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.
INTERVIEW | Dana Manor Cohen
Dana Manor Cohen is an Israeli artist, living in Kibbutz Tziv’on. In recent years, she has been painting on old book covers that she collects. These rigid rectangular surfaces accumulate the evidence of many years, and on them, she draws and paints the landscape in which she lives. In these pastoral views, she attempts to express her love and closeness to nature.
INTERVIEW | Emmanuelle Becker
Emmanuelle Becker is a visual artist and photographer based in Paris. Emmanuelle Becker's photographic work explores the selective nature of memory and the impact of emotions on how the brain prioritizes and retains information. Becker has an intimist look at her subjects to create her singular dreamlike imagery. Her fascination with dreams and the unconscious is at the heart of her creative process.
INTERVIEW | Nan Zhao
Nan Zhao is a Chinese artist who has lived and worked in various countries, including the UK, Czech Republic, and Germany. Her multicultural background has influenced her art, which explores the themes of diversity, similarity, and unity. Nan's paintings are characterized by a rich use of color, layering, and abstraction, inviting viewers to think deeply about the complex emotions and relationships depicted.
INTERVIEW | Jessica Braccio
Jessica Braccio’s artwork is influenced by her autism. Being on the spectrum helps her create her artwork. Autism is the vehicle that helps Jessica create and encode her artwork. Her Divinity shows her the codes, colors, and shapes to include in each piece, and she acts as a translator. She chooses to consciously create from a space of Divinity, free from trauma and chaos.
INTERVIEW | Saliha Kaytan
Saliha Kaytan is a Turkish artist, based in Istanbul. The artist, who examines memory in general with an inductive method, examines rational and irrational phenomena by underlining the contrast between the emotions and behaviors of the human being in this cycle. She tries to carry this to a collective dimension based on her own memory.
INTERVIEW | Jing Zhao
Jing Zhao is Chinese artist, born in Shanghai and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. explores ideological transformations in this time of accelerated information circulation and cultural diaspora. Zhao was trained as a photographer, and her research-based practice is rooted in the tradition of conceptual art. As a result, she works across a broad range of mediums.
INTERVIEW | REGEN
REGEN is a digital artist and VJ, currently living in Sichuan, China. She has always been fascinated by the rhythm data of the different types of music. She has created content in the form of digital animations, live audiovisual concerts, and installations. Her latest project, Infinity, is a new media digital artwork generated by computer algorithms, with visual variations generated in real-time through the analysis of music beats.
INTERVIEW | Shiyu (Icy) Qiao
Shiyu (Icy) Qiao is a London-based animation director, 2D & stop-motion animator, and illustration artist from China. Her themes are often drawn from personal experience, social psychology, and philosophy. Her works are not limited to a single medium and she sees her creation as a healing process, creating a conversation with the viewers through the dissection of memory and self.
INTERVIEW | Jia Jia
Jia Jia is a multi-media artist. She works primarily in installation, incorporating sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice uses satire and humor to imagine everyday objects anew. The work questions how globalization and a technologically saturated society influence the ideology of the individual and how the individual behaves in a society filled with contradiction and stimulation.
INTERVIEW | Hui Long
Hui Long is a photographer and creative director who brings a unique perspective to the art world. Her work focuses on themes exploring femininity and self-discovery, using her own personal experiences and memories as a source of inspiration. Through her art, she invites viewers to delve into the complexity of the human experience and to consider how our past experiences shape and define us.
INTERVIEW | Fina Ferrara
Fina Ferrara is a Mexican performance and video artist. Disturbed by how human boundaries are often penetrated through interactions with others, violence, hatred, and abuse are stepping stones in her performances. Through expelling these emotions, Fina questions life and social standards, highlighting our areas of discomfort. For Fina, performance is an ongoing act of collective self-evolution.
INTERVIEW | Marlon Tabone
Marlon Tabone is a Maltese artist currently based in London (UK). He creates conceptual pieces using computational and mixed media. The life and work of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia (“One Woman Wiki Leaks”), who was assassinated in Bidnija, Malta on October 16th 2017, is celebrated through Tabone’s 2020 piece “In Memoriam."
INTERVIEW | Alisa Scetinina - Gaisma
Alisa Scetinina is a performer and musician, born in Latvia and currently based in Berlin, Germany. For Alisa, performance is the way one carries oneself and connects to the inner voice, whether it is through music, dance, film, or any other source of expression. She explores the fluidity and smoothness of our psyche and body, not scared to break the walls that we and our society have built for us.
INTERVIEW | Broksh
Broksh is a director, and his hobby is digital art (NFT). He has been in the NFT world since 2020, conquering the digital world with the 'SOLO' collection, focusing on women's aesthetics. Within 'SOLO', people can appreciate different styles of art, for instance, 2D, 3D, or Realistic rendering and animation. He has worked with many international artists and dreams of working with big fashion brands.
INTERVIEW | Fangyu Ma
Fangyu Ma is a Chinese illustrator designer. Most of her artworks are created digitally. She loves exploring different subject matters in her work. Her works are divided into two parts: decorative illustrations and narrative illustrations. She uses animals as a medium and tries to use different angles to describe them, which challenges the traditional way of perceiving things.
INTERVIEW | Kuan-Hsuan Lu
Kuan-Hsuan Lu is an artist and illustrator from Taiwan. Art is Kuan-Hsuan Lu’s language and uses it to convey and record her thoughts and the world. This language has bold colors and styles, as well as different painting mediums. She is passionate about trying different mediums, and she is not afraid of changes. Changes will make her art convey ideas in more appropriate words.
INTERVIEW | Yeseul Kim
Yeseul Kim, often known as Yerae, is a tattoo artist located in Seoul who specializes in floral and botanical designs. In Yerae's tattoos, she examines how the many colors and forms of her flowers and plants flow throughout the body to convey and conceal her customers' identities. She divides her works into three categories: vibrant floral pieces, birth flowers in relation to personal memories, and coverups.
INTERVIEW | Xinyu Zheng
Xinyu Zheng is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist who frequently draws inspiration from found objects, transforming the world into a type of pictorial memory. She explores the interaction between objects and the human body as a fashion designer. Her work typically entails uncovering items in her environment and expressing them in a primitive and childlike manner.
INTERVIEW | Ying Kimily Jiang
Ying Kimily Jiang is a Chinese fashion designer and fashion stylist, currently based in the United States. She has been active in the fashion industry for over a decade, both as a designer and as a stylist for photo shoots. Her unwavering passion for fashion and her innate ability to explore the ways in which fabrics interact with the human body have made her a sought-after talent in the industry.