Artist Interview: Matt Owens
Matt Owens is a designer, entrepreneur, and creative innovator based in Brooklyn, New York. His personal passion for experimental design took shape through Volumeone.com, a self-published quarterly that ran from 1997 to 2009 and is now part of SFMoMA's permanent collection. Entirely self-taught in digital tools, he embraced the web as a space for innovation and self-expression, exploring experimental intersections of motion, graphic design, and code. We asked Matt about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Aleksandra Stevanovic
Aleksandra Stevanovic is a graphic designer and digital collage artist based in Serbia. Her art is deeply inspired by the life we live, focusing on themes of unfulfilled dreams and inner wishes. The artist seeks to spark imagination and positive thinking in a world often filled with stress, encouraging viewers to reconnect with their inner child and embrace optimism. We asked Aleksandra about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Lunick Uri
Joshua Lunick Uri is a self-taught digital artist of Nigerian and Ivorian heritage. His recent body of work, Frozen Beyond Time, captures scenes and encounters of underwater life that educate and inspire humanity, ultimately emphasizing the transformative power of love. We asked Lunick about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: James Roha
James Roha is a digital artist and educator who creates speculative research and philosophical terrariums through his art. His practice explores the unexpected implications of contemporary technologies and evolutionary trends. By intertwining concept artwork with socio-political narratives, Roha encourages audiences to question long-standing trends and current decisions. We asked James about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Cari Ann Shim Sham*
Cari Ann Shim Sham* is a visual artist whose art explores the power of asking questions, and the possibilities of improvisation and experimentation to liberate dance. The artist is currently investigating AI choreography, generative dance, blockchain GIF archival of performance, and ways of using blockchain in lieu of social media. We asked Cari Ann about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Stephen Vineburg
Stephen Vineburg is an art historian and conceptual artist who creates with a focus on using Augmented Reality (AR) to explore contemporary issues. By juxtaposing historical and classical art images with incongruous modern items, Stephen addresses societal conflicts such as climate change, the detritus of modern tourism, and the disposable nature of touristic experiences, including those recently undertaken to space. We asked Stephen about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Mike Stone
With over 25 years of passion for creating digital art, Mike Stone utilizes various 3D software programs to create his digital abstract designs. Inspired by William Latham, a pioneer in computer art and game design, Mike began his journey into 3D art with Latham’s 'Organic Art' software in the 1990s, sparking a lifelong love for abstract digital art. We asked Mike about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Hester Brink
After two decades of experience in the police force in The Netherlands, investigating organized crime and conducting extensive research on serial killers, Hester Brink was yearning for positivity – her digital collages celebrate the beauty and diversity of our world. We asked Hester about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Chloe Gao
Chloe Gao is a New York-based mixed-reality artist who explores themes around cultural belonging using non-linear storytelling techniques. Her recent projects examine digital identity and social media through virtual places and characters – redefining notions of time and self-awareness, the artist crafts a fragmented, decentralized world. We asked Chloe about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Jill Shah
Jill Shah is an experiential artist and creative technologist based in New York. She utilizes algorithms to enhance our physical surroundings, driven by her desire to infuse more human elements into an increasingly automated world. Her work invites users to interact with and contemplate the intersection of algorithms and technological progress. We asked Jill about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Cecil W. Lee
Cecil W. Lee is a self-taught artist whose work presents a blend of photography, painting, and digital techniques. He creates abstracts, figurative works, and digital collages that embrace computers as a stimulating and distinctive artistic medium. We asked Cecil about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Yan Paul Dubbelman
Yan Paul Dubbelman is a digital artist from The Netherlands, known for his Ambient Art – featuring pleasing shapes, colors, and gentle movements, Dubbelman's creations aims to blend seamlessly into our surroundings, becoming a part of our daily lives without demanding full attention. We asked Yan Paul about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Yuge Zhou
Yuge Zhou is a video and installation artist based in Chicago. Leaving her hometown Beijing amidst a rapid geopolitical and urban transformation, the artist was left with a longing for rootedness and intimacy. Her art explores themes of belonging, yearning, and fleeting moments in both man-made and natural environments – “the landscapes of our shared dreams.” We asked Yuge about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Alina Nazmeeva
Alina Nazmeeva is a Detroit-based artist and an educator at University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She creates simulations and worlds that analyze the interactions of physical and digital spaces and objects, and their cultural, economic and political consequences. We asked Alina about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Rose Forsyth Jackson
Rose Forsyth-Jackson is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in the Blue Mountains in Australia. She combines traditional techniques with modern technology to create dynamic and colorful pieces that span across painting, wool felting, and photography as well as digital art. We asked Rose about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Kezleigh
Amy Merritt, better known as Kezleigh in the art world, is a new media artist based in Ontario. She prints her digital art on acrylic glass with UV-printed ink to carry her creations to the tangible world. We asked Kezleigh about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Stacie Ant
A fascinating journey from playing The Sims to creating spectacular digital art – Stacie Ant is a digital artist and curator who’s work is known for its humorous and satirical approach to social commentary on the fast-paced digital lifestyle of the modern world. Creating AR works and 3D animation art, she explores digital worlds and beings that can only exist in the virtual realm. We asked Stacie about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Riniifish
Riniifish creates bugs – her work depicts fantastical versions of otherworldly life and parallel universes with extraterrestrial civilizations. The artist explores themes of life and death, emotional struggles and burnout as well as everyday life through tiny, translucent creatures. We asked Riniifish about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Yiting Liu
Yiting Liu is an XR developer and designer who intertwines a personal odyssey with artistic innovation. Yearning for independence, the artist moved to the United States at 18 and started her creative journey that celebrates her intrinsic connection to community and power of personal freedom. We asked Yiting about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Tong Wu
Tong Wu is a researching creative technologist and multimedia artist whose practice explores the subtle yet dynamic connections we make with ubiquitous AI systems embedded around us and the societal or cultural shifts that come along. We asked Tong about her art, creative process, and inspirations.