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Roxanne Harris "alsoknownasrox" is a new media artist-researcher and musician-programmer based in Los Angeles. Embracing programming as an artistic medium, she parameterizes on-the-fly, pushing the boundaries of improvisational dexterity within computational limitations. Her work invites audiences to engage the creative process as it unfolds, embracing vulnerability and exploring speculative futures through algorithmic transparency.

Avital Meshi is a new media and performance artist exploring the impact of AI on human identity and sociality. Meshi invites viewers to become entangled with AI algorithms, reclaim agency, and spark discussions on identity transformation. Meshi is a PhD student in Performance Studies and Science and Technology Studies at UC Davis. She holds an MFA from UC Santa Cruz’s Digital Arts and New Media program and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also holds an MSc and a BSc in Behavioral Biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Meshi’s work has been exhibited widely, including a solo show at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts and group shows at CURRENTS New Media Festival, Duke Arts, Women Made Gallery, Flux Factory, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, NeurIPS, and more.

Danielle Baskin is a San Francisco-based performance artist, sculptor, and creative technologist. She's made Smashomancy (a divination system for cracked phone screens), stained glass windows for airplanes, and masks that look like your own face. She currently runs Moonlight, a digital tarot platform and professional witch marketplace for iOS and web.

fi / fiona is an artist and designer that calls northern california and the north of ireland home.

fi's approach to this piece is found in bouncing between opposing energies — earthly intuition and cybernetic hyperreality, invisible and physical, folklore and science.

Helen Shewolfe Tseng is an artist, designer, wildlife naturalist, and creative technologist based in San Francisco. Her practice emerges from the crossroads of mythology and ecology, and has taken the forms of works on paper, experimental publications, games, rituals, performance lectures, conceptual research labs, browser-based works, long-term observational studies, and more. Coyotes and wild canids are a recurring motif and enduring obsession in her work, as mirrors to human experiences of diaspora and adaptation, and examinations of interspecies entanglement and more-than-human perspectives.

Heheheheherdimas appropriates the affordances of technology to simulate trances, rituals, and other existential crashes. Hehehehehe bends platforms unhehehehehelpfully, until they hehehehehesitate and crash under the weight of their own interface logic. This bio itself is experiencing formatting instability. So is Heheheheherdimas. Hehehehehe holds an MFA from Yale School of Art, where hehehehehe spent just enough time staring at screens to convince them to stare back. Hehehehehe now works as an Assistant Professor at VCUarts, where hehehehehe teaches students to trick infrastructure and occasionally hoodwink each other. Hehehehehe.

Lucidbeaming is an art and technology project by San Francisco Bay Area based artist Joshua Curry. It leverages a background in fine art and music with modern programming and fabrication skills. Lucidbeaming projects have been exhibited in the San Jose, San Francisco, and Berlin since early 2017.

Joy He is a designer and maker completing their MDes at UC Berkeley. Their work ranges from nuclear control rooms to silversmithed earpieces; and you will often find them in the shop yelling at the CNC machine. As a deaf cyborg, they are drawn to questions of what we trust our machines with.

Alistair Vizuet is a mechanical engineer currently in the Master of Design program at UC Berkeley. Pivoting from a career in machine repair and maintenance, their practice revolves around found objects, sustainability and repairability, and emerging tech skepticism.

Levi Bloch is a mechanical engineer and designer based in SF. He creates works that force unexpected interactions with everyday objects.

Memo Akten is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and computer scientist working with emerging technologies both as creative medium, and as subject of critical inquiry. He creates Speculative Simulations and Data Dramatizations that probe the cultural, social, and ecological impacts of our contemporary techno-lifestyles, and the collisions between science and spirituality, modernity and ritual, self and collective intelligence. For more than a decade, he has worked with AI, Big Data, and our Collective Consciousness as scraped and shaped by the internet, to reflect on the human condition. He holds a PhD in creative explorations into Deep Neural Networks (aka 'AI') from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is currently Assistant Professor at UC San Diego. He has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Venice Biennale, Tribeca Film Festival, Barbican, Grand Palais, Mori Art Museum; presented at leading academic conferences such as NeurIPS and SIGGRAPH; and featured in major publications including Wired, Art in America, NY Times, and the Guardian.

Mira Joyce is an artist, designer, and creative director working on everything with everybody everywhere. Her roots in the early new media / net art scene, combined with her work across the music, fashion, and technology industries— particularly her extensive collaborations with 100 gecs— has led to a worldwide impact on digital culture.

Mitch Chaiet is a creative technologist from Austin, Texas. He likes to make robots do things.

Giovanni Di Prima is a famous artist from Austin, Texas. He studied fine arts at the McGee F. Arts Academy.

Nocellcoverage is the studio practice of multidisciplinary artist and designer Matt Faller. The studio explores the evolving relationship between technology, nature, and materiality. By combining physical and digital media, Nocellcoverage investigates how digital tools can preserve, reinterpret, and expand our understanding of the material world. Projects created by the studio act as ongoing studies focused on preservation, perception, and participation.

Queenie Wu is a creative technologist, cartographer, researcher & artist investigating how spatial media and data inform our relationships and memories of shared surroundings. Through maps, writing, curation, workshops, and activations spanning the digital, physical, and interactive, she playfully explores nuanced relationships between self and place while lowering barriers to spatial data literacy.

Her work has been supported by the Steve Jobs Archive, NEW INC, New York University, and the HTML Review.

Scott Snibbe is a new media artist, author, and meditation teacher whose work dissolves the illusion of separateness—between self and other, art and audience, body and nature. His pioneering interactive art, held in the collections of New York MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been exhibited worldwide in museums, public spaces, concert tours, and immersive installations. He has collaborated with Björk, Philip Glass, Beck, and James Cameron, creating innovative intersections of art, music, and technology.

Snibbe has received the Webby and Ars Electronica awards and grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He holds over thirty patents and has served as an advisor to The Institute for the Future and The Sundance Institute. He has held teaching and research positions at UC Berkeley, NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematics, San Francisco Art Institute, and California Institute for the Arts.

As a leading figure in digital interactivity, Snibbe produced several groundbreaking art apps, including Gravilux, a number one app in Apple's app store named "Best App of the Year"; and the world's first "app album," Björk: Biophilia. He was an early developer of Adobe After Effects and spent years at Paul Allen's Interval Research Corporation researching interactive music, video, computer vision, and haptics.

A longtime student and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, Snibbe is the executive director of the nonprofit Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment and hosts its widely followed meditation podcast. In 2024, he released his first book, How to Train a Happy Mind, featuring a foreword by the Dalai Lama. His work bridges ancient wisdom with cutting-edge technology, shaping new forms of engagement with consciousness, ritual, and community.

Sean Russell Hallowell is a composer and video artist from Occidental, CA. He synthesizes experimental techniques developed from handmade circuitry with a cosmic perspective on music as a conduit for physical and metaphysical energy. His music and installations have been showcased across the US as well as internationally. His work is inspired by outmoded technologies like analog tape and cathode-ray tube televisions. He holds degrees in music theory from Brown University (BA) and Columbia University (PhD).

Sena Clara Creston is a photographer and interactive installation artist. She learned to create personal space from repurposed material by growing up Artist in New York City. Creston learned to use the power of the image to tell convincing stories while studying photography at New York University. There she began using immersive light installations to create the feeling of "being there". Creston went on to study electronic arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she animated responsive light installations and art vehicles to reflect the viewer's actions and the environment's point of view. Creston moved to California in 2020 to work as a photography and media arts professor at Sonoma State University. She has created robotic, light, material, and photographic installations for galleries, museums, and festivals; including Borealis Festival of Light, Treefort, Tri-Cities Airport, Museum of Sonoma County, and The Wassaic Project.

I'm an artist and designer from Ukraine, focusing on combining seemingly unrelated concepts into captivating objects and visuals, while navigating the personal and the present.

9, 煦 or Susie Zhu is a practitioner of fragility, a fond listener for the contemporary infra-ordinary and an interdisciplinary multimedia artist-poet who writes with language, sound, rematerialized technology, obscurity, and ephemeral matters. Her "poems" often manifest as time-based and interactive works, including but not limited to: artist's book, performance, installation, film, sound, website, vulnerable interface, public and private ritual. She received her dual Bachelor degrees at Brown University (BA Literary Arts Hons.) and RISD (BFA Printmaking Hons.) and dual MFA degrees in Creative Writing and Art+Technology with the concentration in Integrated Media at CalArts as a Truman Capote Literary Fellow. She runs butter*rabbit *press and is the author of 9 books of poetry/artist's books.

Will Rinkoff makes live electronic music, software, and audio/visual work in Los Angeles.