Nathan Shafer is a new media artist, author and special education teacher from Alaska. He is one of the founding members of both the Meme-Rider Media Team, an art collective founded in 2000 designing early form internet memes, and Manifest.AR, the first International art collective making mobile augmented reality works. He was profiled by PBS Digital Studios as part of an online collaboration called The Future in 2014. His work has been shown at Noxious Sector Projects, Bauwelt, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Rhizome, ISEA, Pratt Museum, Virtuale Switzerland, Out North Contemporary Art House and the Institute of Contemporary Art ...

Keiken is an artist collective, co-founded by Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos in 2015. Based between London and Berlin, they come from mixed diasporic backgrounds (Mexican / Japanese / European / Jewish). Keiken’s collective title is taken from the Japanese word for experience; the lived experience being an idea at the core of their practice. They are collaboratively building and imagining speculative futures to simulate and test-drive new structures and ways of existing. Tethered to the idea of experience, Keiken explore the nature and future of consciousness in every facet of their practice. They do this through filmmaking, gaming, installation, ...

LaJuné is a Multidisciplinary Artist, and Educator creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our current forms of communication. They are passionate about discovering, learning, manifesting, and stewarding spaces for liberated Black Realities and the Black Imagination. LaJune believes in making by diving into, navigating, critiquing, and breaking systems and technologies that uphold systemic injustices to decommodify our bodies, undo our indoctrination, and make room for different ways of being. LaJuné has had the opportunity to show and speak about their work at Pioneer Works, National Sawdust, Leaders in Software and Art, Creative Tech Week, ...

Heesoo Kwon is a visual artist and anthropologist from South Korea and is currently based in the Bay Area, California. Kwon received her Masters of Fine Art from UC Berkeley in 2019. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Et Al and Studio 2W, San Francisco; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley; and CICA Museum and Visual Space Gunmulsai, South Korea. She has participated in group exhibitions at the CICA Museum; BAMPFA, Berkeley; 47 Canal, New York; Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco; Slash Gallery, San Francisco; and Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK, among others. In 2012 Kwon ...

Rodell Warner is a Trinidadian artist working primarily in new media and photography, and a Moving Image master’s student at Bard College. Rooted in the exploration of race, nature, and technologies of representation, Rodell's artworks draw on personal and institutional archives to rethink the past, and on digital processes to index emancipatory futures. Rodell's digital animations intervening in early photography from the Caribbean have been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario in the landmark exhibition Fragments of Epic Memory in 2022, and in 2024 in the Tito's Prize solo exhibition Fictions More Precious at Big Medium in Austin, ...