiction and non-fiction cinema.
INTERVIEW | Ami Shinar
Born and living in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ami Shinar is an architect and visual artist. Shinar's art echoes actual situations he experiences in his hometown Tel Aviv or, in general, in Israel. Be it on the local level – such as his urban scapes - or his more politically direct series of demonstrations against the government and its corrupt politicians. Shinar's art is, therefore, much involved in his everyday reality, with the hope of opening the eyes of the viewer.
INTERVIEW | Tribambuka
Tribambuka (aka Anastasia Beltyukova) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, award-winning illustrator, and animation director working predominantly in painting and printmaking. Her practice is concerned with the themes of shifting identity, home, and belonging. As a British artist with Russian roots, she takes a critical approach to the complexities of her heritage through a contemporary lens of feminist and mythological thinking.