Artivator in Venice: A Conversation with Enrico Dedin
Enrico Dedin is a media artist and art director whose work spans video, digital media, and experimental storytelling. Based in the Metropolitan City of Venice and known for his poetic visual language and thoughtful exploration of contemporary life, Enrico combines his background in visual experimentation with a sharp curatorial eye. We asked Enrico about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Architecture and Imagination: The AI-Imagined Worlds of Samuvel Benhursha
Samuvel Benhursha is an architectural designer, AI artist, and curator of Sambenhur Designs, a digital gallery where architecture meets imagination. With a background in architecture and a passion for sustainability, Samuvel brings a unique perspective to the intersection of technology, heritage, and design. At its core is a deep belief that design should serve both the senses and the soul. We asked Samuvel about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Cory Sea on Beauty, Healing, and Weaving Jazz into Digital Art
Cory Sea is a digital artist and jazz guitarist whose creative journey began in childhood, inspired by his father who was a painter and art professor. With a BA in Art from the University of Michigan and an MFA from the University of New Mexico, Cory’s path has always been guided by a desire to bring beauty into the world. His shift into digital art began in 2008, when he was invited to create visual content for a relaxation DVD for hospital patients in Australia. That experience marked the beginning of his deep engagement with digital media. We asked Cory about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Modern Myths: Yicheng Zhu Paints the Soul of Chinese Folklore
Yicheng Zhu is a concept artist and visual storyteller whose work bridges cultural heritage and imaginative design. After several years creating concept art for video games and animation, she’s now expanding into more personal, experimental forms of art. While her professional work is grounded in solving visual problems for creative teams, Yicheng’s recent explorations dive into abstract techniques that allow for deeper emotional expression. We asked Yicheng about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
No Instructions Needed: Exploring Digital Play with Laureano Solis
Laureano Solis is a graphic developer specializing in real-time 3D interaction and immersive digital experiences. Based in Valencia, Spain, with roots in Argentina, he blends design and programming to create innovative artistic and commercial projects using cutting-edge technology. With a strong focus on interactivity, Laureano designs and develops 3D environments for browsers, allowing users to explore immersive, real-time digital spaces across multiple platforms. His expertise opens up new possibilities for artistic, commercial, and educational applications. We asked Laureano about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Glitches, Serendipity & Synths: A Conversation with Nico Antwerp
Nico Antwerp is a London-based video artist with a passion for mixing digital tools in playful and unexpected ways. With a background in music and sound design, he gradually found his way into motion design and video art — shifting from thinking in milliseconds to frames. We asked Nico about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Where Whales Fall and Myths Rise: Alena Saveleva
Alena Saveleva is an artist and filmmaker whose work centers on visual and non-linear storytelling that explores non-human myths and essences. Her practice challenges anthropocentric narratives, seeking instead to re-enchant nature and decentralize the human gaze. Themes of cycle, death, and rebirth run through her work, offering viewers a space to reflect on transformation and the quiet continuity of life beyond human timelines. We asked Alena about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
What I Wish I Knew: Irene Neyman on Freelance Life and Staying Seen
Irene Neyman is a self-taught illustrator and graphic designer based in Calgary, Canada. Her creative practice spans commercial illustration, packaging and character design, motion graphics, and editorial work. With a distinctive style that balances bright colors, simple shapes, and experimental textures, Irene brings clarity and charm to every project she takes on. We asked Irene about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Art as Resistance to Hypervelocity and Perfection: Subliexe
Subliexe is a digital artist whose work delves into abstraction, glitch, and memory in the age of image hypervelocity. His name (a fusion of “sublime” and “execution”) reflects both his conceptual focus and his hands-on approach to digital experimentation. Using tools like Processing, AI, GIMP, and data moshing software, Subliexe explores the chaotic speed at which images flood our lives today — and what that speed does to our sense of memory, time, and identity. We asked Subliexe about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Silence, Surveillance, and Immersive Video Art: Sofia Malemina
Sofia Malemina is a London-based multimedia artist whose work spans video, sound, and immersive installation. A 2023 Fine Art graduate of Central Saint Martins, Sofia combines digital technologies with traditional techniques to explore themes like identity, perception, and the blurry line between physical and virtual space. Her influences range from the philosophical musings of Jean Baudrillard to the experimental silence of John Cage, and her practice is rooted in conceptual inquiry that feels both personal and deeply reflective. We asked Sofia about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
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.
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.