Alexa Velasquez
Alexa Velasquez
Alexa is a 3D designer and researcher whose work focuses on stylized fantasy character design, organic sculpting, and digital worldbuilding. She holds an MFA in Film and Television Production from USC's School of Cinematic Arts and has a background in filmmaking, experimental animation and bioscience. Her digital works explore themes of intimacy, sensuality, and exploratory methods for cultural preservation and archiving in the digital age. She loves designing vast, foggy wastelands, chimeric fantasy figures and Indigenous futurist worlds.
Her current research investigates the translation of temporal ritual + ecological data into generative design techniques to drive organic form generation in advanced ...
Batu Aytemiz
Batu uses AI to enhance how games are made and experienced—not for the sake of games, but for the people who play them. As an ML Engineer at Regression Games, he currently focuses on automated game testing, code generation, and designer support tools. During his Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz he explored AI techniques to make video games more inclusive. He later developed interactive imitation learning systems at Agentic.ai to automatically test games. At Microsoft Research Cambridge, he investigated how designers can shape aesthetic of reinforcement learning agents through human feedback, and at Ubisoft La Forge, he ...
Gretchen Andrew
Gretchen Andrew manipulates systems of power with art, glitter and code. She is best known for her playful hacks on major art world and political institutions, including Frieze, The Whitney Biennial, Artforum, The Turner Prize, and The Next American President. In these digital performances she reimagines reality with art and desire. She does this by making assemblage “vision boards” that she programs to become top internet search results. The feminine and trivialized materials of her vision boards purposefully clash with the male-dominated worlds of AI, programming, and political control they also operate within. In Gretchen’s new Facetune Portrait series ...
SHAO
Shao is the first mainland Chinese artist to be signed to the legendary Berlin techno Tresor, imprint and is one of China's leading figures in the world of pulsed fueled electronic music and sublime audio visual performance. Highly sought-after as a composer and sound designer, he was invited by the Goethe Institute to re-compose a different type of sound accompaniment for the classic German silent film Metropolis. Shao also has an ongoing collaboration with leading Chinese directors Meng Jinghui and Cheng Ran. At Recombinant Festival 2024, Shao brings for the first time, his colossal and discombobulated sound to the city ...
MHP
MHP is one of the most influential and insurrectional Techno musicians in China. His music was discovered by Jeff Mills, and he released the album "Chang'e-4 " on the legendary label Axis Records. His music style combines Detroit injections with a a bold, futuristic sci-fi/ Hypno- tech weapon also designed for dance floor. Intrusions. Before this, in 2013, he released the EP “The Chinese Connection ” on Scan 7‘s label Cratesavers International, which made him the initial Chinese producer to release Techno in Detroit. In 2015, he released the EP "Crepuscular Rays" on Orlando Voorn's label Nightvision. In 2022 to 2023 ...