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Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet and artist working at the intersection of text and technology. Her transmedia practice seeks to decipher the hidden language of the dawning Novacene through experiments with generative text, nonhuman intelligence and machine code, probing what it means to be human in a nearly post-human era. Stiles’ work — from traditional verse and experimental poetry to binary-based art and collaborative AI poetics — has been widely published and exhibited in analog and virtual realms including New York Fashion Week, Virtual Times Square and the Carrousel de Louvre; honored with a Future.Art.Award; nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net; and recognized by visionary thinkers from Judy Chicago to Ray Kurzweil. As poetry mentor to BINA48 since 2018, Stiles is engaged in shaping the literary mindfile of one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots. Her first book, Technelegy, will be published October 2021.

All Around Artsy was founded in 2009 by Kira Bursky, an award-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist on a journey to explore perceptions of reality with each of her magic-fueled films and projects. She is inspired by our capacity to heal from mental health issues and is driven to tell stories of our ability to transform our minds and hearts into a perspective of infinite possibility. She has produced over 60 short films and music videos that have screened at festivals around the world from Los Angeles to Berlin to Beijing. In 2014 Kira was recognized as National YoungArts Finalist and was a finalist in the White House Student Film Festival where she had the honor of screening her work in the White House. In 2015 Kira was selected as the Best Emerging Female Filmmaker at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY). In 2016 she was featured in Seventeen Magazine as the April issue’s Power Girl and received the Emerging Artist to Watch grant through Le Couvent artist residency in France. Kira and her creations have been featured through NPR, Out Magazine, Pride and No Film School to name a few. Her YouTube channel has 40,000 subscribers and 14 million views. From November 2019 to June 2020 Kira produced “Considerations of Infinity,” an immersive projection-based film installation. She is currently developing the script for her first feature film, designing and selling clothes and products featuring her original art and collaborating with a diverse range of inspiring artists.

Rose is a textile artist and photographer, who explores colour, texture and light in her art. Her current main body of work, within the cryptoart space, consists of unique textile works. By documenting the stages of wet felting, the traditional method used to make wool felt, she creates both still and animated artworks. Inspired by nature, these abstract textile works often take on the form of flowing landscapes.

Ana Maria Caballero is a first-generation Colombian-American poet and writer. Her work has won the Beverly International Prize for Literature and Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize. She’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and been a finalist for the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work questions romanticized motherhood and notions that present female sacrifice as a virtue. She believes poems should be valued as works of art and is excited about making this value manifest via blockchain technology. She’s the co-founder of literary NFT gallery http://theVERSEverse.com.

Culturehacker (aka Lance Weiler), is an artist &storyteller who works with emerging technology. An alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriting Lab, Weiler is recognized as a pioneer in mixing storytelling and technology. He was also named by Wired as “one of 25 people helping to reinvent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood.” 

His projects include Collapsus: The Energy Risk Conspiracy, Body/Mind/Change in collaboration with David Cronenberg, Frankenstein AI, Where There’s Smoke, and Bear 71.

Aotearoa/New Zealand artist & designer Zero Alpha is both self taught and a graduate of the School of Creativity and Art in Wellington, Aotearoa. Zero Alpha works in the digital space but has his foundations firmly in the analog world. Residing in Mohua/Golden Bay, he is involved in the local Arts Council and teaches homeschool groups animation and design.

Zero Alpha entered the crypto art space in March 2021 selling his first NFT on OpenSea entitled “Aureum Chaos”. He has since been exclusively minting creations on Hic et Nunc, a place more aligned to his values and outlook on the NFT scene in general. Zero Alpha prefers the underground,the amazing community and freedom to explore on Hic et Nunc

Using software like Touchdesigner, Blender and C4D along with the Adobe suite, Zero Alpha creates abstract works that explore dark complex patterns derived from geodata data from both Earth & off-world. Often producing original soundscapes for the works as well. These are produced on both analog hardware synthesizers and their software equiv- alents. A major work called “Chaos of Solus” was a major accomplishment for Zero Alpha, the full 4k version can be viewed at the portfolio link below as it was intended. The HTML player version that was available on Hic et Nunc has since long sold out.

Zero Alpha is currently continuing to create the Shadow Play series, an ongoing collection of abstract works derived from extracting online geodata and then constructing 3D land- scapes from it. It is then imported into C4D where it is deformed to produce the abstract forms. Often these complex dark works take on alien-like insect forms but have also been described as machine souls. Heavily influenced by Sci-Fi and underground drum and bass music culture, Zero Alpha always draws on these for the tone and feeling for his works.

The future holds opportunity for more in real life interactive art installations, continuing to teach young creatives foundational skills and of course to continuing to establish himself in the crypto-art space. Further information can be found by visiting the links below or reach out to Zero Alpha through his socials to connect.

Portfolio: https://zeroalphadesign.myportfolio.com/nfts 

Twitter: @ZeroAlpha_NZ

Email: hello@zeroalphadesign.com

Linda Dounia Rebeiz is a transdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer from Senegal. Her work interrogates the effects of patriarchal, modernist, and capitalistic power structures on our women’s bodies and minds. Through her practice, she aims to carve out spaces for women to express their experience of the modern world, and create repositories for how they imagine futures. Rebeiz seeks to ground herself in the knowledge systems indigenous to her country in order to reflect and preserve her heritage through her work.

Octavio Irving (Villa Clara, Cuba, 1978) graduated from the Arts University of Cuba (ISA, 2006) and the Fine Arts Academy San Alejandro (2000with an emphasis in Printmaking. He has developed his work through different mediums such as drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting.  To date, he has 17 solo shows and has participated in more than one hundred group shows in Cuba, United States, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Italy, among others. He won first prize in the International Contest “La Joven Estampa” in 2007 and was the recipient of the AECID Fellowship in 2010.

His works are included in several institutional and private collections in Cuba and abroad such as: The Collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts (Havana, Cuba); of the National Council of Plastic Arts (Havana, Cuba); the Museum of Latin American Art of Los Angeles (MOLAA) (California, United States); the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rostock (Rostock, Germany) and the Museum of Printing and Design (Caracas, Venezuela) among others.

He lives and works in Havana,Cuba.

Pablo Esteban Sanchez Rijlaarsdam (AKA REY) was born on December 27th, 1988 in Mexico City. As the son of an Oaxacan painter Pablo had his first experience in art by watching his father paint. However, it was not until 1999, when Pablo discovered his true interest in Art. He and his family moved to the city of Leiden in the Netherlands. There he came into direct contact with the works of the great Dutch Masters suchz as Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Mondriaan and Karel Appel. This helped him expand his vision and create his own distinct way of thinking.

What started as a hobby soon became a complete lifestyle. In 2007 Pablo began to study graphic design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. There he was known for his genuine way to work, his designs, full color and expression, already determined by a signature. He graduated in 2010 with a solid goal: To live from his art and become a recognized artist.

He began showing work in Holland in places like the KABK Hall (The Hague), Jakub’s Hangout (Leiden) and ACCENT (Rotterdam). His work was defined by its expressive and auto didactic language. It was not until 2011 however, that Pablo’s work took on new dimensions when he moved to the hometown of his father, Oaxaca. There the young artist came in contact with his other half, completing the circle of a well-defined, expressive and distinctive style in which the art is not only produced, but also lived. A concept established as ‘the language of the soul’.

‘‘Art out of necessity.’’

In his stay in Oaxaca the young artist has painted over 270 canvasses and 800 works on paper. Making him one of, if not, the most prolific artist in Oaxaca. He is part of the Oaxacan group ‘Movimiento Los Monstruos’. Pablo´s work has visited several countries, including China, Russia, Holland, Indonesia, Singapore and the United States. He‘s participated in international fairs such as the Miami River Art fair, the Artemergente Biennale in Monterrey and the Mexican BADA Art Fair 2020 and Affordable Art fair 2014.

Pablo’s aim is still the same, the appetite is still growing.

Sky Goodman is a new media artist, poet, and educator living in Chicago. Inspired by William Blake, The Romantic Poets, early CGI and psychedelic art, they aim to create digital landscapes that remind us of the interconnectedness between human consciousness, nature, and the astral plane. Mixing analog/digital and old/new technology is an important part of their creative process. 

They have been a member of the Glitch Artists Collective since 2014 and have collaborated with several glitch artists. They are a member of three different audio visual collaborations and enjoy projecting glitch visuals in a live setting. They co-founded the new media collective S H R I N E which exhibits new media and video art in Chicago. 

Their work has been exhibited in the US, Europe, and South America and they are the author of two books of poetry, Deep Dream and Starfish.