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.
Andy Newmerge seamlessly blends traditional iconography with modern technology through his innovative use of reverse perspective. Drawing from ancient techniques, Newmerge reinterprets spatial dynamics within 3D digital art, challenging conventional visual norms. This method allows him to create thought-provoking compositions that bridge historical and contemporary art.
Ashling (Yaxin) Tu is a Chinese Illustrator, Designer, and sculptor, living in the USA. Ashling primarily works on a digital pad for 2d arts. Her 3d sculptures are, in contrast, mainly built from natural materials and existing objects she picks up on the street. The young artist believes both reality and the digital world are as important in the current human society.
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.
Akane, also known as akamidget, is a visual artist whose background lies in video games. Throughout her career, she's worked on numerous video game trailers, later expanding into the commercial realm through online and TV adverts. How we, from our electronic realm, relate to our primordial ancestors at the root of humanity's multi-layered narrative is a question that will continue to drive the artist's work.
Diego Esquivel aka [ctrl_v] is a New Media artist born in Costa Rica. His work has been continuously developed due to his interest in bringing the digital into the physical world, so it's been characterized by using non-traditional media, such as vjing, digital compositions, projection mapping, and, more recently, augmented and virtual reality.
Yuqian Sun is a Chinese AI artist based in London. Inspired by conversations between virtual characters in video games, she produces works that steer with curiosity. She creates art projects based on AI chatbots, focusing on narrative and intimacy in human-AI interaction. Her work varied from 3D renderings and games to generative arts. She's currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science Research and an AI developer expert.
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.
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.
The main art direction Alfred Stoll creates is metamodernism. His works are a condensation of his personal experience and a compilation of the global stream of information through the reimagining of meta-narratives due to mental oscillation between two chosen polarities and the search of his own and social boundaries.
Salomé Tamayo’s characters humorously celebrate the inconsistencies and peculiarities of social cannons. She plays with abstract and existential concepts to give concrete depictions of people being and living in their own way. By observing people, she looks for characters and stories entwined in everyday life. The collection is meant to bring people together through the real and the raw.
Aleks Rosenberg is a multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker who resides in the United States. The central themes found in his works relate to the 'outsider looking into the darkness of the human vortex' countered by the optimism of 'no matter what, the sun will always rise tomorrow'. For Rosenberg, there has always been the tension between light and darkness, and as such, his compositions seek to find a balance between the two extremes.
A duo, collective artists that work into thematic series of “microfictions” fragments that highlight aspects of human nature, making them symbolically visible. Their work is rooted in the margins of reality where fiction is the way, to tell the truth about the ecological perspective to understand the interdependence of Man/Nature.
