Nick Abramo is a veteran journalist with over forty years of experience in the field, who recently turned his curiosity toward a new creative outlet: poetry. His foray into AI-assisted writing began as a lighthearted experiment (asking ChatGPT to generate a sports article) but quickly evolved into a deeper exploration of how technology and creativity can intersect. What started as a test of AI’s capabilities soon became a unique hybrid process: Nick provides the ideas, themes, and direction, while AI drafts the initial form — which he then heavily edits, shaping it into something distinctly his own.

An award-winning cartoonist and digital art pioneer, Joe Chiappetta has been creating art since long before “digital” was a common word in the studio. Originally from Chicago and now based in California, he is best known for Silly Daddy Comics and ArtVndngMchn, with a career spanning the Independent Comics Publishing Movement of the 1980s to today’s Rare Digital Art and Cryptoart scenes. His work blends humor, family, and faith, often reflecting a lighthearted yet deeply personal perspective.

Jingyuan Huang is a Maryland-based graphic designer and motion creative whose work merges clean, thoughtful aesthetics with engaging storytelling. With experience in marketing design and a growing focus on social media visuals, she creates content that balances strategic intent with artistic expression. Her projects span motion graphics, digital campaigns, and visual identities, reflecting both precision and emotion, as she seeks to connect audiences through movement, color, and narrative.

Known for “hacking systems of power with art, code, and glitter,” Andrew has long blurred the lines between traditional painting, internet performance, and technological critique. From her viral “vision boards” that hijacked Google search results to her powerful Facetune Portraits, Gretchen Andrew’s work continues to question who gets to control images, narratives, and visibility in the digital age.

Xy Arnaldo is a digital artist and designer based in Metro Manila, Philippines. Her work spans digital art, animation, public art, and visual storytelling — often blending personal reflection with emotional resilience and dreamlike narrative flow. Through introspective imagery and layered storytelling, she transforms inner thoughts and memories into poetic visual worlds that resonate with quiet strength. Balancing freelance design work with her fine art practice, Xy is steadily carving her path in the digital art and animation landscape, guided by curiosity, sincerity, and a love of narrative form.

Wenwen Zhu is a Chicago-based animator and illustrator whose work lives in the space between surrealism and wabi-sabi — where imperfection, stillness, and mystery quietly coexist. Moving between 3D animation and drawing, she builds poetic worlds that invite viewers to linger and feel rather than decode. Her images often explore the subtle ties between people, society, and nature, revealing emotion through restraint and atmosphere instead of narrative clarity. Each piece feels like a visual haiku — spare, ambiguous, yet deeply resonant.

Raymond Giuffrida is a multidisciplinary artist, screenwriter, songwriter, and founder of Compass Charlatan Publishing, a creative hub where he writes screenplays, books, and songs while also producing digital art. His visual works, often crafted from photographs and digital paint programs, come to life during road trips or periods of introspection at home. For him, creativity is both grounding and exploratory — a way to stay balanced while questioning how art shapes (or escapes) our personal biases.

Victor Acevedo is one of the early pioneers of desktop digital art, creating fine art images and videos with computers since 1985 — long before digital art became mainstream. His journey began even earlier, in 1983, when he started experimenting with computer graphics under the influence of legendary artists Frank Dietrich and Tony Longson. Rooted in geometric abstraction yet often intertwined with figuration, his hybrid imagery carries a metaphysical sensibility that bridges technology, philosophy, and form.

Martine Jacobs is a Dutch artist whose work moves between the digital and the handmade, blending AI generation with delicate pastel interventions. Her recent series, Four Hybrid Works – Between Algorithm and Memory, explores what happens when beauty, once central to art, begins to fade into memory. Each piece starts with artificial intelligence and ends with her touch — a quiet act of resistance that brings warmth and humanity back into the machine-made.

Yuanhao Tang is an illustrator known for his bold line work, flat colors, and distinctive storytelling flair. Working primarily in the book and editorial illustration markets, his art combines a sharp graphic sensibility with thoughtful, conceptual depth. Rooted in a lifelong love of comic books; beginning with a well-worn Batman issue from his childhood, Yuanhao’s art practice started with years of traditional drawing and painting before evolving into the digital realm.