the epistemologies of slop

Art & Culture Lab is the practice of Danish artist Bo Jessen Fogh Laursen. Working at the intersection of sound, space, and participation, the lab develops installations where visitors become the material - not the audience. Works are built from exposed infrastructure, feedback systems, and embedded technology, staging the conditions through which experience is produced rather than consumed. The practice works from and against structural habits in society.

Paige is a creative technologist exploring the chaotic intersection of internet culture, AI, and our rapidly degrading attention spans. Based in San Francisco, she builds interactive installations that hold up a mirror to our daily tech habits. When she’s not coding lethally entertaining doomscrolling simulators, she’s probably trying to recover her own screen time.

Yanqi He builds systems. He is an MFA candidate in Art and Technology at California Institute of the Arts, currently working primarily with large language models as material to make visible the lossy conversions from model output to physical action, and to human labor.

We expose the unconscious friction within phantasmagoric systems.
k0j0 (Koi Ren and Joey Verbeke) is a New Media Art duo creating subversive and frictional “intrafaces”, artifacts that reveal the power, politics, and posthuman subjectivities embedded within systemic interactions. Their research-based practice pulls from backgrounds in human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, media studies, and speculative design.
Through the defamiliarization of seductive seamlessness and tacit expectations, k0j0 provokes moments of epistemological rupture, inviting viewers into intimate proximity with the unfamiliar and the emergent dynamics shaping our futures.
Their work has been shown at venues and events such as Ars Electronica, National Asian Culture Center, ACM SIGGRAPH, TEDAI, MUTEK, Gray Area, Heckscher Museum, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Diego Rivera Gallery, and Sundance Film Festival.

Artist based in San Francisco, working across internet culture, the handmade, and where physical and digital experience meet. My work finds beauty in the ugly, surfaces the unknown, a resistance against the flattening sameness. Past life: leading teams building mobile games and MMORPGs. This life: dreaming of a city that's harmonious, and collaborative. Find me in Dolores or Precita park with guitar in hand, dog Max beside me.

Matthew Caren (b. 2003) is an artist, engineer, and researcher whose practice lives between science, art, and obsessive tinkering. His work is defined by handmade machines that use rigorous technical invention to explore expression, memory, sound, and our relationships to our machines. He is a fellow of the Steve Jobs Archive and Hertz Foundation, and one half of the design studio Bad Science.

Daniel Clayton (he/him) is an grammy award-winning multidisciplinary artist and documentary filmmaker exploring the future of human connection and global culture in an algorithmic age.

Working under the moniker 480p, Clayton's work investigates how AI quantifies, tracks, and knows us from our movements to our secret desires before we can truly know our inner selves. His practice spans photography, film, and immersive installations, with recent work examining the distance between our digital selves and inner lives.


Heya Kwon (she/they) is a Korean American artist, designer, and researcher working across sound, new media, and participatory practices. With a background in social theory, music, and software engineering, she approaches art and technology as tools for care and critical reflection.

Inspired by media archaeology and Buddhism, her artistic research practice examines the psychological, material, and ecological conditions of media systems with a focus on the relationship between bodies and media. She is particularly interested in slowness and rest as ways of resistance in our current extractive and accelerationist technological regimes.

She is currently pursuing an MA in New Media at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, and holds a BA in Social Studies (Political and Social Theory) from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, USA.

Aleezay Hashmi is a Canadian artist working at the intersection of art and technology. Her practice explores the challenges of communicating complex ideas ranging from quantum physics to climate change to machine learning through visual language. Drawing from academic research, her work examines how meaning shifts as knowledge moves from specialized discourse into public-facing forms. In this process, complexity is often traded for shareability, while resisting this reduction risks rendering the work opaque or exclusive. She is interested in this tension between legibility and depth, and in the moments where translation falters or begins to succeed. Aleezay is also a senior product designer and software engineer working in the A.I. space.

Nick Susi is a writer exploring the technological, societal and psychological forces that shape our identity, perception and culture. He has led strategy for dotdotdash, Complex, The FADER and Jay Z’s former media brand Life+Times. His research and writing can be found in Business of Fashion, GQ, FWB FEST, Joshua Citarella’s Do Not Research, Matt Klein’s ZINE, Boys Club, Future Commerce, Water & Music, and the Library of Congress.

Domingo Beta is a creative director based in Medellín, Colombia. He is the co-founder of the independent design studio Veleta Studio Lab, as well as the creative director of JUMP, a community for agency professionals and brand marketers who are passionate about Web3, and art director for RADAR, a media platform, research community and trend accelerator.

viola he (@v10101a) is a Shanghai / NYC-based multimedia artist, educator, electronic musician, and creative technologist. They make web and irl performances and experiences, exploring alternative structures, systems, and interfaces across digital and physical mediums. viola is an organizing member of Livecode.NYC, an incubator member at NEW INC, and co-runs experimental game collective [[rect*]] repair ✧ ദ്ദി(˶•̀ᴗ-˶)

Nadya Lev is the co-founder and creative director of Aconite, an independent game studio best known for the near-future sci-fi game HoloVista. The studio has been recognized by IndieCade, SIGGRAPH, the Apple Design Awards, A MAZE, and D.I.C.E., among others. Miracle Jones is a novelist and narrative/game designer best known for his cult slipstream novel series The Fold. He is a co-founder at Instar Books, where he publishes Remember The Internet, a series of pocket-sized books chronicling various niche online eras, as well as the acclaimed anthology Videogames for Humans.

Alex Olwal’s ambient sculptures investigate how new languages for interaction can evolve through computation embedded within fluids, textiles, and light. Drawing from traditions of kinetic art, his dynamic forms engage human curiosity through shape-changing elements, electromagnetic fields, and programmable materials that respond with subtle behavior. Alex embraces the poetic potential of a synergistic relationship between physical environments and computation, where ambient technology is designed and engineered to adhere to the aesthetics, forms and purpose of their crafted surroundings. Viewers often describe experiencing a sense of wonder as his work blurs the boundaries between the animate and inanimate. Alex’s multi-disciplinary background allows him to craft both familiar and unexpected interfaces and behavior through software, electronics, and materials. His background fuses engineering and artistic inquiry, resulting in works that offer thoughtful reflections on how computation might integrate more harmoniously into our physical and social contexts.

tiffany is an sf-based toy maker building offbeat games about intention, perception, and misunderstanding.

vincent enjoys writing narratives about feelings, technology, and human-ai interaction.

Spencer Chang is an artist, engineer, and toy maker interested in the play, creation, and care that emerge from our relationships with and through technological systems. Working across internet spaces, interactive sculpture, and creative infrastructure, they engage with everyday practices and material to reconstruct technology as a medium for communal flourishing. These works leverage whimsical intimacy and critical joy to interrogate our systems, invite collective imaginations, and provide the means to reinvent them.

Chang's work has been showcased by the Gray Area & the de Young Museum (San Francisco), Tokyo Geidai (Tokyo), Museum of the Moving Image (New York), Ars Electronica (Linz), and the National Communication Museum (Melbourne). They have created commissions for Hyundai Artlab, Alserkal Avenue, the Internet Archive, and Wikipedia and been supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission, Rhizome, and the Ethereum Foundation. A NEW INC Y11 member, their projects have been featured in MIT Tech Review, The Cut, It's Nice That, and Frieze, and they have taught workshops internationally for institutions such as Stanford University, NYU ITP, and SFPC.

Dann Disciglio (b. 1993) is a transdisciplinary artist whose research examines how naturalism and humanism are reconfigured through the deliberate entangling of biological and computational systems. Working with trees, bees, bacteria, sensing devices, AI models, and lots and lots of gear, Disciglio constructs sculptural and spatial systems that grant audiences access to forms of perception, embodiment, and temporality that are otherwise humanly inaccessible. His installations and performances treat non-humans and technology not as metaphors but as parallel interlocutors—agents whose signals, behaviors, and material logics complicate anthropocentric assumptions and expand the ways humans encounter the world.

Emre Güler is a creative technologist and artist based in San Francisco. Working from a background in data science, his work draws on the visual languages of measurement and representation and the mass-produced imagery of everyday life.

Lee Butterman is an artist, poet, computer scientist, and classicist. His NoDictionaries project uses real Latin AI for human-centric Latin reading, and his Diffusion Local Time uses tasteful generative AI imagery as a surrealist clock face. He lives in San Francisco.

I am an artist and design technologist working with machines, interfaces, and everyday objects. My practice explores how technology shapes behavior, trust, and decision-making, often through playful systems that feel both familiar and strange. By combining physical fabrication, computation, and interaction design, I create objects that ask viewers to reconsider the authority of the tools around them.

Thomas Noya is a Venezuelan multimedia artist and educator based in Los Angeles. Working across computational systems, still and moving image, he explores how algorithmic, commercial, and cultural forces shape behavior and produce meaning. Noya holds a BSc in Digital Arts Computing from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is pursuing an MFA in Design | Media Arts at UCLA.

Yufeng Zhao is a media artist and technologist, currently a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab's Future Sketches group. His work traces unexpected connections across data, graphics, film, and the web.

nko is a bimbo cyborg tech muse that's been chronically online since forever.
special interests include: meme propagation, embodiment, foss, robots, hyper femme aesthetics, and making tech bros question their authority. outside of making art about surveillance, emerging tech, agi, sexual violence, they're a caretaker and daughter. nko cares deeply about neurodegeneration, memory, and continuity.

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.