I’m Stephanie, a recent WashU (Washington University in St. Louis) graduate from the Bay Area. I have always had this urge to create, design, and question the world in ways that put people first. Whether it be through dance, digital media, makeup, or math, creating art has been my way of processing my surroundings and solving problems in a nontraditional way. I find that the most beautiful discoveries stem from the intersection of multiple fields such as computer science and linguistics, dance and computer science, or art and math. I was always told that my interests in computer science, math, and biology should be kept discrete from my interests in design, art, dance, and makeup. It was only until college where I sought out the cross over between these previously distinct parts of myself. My journey of blurring this line has opened my eyes to so many opportunities and “fields” I didn’t even know existed until recently.

Delta_Ark’s current work is a sequence of interactive virtual environments and audio-visual experiences that represent and embody different relationships between human-like entities, artificial intelligences (of various powers) and natural systems (or chimeras) in different science fiction contexts, often involving precipitous technological evolution, climate change or the far future. Many of these works explore future power-relations between AGIs, ASIs and cyberized forms of collective and individual human intelligence in order to sketch out some visions of a post-biological (and/or synthetic-biological) future. Motifs from Jewish mythology, Japanese popular media and contemporary philosophy often form the contextual backdrop of these explorations.

Xinye Lin is a Chinese minority artist and designer with a background in architecture and urban planning. She received her education at the Rhode Island School of Design and is a professional guzheng performer with 25 years of experience. Xinye explores the relationship between art, rhythm, culture and philosophy. Her work utilizes all the senses in an active and interactive manner where the depiction of methods to heal the mind spirit and soul is not constrained to static projections of imagery. Rather inputs are tied to different human and environmental factors. such factors include motion, emotion, scent, mood. there is a conversation dance and engagement between such individual and the art dynamic

Yasmin currently lives in San Francisco and works as an interactive producer and multimedia artist. She has worked with clients such as Genentech, AstraZeneca, Link TV, Apple Computers, Bay Area News Group, and SF Film Society. In addition, she has shown at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, built large sculptural installations with the Flaming Lotus Girls, and led collaborations in Taiwan and Holland. If that's not enough to keep a girl busy, she is also producing a documentary called Ace in the Hole, about a local SF junkyard and the artists that frequented it. She is inspired by the process of creation, collaborating with people and seeing a project from start to finish. Her influences include her community, her passion for exploring new concepts, and good food.

Danishta Rivero is an improviser, performer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. Through her sound practice, she explores the artifacts resulting from heavy processing of the voice and their relationship to its acoustic resonance. Rivero’s media work expands this exploration of object/subject and artifact in order to recalibrate conceptualizations of self and the world around us. Danishta’s artistic practice and inquiry are grounded in and woven from the traditions of experimentalism, free improvisation, performance, and multimedia art.

Arden is an artist and programmer currently living in the Bay Area. They grew up in California's Mojave Desert before leaving to study Computer Science at Stanford University. They have worked as a creative technologist in XR for several companies, most recently TikTok. Currently, they are taking time off to cultivate their art practice before deciding what to do next. Their work uses simulation, computer graphics, and mixed media to speculate about language, ecology, and identity. They live with a bunch of plants and isopods, and one big mystery snail.

Liliya Kvatsabya was born in Belarus and lived there for 19 years. She was a student at the State Academy of Arts, but she had to interrupt her studies and relocate to the United States due to the political unrest in Belarus, following rigged elections in August 2020. In her work, Lilia portrays the injustices felt by the Belarusian people, and mass violence perpetrated by the police. She draws on her own experiences participating in peaceful protests and chains of solidarity in Minsk. Lilia’s posters and illustrations depicting the Belarusian democracy movement have been exhibited internationally in Germany, Japan, and Poland.

I'm a software engineer and former machine learning researcher with much experience in traditional media. I've been drawing and painting as long as I can remember, and have been recently transitioning to digital generative works. Some of my latest interests have been creating compelling visuals in TouchDesigner as well as exploring latent structures of representation in generative adversarial networks. Moving forward, I think there's a lot of area to be explored at the intersection of traditional media, computer graphics, and the latest in machine learning research.