SCARLETMOTIFF (Noel Apitta b.1993) is an audio-visual artist from Kampala, Uganda, operating in the interstitial spaces between creative technology, audio production, graphic design, and the materiality of light. Through a practice centered on iteration, repetition, and spontaneous composition he seeks to convert the rich analog narratives of human experiences into digital expressions, blending real-time generative computer graphics and original soundscapes to create abstracted vignettes of directed emotion.

Since July 2020, this iterative approach has birthed over 1400 unique webnative video artworks as part of the daily audio-visual project GENERATIVE DREAMS; and seen his practice evolve to explore light and its relationship to physical space as a medium for immersive journey-making. From video sculpture and immersive projection mapping to interactive audiovisual installations, his work has been exhibited at the Noor Riyadh Light Art Festival (Riyadh, 2022), Afri Art Gallery (Kampala, 2022), the NEOSHIBUYA 15 Second Museum (Tokyo, 2021) , Afropocene StudioLab (Kampala, 2023) and the BuzzFest Tech Art Festival (Austin,TX, 2022).

Leilani Abeyta is an emerging Latinx artist who primarily works with photorealistic and hyperrealistic oil paintings. She attended Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and is on the Board of Directors of arts nonprofit, Platteforum. 

Her works aim to capture the beauty of moments in her everyday life, either with friends or people she meets, using color, light, shadow, and intricately rendered detail to illustrate how the contemporary Renaissance painter views their world. 

Leilani hopes to share stories and capture people of this time period in a unique and lasting way; repaying those who have shown her love with love in the form of artistic admiration.

Daniel Maw hails from a gritty, industrial town along the Mississippi River in Iowa. His academic journey led him to the University of Tennessee, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking. Following his time at Bowling Green State University, he relocated westward. Currently residing in Fort Collins, Colorado, Maw teaches art at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In addition to his teaching role, he directs the Esther and John Clay Fine Art Gallery. Outside of his professional pursuits, he indulges in simple pleasures such as enjoying eggs, reading, lifting weights, and maintaining a skin care routine.

Chanee Choi is a transdisciplinary artist and educator. She has developed a ritualistic craft-based art practice that transcends the conservative and isolationist roots of traditional East Asian craftwork by focusing on a celebration of feminist theory and modern tech. Within this hybrid genre, she produces both embodied and virtual immersive experiences exploring the effect of immigration on issues of identity, and the synesthetic processes of corporeal-cognitive space.

Originally from South Korea, Chanee now lives, works, and studies in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She holds positions as an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in The Department of Film & Digital Arts. Alongside her academic role, Chanee has earned degrees including a BFA in Craft Design from Dongduk Women's University in 2013, an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016, and a Ph.D. in Art and Technology from DXARTS at the University of Washington in 2022.

Her artistic endeavors have been featured in publications including UW News, UW College of Arts & Sciences, GeekWire, International Examiner, Seattle Times, KUOW National Public Radio, KING-TV, ISEA2022, SIGGRAPH Asia 2022, and WIRED magazine.

Dev Harlan works in sculpture, installation and digital media and explores a range of themes including landscape, anthropogenic change and technological consumption. His work often uses technology to question itself and the narrative that human societies and technology are somehow separate from the natural world. Rather he asks, how are they entangled and embedded within each other? 

Harlan has exhibited in the US and internationally. He is a 2020 NYFA Fellowship Finalist in Digital Media Arts and winner of the 2022 Mozaik Artist Grant. Solo exhibitions include Christopher Henry Gallery (NY) and Gallery Madison Park (NY). Group shows include “Noor” at the Sharjah Art Museum, the New Museum’s “Ideas City” NY and the Singapore Light Art Festival. Dev has been an artist in residence at the Frank Lloyd Wright School Of Architecture and the SVA Sculpture & New Media Residency. Dev is currently pursuing a BA in Earth Science at Columbia University.

Iván Casís Jr. is a Multidisciplinary Artist and Architect born in Panama City, Panama, in 1979. He obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from the University of Panama in 2006 before venturing to Buenos Aires, Argentina, the subsequent year to pursue a Master’s Degree in Advanced Architectural Design. During this formative period, he began looking for ways to fuse his lifelong passion for art, digital fabrication, and Architecture and this exploration ultimately culminated in the discovery of his distinct artistic style.

Upon his return to Panama in 2010, while still dedicating most of his time to Architecture, he began experimenting with CNC and laser-cutting machines to craft wall installations based on his digital drawings. This approach eventually paved the way for his first art gallery showcases.

In 2017, Casís Jr. moved back to Argentina, where he is currently based, to focus more on his artistic career. In March 2021 he entered the NFT space. Since then, his work has featured in several physical-digital exhibitions including Exquisite Workers' Exhibition at 0xSOCIETY™ (Canada), Denver Digerati's Public LED Exhibition (USA), NFT Liverpool

(UK), LABITCONF PremioB-Arte (Argentina), POESIA DE PROTESTA at Miami Art Week (USA), NFT.NYC 2023 (USA), NFT Biennal at Rincon Projects (Colombia), SCREENSAVERS at Uncommon Gallery (Korea), GIFFEST 2023 (Singapore) and ‘Dostoevskian Echoes in the Digital Age’ at techcontemporary (Denmark).

His art has also been featured recently in international publications such as EYAYAH!Magazine (Singapore) and The Light Observer (Italy).

Nero Chenxuan He is a Beijing-born educator, an architectural designer, and a multi-media artist. He has studied architecture and design in the United States and Denmark. He leads his own creative practice, HeXagōn{分集研究所}, whose work has been exhibited in music videos, storefronts, galleries, digital billboards, and museums in various countries. He is an assistant professor at Texas Tech University (TTU) Huckabee College of Architecture where he runs his own design research lab, Quasi Design Lab, and has been invited to initiate and teach the public digital art program at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). Before his current role at Texas Tech, he held the visiting professor position at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He has also taught studios and seminars at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

He has been developing workflows in phygital constructions and automavisions. He is interested in creating quasi-autonomous procedures to synergize human and non-human design agencies. His work is the byproduct of a non-rectilinear process, which has no finite result. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and a Master of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc.

Valentina Ferrandes is a London-based, southern Italian visual artist and designer.
Interweaving a technology-driven approach to image-making with archival found footage, environmental recordings, archaeological findings and documentary video, she creates narrative strategies to explore potential new worlds between past and present.

Shortlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize in 2023, former artist in residence at Meta London headquarters as part of Meta Open Arts Programme, winner of Emerging Scene Arts Prize in Dubai. In 2016 her work "Other Than Our Sea" receives a Jury Selection at Japan Media Arts Festival. Between 2011 and 2015 she is a finalist for the international Celeste Art Prize, The Italian Cultural Institute's Renaissance Art Prize in London and Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Art. In 2008 she is an artist in residence at China Academy of Art.

She exhibits internationally in festivals such as Visions du Reel, Bideodromo, Supernova Animation Festival, Bogota Experimental Film Festival, Cinemigrante, European Media Art Festival Osnabruck, London International Documentary Festival, DokuFest Kosovo, Cairo Video Festival, Rencontres Internationales.

A graduate of Fine Arts at the University of The Arts London, Humanities at Bologna University in Italy and a former artist in residence at China Academy of Art, she also works as experience designer for creative and tech agencies in Berlin and London.

MASARY Studios is a transdisciplinary artist collective reconsidering environments through site-specific installations using sound, light, interactivity, and performance. Based in Boston, the studio's practice includes live percussion performance, electronic music and production, facade projection-mapped video, artistic research, technology and materials fabrication, and the expansive use of animation. The studio is artist-owned and managed and was founded in 2015.

MASARY is an interdisciplinary collaborative team with artists at the center. Studio founders and principals are Sam Okerstrom-Lang and Ryan Edwards. The extensive creative and technical team expands out to coders, engineers, architects, designers, percussionists, animators, arts administrators & more.

AVA Animation and Visual Arts is a BIPOC women-led internationally awarded animation studio based in Toronto, that specializes in creating extraordinary visual experience solutions for brands, events and government agencies who want to bring joy and engage communities through art, light, technology, creativity and storytelling.

AVA’s goal is to deliver joy through experiences and visual journeys,  believing art can transform spaces and reactivate economies. Their main objective is to engage communities with art, providing safe public experiences and spaces where people can feel represented using light and colour to spark a sense of wonder and connection. 

AVA’s expertise covers both the creative and technical aspects: from research, planning, projection calculations, design, content animation, artist workshops and production to temporary and permanent installations. With years of experience collaborating in placemaking and safe public art experiences with public and private organizations like: The city of Toronto, Toronto History Museums, LiveTo, The City of Brampton, the City of Mississauga, The CN Tower, The Woodlands Institute, the Gardiner Museum, the Amsterdam Light Festival, the Tokyo Light Festival, the Tokyo Government, OCAD University, Seneca Polytechnic, Banff Centre for the Arts, among others. Their work has been presented in more than 12 countries, on landmarks like the Burj Khalifa, The Palace of Parliament and Odawara Castle. Their latest collaboration, “Tokyo Concerto” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building was awarded a Guinness World Record for the Largest Permanent Projection. 

As a BIPOC Women-led company, when collaborating with artists, AVA prioritizes talented individuals coming from diverse, multicultural and often racialized or underrepresented communities, usually coming from Black, Indigenous, Latin, Arabic, Black, Asian, LGBTQ2S+ backgrounds and/or being recent immigrants or recent graduates.