Where Technology Meets the Poetic: Ziyi Zhang
Ziyi Zhang is an art director and multimedia artist whose work bridges the poetic and the political, the emotional and the technological. Since beginning her professional journey in 2021, she has approached the creative industry with curiosity, openness, and a strong collaborative spirit. Grounded in both art and technology, Zhang’s practice blends dreamlike, romantic aesthetics with thoughtful reflections on humanity, social issues, and global concerns. We asked Ziyi about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Collages Inspired by a Lifetime of Travel: Apostolos Vafeas
Apostolos Vafeas was born on the picturesque island of Kythnos, Greece. A passionate traveler, he spent over 35 years working in the tourism industry before retiring and turning his attention to collage art — an interest he had cherished alongside his career for many years. His travels around the world have deeply influenced his artistic practice, with each piece reflecting glimpses of the places, cultures, and moments that have stayed with him. We asked Apostolos about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
The Beauty in Error: Devis Bergantin’s Semi-Automatic Art and Digital Distortion
Devis Bergantin is a visual artist, writer, and atelierist based in northern Italy. His artistic practice centers on experimental drawing and glitch art—often blending the two to explore spontaneity, unpredictability, and the beauty found in error. In addition to his creative work, Devis is also an expert in vegetable and wellness gardening, cultivating both land and imagination through interdisciplinary collaborations with independent projects and spaces across Italy and abroad. We asked Devis about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Purposeful Typography: Nancy (Xinxuan) Gao
Nancy (Xinxuan) Gao is a multidisciplinary designer with a focus on visual identity and typography. A graduate of ArtCenter College of Design, she discovered her love for branding and font design early on and has been exploring both traditional and digital approaches to design ever since. Whether working with paper or writing code, Nancy enjoys exploring how design can communicate and connect. We asked Nancy about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Turning Shadow Work into Surreal Collage Art: Unknown Deity
Unknown Deity is a collage artist based in Charm City, Maryland, whose work centers around the process of transmutation — transforming emotion and experience into evocative visual language. Through layered, surreal compositions, Unknown Deity explores the depths of the human condition, offering viewers gentle reminders that we’re never truly alone. We asked Unknown Deity about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
From eDNA to Quantum Consciousness: Solimán López
Solimán López is a new media conceptual artist and researcher whose practice bridges science, Web3, and digital art. His work explores artificial intelligence, biotechnology, DNA, electronics, interactive media, and 3D. His installations, research-based projects, and digital entities have been exhibited internationally. We asked Solimán about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Worldbuilding Beyond the Screen: Anlan Yang
Anlan Yang is a 3D environment and game artist passionate about building immersive worlds and telling stories through digital art. Proficient in both 2D and 3D across a range of styles, Anlan approaches environment design by bringing together storytelling principles with interactive design. Every digital space is created not just to look beautiful, but to feel alive — encouraging exploration, enhancing gameplay, and creating memorable experiences. We asked Anlan Yang about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Designing the Ethereal: Effesod
Effesod’s digital art brings together futuristic aesthetics with surreal, immersive environments, resulting in striking 3D visuals that feel both otherworldly and emotional. Specializing in stage visuals, album artwork, and promotional design, Effesod creates digital experiences that often feature intricate environments, abstract forms, and bold color palettes. We asked Effesod about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Yoko Ono and the Digital Evolution of Interactive Art
Yoko Ono has long been a trailblazer in conceptual and participatory art – her career, spanning over seven decades, is marked by a relentless commitment to art as a vehicle for social change, introspection, and communal experience. While her earlier works are often associated with the avant-garde Fluxus movement and performance art, Ono's practice has seamlessly transitioned into the digital age, embracing technology to expand the reach and impact of her participatory works.
Artist Interview: Qinru Zhang
Qinru Zhang has long been frustrated by the way Asian women are idealized in male-centric media—the delicate beauty, the obedient wife, the innocent girl. Wanting to break free from these limiting roles, she initially distanced herself from them entirely, finding comfort in androgynous online avatars. But this detachment became a turning point. It led her to reconsider what femininity truly meant and how she could reclaim it on her own terms. Now, through digital art, Zhang challenges these restrictive narratives head-on, using pink aesthetics, cuteness, and mirrors to tell stories that embrace femininity in all its complexities—sometimes exaggerated, sometimes distorted, but always deeply intentional. We asked Qinru about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Juan "Wamoo" Alvarez
Juan Alvarez, also known as Wamoo, is a Dominican-born, Washington Heights-raised artist working at the intersection of music, visual art, and live performance. His practice blends video and self-produced music, drawing from his experience immigrating to the United States as a child. Video games and music served as both a means of adaptation and a coping mechanism, shaping his artistic language. Through experimental music videos, self-produced footage, and found media, Wamoo remixes early digital aesthetics, characters, and cosplay to construct multi-dimensional experiences that merge personal history with pop culture. We asked Wamoo about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
10 Digital Artists: Interactive Art and Design
In the world of interactive art and design, engagement is not just encouraged — it’s essential. The use of technologies like AI, VR, and real-time interactivity is allowing artists to create dynamic experiences that react to the viewer’s actions, decisions, and presence. From virtual reality worlds to interactive public installations, these 10 digital artists are creating groundbreaking works that invite us to engage, explore, and think in new ways.
Artist Interview: Pujarini Ghosh
Pujarini Ghosh is a multidisciplinary creative technologist based in Brooklyn, New York. Blending illustrations, digital visuals, interactive installations, augmented reality, and editorial styling, her work challenges viewer perceptions and invites reflection. Drawing inspiration from technology, social constructs, and cultural exchanges, Pujarini explores themes of identity and our evolving relationship with the digital world. Her immersive, sensory-driven pieces aim to bridge the gap between various art forms, creating thought-provoking experiences. We asked Pujarini about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Vanessa Santuccione
Vanessa Santuccione is a visual artist and poet whose work delves into self-discovery, spirituality, and personal transformation. Through digital collages and abstract paintings, she weaves together images, textures, and words to convey deep, introspective emotions. Based in Spain, Vanessa began her journey as a professional artist in 2018 with abstract painting and has been writing poetry since childhood. In 2025, she discovered digital collages — a medium that allowed her to merge her visual art and poetry into a holistic form of self-expression. We asked Vanessa about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Juzo
Emerging from the “obscurities of Seattle,” Hong-Kong American artist Juzo creates introspective and thought-provoking 3D artworks, often accompanied by ambient-style music. His work explores themes of mental health, melancholy, and memory, drawing inspiration from his own experiences with depression and anxiety. We asked Juzo about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Katie Scarlett
Katie Scarlett is an illustrator, animator, and graphic designer known for her vibrant color palettes and unique perspectives. She brings a fresh, inviting lens to familiar settings, often depicting home environments such as dining rooms and kitchens, as well as unexpected spaces like tennis courts and swimming pools. Drawing inspiration from her own surroundings, she frequently incorporates the plants, furniture, and décor from her home into her work. We asked Katie about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Sierra Gómez
Sierra Gómez is an artist and illustrator with a BFA in Illustration and a minor in Art History from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Music and film are constant influences in her work, with classic rock and horror movies shaping her artistic vision. The recurring presence of skulls in her art stems from her fascination with mortality — both its inevitability and its mystery. She finds beauty in this tension, capturing the eerie yet captivating space where life and death intertwine. We asked Sierra about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Jeremy Oury
Jeremy Oury is a French artist who explores the boundaries of reality and our connection to the digital realm through video, sound, and virtual space. His work delves into the creation of illusions through geometric distortions, the synesthesia between sound and visuals, and the use of immersive environments that place the viewer at the heart of a virtual universe, challenging their perception of space. We asked Jeremy about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Jenny Yanzhi Wang
Jenny Yanzhi Wang is a learning designer and artist based in New York. With an academic foundation spanning developmental psychology, drama, learning sciences, game design, and experience design, Jenny’s work ensures that education is not only effective but also inspiring — bridging the gap between knowledge and creativity through thoughtful design and artistic expression. We asked Jenny about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Chong Liu
Chong Liu is a New York-based concept artist and digital illustrator originally from China. His journey into concept art was fueled by a lifelong passion for painting and a fascination with Japanese anime. Originally aspiring to be an animator, he discovered his true calling in entertainment design — a field that allows him to merge creativity with structured problem-solving. We asked Chong about his art, creative process, and inspirations.