Digital Alchemy:
Rewiring Paradigms
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About Project
We plan to generate an experiment with AI in collaboration with international artists, moving from a purely prompts-based approach to one focused on the possibility of creating generative models by feeding the AI with the artists' own images and thereby exploring new creative capabilities.
Current generative art is impersonal, formulaic and boring, is the statement that starts this project. Since the beginning of the boom of generative AI and chatbots, many artists surfed the wave of AI hype, rushing to generate images based on stolen data models and copypasted prompts and flooding different communities with their results that surprisingly celebrated AI's high capacity to generate a neural mishmash of overwhelmingly bland images. It is clear that this is the end result of an extractivist farm of large-scale collective creative capacity, which paradoxically has the capacity to reproduce an unimaginable infinity of images as diverse as they are identical to each other. The AI feeding on a great diversity of styles seems to end up erasing the uniqueness of the work in a universal homologation, it is not an image that loses its authenticity in the technical reproducibility, but a unique and at the same time radically inauthentic image. In our view, the curse of AI lies not intrinsically in AI, but in the approach itself: when did we ever imagine that art would be simply a matter of introducing a certain input with guidelines and even certain orders to obtain a result? This exhibition is an attempt to turn upside down the premise of generative art by proposing a creative experiment for breaking free from this prompt-matrix: the prompt delegates creativity to the machine, we want to rewire the AI by having the machine delegate creativity to the artist and have the machine function more as an extension of its creative ability to transmute its imagery into new forms. The experiment consists of feeding an artificial intelligence with the work of the participating artists, to obtain from their creative work, a recombination of its visual elements, exploring the possibility to expand creativity, instead of replacing it. And to reflect on the new ways of image alchemy by digital means.
Artists
Curator
Alfredo Arévalo Rodríguez (Costa Rica)
Alfredo Arévalo is a young emerging Central American curator based in Costa Rica, who has worked on several curatorial projects in Russia and Mexico City and who has museum experience in Museums of the Central Bank of Costa Rica, has curated international exhibitions such as "Hand luggage" (2023) a retrospective of the artist Alexander Sokolov, an exhibition that involved 3 nodes in communication through streaming platforms between Mexico City, Venice and Moscow.
His approach has always been characterized by a particular interest in the aesthetics of the internet, anime, video games and the incorporation of technological media in assemblies that seek to generate more immersive experiences, for example in the exhibition "alterglobalism" (2021) that took place Belyaevo gallery in Moscow, Alfredo brought the art of Costa Rican artists to Moscow and planned a novel dj even that broadcast live from Costa Rica the soundtrack of the exhibition, with a selection of ambient music and visuals specially curated for the exhibition. In 2022 he co-curated the exhibition "зачем теперь нужно искусссство?" where he raised together with young Russian artists the discussion of what contemporary art is for in a society crisscrossed by war. He now plans to hold his first exhibition in Costa Rica for the Wrong Biennale and also to take it to new spaces in Mexico City.
Alicia Valladares (Mexico):
Visual artist and cultural manager based in Mexico City. Her research and practice are based on the exploration of algorithms for the consumption of images on the Internet; she questions and identifies stereotypical, emotional and aesthetic lines for their subsequent reinterpretation through the conjugation of traditional and digital techniques. She proposes a system of neo-graphic and pictorial "interface" whose purpose is to show hybrid versions of these assimilations of fiction and speculation strongly influenced by the "Hyper Fem" and "Kawaii" trend whose iconography has transcended the Latin American visual culture globally. In her work she shows imaginary battles in stellar and earthly fields, navigating autofiction from a hyperbolized gender perspective. She has a degree in Visual Arts from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado. "La Esmeralda" (2017-2021) did her professional internship at the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) (2018-2019) was certified in Business in Art by the Iberoamerican University (IBERO)(2019).In 2020 she was part of the internship team at the contemporary art magazine Terremoto and graduated in Literary Creation by the College of Writers of Latin America the same year. Her work has been exhibited by various collectives inside and outside Mexico City (Yope Projects (Oax.), Bexpo (CDMX), LATIGX (CDMX). At the beginning of 2023 she founds the platform and project space "SUCESIVA" aimed at emerging artists and audiences interested in the Initiation to the Arts; where she offers her services as a cultural agent. She is currently part of the production residency program in Proyecto Multipropósito (PM).
Canek Zapata (Mexico):
Editor, curator and internet artist.
He studied Classical Letters at UNAM.
His work focuses on the exploration of automated models of writing, internet visual languages and net art. He attended the Seminario de Producción Fotográfica 2016 at Centro de la Imagen. He obtained the scholarship from the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas (2015-16).
He has exhibited at the Centro de la Imagen, Progreso gallery, el Cuartelito, MUAC, the XIII Bienal FEMSA, Museo Carrillo Gil and Visual Art Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His work has been anthologized in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 4.
He has curated exhibitions at Galería Libertad, Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro and the Oaxaca Book Fair, The Wrong Biennale 2019-20 and Casa Equis. He is editor and programmer at the electronic literature publishing house https://brokenenglish.lol/ He is a specialist in digital culture, automatic writing, the art of the internet, glitch art and the meme. He has published texts in PaperMag, Excelsior, horizontal. Magazine 404.Tierra Adentro. He has an art gallery on the internet called https://residual.net.
Juanna Pedro (Mexico):
Juanna Pedro (1993) is a multidisciplinary artist from Xochimilco, Mexico. He holds a degree in Film. Currently pursuing a Masters in Visual Arts at UNAM. Inspired by Mexican biodiversity and culture, as well as video games and digital graphics from the 90s. His works have been exhibited in several galleries in Mexico City, London, New York, Wroclaw, Montreal, Guadalajara, Bogota and Online.
Polina Abina (Russia):
Polina Abina (b. 2001) is a young non-binary digital and sound artist working with Posthumanism, Big Data Capitalism, investigating the relationship between Humanity, Biology and Technology. Polina has participated in exhibitions worldwide, such as Cloud Storage with a VR animation project (GES-2, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, 2023), BYOB (Bangkok City Gallery, Bangkok, 2023), Green Revival Project - Special
Exhibition, (Palbok Art Factory in Jeonju City, South Korea, 2022), Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2022: Nature Art Cube Exhibit (South Korea), Evolution of a Fly Solo Exhibition (NII Sreda, Moscow, 2022), Sound Art Project (Gallery 30x7,Moscow, 2022).
Participated in Winzavod Open Studios residencies, resident of the 8th season (Moscow, 2022). Polina attended a training course XR Digital Autumn: Sensations by Less Media Group and Institut Francais, 2022. Garage Digital Lab and Sound Lab, 2023. Graduate - New Art Strategies, Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA Moscow, 2021 - 2023.
Salykov Kaisar (Kazakhstan):
Ratelrise (Salykov Kaisar) stands out as a digital artist and member of the W8 team, where he plays diverse roles as a level and motion designer, as well as an artist specializing in hard surfaces.
A significant milestone in his career was winning the ADM Design Award 2021 with the work "Upgraded Evolution". This recognition not only instilled great confidence in the artist, but also gave him the courage to explore not only his facet as a hard surface artist, but also to experiment and merge various areas of his activity.
This creative drive led to the creation of a metaverse location for the World Economic Forum in Davos and the conception of an immersive theater for CES 2022 in Las Vegas. In addition, he has collaborated with leading digital artists and received awards at film festivals.
Originally from Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, Ratelrise moved to Russia after graduating. His early interest in gaming and computer graphics deepened during his time at university, where he immersed himself in the study of soft 3D.
The influence of Ratelrise's style comes from various personalities in varied fields of activity, such as Vitaly Bulgarov, Michael Black, Alberto Milgo, Brickspacer, Deepak Chetty, Ivan Aivazovsky, Guy Ritchie, Stanley Kubrick and others. Throughout his career, Ratelrise has constantly sought to improve his visual style, with changes evident with each new project, while his love for sunlight, fog and dust remains unchanged.
With a wealth of experience in different profiles of the 3D industry, Ratelrise's desire to approach familiar projects from fresh perspectives and convey his ideas to the viewer is a fundamental component of his artistic approach.
Sungbaeg (South Korea):
This avant-garde artist, whose artistic explorations embrace sculpture and installation, is recognized as a leading exponent of the third generation of Korean performance artists. His global foray began in 2000 with a solo performance exhibition entitled "Remembering Butterflies...," an avant-garde reinvention of traditional Korean materials, such as Korean paper and ink, which was broadcast live on the Internet.
In 2002, he won a competition for the creation of an outdoor sculpture park at the Suwon World Cup Stadium in commemoration of the Korea-Japan World Cup, where he installed his work. Subsequently, in 2007, he was selected as one of the "40 Artists for 40 Years of Korean Performance" at the Korea Experimental Arts Festival, presenting a live performance over the Internet. Regardless of genre, this artist has incorporated traditional techniques of expression such as installation, sculpture and tracing Korean painting into his avant-garde and experimental works.
His artistic contributions, more recognized internationally than in his home country, have been exhibited in Biennials in France, Germany and Iceland. In addition, he has been invited to participate in various art festivals, including in nearby regions such as Japan and China. His active collaboration with domestic and foreign artists has extended to places such as Taiwan. In addition, he plays a crucial role as artistic director and cultural planner at the Busan International Performing Arts Festival and the Busan International Open Arts Project.
Alexander Sokolov (Russia):
Participant in the main programs of the Wrocław Media Art Biennale WRO, Wrong Biennale #5 and the 1st Karelian Biennale. His works have been exhibited at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Vadim Sidur Museum, Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art, CTI Fabrika, Wro Art Center, Museum of Fine Arts of the
Republic of Karelia, as well as at various festivals such as Ars Electronica Festival, CHEAP festival, Intervals, NUR.
Parallel to the exhibition activities, he is engaged in street art, creating urban interventions in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, etc.), Europe (Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Budapest, etc.) and Asia (Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Saigon, Phnom Penh, etc.).
In his practice, through painting, installation and digital art, he addresses themes of cultural polyphony and history of games, drawing inspiration from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Johan Høizenga.
His childhood in the 1990s was dominated by the aesthetics of hip-hop, manga and video games. This visual culture mixes ethnic, industrial and fantastic motifs. The contemporary information landscape is made increasingly complex by the interpenetration of different, often contradictory cultures. As an artist situated in two cultural worlds at once - the global Western world and the local Russian one - he has a consciousness that lives in both dimensions.
He creates his works by exploring games and manipulating their components. By its very nature, games are unifying. They are a tool for resolving the intricacies, internal tensions and external conflicts of cultures. The symbols, forms and rules of the games are available to the public and create a synergy of movement among the players, harmonizing their cultural attitudes.
ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan (Mongolia):
With a distinguished international career, ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan is multidisiplinary artist who has consolidated her position as an influential figure in the contemporary art scene. Her artworks have continuously evolved as she has come to place a greater emphasis on the conventionally hidden, inconspicuous side of universal dualisms such as feminine and masculine, interior and exterior, subconscious and conscious, metaphysical and physical. She inspires from Mongolian ancient perception of NAGA, |TENGRI-NATURE-EARTH and Buddhism. She holds an MA in Art History from the School of Mongolian Language and Culture, as well as a BA in Institiute Fine Arts from MUAC. She have been inquireing a Doctorate in Art Critic in NUM.
ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan is currently as Artistic Director at Blue Sun, CACM. Her work has been exhibited in Biennials in Taiwan, Korean and has been recognized with first place in the Golden Brush International Art Competition in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. International recognitions, such as the Environmental Dance Prize at the International Eco Performance Film Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Finalist in the International Print Biennial R.O.C in Taichung, Taiwan.
ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan’s curatorial work is equally prominent, as Curator of notable events such as “ZUUN ART” at Blue Sun CACM, Zuunkharaa, Mongolia, and D. Dorjderem’s solo exhibition “Datum in the space” at UMA’s Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, MN. Her solo exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the National Gallery of Modern Art in Ulaanbaatar, The Fine arts Zanabazar Museum in Ulaanbaatar and the V.Bronshtyen Art Gallery in Irkutsk, Russia, have reinforced her position as a creative force with global reach. With future prominent participations in international festivals and exhibitions, ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan continues to make a distinctive mark on the global art scene.
Pengpeng Wang (China):
PengPeng Wong is editor-in-chief of the China-Italy Contemporary Art Yearbook, ambassador of the 17th Venice Lagoon International Art Prize and director of the A60 International Art Project. Since 2011, Pengpeng Wang has planned, organized and participated in more than one hundred art events, exhibitions and competitions in different countries and cities.
Viktor Nishikov (Germany):
He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Born in 1993 in Moscow, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Art and Industry, specifically from the Department of Graphic Design. He is currently enrolled at the School of Contemporary Art, participating in free workshops. His most recent work was exhibited in the exhibition "The Latest Art" at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. For many years, he has worked as an advertising photographer in Moscow and holds the title of the official photographer of the Mercedes-Benz Moscow Fashion Week. He has acquired skills in new tools thanks to institutions such as Soft-culture, Photoplay and Photodepartament.
Roh Ju Ryun (South Korea):
1995 Graduated from Busan Sixun High School
2000. Graduated from Pusan National University College of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, majoring in Western Painting
Graduated from the same graduate school in 2002
2015. Graduated from Pusan National University College of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Ph.D.
Ariadna Milena (Costa Rica):
Ariadna Milena is a multidisciplinary designer from Costa Rica, creator of a fantastic, pop and dreamy universe full of colors and contrast. Her work has explore topics like self improvement, evolution of the human form and escapism through graphics, wearables and experiences using traditional and digital tools.
Kamil Abdalla (Costa Rica):
Kamil Abdalla Bolaños, Costa Rican photographer born in 1996. His main interests are artistic processes, teaching and the visual image in all its forms. His main working tools are digital photography and installation.
Murakit (Carolina Ontiveros) (México):
muraKita *:* <3 Carolina Ontiveros (1996). Multidisciplinary artist and developer from CDMX. Graduated in Digital Media Design. Her art is an investigation of anthropomorphisms and digital identities. It has been exhibited in the independent galleries Microservice, Diosxs, Edge Zones, General Expenses & others. NFT enthusiastic on eth and xtz. Cofounder, curator and developer of the independent gallery Terser Mundo.
XJ Marika (Costa Rica):
XJ MARIKA first ventures into the electronic music production, where he emerged on the costarrican national scene during the years 2022 and 2023 in the field of audio, music production and mixing, an area in which he has more than 7 years of experience. His music is published for the first time in 2022 with the track Ice Cream in which the singer Rebeca aka Mimus participates, followed by a remix of the artist Ovsicori "breadfruit" XJ MARIKA has also collaborated in the area of mixing and mastering of different artists including Melina Blanco producer of Costa Rican electronic music and Sergio Costa Rican composer of electronic music aka Wiesengrund.
On the other hand XJ Marika starts in digital visual art after participating in several international workshops with artists such as Paola Olea from Argentina, specialized in the generative field of Touchdesigner software developed by Derivative.ca. In addition, in the year 2021, XJ MARIKA immerses himself in the workshops offered by the Creative University at Techground - Al -, where he is introduced to the world of Python.
Within the Costa Rican art scene, XJ MARIKA has already organized three events that have been a success for the community that loves complex, innovative and avant- garde proposals in the national region. These events include concerts and reactive musical and audiovisual activities, involving more than 19 visual artists and emerging musicians in the year 2023. Among them, the collaboration with the group Sinestesia, led by Randall Saenz, among others, stands out. XJ MARIKA has participated in joint concerts and has given introductory workshops to Touchdesigner.
Currently, XJ MARIKA continues to develop his debut album, combining his music with his digital visual artistic expressions.
Sofía Madrigal Blanco (Costa Rica):
Born in Heredia, Costa Rica. She currently resides in the same province, where she develops her academic training and artistic practice.
Her work is immersed in the exploration of personal experience in the era of internet culture, addressing themes of femininity and intimacy. Madrigal uses painting techniques such as oil, oil chalk and collage, fusing them in compositions that tend towards the ridiculous. Her art is based on a reflection on the interaction of contemporary life, technology and feminine identity.
Julián Campabadal (PRODHAB) (Costa Rica):
Based in Costa Rica, Julian Campabadal aka PRODHAB delves into the intricate interplay between organic shapes, tactile surfaces, and digital mediums. Digital sculpture is the medium through which these experiments take place, utilizing 3D modeling software and AI-driven image generation. Each piece serves as a unique exploration of a particular juxtaposition between natural and abstract forms, inviting viewers to contemplate the fluidity and complexity of the interconnected realms in which we navigate.
Kin (Cultura Plasmic INC) (United Kingdom):
Somewhere between a collective and one artist.
Cultura Plasmic INC is a working class artist from Newcastle upon Tyne creating art that critically engages with surveillance capitalism, digital technology and mental health (e.g. psychological influence and manipulation of behaviour and decisions), social inequalities perpetuated by data-gathering practices and predictive technologies, and the relationship between hardware, software and the environment.
Constructing an elusive multi-pseudonymous practice, she plays with the radical potentialities of anonymity, an aesthetics of disappearance and counter-narratives that push back against a culture of status-seeking, attention-come-distraction, and the elevated individual. To read an in-depth article about her use of multiple aliases, see her text in Hypocrite Reader: Against the artist as brand.
Over the last few years she has developed a creative language that uses light and visibility to critique the surveillance capitalism that pervades our communication networks. She formulates metaphors arising from ‘natural’ landscapes to understand digital experiences and processes, bridging online and offline spaces, and highlighting the materiality and environmental cost of specific digital cultures. Her practice spans sound art, video art, installation, projection mapping, AR, music and sculpture, often with interactive elements.
Juan Benitez Castagnino (Peru):
Juan Benitez Castagnino studied Communications and Visual Arts at the University of Lima (2015-2022), and experimental painting at Corriente Alterna (2014).
His work seeks the integration of cultural signs. As a comic artist, he allegorizes our social reality through the anthropomorphization of objects and icons from the natural world and cultural history; He also practices the characterization of mythological images that reflect universal patterns in addition to personal rituals. This process allows him to represent the essential qualities of signs, explore their meaningful possibilities, and reveal their semantic skeleton. Consequently, his work constitutes a fantastic allegory and a delirious compilation of universal culture, both popular and academic art.
His work has been presented at Art Gallery Weekend with Artdictos (2019); group exhibitions such as "Viajamos 4717 KM para darnos un abrazo" at NOW Galeria (2023), "Tensiones Generacionales" at Reckless (2023), and "Floperismo" at.
Dissenso Cognitivo (Italy):
Dissenso Cognitivo is a project born in Ravenna in 2013, focused on the changes of living beings and environment in a distant and dehumanized future. Every artwork starts with detailed mash-up with anatomical research, technological design and references to Science Fiction immaginary, Underground comics, Speculative essays. Dissenso Cognitivo’s murals aren’t only on walls, but also on rough surfaces as billboards and metal panels. A worldwide original mix, corrosion and rust dealing the pattern for decadent and insidious characters. Since 2017, Dissenso Cognitivo’s research has a parallel path, based on abstract and minimal large scale murals and installations. These shapes are dark objects, avoiding every figurative connection. From 2021, a new tryout involve AI into the creative process of Dissenso Cognitivo’s artworks. Dissenso Cognitivo is strongly linked in the Urban Art’s independent side, DIY, selfprint and artist’s lead projects.
Yanis Proshkinas (Lithuania):
Since 2022 based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Currently doing MA degree in Vilnius Academy of Arts, thesis: “Invisible workforce in training artificial intelligence”. In 2021 graduated from Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow.
Alexander Popov (Russia):
Alexander Popov was born on the 15th of May, 1990, in Perm, which was a big closed city at the time, where a few military factories were located. In 2001, when he moved with his family to Moscow, he lived in the well-known urban district of Moscow - Golyanovo. He has been doing photography for 9 years, while also studied photography in the British High School of Art & Design in Moscow between 2012 and 2014. His work is mostly seen though the genre of street photography, as well as through capture of manifestation of the capital's youth subcultures.
Ivan Kalinichev (Russia):
Based in Bangkok . He work in different directions: light, mapping, street art, public art, installations, AR/VR. I'm finding inspiration for my projects in working with local content, as well as in the idea of transformation and appropriation of space.
The main thing he wants from his work is to tear his viewer away from reality for at least 10 seconds. Today, the whole world is white noise from terabytes of information. His works are designed to pause the world and change the optics.
Alfredo Arévalo Rodríguez (Costa Rica)
Alfredo Arévalo is a young emerging Central American curator based in Costa Rica, who has worked on several curatorial projects in Russia and Mexico City and who has museum experience in Museums of the Central Bank of Costa Rica, has curated international exhibitions such as "Hand luggage" (2023) a retrospective of the artist Alexander Sokolov, an exhibition that involved 3 nodes in communication through streaming platforms between Mexico City, Venice and Moscow.
His approach has always been characterized by a particular interest in the aesthetics of the internet, anime, video games and the incorporation of technological media in assemblies that seek to generate more immersive experiences, for example in the exhibition "alterglobalism" (2021) that took place Belyaevo gallery in Moscow, Alfredo brought the art of Costa Rican artists to Moscow and planned a novel dj even that broadcast live from Costa Rica the soundtrack of the exhibition, with a selection of ambient music and visuals specially curated for the exhibition. In 2022 he co-curated the exhibition "зачем теперь нужно искусссство?" where he raised together with young Russian artists the discussion of what contemporary art is for in a society crisscrossed by war. He now plans to hold his first exhibition in Costa Rica for the Wrong Biennale and also to take it to new spaces in Mexico City.
Digital Alchemy:
Rewiring Paradigms
Alicia Valladares (Mexico):
Visual artist and cultural manager based in Mexico City. Her research and practice are based on the exploration of algorithms for the consumption of images on the Internet; she questions and identifies stereotypical, emotional and aesthetic lines for their subsequent reinterpretation through the conjugation of traditional and digital techniques. She proposes a system of neo-graphic and pictorial "interface" whose purpose is to show hybrid versions of these assimilations of fiction and speculation strongly influenced by the "Hyper Fem" and "Kawaii" trend whose iconography has transcended the Latin American visual culture globally. In her work she shows imaginary battles in stellar and earthly fields, navigating autofiction from a hyperbolized gender perspective. She has a degree in Visual Arts from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado. "La Esmeralda" (2017-2021) did her professional internship at the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) (2018-2019) was certified in Business in Art by the Iberoamerican University (IBERO)(2019).In 2020 she was part of the internship team at the contemporary art magazine Terremoto and graduated in Literary Creation by the College of Writers of Latin America the same year. Her work has been exhibited by various collectives inside and outside Mexico City (Yope Projects (Oax.), Bexpo (CDMX), LATIGX (CDMX). At the beginning of 2023 she founds the platform and project space "SUCESIVA" aimed at emerging artists and audiences interested in the Initiation to the Arts; where she offers her services as a cultural agent. She is currently part of the production residency program in Proyecto Multipropósito (PM).
Canek Zapata (Mexico):
Editor, curator and internet artist.
He studied Classical Letters at UNAM.
His work focuses on the exploration of automated models of writing, internet visual languages and net art. He attended the Seminario de Producción Fotográfica 2016 at Centro de la Imagen. He obtained the scholarship from the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas (2015-16).
He has exhibited at the Centro de la Imagen, Progreso gallery, el Cuartelito, MUAC, the XIII Bienal FEMSA, Museo Carrillo Gil and Visual Art Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His work has been anthologized in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 4.
He has curated exhibitions at Galería Libertad, Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro and the Oaxaca Book Fair, The Wrong Biennale 2019-20 and Casa Equis. He is editor and programmer at the electronic literature publishing house https://brokenenglish.lol/ He is a specialist in digital culture, automatic writing, the art of the internet, glitch art and the meme. He has published texts in PaperMag, Excelsior, horizontal. Magazine 404.Tierra Adentro. He has an art gallery on the internet called https://residual.net.
Juanna Pedro (Mexico):
Juanna Pedro (1993) is a multidisciplinary artist from Xochimilco, Mexico. He holds a degree in Film. Currently pursuing a Masters in Visual Arts at UNAM. Inspired by Mexican biodiversity and culture, as well as video games and digital graphics from the 90s. His works have been exhibited in several galleries in Mexico City, London, New York, Wroclaw, Montreal, Guadalajara, Bogota and Online.
Polina Abina (Russia):
Polina Abina (b. 2001) is a young non-binary digital and sound artist working with Posthumanism, Big Data Capitalism, investigating the relationship between Humanity, Biology and Technology. Polina has participated in exhibitions worldwide, such as Cloud Storage with a VR animation project (GES-2, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, 2023), BYOB (Bangkok City Gallery, Bangkok, 2023), Green Revival Project - Special Exhibition, (Palbok Art Factory in Jeonju City, South Korea, 2022), Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2022: Nature Art Cube Exhibit (South Korea), Evolution of a Fly Solo Exhibition (NII Sreda, Moscow, 2022), Sound Art Project (Gallery 30x7,Moscow, 2022).
Participated in Winzavod Open Studios residencies, resident of the 8th season (Moscow, 2022). Polina attended a training course XR Digital Autumn: Sensations by Less Media Group and Institut Francais, 2022. Garage Digital Lab and Sound Lab, 2023. Graduate - New Art Strategies, Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA Moscow, 2021 - 2023.
Salykov Kaisar (Kazakhstan):
Ratelrise (Salykov Kaisar) stands out as a digital artist and member of the W8 team, where he plays diverse roles as a level and motion designer, as well as an artist specializing in hard surfaces.
A significant milestone in his career was winning the ADM Design Award 2021 with the work "Upgraded Evolution". This recognition not only instilled great confidence in the artist, but also gave him the courage to explore not only his facet as a hard surface artist, but also to experiment and merge various areas of his activity.
This creative drive led to the creation of a metaverse location for the World Economic Forum in Davos and the conception of an immersive theater for CES 2022 in Las Vegas. In addition, he has collaborated with leading digital artists and received awards at film festivals.
Originally from Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, Ratelrise moved to Russia after graduating. His early interest in gaming and computer graphics deepened during his time at university, where he immersed himself in the study of soft 3D.
The influence of Ratelrise's style comes from various personalities in varied fields of activity, such as Vitaly Bulgarov, Michael Black, Alberto Milgo, Brickspacer, Deepak Chetty, Ivan Aivazovsky, Guy Ritchie, Stanley Kubrick and others. Throughout his career, Ratelrise has constantly sought to improve his visual style, with changes evident with each new project, while his love for sunlight, fog and dust remains unchanged.
With a wealth of experience in different profiles of the 3D industry, Ratelrise's desire to approach familiar projects from fresh perspectives and convey his ideas to the viewer is a fundamental component of his artistic approach.
Sungbaeg (South Korea):
This avant-garde artist, whose artistic explorations embrace sculpture and installation, is recognized as a leading exponent of the third generation of Korean performance artists. His global foray began in 2000 with a solo performance exhibition entitled "Remembering Butterflies...," an avant-garde reinvention of traditional Korean materials, such as Korean paper and ink, which was broadcast live on the Internet.
In 2002, he won a competition for the creation of an outdoor sculpture park at the Suwon World Cup Stadium in commemoration of the Korea-Japan World Cup, where he installed his work. Subsequently, in 2007, he was selected as one of the "40 Artists for 40 Years of Korean Performance" at the Korea Experimental Arts Festival, presenting a live performance over the Internet. Regardless of genre, this artist has incorporated traditional techniques of expression such as installation, sculpture and tracing Korean painting into his avant-garde and experimental works.
His artistic contributions, more recognized internationally than in his home country, have been exhibited in Biennials in France, Germany and Iceland. In addition, he has been invited to participate in various art festivals, including in nearby regions such as Japan and China. His active collaboration with domestic and foreign artists has extended to places such as Taiwan. In addition, he plays a crucial role as artistic director and cultural planner at the Busan International Performing Arts Festival and the Busan International Open Arts Project.
Alexander Sokolov (Russia):
Participant in the main programs of the Wrocław Media Art Biennale WRO, Wrong Biennale #5 and the 1st Karelian Biennale. His works have been exhibited at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Vadim Sidur Museum, Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art, CTI Fabrika, Wro Art Center, Museum of Fine Arts of the
Republic of Karelia, as well as at various festivals such as Ars Electronica Festival, CHEAP festival, Intervals, NUR.
Parallel to the exhibition activities, he is engaged in street art, creating urban interventions in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, etc.), Europe (Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Budapest, etc.) and Asia (Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Saigon, Phnom Penh, etc.).
In his practice, through painting, installation and digital art, he addresses themes of cultural polyphony and history of games, drawing inspiration from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Johan Høizenga.
His childhood in the 1990s was dominated by the aesthetics of hip-hop, manga and video games. This visual culture mixes ethnic, industrial and fantastic motifs. The contemporary information landscape is made increasingly complex by the interpenetration of different, often contradictory cultures. As an artist situated in two cultural worlds at once - the global Western world and the local Russian one - he has a consciousness that lives in both dimensions.
He creates his works by exploring games and manipulating their components. By its very nature, games are unifying. They are a tool for resolving the intricacies, internal tensions and external conflicts of cultures. The symbols, forms and rules of the games are available to the public and create a synergy of movement among the players, harmonizing their cultural attitudes.
ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan (Mongolia):
With a distinguished international career, ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan is multidisiplinary artist who has consolidated her position as an influential figure in the contemporary art scene. Her artworks have continuously evolved as she has come to place a greater emphasis on the conventionally hidden, inconspicuous side of universal dualisms such as feminine and masculine, interior and exterior, subconscious and conscious, metaphysical and physical. She inspires from Mongolian ancient perception of NAGA, |TENGRI-NATURE-EARTH and Buddhism. She holds an MA in Art History from the School of Mongolian Language and Culture, as well as a BA in Institiute Fine Arts from MUAC. She have been inquireing a Doctorate in Art Critic in NUM.
ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan is currently as Artistic Director at Blue Sun, CACM. Her work has been exhibited in Biennials in Taiwan, Korean and has been recognized with first place in the Golden Brush International Art Competition in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. International recognitions, such as the Environmental Dance Prize at the International Eco Performance Film Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Finalist in the International Print Biennial R.O.C in Taichung, Taiwan.
ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan’s curatorial work is equally prominent, as Curator of notable events such as “ZUUN ART” at Blue Sun CACM, Zuunkharaa, Mongolia, and D. Dorjderem’s solo exhibition “Datum in the space” at UMA’s Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, MN. Her solo exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the National Gallery of Modern Art in Ulaanbaatar, The Fine arts Zanabazar Museum in Ulaanbaatar and the V.Bronshtyen Art Gallery in Irkutsk, Russia, have reinforced her position as a creative force with global reach. With future prominent participations in international festivals and exhibitions, ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan continues to make a distinctive mark on the global art scene.
Pengpeng Wang (China):
PengPeng Wong is editor-in-chief of the China-Italy Contemporary Art Yearbook, ambassador of the 17th Venice Lagoon International Art Prize and director of the A60 International Art Project. Since 2011, Pengpeng Wang has planned, organized and participated in more than one hundred art events, exhibitions and competitions in different countries and cities.
Viktor Nishikov (Germany):
He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Born in 1993 in Moscow, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Art and Industry, specifically from the Department of Graphic Design. He is currently enrolled at the School of Contemporary Art, participating in free workshops. His most recent work was exhibited in the exhibition "The Latest Art" at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. For many years, he has worked as an advertising photographer in Moscow and holds the title of the official photographer of the Mercedes-Benz Moscow Fashion Week. He has acquired skills in new tools thanks to institutions such as Soft-culture, Photoplay and Photodepartament.
Roh Ju Ryun (South Korea):
1995 Graduated from Busan Sixun High School
2000. Graduated from Pusan National University College of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, majoring in Western Painting. Graduated from the same graduate school in 2002.
2015 Graduated from Pusan National University College of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Ph.D.
Ariadna Milena (Costa Rica):
Ariadna Milena is a multidisciplinary designer from Costa Rica, creator of a fantastic, pop and dreamy universe full of colors and contrast. Her work has explore topics like self improvement, evolution of the human form and escapism through graphics, wearables and experiences using traditional and digital tools.
Kamil Abdalla (Costa Rica):
Kamil Abdalla Bolaños, Costa Rican photographer born in 1996. His main interests are artistic processes, teaching and the visual image in all its forms. His main working tools are digital photography and installation.
Murakit (Carolina Ontiveros) (México):
muraKita *:* <3 Carolina Ontiveros (1996). Multidisciplinary artist and developer from CDMX. Graduated in Digital Media Design. Her art is an investigation of anthropomorphisms and digital identities. It has been exhibited in the independent galleries Microservice, Diosxs, Edge Zones, General Expenses & others. NFT enthusiastic on eth and xtz. Cofounder, curator and developer of the independent gallery Terser Mundo.
XJ Marika (Costa Rica):
XJ MARIKA first ventures into the electronic music production, where he emerged on the costarrican national scene during the years 2022 and 2023 in the field of audio, music production and mixing, an area in which he has more than 7 years of experience. His music is published for the first time in 2022 with the track Ice Cream in which the singer Rebeca aka Mimus participates, followed by a remix of the artist Ovsicori "breadfruit" XJ MARIKA has also collaborated in the area of mixing and mastering of different artists including Melina Blanco producer of Costa Rican electronic music and Sergio Costa Rican composer of electronic music aka Wiesengrund.
On the other hand XJ Marika starts in digital visual art after participating in several international workshops with artists such as Paola Olea from Argentina, specialized in the generative field of Touchdesigner software developed by Derivative.ca. In addition, in the year 2021, XJ MARIKA immerses himself in the workshops offered by the Creative University at Techground - Al -, where he is introduced to the world of Python.
Within the Costa Rican art scene, XJ MARIKA has already organized three events that have been a success for the community that loves complex, innovative and avant- garde proposals in the national region. These events include concerts and reactive musical and audiovisual activities, involving more than 19 visual artists and emerging musicians in the year 2023. Among them, the collaboration with the group Sinestesia, led by Randall Saenz, among others, stands out. XJ MARIKA has participated in joint concerts and has given introductory workshops to Touchdesigner.
Currently, XJ MARIKA continues to develop his debut album, combining his music with his digital visual artistic expressions.
Sofía Madrigal Blanco (Costa Rica):
Born in Heredia, Costa Rica. She currently resides in the same province, where she develops her academic training and artistic practice.
Her work is immersed in the exploration of personal experience in the era of internet culture, addressing themes of femininity and intimacy. Madrigal uses painting techniques such as oil, oil chalk and collage, fusing them in compositions that tend towards the ridiculous. Her art is based on a reflection on the interaction of contemporary life, technology and feminine identity.
Julián Campabadal (PRODHAB) (Costa Rica):
Based in Costa Rica, Julian Campabadal aka PRODHAB delves into the intricate interplay between organic shapes, tactile surfaces, and digital mediums. Digital sculpture is the medium through which these experiments take place, utilizing 3D modeling software and AI-driven image generation. Each piece serves as a unique exploration of a particular juxtaposition between natural and abstract forms, inviting viewers to contemplate the fluidity and complexity of the interconnected realms in which we navigate.
Kin (Cultura Plasmic INC) (United Kingdom):
Somewhere between a collective and one artist.
Cultura Plasmic INC is a working class artist from Newcastle upon Tyne creating art that critically engages with surveillance capitalism, digital technology and mental health (e.g. psychological influence and manipulation of behaviour and decisions), social inequalities perpetuated by data-gathering practices and predictive technologies, and the relationship between hardware, software and the environment.
Constructing an elusive multi-pseudonymous practice, she plays with the radical potentialities of anonymity, an aesthetics of disappearance and counter-narratives that push back against a culture of status-seeking, attention-come-distraction, and the elevated individual. To read an in-depth article about her use of multiple aliases, see her text in Hypocrite Reader: Against the artist as brand.
Over the last few years she has developed a creative language that uses light and visibility to critique the surveillance capitalism that pervades our communication networks. She formulates metaphors arising from ‘natural’ landscapes to understand digital experiences and processes, bridging online and offline spaces, and highlighting the materiality and environmental cost of specific digital cultures. Her practice spans sound art, video art, installation, projection mapping, AR, music and sculpture, often with interactive elements.
Juan Benitez Castagnino (Peru):
Juan Benitez Castagnino studied Communications and Visual Arts at the University of Lima (2015-2022), and experimental painting at Corriente Alterna (2014).
His work seeks the integration of cultural signs. As a comic artist, he allegorizes our social reality through the anthropomorphization of objects and icons from the natural world and cultural history; He also practices the characterization of mythological images that reflect universal patterns in addition to personal rituals. This process allows him to represent the essential qualities of signs, explore their meaningful possibilities, and reveal their semantic skeleton. Consequently, his work constitutes a fantastic allegory and a delirious compilation of universal culture, both popular and academic art.
His work has been presented at Art Gallery Weekend with Artdictos (2019); group exhibitions such as "Viajamos 4717 KM para darnos un abrazo" at NOW Galeria (2023), "Tensiones Generacionales" at Reckless (2023), and "Floperismo" at.
Dissenso Cognitivo (Italy):
Dissenso Cognitivo is a project born in Ravenna in 2013, focused on the changes of living beings and environment in a distant and dehumanized future. Every artwork starts with detailed mash-up with anatomical research, technological design and references to Science Fiction immaginary, Underground comics, Speculative essays. Dissenso Cognitivo’s murals aren’t only on walls, but also on rough surfaces as billboards and metal panels. A worldwide original mix, corrosion and rust dealing the pattern for decadent and insidious characters. Since 2017, Dissenso Cognitivo’s research has a parallel path, based on abstract and minimal large scale murals and installations. These shapes are dark objects, avoiding every figurative connection. From 2021, a new tryout involve AI into the creative process of Dissenso Cognitivo’s artworks. Dissenso Cognitivo is strongly linked in the Urban Art’s independent side, DIY, selfprint and artist’s lead projects.
Yanis Proshkinas (Lithuania):
Since 2022 based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Currently doing MA degree in Vilnius Academy of Arts, thesis: “Invisible workforce in training artificial intelligence”. In 2021 graduated from Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow.
Alexander Popov (Russia):
Alexander Popov was born on the 15th of May, 1990, in Perm, which was a big closed city at the time, where a few military factories were located. In 2001, when he moved with his family to Moscow, he lived in the well-known urban district of Moscow - Golyanovo. He has been doing photography for 9 years, while also studied photography in the British High School of Art & Design in Moscow between 2012 and 2014. His work is mostly seen though the genre of street photography, as well as through capture of manifestation of the capital's youth subcultures.
Ivan Kalinichev (Russia):
Based in Bangkok . He work in different directions: light, mapping, street art, public art, installations, AR/VR. I'm finding inspiration for my projects in working with local content, as well as in the idea of transformation and appropriation of space.
The main thing he wants from his work is to tear his viewer away from reality for at least 10 seconds. Today, the whole world is white noise from terabytes of information. His works are designed to pause the world and change the optics.
About Project
We plan to generate an experiment with AI in collaboration with international artists, moving from a purely prompts-based approach to one focused on the possibility of creating generative models by feeding the AI with the artists' own images and thereby exploring new creative capabilities.
Current generative art is impersonal, formulaic and boring, is the statement that starts this project. Since the beginning of the boom of generative AI and chatbots, many artists surfed the wave of AI hype, rushing to generate images based on stolen data models and copypasted prompts and flooding different communities with their results that surprisingly celebrated AI's high capacity to generate a neural mishmash of overwhelmingly bland images. It is clear that this is the end result of an extractivist farm of large-scale collective creative capacity, which paradoxically has the capacity to reproduce an unimaginable infinity of images as diverse as they are identical to each other.
The AI feeding on a great diversity of styles seems to end up erasing the uniqueness of the work in a universal homologation, it is not an image that loses its authenticity in the technical reproducibility, but a unique and at the same time radically inauthentic image. In our view, the curse of AI lies not intrinsically in AI, but in the approach itself: when did we ever imagine that art would be simply a matter of introducing a certain input with guidelines and even certain orders to obtain a result?
This exhibition is an attempt to turn upside down the premise of generative art by proposing a creative experiment for breaking free from this prompt-matrix: the prompt delegates creativity to the machine, we want to rewire the AI by having the machine delegate creativity to the artist and have the machine function more as an extension of its creative ability to transmute its imagery into new forms.
The experiment consists of feeding an artificial intelligence with the work of the participating artists, to obtain from their creative work, a recombination of its visual elements, exploring the possibility to expand creativity, instead of replacing it. And to reflect on the new ways of image alchemy by digital means.
Curator
Artists
Alfredo Arévalo Rodríguez (Costa Rica)
Alfredo Arévalo is a young emerging Central American curator based in Costa Rica, who has worked on several curatorial projects in Russia and Mexico City and who has museum experience in Museums of the Central Bank of Costa Rica, has curated international exhibitions such as "Hand luggage" (2023) a retrospective of the artist Alexander Sokolov, an exhibition that involved 3 nodes in communication through streaming platforms between Mexico City, Venice and Moscow.
His approach has always been characterized by a particular interest in the aesthetics of the internet, anime, video games and the incorporation of technological media in assemblies that seek to generate more immersive experiences, for example in the exhibition "alterglobalism" (2021) that took place Belyaevo gallery in Moscow, Alfredo brought the art of Costa Rican artists to Moscow and planned a novel dj even that broadcast live from Costa Rica the soundtrack of the exhibition, with a selection of ambient music and visuals specially curated for the exhibition. In 2022 he co-curated the exhibition "зачем теперь нужно искусссство?" where he raised together with young Russian artists the discussion of what contemporary art is for in a society crisscrossed by war. He now plans to hold his first exhibition in Costa Rica for the Wrong Biennale and also to take it to new spaces in Mexico City.
Alicia Valladares (Mexico):
Editor, curator and internet artist. Visual artist and cultural manager based in Mexico City. Her research and practice are based on the exploration of algorithms for the consumption of images on the Internet; she questions and identifies stereotypical, emotional and aesthetic lines for their subsequent reinterpretation through the conjugation of traditional and digital techniques. She proposes a system of neo-graphic and pictorial "interface" whose purpose is to show hybrid versions of these assimilations of fiction and speculation strongly influenced by the "Hyper Fem" and "Kawaii" trend whose iconography has transcended the Latin American visual culture globally. In her work she shows imaginary battles in stellar and earthly fields, navigating autofiction from a hyperbolized gender perspective. She has a degree in Visual Arts from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado. "La Esmeralda" (2017-2021) did her professional internship at the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) (2018-2019) was certified in Business in Art by the Iberoamerican University (IBERO)(2019).In 2020 she was part of the internship team at the contemporary art magazine Terremoto and graduated in Literary Creation by the College of Writers of Latin America the same year. Her work has been exhibited by various collectives inside and outside Mexico City (Yope Projects (Oax.), Bexpo (CDMX), LATIGX (CDMX). At the beginning of 2023 she founds the platform and project space "SUCESIVA" aimed at emerging artists and audiences interested in the Initiation to the Arts; where she offers her services as a cultural agent. She is currently part of the production residency program in Proyecto Multipropósito (PM).
Canek Zapata (Mexico):
Editor, curator and internet artist.
He studied Classical Letters at UNAM.
His work focuses on the exploration of automated models of writing, internet visual languages and net art. He attended the Seminario de Producción Fotográfica 2016 at Centro de la Imagen. He obtained the scholarship from the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas (2015-16).
He has exhibited at the Centro de la Imagen, Progreso gallery, el Cuartelito, MUAC, the XIII Bienal FEMSA, Museo Carrillo Gil and Visual Art Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His work has been anthologized in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 4.
He has curated exhibitions at Galería Libertad, Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro and the Oaxaca Book Fair, The Wrong Biennale 2019-20 and Casa Equis. He is editor and programmer at the electronic literature publishing house https://brokenenglish.lol/ He is a specialist in digital culture, automatic writing, the art of the internet, glitch art and the meme. He has published texts in PaperMag, Excelsior, horizontal. Magazine 404.Tierra Adentro. He has an art gallery on the internet called https://residual.net.
Juanna Pedro (Mexico):
Juanna Pedro (1993) is a multidisciplinary artist from Xochimilco, Mexico. He holds a degree in Film. Currently pursuing a Masters in Visual Arts at UNAM. Inspired by Mexican biodiversity and culture, as well as video games and digital graphics from the 90s. His works have been exhibited in several galleries in Mexico City, London, New York, Wroclaw, Montreal, Guadalajara, Bogota and Online.
Polina Abina (Russia):
Polina Abina (b. 2001) is a young non-binary digital and sound artist working with Posthumanism, Big Data Capitalism, investigating the relationship between Humanity, Biology and Technology. Polina has participated in exhibitions worldwide, such as Cloud Storage with a VR animation project (GES-2, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, 2023), BYOB (Bangkok City Gallery, Bangkok, 2023), Green Revival Project - Special
Exhibition, (Palbok Art Factory in Jeonju City, South Korea, 2022), Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2022: Nature Art Cube Exhibit (South Korea), Evolution of a Fly Solo Exhibition (NII Sreda, Moscow, 2022), Sound Art Project (Gallery 30x7,Moscow, 2022).
Participated in Winzavod Open Studios residencies, resident of the 8th season (Moscow, 2022). Polina attended a training course XR Digital Autumn: Sensations by Less Media Group and Institut Francais, 2022. Garage Digital Lab and Sound Lab, 2023. Graduate - New Art Strategies, Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA Moscow, 2021 - 2023.
Salykov Kaisar (Kazakhstan):
Ratelrise (Salykov Kaisar) stands out as a digital artist and member of the W8 team, where he plays diverse roles as a level and motion designer, as well as an artist specializing in hard surfaces.
A significant milestone in his career was winning the ADM Design Award 2021 with the work "Upgraded Evolution". This recognition not only instilled great confidence in the artist, but also gave him the courage to explore not only his facet as a hard surface artist, but also to experiment and merge various areas of his activity.
This creative drive led to the creation of a metaverse location for the World Economic Forum in Davos and the conception of an immersive theater for CES 2022 in Las Vegas. In addition, he has collaborated with leading digital artists and received awards at film festivals.
Originally from Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, Ratelrise moved to Russia after graduating. His early interest in gaming and computer graphics deepened during his time at university, where he immersed himself in the study of soft 3D.
The influence of Ratelrise's style comes from various personalities in varied fields of activity, such as Vitaly Bulgarov, Michael Black, Alberto Milgo, Brickspacer, Deepak Chetty, Ivan Aivazovsky, Guy Ritchie, Stanley Kubrick and others. Throughout his career, Ratelrise has constantly sought to improve his visual style, with changes evident with each new project, while his love for sunlight, fog and dust remains unchanged.
With a wealth of experience in different profiles of the 3D industry, Ratelrise's desire to approach familiar projects from fresh perspectives and convey his ideas to the viewer is a fundamental component of his artistic approach.
Sungbaeg (South Korea):
This avant-garde artist, whose artistic explorations embrace sculpture and installation, is recognized as a leading exponent of the third generation of Korean performance artists. His global foray began in 2000 with a solo performance exhibition entitled "Remembering Butterflies...," an avant-garde reinvention of traditional Korean materials, such as Korean paper and ink, which was broadcast live on the Internet.
In 2002, he won a competition for the creation of an outdoor sculpture park at the Suwon World Cup Stadium in commemoration of the Korea-Japan World Cup, where he installed his work. Subsequently, in 2007, he was selected as one of the "40 Artists for 40 Years of Korean Performance" at the Korea Experimental Arts Festival, presenting a live performance over the Internet. Regardless of genre, this artist has incorporated traditional techniques of expression such as installation, sculpture and tracing Korean painting into his avant-garde and experimental works.
His artistic contributions, more recognized internationally than in his home country, have been exhibited in Biennials in France, Germany and Iceland. In addition, he has been invited to participate in various art festivals, including in nearby regions such as Japan and China. His active collaboration with domestic and foreign artists has extended to places such as Taiwan. In addition, he plays a crucial role as artistic director and cultural planner at the Busan International Performing Arts Festival and the Busan International Open Arts Project.
Alexander Sokolov (Russia):
Participant in the main programs of the Wrocław Media Art Biennale WRO, Wrong Biennale #5 and the 1st Karelian Biennale. His works have been exhibited at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Vadim Sidur Museum, Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art, CTI Fabrika, Wro Art Center, Museum of Fine Arts of the
Republic of Karelia, as well as at various festivals such as Ars Electronica Festival, CHEAP festival, Intervals, NUR.
Parallel to the exhibition activities, he is engaged in street art, creating urban interventions in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, etc.), Europe (Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Budapest, etc.) and Asia (Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Saigon, Phnom Penh, etc.).
In his practice, through painting, installation and digital art, he addresses themes of cultural polyphony and history of games, drawing inspiration from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Johan Høizenga.
His childhood in the 1990s was dominated by the aesthetics of hip-hop, manga and video games. This visual culture mixes ethnic, industrial and fantastic motifs. The contemporary information landscape is made increasingly complex by the interpenetration of different, often contradictory cultures. As an artist situated in two cultural worlds at once - the global Western world and the local Russian one - he has a consciousness that lives in both dimensions.
He creates his works by exploring games and manipulating their components. By its very nature, games are unifying. They are a tool for resolving the intricacies, internal tensions and external conflicts of cultures. The symbols, forms and rules of the games are available to the public and create a synergy of movement among the players, harmonizing their cultural attitudes.
ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan (Mongolia):
With a distinguished international career, ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan is multidisiplinary artist who has consolidated her position as an influential figure in the contemporary art scene. Her artworks have continuously evolved as she has come to place a greater emphasis on the conventionally hidden, inconspicuous side of universal dualisms such as feminine and masculine, interior and exterior, subconscious and conscious, metaphysical and physical. She inspires from Mongolian ancient perception of NAGA, |TENGRI-NATURE-EARTH and Buddhism. She holds an MA in Art History from the School of Mongolian Language and Culture, as well as a BA in Institiute Fine Arts from MUAC. She have been inquireing a Doctorate in Art Critic in NUM.
ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan is currently as Artistic Director at Blue Sun, CACM. Her work has been exhibited in Biennials in Taiwan, Korean and has been recognized with first place in the Golden Brush International Art Competition in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. International recognitions, such as the Environmental Dance Prize at the International Eco Performance Film Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Finalist in the International Print Biennial R.O.C in Taichung, Taiwan.
ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan’s curatorial work is equally prominent, as Curator of notable events such as “ZUUN ART” at Blue Sun CACM, Zuunkharaa, Mongolia, and D. Dorjderem’s solo exhibition “Datum in the space” at UMA’s Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, MN. Her solo exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the National Gallery of Modern Art in Ulaanbaatar, The Fine arts Zanabazar Museum in Ulaanbaatar and the V.Bronshtyen Art Gallery in Irkutsk, Russia, have reinforced her position as a creative force with global reach. With future prominent participations in international festivals and exhibitions, ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan continues to make a distinctive mark on the global art scene.ctive mark on the global art scene.
Pengpeng Wang (China):
PengPeng Wong is editor-in-chief of the China-Italy Contemporary Art Yearbook, ambassador of the 17th Venice Lagoon International Art Prize and director of the A60 International Art Project. Since 2011, Pengpeng Wang has planned, organized and participated in more than one hundred art events, exhibitions and competitions in different countries and cities.
Viktor Nishikov (Germany):
He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Born in 1993 in Moscow, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Art and Industry, specifically from the Department of Graphic Design. He is currently enrolled at the School of Contemporary Art, participating in free workshops. His most recent work was exhibited in the exhibition "The Latest Art" at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. For many years, he has worked as an advertising photographer in Moscow and holds the title of the official photographer of the Mercedes-Benz Moscow Fashion Week. He has acquired skills in new tools thanks to institutions such as Soft-culture, Photoplay and Photodepartament.
Roh Ju Ryun (South Korea):
1995 Graduated from Busan Sixun High School
2000. Graduated from Pusan National University College of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, majoring in Western Painting. Graduated from the same graduate school in 2002.
2015 Graduated from Pusan National University College of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Ph.D.
Ariadna Milena (Costa Rica):
Ariadna Milena is a multidisciplinary designer from Costa Rica, creator of a fantastic, pop and dreamy universe full of colors and contrast. Her work has explore topics like self improvement, evolution of the human form and escapism through graphics, wearables and experiences using traditional and digital tools.
Kamil Abdalla (Costa Rica):
Kamil Abdalla Bolaños, Costa Rican photographer born in 1996. His main interests are artistic processes, teaching and the visual image in all its forms. His main working tools are digital photography and installation.
Murakit (Carolina Ontiveros) (México):
muraKita *:* <3 Carolina Ontiveros (1996). Multidisciplinary artist and developer from CDMX. Graduated in Digital Media Design. Her art is an investigation of anthropomorphisms and digital identities. It has been exhibited in the independent galleries Microservice, Diosxs, Edge Zones, General Expenses & others. NFT enthusiastic on eth and xtz. Cofounder, curator and developer of the independent gallery Terser Mundo.
XJ Marika (Costa Rica):
XJ MARIKA first ventures into the electronic music production, where he emerged on the costarrican national scene during the years 2022 and 2023 in the field of audio, music production and mixing, an area in which he has more than 7 years of experience. His music is published for the first time in 2022 with the track Ice Cream in which the singer Rebeca aka Mimus participates, followed by a remix of the artist Ovsicori "breadfruit" XJ MARIKA has also collaborated in the area of mixing and mastering of different artists including Melina Blanco producer of Costa Rican electronic music and Sergio Costa Rican composer of electronic music aka Wiesengrund.
On the other hand XJ Marika starts in digital visual art after participating in several international workshops with artists such as Paola Olea from Argentina, specialized in the generative field of Touchdesigner software developed by Derivative.ca. In addition, in the year 2021, XJ MARIKA immerses himself in the workshops offered by the Creative University at Techground - Al -, where he is introduced to the world of Python.
Within the Costa Rican art scene, XJ MARIKA has already organized three events that have been a success for the community that loves complex, innovative and avant- garde proposals in the national region. These events include concerts and reactive musical and audiovisual activities, involving more than 19 visual artists and emerging musicians in the year 2023. Among them, the collaboration with the group Sinestesia, led by Randall Saenz, among others, stands out. XJ MARIKA has participated in joint concerts and has given introductory workshops to Touchdesigner.
Currently, XJ MARIKA continues to develop his debut album, combining his music with his digital visual artistic expressions.
Sofía Madrigal Blanco (Costa Rica):
Born in Heredia, Costa Rica. She currently resides in the same province, where she develops her academic training and artistic practice.
Her work is immersed in the exploration of personal experience in the era of internet culture, addressing themes of femininity and intimacy. Madrigal uses painting techniques such as oil, oil chalk and collage, fusing them in compositions that tend towards the ridiculous. Her art is based on a reflection on the interaction of contemporary life, technology and feminine identity.
Julián Campabadal (PRODHAB) (Costa Rica):
Based in Costa Rica, Julian Campabadal aka PRODHAB delves into the intricate interplay between organic shapes, tactile surfaces, and digital mediums. Digital sculpture is the medium through which these experiments take place, utilizing 3D modeling software and AI-driven image generation. Each piece serves as a unique exploration of a particular juxtaposition between natural and abstract forms, inviting viewers to contemplate the fluidity and complexity of the interconnected realms in which we navigate.
Kin (Cultura Plasmic INC) (United Kingdom):
Somewhere between a collective and one artist.
Cultura Plasmic INC is a working class artist from Newcastle upon Tyne creating art that critically engages with surveillance capitalism, digital technology and mental health (e.g. psychological influence and manipulation of behaviour and decisions), social inequalities perpetuated by data-gathering practices and predictive technologies, and the relationship between hardware, software and the environment.
Constructing an elusive multi-pseudonymous practice, she plays with the radical potentialities of anonymity, an aesthetics of disappearance and counter-narratives that push back against a culture of status-seeking, attention-come-distraction, and the elevated individual. To read an in-depth article about her use of multiple aliases, see her text in Hypocrite Reader: Against the artist as brand.
Over the last few years she has developed a creative language that uses light and visibility to critique the surveillance capitalism that pervades our communication networks. She formulates metaphors arising from ‘natural’ landscapes to understand digital experiences and processes, bridging online and offline spaces, and highlighting the materiality and environmental cost of specific digital cultures. Her practice spans sound art, video art, installation, projection mapping, AR, music and sculpture, often with interactive elements.
Juan Benitez Castagnino (Peru):
Juan Benitez Castagnino studied Communications and Visual Arts at the University of Lima (2015-2022), and experimental painting at Corriente Alterna (2014).
His work seeks the integration of cultural signs. As a comic artist, he allegorizes our social reality through the anthropomorphization of objects and icons from the natural world and cultural history; He also practices the characterization of mythological images that reflect universal patterns in addition to personal rituals. This process allows him to represent the essential qualities of signs, explore their meaningful possibilities, and reveal their semantic skeleton. Consequently, his work constitutes a fantastic allegory and a delirious compilation of universal culture, both popular and academic art.
His work has been presented at Art Gallery Weekend with Artdictos (2019); group exhibitions such as "Viajamos 4717 KM para darnos un abrazo" at NOW Galeria (2023), "Tensiones Generacionales" at Reckless (2023), and "Floperismo" at.
Dissenso Cognitivo (Italy):
Dissenso Cognitivo is a project born in Ravenna in 2013, focused on the changes of living beings and environment in a distant and dehumanized future. Every artwork starts with detailed mash-up with anatomical research, technological design and references to Science Fiction immaginary, Underground comics, Speculative essays. Dissenso Cognitivo’s murals aren’t only on walls, but also on rough surfaces as billboards and metal panels. A worldwide original mix, corrosion and rust dealing the pattern for decadent and insidious characters. Since 2017, Dissenso Cognitivo’s research has a parallel path, based on abstract and minimal large scale murals and installations. These shapes are dark objects, avoiding every figurative connection. From 2021, a new tryout involve AI into the creative process of Dissenso Cognitivo’s artworks. Dissenso Cognitivo is strongly linked in the Urban Art’s independent side, DIY, selfprint and artist’s lead projects.
Yanis Proshkinas (Lithuania):
Since 2022 based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Currently doing MA degree in Vilnius Academy of Arts, thesis: “Invisible workforce in training artificial intelligence”. In 2021 graduated from Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow.
Alexander Popov (Russia):
Alexander Popov was born on the 15th of May, 1990, in Perm, which was a big closed city at the time, where a few military factories were located. In 2001, when he moved with his family to Moscow, he lived in the well-known urban district of Moscow - Golyanovo. He has been doing photography for 9 years, while also studied photography in the British High School of Art & Design in Moscow between 2012 and 2014. His work is mostly seen though the genre of street photography, as well as through capture of manifestation of the capital's youth subcultures.
Ivan Kalinichev (Russia):
Based in Bangkok . He work in different directions: light, mapping, street art, public art, installations, AR/VR. I'm finding inspiration for my projects in working with local content, as well as in the idea of transformation and appropriation of space.
The main thing he wants from his work is to tear his viewer away from reality for at least 10 seconds. Today, the whole world is white noise from terabytes of information. His works are designed to pause the world and change the optics.
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Digital Alchemy:
Rewiring Paradigms