Jesse Walton is a San Francisco based visual artist and creative prototyper. He received an MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008 and a BFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2003. He has attended residencies at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, New York, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California, Vermont Studio Center, and Stichting B.a.d in Rotterdam, Netherlands. His work has been included in recent exhibitions including Small Works 2 at Soft Times Gallery in San Francisco, CA, Group Shoe 3 at House of Seiko in San Francisco, CA, and was a ...

Arkadiy Kukarkin is a multi-disciplinary practitioner interested in the relationship between creative labor and reward, the nature of value, and in designing systems that support expression without compromising intent. He also maintains a deep belief in the power of music and the broader sound experience, despite the many challenges of the contemporary music-industrial complex.

mai ishikawa sutton is an organizer, writer, and artist primarily focused on the digital commons and other intersections between network technologies and the solidarity economy. They are a co-founder and editor of COMPOST, an online multimedia magazine about and for the digital commons. They are a Senior Organizer with DWeb and a Digital Commons Fellow with Commons Network.

Ophira Horwitz is an artist and poet who works with artificial intelligence. She creates beautiful works of art with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. She calls herself a "model psychologist" because of her ability to coax and guide LLMs towards more playful and imaginative states, in order to elicit rare gems. Horwitz is best known for discovering how to make LLMs produce intricate ASCII art and pioneering new methods for working with them as expressive tools and collaborative partners in creativity. She wrote an online book last year about "vibe coding" with LLMs to make generative art, which is ...