Digital

INTERVIEW | Shuwan Chen

INTERVIEW | Shuwan Chen

Shuwan (b.1994) is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. She is the co-founder of the :iidrr Gallery, located in New York. Her work explores the bridge between physical and digital spaces, objects, and experiences. She uses digital data from an archive of glitched images to make new photographs and sculptures with modeling software and machine learning to explore the vision of the future.

INTERVIEW | Xuechen Chen

INTERVIEW | Xuechen Chen

Xuechen Chen, a dynamic architect and visionary visual artist, was born in China and is currently based in New York. Central to her work is the concept of layering, where elements like perspective, emotion, and media converge to create entirely new forms of digital art. Xuechen's belief in the power of layering leads to innovative, emotionally resonant creations.

INTERVIEW | Esther Tang

INTERVIEW | Esther Tang

Esther Tang is an illustrator and designer based in New York City. Her approach involves seamlessly blending traditional drawing techniques with modern computer-aided methods to craft her pieces. As an illustrator, she thinks that her value resides in expressing her opinions and presenting issues through her work, inspiring her audience, and igniting discussions.

INTERVIEW | Jiang Geping

INTERVIEW | Jiang Geping

Jiang Geping is a senior concept designer, illustrator, comic artist, and lecturer based in China. The artist questions whether robots should have the same rights as humans and what that would mean for our society. The series depicts robots with human-like features, raising the question of how we define humanity and where we draw the line between humans and machines.

INTERVIEW | Jiayu Liu

INTERVIEW | Jiayu Liu

Known for her immersive and evocative media installations, Jiayu Liu is a media artist based in Beijing. Jiayu's artwork often recreates and augments the natural world and focuses on relationships between humans, nature, and the lived environment, exploring human behavior and response. Her latest project, Streaming Stillness, has been presented at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 for the China Pavilion.

INTERVIEW | Asmae Mouayn

INTERVIEW | Asmae Mouayn

Asmae Mouayn, alias ‘Asmyn’, is a Moroccan fractal artist based in Marrakesh. Her artwork attempts to demonstrate that science and art go hand in hand and that equations can be set up to an artistic visualization. By using mathematical formulas, she creates unique fractal art pieces. She wants to arouse the public’s curiosity and push people to imagine the narratives and stories behind every fractal.

INTERVIEW | Paria Peyravi

INTERVIEW | Paria Peyravi

Paria Peyravi is an illustrator and designer from Iran. When a story comes to an end, the storytelling begins. For a storyteller, it is only the beginning of imagination, exploration, and ideation. A new project is a new chance to discover an inner voice and the world outside. A new story is a chance to create an intersection of words, imagination, and perception.

INTERVIEW | Elaine Chao

INTERVIEW | Elaine Chao

Elaine B. Chao is a traditional-digital hybrid artist working in Queens, NY. Expanding on traditional techniques, she first composes paintings on canvas or paper using acrylic, oil, and other mixed media. She then imports the paintings into image manipulation programs to blend, apply filters, and run actions. The final digital work is printed or uploaded to an AR app for display.

INTERVIEW | Marco Lando

INTERVIEW | Marco Lando

Marco Lando's work is influenced by his New York theatre background. Combining existential plot lines, dramatic lighting, and surrealist stage design, the otherworldly mise-en-scenes he creates operate on a visceral, symbolic level. His latest series, the post-apocalyptic realm of Alchemy, evokes a timeless spiritual abyss where atonement and purification seem forever out of reach.

INTERVIEW | Patricia Rabbiosi

INTERVIEW | Patricia Rabbiosi

Patricia Rabbiosi is a composer, sound architect and visual artist from Argentina. She explores sound architecture and objects as source material in her music. Her visual work is self-taught, exploring different techniques from real images, which are then digitally processed. Her other works include performances and interventions with social themes.

INTERVIEW | Taweechob Pinthong

INTERVIEW | Taweechob Pinthong

Taweechob Pinthong is an artist and illustrator based in Bangkok. His illustration translates the unwavering love you feel for all living things without question, that you extend knowingly without expectations for anything in return. His style and technique are very dynamic because he is still in the process of experimenting. His body of work based on philosophy seeks to understand fundamental truths.

INTERVIEW | Galla

INTERVIEW | Galla

Galla is the artistic pseudonym of Alessandro Marcus Ferreira, a crypto artist, enthusiast of the decentralized world, and the "head" behind CryptoArtCulture. Galla's creative process is triggered by the availability and alignment of a human, a computer, the internet, blockchain, and electricity. The result is a digital art that finds the decentralized platforms the perfect setting for its diffusion and a disruptive business angle in NFTs.

INTERVIEW | XCPinata

INTERVIEW | XCPinata

The artist behind XCPinata (Kevin Ferreira) is one of the first artists to combine art and blockchain, having worked on Bitcoin, NFTs, and blockchain (Crypto Art) projects since 2014. Through a history of trying to create "digital originals" and working with cutting-edge technology, the artist brings awareness to the perceived value in the cryptographic tokens in and of themselves.

INTERVIEW | Serena Marija

INTERVIEW | Serena Marija

Serena Marija is a multidisciplinary artist and experimental filmmaker based in Buckinghamshire, England. Her surreal films and works of art draw purely from real-life experiences, her inner memory museum, imagination, and dreams. Apart from being immersed in a dreamy process of creation, Serena is in the final year of her MA Creative Business degree at the National Film & Television School.

INTERVIEW | Liu Gongjie

INTERVIEW | Liu Gongjie

Liu Gongjie is a designer and visual artist based in London. His latest project, Emotionally Harmonious Cyborg Future, is a speculative design work. It explores a possible future in the form of a dance drama, where human beings take the initiative to transform themselves into a cyborg that combines the physical and mechanical and can perceive the emotions of others directly.

INTERVIEW | Jeremy Bach

INTERVIEW | Jeremy Bach

Jeremy Bach is a self-taught artist, based in upstate New York. He started his art career as a painter, and later approach photography as a medium. Using his studies of art techniques and with the artist trained eye, Bach began using the camera not just as a tool but more as an extension of his imagination. He uses the camera to explore his feelings, dreams, and comments on artistic beauty or current social issues.

INTERVIEW | Abhay Sehgal

INTERVIEW | Abhay Sehgal

Abhay Sehgal is an Indian-born contemporary artist based in Miami. He focuses on the style of Surrealism by interpreting dreams and psychology. The outputs in Abhay's piece act as a bridge between his intended thoughts and the audience's perspective, which gives it an ambiguous narrative.

INTERVIEW | Zaccheo Zhang

INTERVIEW | Zaccheo Zhang

Zaccheo Zhang is a Chinese artist studying in the United States. She is convinced that the characteristics of photographic materials are the elements that make photography diversified and rejuvenated. At the same time, she believes that her creative, experimental methods have allowed photography to go back to the close relationship with science and reborn from it to a unique way of artistic expression.

INTERVIEW | Jayakar Priyadharshan

INTERVIEW | Jayakar Priyadharshan

Jayakar Priyadharshan is a Contemporary Speculative Architect of Indian origin currently in the UK. He is well known for his works in the field of architectural aesthetic practice. One of his famous works is what he calls the invisible building (A building facade that can hide from the eyes of Artificial Intelligence), where he talks about the flipsides of artificial intelligence and countering the rise of AI.

INTERVIEW | Nae Zerka

INTERVIEW | Nae Zerka

As a traveler of the analog-digital synthesis, the visual artist Nae Zerka never stops exploring. Nae's inspiration comes from digitalization, along with graphic design and music. Himself he produced electronic music and became a techno DJ in legendary clubs. His work blends the design element with technology, graphic design with a painterly finish.