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Yasmin Youssef is a mixed media artist, dancer, and user experience designer based in Austin, TX. She grew up in a multi-ethnic blended family, which has informed her journey through her creative careers. In her mixed media cyanotypes, Yasmin works with botanical material, collage and ink, to explore themes of memory and life cycles while delving into the often fragile human connection to oneself, community and the Natural World. Her thoughtful use of symbolism, organic and geometric shapes, light and dark, pattern and color create striking moments of visual juxtaposition, movement, and pleasure.

Yasmin’s mixed media collage art uses texture, layers, symbolism, color and mark-making in combination with collage, paint, plaster, faux encaustic, vintage ephemera and gold leaf. Together, these elements elicit a sense of mystery and wonder in the viewer.

In Fall 2021, Yasmin minted her first NFT on the HEN platform. Her collectible series of colorful Hamsas offer protection and abundance in modern times.

Her mixed media and cyanotype art has been shown in group exhibitions around Central Texas, featured in publications such as Tribeza and Almost Real Things, and currently hangs in private collections as well as in Austin’s City Hall. She was named one of Saatchi Art’s “5 Artists Not to Miss” at The Other Art Fair, Dallas 2021. 

As a dancer for Thievery Corporation, Yasmin has performed in large festivals, theaters and concert venues including Lollapalooza, ACL, Bonnaroo, Webster Hall, the Greek Theater, the Hollywood Bowl and performances across Europe, Canada and Mexico.  As an expert User Experience designer, Yasmin easily designs iphone, tablet, websites and enterprise-level software experiences. She holds several software patents.

Riley is a collage artist creating and collecting random memories.

“I have always been naturally drawn to collage art because I love how everyone notices something different when they see a piece. It’s also great for my ADD mind, I don’t have to focus on just one thing!  In terms of process, it’s really all about how/what I’m feeling. I have a huge collection of random cool clippings that inspire me. I usually smoke some weed, put on some good music & then just free flow pieces together to create a story.”

Dehiscence is a Toronto based artist whose artworks are visual anthropological explorations of the human experience. She is inspired by her previous work in anthropology and her current career in healthcare. She has been internationally exhibited widely throughout North America and Europe. She has been featured on CBC Arts: Exhibitionist TV Series and has been published in magazines, medical journals and on book covers. Her artworks are included in the permanent collections of Toronto General Hospital, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and The Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.

Paper Buddha Psychedelic is a collage artist, taking LSD and making NFTs. 

“We’re all here because we aren’t all there.”

Ed French graduated from The Norwich School of Art in 2004 with a BA Hons degree in Printmaking. After graduating, he continued his practice in screen printing and collage. He has been in many group exhibitions around the UK as well as a solo exhibition in San Antonio, Texas USA. 

His approach to creating collage is strongly influenced by the human form, texture, technology and natural surroundings. He is constantly searching for images that reflect these influences.

The found imagery is re-worked using a combination of analogue and digital techniques. His aim is to reinvent this imagery to project a contemporary vision of beauty. 

Ed currently resides in Saffron Walden, UK where he has an art studio.

Dezentral is an award winning veteran art director who worked for the entertainment industry for decades. He is also a digital artist who amalgamates animation with collage in his works. The preferred technique he uses for the animation part of his work is glitch, which shares the same deconstructive nature with collage art. Nostalgia, modern day iconography and the ambiguity of our times’ reality are main themes of his work.

Dhanya Ajith is a self-taught digital artist from India, who started sketching on a smartphone as a hobby and in 7 years created more than 1000 digital artworks. Now a freelance digital artist, she mainly creates colourful landscapes and abstract art.

  Dhanya has always been passionate about art & used to visualize patterns in the cracks of a wall, scattered cloud formations, etc. Her paintings often give way to the brighter side of life. They tell a story, share a positive thought which is incorporated into the titles and detail. The style of her NFT paintings resemble the paper cutting technique.

“In a world, where art is considered mostly as a physical entity, it’s my constant attempt to create a valuable identity for digital art.” 

Chris Wallace is an American mixed-media artist, art collector and entrepreneur. He was born in Florissant, MO, a suburb of St. Louis, in 1984 and grew up in Maryland Heights, MO. In his teen years, he became fascinated with emerging technologies and the Internet. This interest sparked a love for the visual arts and code, leading him into web and interactive design. In his 17 years as a design professional, he has led creative projects for Fortune 500 companies and organizations around the world. As Creative Principal and Partner at his design agency Lift UX, Chris’ work received multiple Emmy Award nominations for interactive second screen applications that supported popular TV series Mad Men, The Walking Dead, and Breaking Bad.

His NFT journey began in March 2021 when receiving an invitation to become a creator on Foundation. After minting a series of interactive pieces, he began collecting art both on Ethereum and Hic Et Nunc. As of September 2021, he has collected from over 1000 artists and amassed a collection of nearly 3,000 NFTs. As a photographer, he shoots only on iPhone and has traveled the world to capture compelling and beautiful images. As a mixed-media artist, he began using 3D software to create generative art using particle simulations in a software called Houdini. Much of his work today is experimenting with randomness to produce something beautiful.

In April 2021, he founded UltraDAO, an art collective whose mission is to collect important historical and cultural NFTs and elevate artists. He works closely with the 111 members to plan and execute individual artist NFT drops and markets them to his 17,000+ twitter followers, many of which are collectors. In addition, he is currently leading a 10k generative project called Woodies, launching at the end of September 2021.

Recollapse is an Indonesian artist born in Sumatra and studying fine arts in Central Java Indonesia. His interest in drawing since childhood made him active in pursuing digital and manual art as a profession. Jun is an emerging artist & this is part of their introduction in the metaverse.

Strange organic forms, both biological and mechanical. Creatures of smoke, fire and glass. Half-remembered monsters last seen in a dream.

Unlimited Dream Co. is a collaboration between a UK-based artist and an artificial intelligence, exploring the boundary between human and AI-created art and what happens when the two are combined. 

Each piece starts life as an original, highly detailed pen and ink drawing which is then re-imagined by a generative adversarial network, turning it into something new and unexpected.