Jean-Philippe Côté alias Djipco is an artist based in Montréal (Québec, Canada). Algorithms always drive his visual and interactive work. Using open-source software and pieces of “obsolete” hardware, he puts together interactive installations that bring back a sense of tangibility to this otherwise artificial, virtual, and augmented world of ours.
INTERVIEW | Pavel Korbička
Pavel Korbička works with space, light, and color, employing various combinations of new and classical technologies. He manages to conjure up a state of suspense between objects and installations. While his sculptures may superficially appear static, they attest to a great deal of importance assigned by the artist to the element of motion.
INTERVIEW | Vanlawrenc
Contemporary surrealist digital images. Lawrance is an artist, designer, and photographer based in Indonesia. Self-taught, Evan began to explore and turned his intricate feeling into a surreal vision mixed along with his ambiguous perspective on reality. The delusion of the beautiful things inspires his work till the weird moments, represents by the emotional feeling of himself.
INTERVIEW | YunRay Chung
Coming from a medical background, YunRay studies fashion design in New York after he finished his Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Therapy in Taiwan. He uses second-hand garments deconstruction, performances, installation, and films to tell the narratives of his vision. He uses his work to speak to social issues, but also human emotions and experiences.
INTERVIEW | Nicolas Vionnet
Vionnet is fascinated by such irritations: interventions that approach and create a non-hierarchical dialogue with the environment. This discussion opens up a field of tension, which allows the viewer an intensive glimpse of both these phenomena. Vionnet uses the same approach and the same strategy for his installations and objects. Irritation and integration.
INTERVIEW | Yar
Yar creates in a variety of techniques, from analog collage to digital illustration, from motion collages to mixed media graphics. Yar's works are dreamlike and thought-provoking, he experiments with surreal figurative imagery, finding inspiration in southern gothic aesthetics, street culture, turn-of-the-century esoteric narratives, and psychedelia.
INTERVIEW | Pedro Inock
Pedro works in the fields of video art, video performance, installation, and painting. Throughout his work, the analysis and observation of issues such as place, memory, and human condition make up for a large part of the process. “Contained Turbulence” deploys memory and place (or absence of) and possibility as groundwork as it challenges the bitterness and hostile condition of the postmodern human.
INTERVIEW | Ruocong Ma
Ruocong Ma examines the contradiction and correlation of spiritual strength, human body, sexual representation, and feminism in our society, working on oil painting, performance, and sculpture. Her erotic portrait painting often employs domineering poses, vivid colors, creative lighting, and tight costume as symbolism for implying audiences about complex class power.
INTERVIEW | Elizabeth Withstandley
Elizabeth Withstandley is from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, she lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Her projects take on the form of artifacts by their simplification and classification, frequently like relics from the natural history museum, and questions individuality while presenting a portrait of a person, a group of people, or a specific culture.
INTERVIEW | Philip McKay
A self-taught award-winning digital artist from Liverpool, UK. Inspired by the surrealist Rene Magritte and graphic designer storm Thorgerson, who was known for designing music album covers for pink Floyd. Philip describes the art he creates as idiotic with scenes of unreality and imaginary places that come from his imagination.
INTERVIEW | Giovanni De Benedetto
Giovanni De Benedetto works with photography, video art, and music. His projects have multiple points of view. The observer is an active part of the creative process, and each artwork shakes the spectator from the inside. Starting from 2012, he took part in several solos and collective exhibitions with his main project PREMATURE, exhibiting in cities like Venice, Paris, Miami Beach, Berlin, and Bangkok
INTERVIEW | O. Yemit Tubi (MOYAT)
Nigerian born, American trained Artist based in UK with a creative and unique personal style. He paints in acrylic and watercolor, but his favored medium is oil paints. Most of Moyat's recent paintings were influenced by the political and social upheaval of our world today and the works of the Renaissance artists. The uprising in the Arab world is what influenced O Yemi Tubi's first political painting "ARAB REVOLUTION" in 2012
INTERVIEW | Abdo Hassan
Abdo Hassan is a Visual artist, based in Cairo, Egypt. Specialized in digital visual arts, digital collages, and mixed media, Abdo hassan’s collages images with artistic vision following no rules, making artworks with wild colors and surreal concepts. This expression has no boundaries, and this is the freedom he finds in the surreal and collage arts.
INTERVIEW | Ale Shack
Every time Ale takes a sheet and ink; she feels the task of portraying the soul, feelings, fears, and desires of a person, a situation, or a memory. Her work is based on details: "Everything is composed of small things that together create great wonders." Therefore, in her work has a purpose, many times, some details will be invisible to the eye, but that contribute significantly to her work.
INTERVIEW | Timea Szőke
Timka Szőke is a Hungarian artist. She was born in Budapest. Her versatility unfolds in illustration, lead glass design, and photography. Her artworks are inspired by the antique art trends, most notably Renaissance, Expressionism, Baroque, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, also the cartoons and comics. She displays the facial mimicry that she spices with natural charm in her works
INTERVIEW | Eun Sun Cho
Eun Sun Cho projects revolve around the elements of photographic mediums dealing with physical and technical problems such as measurements, algorithms, analog/digital difference and representation of language of formality accompanied by the process of the image. She investigates the intersection of biology, chemical-physical phenomena and mathematical problems with photographic reality.
INTERVIEW | Jonathan Walland
Jonathan Walland approaches modern architecture in a way that eliminates distraction and pushes forward a sense of clarity, keeping the viewer focused on the purest elements of photography. He shifts the visual characteristics synonymous with painting onto the photographic medium. Walland’s work is consistent with the massive amount of detail present in each photograph.
INTERVIEW | Catrinel S.tudio
Catrinel Sabaciag is a Romanian product designer and artist who studied product design in Edinburgh and Lund and has worked in Eindhoven, Sectie-C. Her work bridges product design, installation, and sculpture in a multidisciplinary approach that often finds its roots in science and philosophy, while the making, quite experimental, is oriented towards material exploration.
INTERVIEW | Absent Chronicles
Absent Chronicles was born out of a need to express, construct, tear down and process. It is the music created by structuring chaos juxtaposed by visuals generated by processing musical parameters while trying to implement the almost inevitable technological changes happening around us, instead of fighting against them: walking the intersection of art and technology, exploring the stories yet to be told.
INTERVIEW | Barry Wolfryd
The work investigates the exploration and exploitation of “human symbology,” the many “forms” of how we relate to ourselves and others. Wolfryd aims to “awaken minds” to fleeting governing laws by virtue of playing pictorial detective through challenging social norms. He creates a tangible environment in which the viewer challenges the perspectives about the qualities of culture and history.