Jared S Tarbell is a generative artist who writes computer programs to build software machines. The machines generate geometric structures. Most machines output an infinite number of forms. The forms are expressed as graphic images, machine cut physical artifacts, video animations, and interactive experiences. Jared graduated from New Mexico State University in 2000 with a degree in Computer Science. He was the founder of Levitated.net. In an effort to create a better way to sell his digital art online, he co-founded Etsy in 2005 where he was known as the “wizard in the desert.”
Iskra Velitchkova is an artist currently based in Madrid. Her work explores the present and potential interactions between humans and machines, and how instead of making technology more human, this relationship can push us to better understand our limits. She believes that roots and tradition can nurture her work with greater truth. After a stint in the tech and artificial intelligence industry as a visual thinker, Iskra decided to apply her knowledge and experience to her own research using art as a medium for generative explorations. Her work is based on mixed techniques: both digital and physical.
Sasha Belitskaja is an Estonian architectural designer, NFT artist, and UX developer whose work centers on novel interactive design models and the interplay of new emergent aesthetics. Her projects focus on utilizing computer graphics and game engine technology to explore new forms of connectivity between audience, creator, and community. Her experimental work and proposals have been published internationally, and she has taught workshops on building dynamic spatial conditions through custom built game design environments and experimental 3D modeling softwares. She received her bachelor of architecture from the University of Dundee, graduating with distinction, before continuing her masters' studies at Die Angewandte in Studio Greg Lynn. Throughout her professional career, Sasha has worked for award-winning internationally-known design offices in Stuttgart, Vienna, London, and Los Angeles. She is a co-founder of mixed reality architecture studio iheartblob and recently authored the book iheartblob - Augmented Architectural Objects: A New Visual Language.
Ilya Shkipin is a classically trained artist that received a bachelor’s degree in illustration at the Academy of Art University in San-Francisco. For many years he has experimented with expressionistic figurative painting, and he worked as an artist in the Bay Area before incorporating neural networks into his work. He uses various neural networks such as VQGan, Clip, and Styletransfers to achieve his vision to “disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.” With his work, Shkipin explores the blending and deconstruction of a figure through abstraction, kind of like how dreams deconstruct forms and memories.
Sofia Crespo is an artist with a huge interest in biology-inspired technologies. One of her main focuses is the way organic life uses artificial mechanisms to simulate itself and evolve, this implying the idea that technologies are a biased product of the organic life that created them and not a completely separated object. Crespo looks at the similarities between techniques of AI image formation and the way that humans express themselves creatively and cognitively recognize their world. Her work brings into question the potential of AI in artistic practice and its ability to reshape our understanding of creativity. On the side, she is also hugely concerned with the dynamic change in the role of the artists working with machine learning techniques. She’s also the co-founder of Entangled Others Studio.
