Sophie Kahn is a Brooklyn-based sculptor and digital artist whose work addresses technology’s failure to capture the unstable human body. She was born in London and grew up in Melbourne. She earned a BA (Hons) in Fine Art/History of Art at Goldsmiths College, London; a Graduate Certificate in Spatial Information Architecture from RMIT, Melbourne; and an MFA in Art and Technology at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her recent exhibitions include Dematerialized, Mozilla Hubs/VR; In the Bardo, Feral File; Synthetic Corpo-Reality, MEET Digital Art Center, Milan; Transfigured, C24 Gallery, New York; and Out of Body - Sculpture Post-Photography, bitforms, New York. Her work has also been included in numerous festivals including the Japan Media Arts Festival and Transmediale. She has taught at Pratt Institute in New York and at Columbia College in Chicago and completed residencies at NARS, the Museum of Arts and Design, Pioneer Works, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program. Kahn is a New York Foundation for the Arts Digital and Electronic Arts Fellow.
Rodell Warner is a Trinidadian artist working primarily in new media and photography. His works have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Berlin Biennale, and the National Gallery of Jamaica. Most recently his digital animations using archival photography have been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario in the 2021 exhibition Fragments of Epic Memory, and at TERN Gallery in Nassau, the Bahamas, in the 2021 solo exhibition Augmented Archives. Rodell lives and works between Port of Spain in Trinidad, Kingston in Jamaica, and Austin, Texas, in the United States.
Jeremy Bailey is a Toronto-based self-proclaimed Famous New Media Artist. As Morgan Quaintance, writing for Rhizome, has put it, “Since the early noughties, Bailey has ploughed a compelling, and often hilarious, road through the various developments of digital communications technologies.” Bailey has performed and exhibited all over the world, from bathrooms in Buffalo to museums in Moscow.
British and Colombian artist Matthew Plummer-Fernández works across physical and digital media, critically and playfully examining the interrelation of algorithmic systems, popular culture, and contemporary issues. Their work is influenced by generative art, critical design, and internet art, and has been exhibited extensively, commissioned by institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, AND Festival in Manchester, and ZKM in Karlsruhe. Several works of the artist are in the permanent collection of Centre Pompidou in Paris, and in 2014, they received an award of distinction at Ars Electronica. Plummer-Fernández received an MA from London’s Royal College of Art in 2009, completed a practice-based doctorate at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2019, and in 2021 was appointed course leader in BA Fine Art - Computational Arts at Camberwell College of Arts in London.
LaTurbo Avedon is an avatar and artist, creating work that emphasizes the practice of non-physical identity and authorship. Avedon has spent the past decade developing a body of work that illuminates the ever-growing intensity between users and the virtual, pursuing creative environments that deepen the meaning of immaterial experiences. They curate and design Panther Modern, a file-based exhibition space that encourages artists to create site-specific installations for the Internet. LaTurbo’s process of character creation continues through gaming, performance and exhibitions. Their work has been exhibited and collected internationally.
Rujunko Pugh (Syberweerd) was born in Japan to a Japanese-naturalized Korean mother and African-American father. Raised in California and North Carolina, Rujunko has lived around the world in places including Hawaii, Washington, D.C., Rome, Sydney, and Palma de Mallorca. She initially studied molecular bioscience and bioengineering. Now, she works across various media including digital art, printmaking, installation, street art and murals. Her art draws on Japanese, African, and African-American imagery to explore themes such as identity, history, culture and race as well as global movements of people, ideas and technologies. She has completed a Master of Fine Art from the University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts and exhibited in museums and galleries in Australia, the United States, Italy, New Zealand, Kenya, and Spain.
Laleh Mehran was born in Iran and relocated with her family to the United States at the start of the Iranian Islamic Revolution. Mehran creates elaborate environments in digital and physical spaces focused on the complex intersections between politics, belief systems, and science. In a political climate in which certain views are increasingly suspect and can have extreme consequences, Mehran’s artworks are invitations to think again about each of these paradigms and the profound connections that bind them. Mehran received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has been shown individually and collaboratively across the U.S. and international venues including the ISEA (United Arab Emirates), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), FILE (Brazil), ACT Festival (South Korea), MASS MoCA (Massachusetts), Mattress Factory Museum (Pennsylvania), Carnegie Museum of Art (Pennsylvania), The Georgia Museum of Art (Georgia), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pennsylvania), Denver Art Museum (Colorado), Biennial of the Americas at MCA Denver (Colorado), 404 International Festival of Art & Technology (Argentina), European Media Arts Festival (Germany), Boulder MCA (Colorado), and Currents: The Santa Fe International New Media Festival (New Mexico). Mehran is a professor of emergent digital practices at the University of Denver.
