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.
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.
YoonJi Yang is a multidisciplinary designer based in New York City. She is a designer with experience across digital platforms, product design, and print. YoonJi's life journey has taken her through an incredible adventure, living in Iran, Korea, Belgium, Italy, and the United States, and each place has profoundly shaped her perspective on the important role of communication design in connecting people worldwide.
Aleksandra Vizin is a creative director and photographer living in Sarajevo. Aleksandra has a direct, somewhat raw approach to photography with limited use of postproduction techniques. She prefers shaping imagination with reality, choosing contrast as a main tool. Using costumes, creating stories, and developing characters, Aleksandra tries to keep elements of surprise, freedom, and uniqueness.
Jiawei Fu is an Interior Designer and Painter, born in Guangzhou, China, and now living in Los Angeles, USA. Jiawei's practice depicts mundanity and emptiness through a surrealized reality to wake up subconsciousness and create new conversations between people. In her latest series, Deceitful Lovers, she uses a delicate palette to expose the sugar-coated modern ignorance and relentlessness in all beings.
Wenhui Jiang (Untitled-egg) s a visual artist and graphic designer who works with multi-disciplinary subjects and media. As a queer, she always has a radical perspective on observing and experiencing the world. Strong satire is characteristic of her work. In her practice, she takes herself as the object of observation and uses her work as a tool to research the context of the era and society behind the individual.
Hailing Liu is a mixed-media artist, animator, and motion graphic designer working and living in Chicago. They employ diverse media in their art practice: 2D and 3D animation, video composition, writing, sculpture, printing, Augmented Reality, physical and virtual installation. Focusing on digital culture, images, and media representations in contemporary life, Liu researches images produced as visual communication in capital systems.
Hanyue Song is a designer of visual communications from Shanghai who currently resides in California. Her work examines the confluence of several disciplines, including visual design, branding & marketing design, user experience, and project planning in kid education. Her work styles are wide and varied due to her multidisciplinary background, which extends beyond her use of commercial or spontaneous artistic creations.
Chihyang Hsu is an interdisciplinary artist who works with photography, video, painting, and installation. His color blindness is the seed of his creativity. As a result, he complicates visual communication and embodies the uncertainty and ambiguity he constantly encounters. In this thermal photo project, he took photos at parks, museums, gyms, supermarkets, subway stations, and zoos.
Kang Ma is a human being born and raised and currently based on the planet Earth. He could also be referred to as a visual artist, currently living in New Haven, CT, and occasionally goes to New York City to teach. Kang believes that artists shouldn't limit themselves to only a few topics and media. However, there are two topics that he has been interested in and explored more than others, translations and connections.
