From Darkroom to Dream State: Dlela Lombard on Visionary Flow and Digital Art
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From Darkroom to Dream State: Dlela Lombard on Visionary Flow and Digital Art

Dlela Lombard is a German photo and digital artist with roots in analogue photography, darkroom practice, and film-set work. Largely self-taught, her early career included book cover art and international exhibitions, and since the early 2000s she has developed an evolving digital practice grounded in intuition, sensory experience, and experimental image-making. Her work blends photography, painting, and unconventional digital techniques to explore ephemeral form, perception, and states of consciousness.

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A Surreal Theater: The Baroque Intensity of Ada Crow
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A Surreal Theater: The Baroque Intensity of Ada Crow

Ada Crow is a multidisciplinary artist and art historian from Asturias, Spain. With a background that bridges traditional art history and contemporary practice, her work reinterprets iconic imagery through photography, oil painting, drawing, AI, and stop motion. Influenced by Surrealism, Flemish painting, and the Baroque, she seeks a balance between visual beauty and conceptual depth, always circling back to the question of what it means to be human.

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When Technology Feels: Xiao Jin on Rendering Emotion
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When Technology Feels: Xiao Jin on Rendering Emotion

Xiao Jin is a digital artist working at the intersection of generative systems, moving images, and spatial installations. With a background in architecture and formal training from SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, Xiao’s practice explores how digital tools from AI to real-time rendering engines like Unreal can be reimagined as poetic mediums. His work investigates emotional and perceptual states, often blurring the line between synthetic environments and felt experience.

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