Endangered Scripts, AI, and Synesthetic Experiments: A Conversation with Javier Aparicio Frago
Javier Aparicio Frago is a multidisciplinary artist whose work moves fluidly between painting, music, and technology. Based in Spain, his practice blends traditional artistic techniques with new media, creating immersive experiences that span soundscapes, stage performances, and visual artworks. With a deep commitment to research and teaching, Javier combines creative experimentation with scholarly rigor, exploring the intersections of art, movement, and digital innovation.
David Morgan on Generative Art, Humor, and the Magic of Cartoons
David Morgan is an artist, designer, and developer whose work blurs the boundaries between art and code. With a background in web design and illustration, he crafts digital experiences that balance technical precision with creative play — transforming simple ideas into worlds that are both humorous and introspective. His aesthetic draws on a lifelong love of cartoons, character design, minimalism, and alternative culture, resulting in work that feels equal parts nostalgic and experimental.
Embrace: Skye Von on Reimagining Connection Through Immersive Art
In Embrace, Skye Von invites participants to restore color and balance to a fading world through presence and consensual touch — a quiet metaphor for how connection and empathy can reawaken the spaces between us.
Michael Woodruff on Nostalgia, Motion, and Meaning: From VFX to Digital Graffiti
Michael Woodruff is a London-based multidisciplinary digital artist whose career spans over two decades across film, documentaries, advertising, and art. His work ranges from Hollywood blockbusters and Netflix productions to holograms, brand campaigns, and museum installations. With a deep passion for motion design, archives, and animation, he weaves nostalgia and abstraction through a refined design sensibility.
Kin>% on Digital Fatalism, Hidden Labor, and the Politics of AI
Kin>% (cell_less) is a UK-based PhD artist-researcher whose practice investigates narratives of technological inevitability and the ways algorithmic systems make decisions for and about us. Working across sound, installation, moving image, and interactive digital media, her work invites audiences to question the politics of technology and its role in shaping identity, agency, and perception.
From Graphic Design to Dreamlike Animation: A Conversation with Ariadna Sysoeva
Ariadna Sysoeva is a freelance illustrator and animator based by the seaside in Georgia, where the sun, sea, and palm trees often find their way into her creative world. With over a decade of experience in the visual arts, she has collaborated with international magazines, brands, and creative studios — crafting illustrations, editorial visuals, and moving images that tell stories through emotion, shape, and color.
A Journalist’s Journey Into AI-Assisted Poetry: Nick Abramo
Nick Abramo is a veteran journalist with over forty years of experience in the field, who recently turned his curiosity toward a new creative outlet: poetry. His foray into AI-assisted writing began as a lighthearted experiment (asking ChatGPT to generate a sports article) but quickly evolved into a deeper exploration of how technology and creativity can intersect. What started as a test of AI’s capabilities soon became a unique hybrid process: Nick provides the ideas, themes, and direction, while AI drafts the initial form — which he then heavily edits, shaping it into something distinctly his own.
Joe Chiappetta on Silly Daddy Comics, NFTs, and Over 25 Years of Digital Art
An award-winning cartoonist and digital art pioneer, Joe Chiappetta has been creating art since long before “digital” was a common word in the studio. Originally from Chicago and now based in California, he is best known for Silly Daddy Comics and ArtVndngMchn, with a career spanning the Independent Comics Publishing Movement of the 1980s to today’s Rare Digital Art and Cryptoart scenes. His work blends humor, family, and faith, often reflecting a lighthearted yet deeply personal perspective.
Jingyuan Huang on Motion Graphics, Branding, and Turning Everyday Moments Into Digital Stories
Jingyuan Huang is a Maryland-based graphic designer and motion creative whose work merges clean, thoughtful aesthetics with engaging storytelling. With experience in marketing design and a growing focus on social media visuals, she creates content that balances strategic intent with artistic expression. Her projects span motion graphics, digital campaigns, and visual identities, reflecting both precision and emotion, as she seeks to connect audiences through movement, color, and narrative.
Mieke Marple on “Live, Laugh, Lube” and Making Art More Powerful Than the Algorithm
Mieke Marple is a Los Angeles–based artist and writer whose practice spans painting, generative art, and storytelling. Her work often merges humor, mythology, and personal narrative to explore how cultural archetypes reflect our collective and individual struggles. In recent years, Mieke has brought a lighter, more playful energy to her practice. After creating The Medusa Collection, a generative NFT series reframing Medusa’s story through a feminist lens, she turned her focus toward humor and healing. Inspired by the comedians in her life, she developed Live, Laugh, Lube, a project that embraces joy, intimacy, and self-awareness with a wink.
Hacking Systems of Power with Glitter: Gretchen Andrew on Her Whitney Museum Acquisition
Known for “hacking systems of power with art, code, and glitter,” Andrew has long blurred the lines between traditional painting, internet performance, and technological critique. From her viral “vision boards” that hijacked Google search results to her powerful Facetune Portraits, Gretchen Andrew’s work continues to question who gets to control images, narratives, and visibility in the digital age.
Perfect, Honest, Forgiving: Dot Dot Whatever on Circles
Dot Dot Whatever (• • ……..) is the creative project and moniker of a New York–born multimedia artist whose work revolves around one simple yet endlessly expressive form — the circle. What started as a lighthearted experiment has evolved into a thoughtful exploration of shape, placement, color, and perception. Each work is titled with a serial number to invite open interpretation, encouraging viewers to see whatever they wish — a crying face, two circles embracing, something abstract, or something emotional. The artist sees themselves not as the center, but as part of a shared dialogue where meaning is shaped by others’ perspectives.
How Xy Arnaldo Turns Personal Reflection into Cinematic Digital Art and Animation
Xy Arnaldo is a digital artist and designer based in Metro Manila, Philippines. Her work spans digital art, animation, public art, and visual storytelling — often blending personal reflection with emotional resilience and dreamlike narrative flow. Through introspective imagery and layered storytelling, she transforms inner thoughts and memories into poetic visual worlds that resonate with quiet strength. Balancing freelance design work with her fine art practice, Xy is steadily carving her path in the digital art and animation landscape, guided by curiosity, sincerity, and a love of narrative form.
A Visual Haiku: Wenwen Zhu’s Quiet Worlds of Imperfect Grace
Wenwen Zhu is a Chicago-based animator and illustrator whose work lives in the space between surrealism and wabi-sabi — where imperfection, stillness, and mystery quietly coexist. Moving between 3D animation and drawing, she builds poetic worlds that invite viewers to linger and feel rather than decode. Her images often explore the subtle ties between people, society, and nature, revealing emotion through restraint and atmosphere instead of narrative clarity. Each piece feels like a visual haiku — spare, ambiguous, yet deeply resonant.
Go With The Flow: Raymond Giuffrida on Art as Survival and Self-Discovery
Raymond Giuffrida is a multidisciplinary artist, screenwriter, songwriter, and founder of Compass Charlatan Publishing, a creative hub where he writes screenplays, books, and songs while also producing digital art. His visual works, often crafted from photographs and digital paint programs, come to life during road trips or periods of introspection at home. For him, creativity is both grounding and exploratory — a way to stay balanced while questioning how art shapes (or escapes) our personal biases.
Digital Art Before the Internet: Victor Acevedo on 40 Years of Digital Experimentation
Victor Acevedo is one of the early pioneers of desktop digital art, creating fine art images and videos with computers since 1985 — long before digital art became mainstream. His journey began even earlier, in 1983, when he started experimenting with computer graphics under the influence of legendary artists Frank Dietrich and Tony Longson. Rooted in geometric abstraction yet often intertwined with figuration, his hybrid imagery carries a metaphysical sensibility that bridges technology, philosophy, and form.
Between Algorithm and Memory: Pioneering Digital Artist Martine Jacobs on Early Internet to AI
Martine Jacobs is a Dutch artist whose work moves between the digital and the handmade, blending AI generation with delicate pastel interventions. Her recent series, Four Hybrid Works – Between Algorithm and Memory, explores what happens when beauty, once central to art, begins to fade into memory. Each piece starts with artificial intelligence and ends with her touch — a quiet act of resistance that brings warmth and humanity back into the machine-made.
“A Fantastical Space to Escape Reality”: Yuanhao Tang on the Power of Illustration
Yuanhao Tang is an illustrator known for his bold line work, flat colors, and distinctive storytelling flair. Working primarily in the book and editorial illustration markets, his art combines a sharp graphic sensibility with thoughtful, conceptual depth. Rooted in a lifelong love of comic books; beginning with a well-worn Batman issue from his childhood, Yuanhao’s art practice started with years of traditional drawing and painting before evolving into the digital realm.
A Pause Between Worlds: The Metaphoric Art of Yueming Li
Yueming Li is a visual artist whose work explores how images can tell stories and reveal the inner world through metaphor and symbolism. Drawing from everyday life, she creates visual narratives that invite viewers to pause, feel, and reflect. Having lived across different countries, Yueming sees art as a universal language — one that transcends words and connects emotions across cultures. Her works often feel meditative, guiding viewers into quiet, contemplative spaces where familiar moments take on a timeless, poetic quality.
Design as Choreography: Junrong (Arving) Wu on Sound, Rhythm, and Emotion
Junrong (Arving) Wu is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual designer based in New York City. His practice spans motion graphics, branding, and art direction, merging conceptual storytelling with sleek visual precision. A Gold Winner at the London Design Awards and recipient of the DNA Paris Design Award, Junrong currently works with DE-YAN NYC, where he contributes to high-profile branding and experiential media projects. His work often bridges the physical and digital, transforming memory, perception, and cultural identity into immersive visual experiences.