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.
Evelyn Möcking is an interdisciplinary artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany. She works with drawings, sculptures, sounds, and installations. Experimenting with materials and methods from science and nature.. The starting point of her artistic practice is the search for phenomena from nature, science, and art and the investigation of the respective materials on their inherent aesthetics.
Qiao Ban is a Chinese artist currently based in Germany. Her work primarily focuses on social issues in China and Germany, especially through her perspective of a foreigner, her sense of belonging, and her perspectives on life in a familiar and unfamiliar country. She hopes her work is open and interactive, without a definite answer. The result is a visual reflection of images, text, and materials and an art exhibition.
Seph Li is a Chinese multidisciplinary artist, currently based in London, UK. His interactive works vary in many different forms, but they are all self-contained systems that run on computational rules. Seph searches for dynamic equilibriums in nature and re-imagines them into interactive systems through digital technology. His works are now focusing on dynamic fluids, accumulative interaction, and physics hypotheses.
Rodrigo de Toledo is a Brazilian-American multidisciplinary visual artist, graphic designer, and a tenured animation professor at Northern Arizona University. Inspired by ancient mythological archetypes, de Toledo’s work is a fictional mythology with its visual iconography. Employing a primitive pop-surreal graphic style, he investigates questions of identity and spirituality, as well as the media’s effect on personal memory and fantasy.
Latifah A Stranack is an Anglo-Omani artist based in London. Her work is about female empowerment, identity, sisterhood, and intuition. She creates her compositions using archival imagery, historical art references, fashion magazines, and photos of her body or people she knows. Mythology, current affairs, and history also thread their way through her work.
Alina Orlov's work is characterized by her focus on the inner world of the individual and the unconscious mind. She explored themes of identity, memory, and perception through her use of non-linear narratives, symbolism, and surreal imagery. In her work, she explores themes of love, and loss, seeking to capture the complexities and contradictions of human experience.
Joy Yue Zhuo is a Shanghai-based object designer. She designs furniture and objects to express her utopian fantasy to the audience. She hopes users can imagine the fantasy through the interaction with her furniture and objects. While people are interacting or observing her works, they will become part of the fantasy. Joy Zhuo’s works are the NPCs (nonplayer characters) of a game she created herself called Utopian Fantasy.
Multidisciplinary visual artist Lela Amparo uses machine learning (GAN) to create visual imagery that showcases an otherworldly atmosphere. She also is an ambient music producer who merges her music and art to make a multi-sensory experience for the end viewer. Amparo specialises and takes great pleasure in transporting the viewer and listener to a different dimension.
Art Sokoloff is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in London, UK. His research and projects center around the creation of structure-based abstraction. His current work is being made around the influence of rules applied in the crafting of game-like experiences. Taking on both the role of the rule-setter and the participant, Art is involved in the process of making "situations" (strict conditions with clear rules) and their subsequent resolutions.
Sri Aditya is a Chennai-based Indian artist who aims to explore the narrative of regions and personalities of people through digital media. Whether it be film photography, graphics, or presentation, the artist manages to seep through intricate places and markets as one who is adept at traveling. His art centres around the dynamic play of light and darkness, a blend of neutral colour schemes and geometric patterns.
Ernest Kankam, aka "BigCedi," is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ghana. His work is heavily influenced by Ghana's rich culture and history, as well as its socio-politics, and frequently incorporates memories, fantasies, and experiences. His works include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and videos. He experiments with various materials and uses vibrant and colourful images to convey his message.
Pepe Hidalgo’s style is figurative and abstract narrative. His figurative is not related to realism, and it is created from his imagination. Art has allowed him to “free himself” and express himself without prejudice and to dare to do what he feels without expectations. In his work, he mixes his knowledge of astrology, mythology, history, life, and experiences.
Sarah Owusu-Ansah is an artist from Accra, Ghana. Her art is influenced by her daily interests, from her fascination with sci-fi stories and horror movies. The images she creates are dependent on what phase she is going through in her life and her environment at that moment. Her thick application of paint gives the image the space to live freely outside the picture plane.
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.
Kon Markogiannis is an experimental photographer-mixed media artist with an interest in themes such as memory, mortality, spirituality, the human condition, the exploration of the human psyche, and the evolution of consciousness. He embraces the indexical qualities of photography and its immediate impact on the viewer, but what he is mainly concerned with are the ways “reality” can be transformed.
Sarvesh is an architect, writer, and multi-disciplinary designer based in India. His inspiration stems from the emergent antithesis of a definitive style and spills over from environmental design to cartography, storytelling, media, sculpture, installation, film, interactive world-building, and more. He has contributed so far to diverse project scales and typologies in parts of India, Africa, and America.
Chaney Manshu Diao is an artist and poet whose practice explores the concept of identity from the lens of trans* (-gender, -human, -bodies) and queer studies through body, linguistics, and movement. By considering the body as a mobilised site entering in and out of geographical boundaries, Chaney explores the meaning of being inter/national, multi/cultural; community, and otherness; as well as the construction of Asianness.
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.
Iwo Zaniewski is a painter, photographer, and creative director. works with traditional oil painting, drawing upon the history of figurative art and portraying subjects from everyday contemporary life. While his artworks depict narrated scenes, they are predominantly focused on formal internal relations and striving for equilibrium. The visual dialogues between forms, light, and layers of colour ultimately highlight the mood rather than the action of portrayed events.
Yuko Kyutoku is a Japanese artist currently living and working in New York City. Her artmaking process is transformative and she makes art based on her rich life experiences. She feels that life experiences open up many opportunities and make her artworks richer and unique. She currently works as a therapist at the children's hospital in the city, where she offers art therapy to support children with mental issues and severe disabilities.
