Mark Ramos is a Brooklyn-based new media artist. Mark is deeply committed to the ethos of open source: the free sharing of information and data + creative uses of technology. His work is engaged with democratizing the worlds of art and technology through community and individual empowerment via the means of technological production. Mark works with the mediums of physical computing (using computers to sense and react to the physical world), software programming and digital sculpture to create interactive installations that facilitate encounters with our own uncertain digital futures. He is an adjunct faculty member at the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College. You can also find him playing drums for various bands in Brooklyn.

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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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Ziyang Wu’s art practice focuses on a new power of control rooted in what he has termed as “post Internet micro-alienation.” Referring to contemporary technology, digital power structures, popular culture, and the dynamics between identity and community, he draws on these themes to create works rooted in absurdist and carnivalesque techniques to propose critiques and celebrations of alienated culture. His multimedia installations, 3D animations, AI simulations, and interactive media have been exhibited internationally in venues such as Medici Palace, Milan Design Week, Today Art Museum, Times Art Museum, Artron Art Center, Powerlong Museum, Walker Art Center, Rochester Art Center, Academy Art Museum, and Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia. He is an adjunct faculty at School of Visual Arts’ BFA Fine Arts Department.

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Bhavik is an artist and technologist focused on enabling people to better understand and express themselves. Motivated by his Sikh upbringing, 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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