Experiential

Agoria

Agoria is a French multidisciplinary artist and DJ, whose work connects technology and nature. Bringing together art, music, and science, Agoria's focus on generative algorithms, web3, AI, and biological systems have resulted in his unique biological generative art - from depicting brain cells as mysterious and galaxy-like, to exploring how plants communicate, and the repetitions of human gestures. Agoria has collaborated with Philippe Parreno on his lauded installations at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, and in the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in London.

Krista Kim

Krista Kim is a digital artist and founder of Techism (2014), whose work explores the concept of digital consciousness. Her interest in digital technology and its revolutionary effects on human perception, media, social structures, and communication led her to work in both digital and physical realms. Having developed her signature language of shifting gradients using digital software since 2012, her works on glass and plexi hypnotize its viewers into a trance of tranquility while her immersive video works provide meditative experiences of color and light. Kim is also the Co-Founder of Creative Immersive Production Studio, 0Studio.ai.

Yawanawa & Refik Anadol

Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is an internationally renowned media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where he owns and operates Refik Anadol Studio and RAS LAB, the Studio’s research practice centered around discovering and developing trailblazing approaches to data narratives. Anadol is also teaching at UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts from which he obtained his Master of Fine Arts.

William Mapan

Based in Paris, William Mapan (b.1988) is a pioneer in the digital art space. With a background in software development, he combines computer science with his passion for pigment, light and texture. One of Mapan’s most notable works is his Dragons series (2021), in which he shared a portion of the works’ ownership with his collectors during the process of creation. He often combines contrasting ideas which juxtapose one another. In Dragons, he highlighted the symbolism of the mythical beast that represents wisdom in China, but is often associated with destruction and decay in Western culture. Frequently alternating between different mediums, Mapan relies on creativity, chance and the exact shades of lightness within each of the works. In the Anticyclone series, he capitalised on the contrasts between dark and light to produce works focused on the erratic patterns of weather phenomena. Notably, Mapan codes, creates, and teaches at Gobelins, l’école de l’image in Paris.

Kat Austen

My artistic practice explores the shifting boundary between self and other to reimagine our relationship with society and the environment amid ecological crisis. I interrogate how empathy, agency, identity, and power are formed through our entangled existence with more-than-human and non-human others. Working primarily with new media, I create technically complex, research-intensive works that span sound, musical composition, sculpture, installation, performance, and digital media. Sound is a central to my artworks: I build instruments that translate chemical and physical phenomena into sonic expression, make field recordings, and engage in embodied research to cultivate deep connection with the species, landscapes or materials at the heart of each project.

Operator

Ania Catherine (b. 1990, US) and Dejha Ti (b. 1985, US) are an artist duo whose collaborative practice, Operator, develops critical and conceptual approaches to experience. With Ti’s background as a multimedia artist and HCI technologist, and Catherine’s as a choreographer and performance artist, they engineer medium-agnostic output, joining environments, technology, and the body. Their exploration into privacy began with their performance installation On View (2019), commissioned by SCAD Museum of Art, and continues with the Privacy Collection, a durational release of works exploring the tension between privacy and transparency in blockchain technology. For their most recent work Human Unreadable, they created an on-chain generative choreography method.

Sasha Stiles

I am a poet, artist, and artificial intelligence researcher exploring language as a technology of consciousness, and the engine of our more-than-human future. My work fuses ancient lineages with AI, blockchain, and digital media to create immersive, multi-sensory poetics — large-scale installations, intimate live performances, cinematic projections, sonic environments, generative encounters, VR exhibitions, calligraphy, typography, hybrid poem-sculptures, traditional book arts, and beyond — that embody the complexities of being human in an increasingly posthuman age.