Bhavik is an artist and technologist focused on enabling people to better understand and express themselves. Motivated by his upbringing in the Sikh culture, he strives to create safe spaces for everyone to be seen and heard. He is currently working across the fields of new media art, interactive design and product development to explore new languages and build alternative futures for digital experiences. Bhavik is from New Delhi, India and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. For the last few years he has led teams of artists, designers and technologists at Google to create products that encourage new forms of community and expression. His work has been featured in the Verge, Wired and Fast Company and is used by tens of millions of people every day.

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lula.xyz

Sub-Saharan Habesha by way of London, lula.xyz (Lula Mebrahtu) is a creative enigma who is carving out a career for herself as a multidisciplinary artist, an approach that has led her to garner support and success across multiple fields. An unconventional thinker with technology - MiMu gloves - as her enabler, lula.xyz is breaking through ‘the norm’ and liberating artistic expression for a sensory experience. At the forefront of vanguard, she just released her debut EP “From My Hands To Your Ears.” Using her voice to liberate truth and facilitate transcendence, lula.xyz sings about a lived experience of the past, present, and future. Her soulful timbre, which carries the weight of her heritage, enables intergalactic travel. A triple threat is what they trained Lula to be, but she is transforming into so much more.

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nonstudio

Pearlyn Lii is an artist and designer from Hong Kong whose work examines narratives about female identity through performances and installations. She crafts surreal stories and confronts archetypes, often merging physical and sensory experience with digital, typographic, and code-based media. She is the cofounder of nonstudio, an art and design practice that investigates mythologies through transmedia. Her work has been recognized by Dezeen, Vogue Italia, Wallpaper*, Forbes, and the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD). Previously, she has worked with the Guggenheim Bilbao, Fashion for Good, Whitewall Magazine, and Maison Kitsuné

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