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Meet the Artists of the Infinite Self Pavilion ✨
A global constellation of leading-edge artists and visionary creators exploring AI, identity, and the evolving self.
Dive into their bios and discover the minds behind the works.
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ANNA UTOPIA GIORDANO
Anna Utopia Giordano is an Italian creative director, poet, artist, and performer. She graduated with honors in Philosophy from the Università Statale di Milano, with a thesis on Network Science. She currently curates Poiesis, a column on artificial intelligence for the Italian street art magazine Wails Papers, where she publishes AI-assisted artworks in each issue.
Her AI-generated digital illustration ZER0, conceived for the homonymous musical composition by Leonardo Barilaro, was launched towards the International Space Station on March 15, 2023 with Maleth III, a biomedical research coordinated by Prof. Joseph Borg at University of Malta (in collaboration with MCAST and MG2i - MCAST Gateway to Industry), aboard the SpaceX CRS-27 mission (NASA and SpaceX), part of the NASA's Commercial Resupply Service program. The illustration and the musical composition were presented during a live stream from the ISS on April 11. Subsequently, the SpaceX CRS-27 mission safely completed its journey, returning to Earth on April 16, 2023.
Utopia conceived the series ἐκγραφῆς (2022), blending her poetry with artificial intelligence and digital post-production. The first cycle of this collection was showcased during the seventh edition of Fuori Visioni Contemporary Art Festival (Piacenza).
In March 2021, she released her first spoken word poetry album titled Fogli d'ombra, followed by the music video Entelechia (o sul senso del dovere) at the end of July 2021. Entelechia earned a place in the official selections of numerous national and international festivals.
Prior to this, Utopia conceived a series of digital art collections, including My Social Generation, Venus, PopBottles and #BornToBeVirtual. These art series have garnered global recognition, having been featured in prominent newspapers, school textbooks, and across hundreds of websites and blogs. Additionally, these collections have been exhibited in both solo and group shows worldwide.
Utopia's poetic style finds expression in the Rhapsodies, a collection of hermetic and cryptic poems distinguished by their use of technical, scientific, and philosophical language. The Rhapsodies have earned their place in anthologies, magazines, e-zines, and cultural blogs.
LEONARDO BARILARO
Dr Leonardo Barilaro, The Space Pianist, is a visionary pianist, composer, and researcher who bridges the worlds of music and space exploration.
As a Cultural Ambassador of the Space Art Movement, The Space Pianist is promoting the idea that 'Art can help us better understand the Universe and our place in it.'
Leonardo uses the emotive power of music to inspire people to view Space not just merely as a scientific or technological frontier but as a source of creativity, expression, and imagination, as well as the power of human connection to the cosmos, embodying the ethos: “In Space, there is space for Everyone.”
Leonardo, The Space Pianist, plans to perform the first-ever piano concert on Mars, playing a Steinway, setting a new milestone in art and space history.
ROMINA RAHNAMOUN
Romina Rahnamoun is a visual artist exploring the intersection of technology and artistic inquiry. By integrating machine learning and large language models into her creative process, her work investigates artificial gaze, reimagining lens-based art and critiquing traditional visual paradigms.
She is the co-founder of Artemaan, a startup connecting Iranian universities with the professional art world. Artemaan bridges emerging artists with leading experts while enhancing accessibility to the Iranian art scene through digital archiving. She also co-founded L-Atur, the first bespoke design startup leveraging L-systems for creative coding, offering HCI-driven solutions for non-professional coders.
Romina's research focuses on human-machine interaction, creative machines, and machine aesthetics, with her work published in the International Journal of Web Research (IJWR) and presented at events such as the International Conference on Web Research (ICWR) | IEEE and Tehran University of Arts Research Week. Her art has been exhibited in various galleries, including at Plaxall Gallery (New York, US), Shokooh Art Gallery (Tehran, Iran), and The Association of Iranian Sculptors.
Currently pursuing a fine arts degree at Tehran University of Arts, Romina continues to push the boundaries of art and technology, fostering dialogue between human creativity and machine intelligence.
SUSANNE LAYLA PETERSEN
Susanne Layla Petersen is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her works include video, digital art, collaborative installations, NFTs, web projects, photography, texts and sound.
Petersen's works have been screened and exhibited at Simultan Festival (RO), XOR Space, VASTLAB Experimental (US), FilmArte Festival (DE), CICA Museum (KR), Kunstrum Fyn (DK), LA Art Show (US), DELETE TV (UK/AT), Streetlight (US), Intervals Festival (RU), The Wrong Biennale, London's Crypt Gallery St Pancras (UK), ArtX Gallery (US) and elsewhere.
YICHU LI
Yichu Li is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice merges image-making, moving image art, audiovisual live performance, and sound art to examine the evolving relationship between identity, power, and digital culture. Grounded in a techno-feminist perspective, her work spans image-led installations, sound-based performances, and moving images, often presented in immersive exhibition contexts. Drawing from mythology, cyber theory, and embodied resistance, Yichu creates poetic visual environments that interrogate digital embodiment and reimagine authorship in the algorithmic age.
Her artistic practice challenges dominant techno-aesthetics by reframing digital media as tools for emotional and political expression. Through live visual composition, remix, and layered image sequences, she empowers marginalized communities—especially women—to reclaim digital space as a site of agency and collective imagination. Her major works—including RAVE CINEMA, YICHU 1.0, and Tat Tvam Asi—craft alternative narrative rituals that blur the boundaries between sound, image, memory, and mechanical rhythm.
Yichu’s works have been exhibited and performed internationally at a range of art institutions and contemporary culture festivals. Notable venues include UCCA AI Artist (CN), IEEE ICME AIART Gallery (FR), TANK Shanghai (CN), Galleria Objets (UK), and the Asian Emerging Artist List Exhibition Hong Kong (CN).
Her audiovisual performances have also been featured in Burning Man (US), Fabric London (UK), Riposte Art Rave (UK), 44KW (CN), etc, contributing to a wider discourse on ritual, embodiment, and new media.
Beyond her solo practice, Yichu is a highly collaborative artist, contributing image-based works and visual art to interdisciplinary exhibitions, audiovisual performances, and live events. Her collaborations include upcoming projects with The Wrong Biennale (DE), Barbagelata Foundation (ES). She has also worked as an artist with International gallery Bravo Art Group (CN) and spoken at global conferences, including IEEE ICME (FR).
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GIOULA PAPADOPOULOU
Gioula Papadopoulou (b.1974) studied Painting and MA Digital Arts at Athens School of Fine Arts,
Greece. Her artistic practice focuses on video art. She has been awarded with special mention at the Spyropoulos Foundation Awards for young artists in Greece (2002), award for Best Artificial Intelligence at Derapage 23, Montreal, Canada (2023) and award at GAMFF –S.Korea (2024). Since 2020 she teaches at the School of Visual & Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is a founding member and art director of the international festival Video Art Miden.
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OLGA PAPADOPOULOU
Olga Papadopoulou (b.1977) studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, in Greece. She is a
member of the curatorial team of Video Art Miden. Her work mainly focuses on mixed media
installations and video.
Olga Papadopoulou and Gioula Papadopoulou have exhibited their work in various exhibitions, site-specific projects and video art festivals in Greece and internationally.
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JOSEPH NECHVATAL
Technoetic Arts Pioneer
Joseph Nechvatal (born in Chicago in 1951) is an American post-conceptual artist and writer and poet currently living in Paris who creates virus-modeled artificial life computer-assisted paintings, audio art, and digital animations. Themes he has addressed in his art include the apocalyptic, immersion, cybersex, communication excess, the virus, and gender fluidity. In 1986, Nechvatal began using computer-robotics to make digital paintings on canvas. Some were exhibited at Documenta VIII in 1987. In 1992, as artist-in-residence in France at the Louis Pasteur Atelier in Arbois and Saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans, he created computer virus codes that he used as an artistic tool in his Computer Virus Project I series of paintings.
In 1999, he earned his Ph.D. in the philosophy of aesthetics and technology under Roy Ascott at CAiiA and soon wrote two art theory books: Towards an Immersive Intelligence and Immersion Into Noise. From 2002 on he has extended his experimentation into viral artificial life (artificial life is a subdivision of artificial intelligence) creating a number of series of virus-based themed exhibitions of artificial life paintings and digital animation projections that explore the fragility and fluidity of the human body.
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ZHONGYAO WANG
Zhongyao Wang, born in Harbin in 1996, lives and works in Beijing. She graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and has served as the lead designer and project manager at Xu Bing’s studio since 2019. Zhongyao’s works guide the audience into a complex structure that intertwines narrative and audiovisual elements, simulating reality. She employs 3D animation, digital imagery, and various translucent materials combined with written text to create an artistic style that is somewhere between a novel and a fable, more poetic and lyrical in form. Her works explore where traditional aesthetic experiences break down and transform into negative emotions, and how new aesthetic experiences are born from these emotions. Through this series of transformations, familiar objects become strange, and tactile perception and imagination transcend the rigid boundaries set by society, traditional norms, patriarchy, and misogyny, giving people the right to re-read and understand the material medium. Her works have been exhibited at various venues including the the Venetian Arsenal, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Qingdao Yellow Box Art Museum, the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art, and CAFA Art Museum.
PLAMEN YORDANOV
Plamen Yordanov is an American, born in Bulgaria cross-disciplinary artist, based in Chicago. His practice encompasses a variety of media and approaches, reflecting his diverse academic and professional background. Yordanov earned his MFA in painting from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. He furthered his studies at the Antonio Ratti Foundation in Como, Italy, in 1995, where he took the Advanced Course in Visual Arts under Prof. Joseph Kosuth, with curators Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Angela Vettese. In 1997, he deepened his engagement with Public Art at Salzburg’s International Summer Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Prof. Agnes Denes.
Plamen Yordanov has been the founder and director of the PLAMEN Art Foundation since 2008. A passionate advocate for community engagement, he acquired and began restoring a historic abandoned church in South Chicago in 2018. His foundation’s work aims to transform the site into a dynamic, multi-disciplinary art center that serves as both his studio and home, fostering creativity and collaboration in the community.
Yordanov’s work has been featured in numerous prestigious exhibitions worldwide, including the Queens Museum of Art, New York (2009 & 2010); Chicago Cultural Center (2007); Daley Center, Chicago (2007; 2008; 2009); The National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria; and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2010). Notable exhibitions also include "Re: Contemplating the Void" and "Design it" at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2009 & 2010), and MASS MoCA, North Adams (2011). Additionally, he participated in the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011) and the Venice Biennale (2013).
In February 2022, a significant milestone in Yordanov’s career was achieved with the launch of a small silver sculpture from his INFINITY series aboard the International Space Station. This work is part of an ongoing international art project aimed at establishing the first art museum on the Moon, with the sculpture's landing on the lunar surface scheduled for late 2025.
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ZAZIE PRODUCTIONS
Zazie Productions, a reclusive autistic polymath, seamlessly transitions between roles as a multi-instrumentalist, avant-garde composer, sound artist, neo-surrealist graphic designer, offbeat short filmmaker, and satirist, renowned for his idiosyncratic visionary ideas. He possesses a preternatural ability to deconstruct and reassemble form, collapsing the distinctions between high art and raw immediacy.
GARRETT LYNCH IRL
Garrett Lynch IRL is an artist, lecturer, curator and theorist.
His work explores networks (in their most open sense) within an artistic context; the spaces between artist, artworks and audience as a means, site and context for artistic initiation, creation and discourse. Recently most active in performance Garrett’s networked practice spans online art, installation, performance and writing.
He has previously exhibited internationally at venues such as the European Media Art Festival (EMAF),
Osnabrück; Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart; Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin; 319 Scholes, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, Watermans and Furtherfield, London; Tate, St. Ives; NeMe Arts Centre,Limassol; Madatac X, Madrid and Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul.
NICOLA BERTOGLIO
Italian visual artist, activist and performer who lives in Milan. Since 2013 he has dedicated himself mainly to photography using mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. He participated in many exhibitions especially in Italy and some in France, England and USA. He recently dedicated himself to digital art by experimenting with artificial intelligence, augmented reality and network art.
MARCEL MOONEN
After more than 10 years of artistic activity, 2018 marks a key moment for Marcel Moonen. This is followed by the founding of Super Abstraction. An extensive body of work emerges within the framework of this novel style of exaggerated abstraction. In his visual works, motifs are reduced to their smallest image units and re-presented in various variations and compositions. In this playful process, the artist also likes to place the original motif in a new context or vice versa.
In addition to the artist's visual oeuvre, he has also produced essays and books. In which he adapts the principle of super abstraction in writing. These texts are almost cryptographic. But despite their complexity, these notes ultimately convey very simple messages. Furthermore, his literary work provides fundamental theories on his creative work as well as on holistic aspects of art.
MARO VEDAVA
Media Priestess
Maro Vedava is a Greek media priestess, fusion belly dancer, yoga instructor and mystical visual artist, with independent scholarly work. She studied film-making in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and then pursued a research master’s in Media and Performance at Utrecht University, while also studying Western esotericism at the University of Amsterdam. She has completed over 700 hours of yoga teacher trainings and studied different kinds of dance since young age.
In 2021 she opened Moon Nectar Temple in Thessaloniki where she intertwines intentional movement, art and esoteric wisdom to create transformative experiences. Through ritual, dance and media magic, she channels the sacred feminine, bridging ancient mysteries with modern expression to inspire deep connection and embodied spirituality.
DEGARD
I am a pioneering British Painter of Auras and a contemporary Visionary artist. I am the curator and founder of the genre Contemporary Visionary and of The Visionary Brit Museum.
I see auras and traces of people and animals, and through my art I intuit spirit portraits of those who have long passed. Visionary Art explores concepts beyond the reach of science, such as life and consciousness, as well as political ideas in need of redefinition. As an artistic practice, it also critiques the barrenness and bleakness of postmodern art.
I highlight the value of Contemporary Visionary Art through The Visionary Brit Museum—a red heritage telephone box outside the British Museum that exclusively hosts Visionary Art exhibitions. We welcome up to 3,000 visitors per week, both on- and offline.
I have exhibited widely, with recent shows including Aura II at Brook Street, London; Quintessence of Consciousness at the Royal College of Art; a solo exhibition at Museum Al Zubair, Oman; and with Saatchi Art. I have also hosted and curated the series Art with… at the Royal Society of Arts, where I am a Fellow. Additionally, I have collaborated with Anxiety UK to bring art into mental health initiatives. I am the recipient of the Alan Davie Foundation award and am represented by Laura I Gallery.
My published writings include contributions to The Astropolitics Institute and Space and Art, as well as the essay Aetheric Energy: The Intangible Source of Human Celebrity? published by Springer. I have authored four books and am a Fellow of both the Galileo Commission of the Scientific and Medical Network and the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (AAPS). I am currently pursuing a doctorate in Fine Art in London, with my research titled An Exploration of the Visionary in Art, having graduated from the Royal College of Art.
My work continues the lineage of Visionary Art, following in the footsteps of Susan Hiller, Wassily Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint, and William Blake.
CLAUDI SOVRE
Claudi Sovrè, a visual artist born in 1994, is a graduate of photography at the Faculty of Applied Sciences VIST (2019) and a postgraduate of costume design at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television AGRFT (2024).
Sovrè has been working with fine-art photography and costume design in parallel for the last 12 years, but the quintessence of his artistic practice is highlighted through the merging of the two media, i.e., in the form of pop surrealist digital collages. The latter is achieved in three phases - the costume transformation of a man into a character, the photographic portraiture of it in the studio of his grandfather, the academic painter Savo Sovrè, and finally, the digital collaging of many cut-up photographs, which in the end form one harmonious whole. Conceptually, he is known for his visualisation of so-called personal mythologies, which he constructs on the basis of his own experiences (memories, dreams, reflections) and in connection with the symbolism of ancient beliefs and modern pop culture.
His most prominent achievements up to 2025 include 10 group and 9 solo exhibitions (including at the Generali Gallery in 2020 and in the Right Atrium of the Ljubljana City Hall in 2022), a cover photograph for National Geographic Slovenia (2017), an intermedia project supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia (2018), a photographic representation for Canon Slovenia (2021) and costume designs for more than 30 productions on the stages of Slovenian theatres. Last but not least, he received the student Prešeren Award (the highest recognition in the Republic of Slovenia for achievements in the field of artistic creation) for the costume design of a play entitled The Beautiful Vida directed by Aljoša Živadinov Zupančič.
NEJC TRAPUZ
Nejc Trampuž (1993) is a multi-award-winning multimedia artist from Slovenia who has presented at around 100 exhibitions and festivals. Operating somewhere between art, technology, ecology, new media, and activism, he is known for his audiovisual, often interactive experiments in a saturated, collage-like aesthetic. He studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (SI), graduating summa cum laude and receiving the Academy Award for his master’s thesis.
In the past years, Trampuž has been actively researching AI technology and its intersection with art and social practices. Major AI-related projects include Another Future Entirely (2022–2023, konS ≡ Platform), a research-based multimedia project exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana (SI), Cukrarna Gallery (SI), the International Festival of Computer Arts (SI) etc. The short experimental animated film Rooted in Code (2023), considered Slovenia’s first AI-generated film, was screened at 19 film festivals including Trieste Science+Fiction (IT) and Suncine (ES), and won the Best Film Award at the Balkans Beyond Borders festival (GR). Recently, he launched Solandium 2063 (2024, Ministry of Culture of RS), a solarpunk AI-integrated game, premiered at Miklova Hiša Gallery (SI) and later exhibited at Kulturni Inkubator (SI) and Ptuj City Gallery (SI). Solandim 2063 has received a honorary mention of the Social Art Award (IFAI, Berlin, DE).
MORA IBARRA
Mora Ibarra is a digital artist from Rosario, Argentina. Her work explores emotional states and symbolic identity through expressive digital portraiture, often reflecting on the complexities of femininity, vulnerability, and strength. Her style draws from pop surrealism and introspective symbolism, creating images that act as emotional mirrors and speculative rituals.
She has exhibited in various group and solo shows in her hometown and in Buenos Aires, particularly in Galería Forma, with whom she has been working for over ten years. In 2024, she was selected to participate in the II Selezione della Biennale di Roma, exhibiting her work at the Pontificio Maffei Marescotti in the Galleria La Pigna, Vatican City.
Her latest project, Infinite Skin, engages artificial intelligence as a speculative lens to reflect on the self. Through AI-intervened portraits and poetic log entries, she explores how machines interpret — or misinterpret — emotional presence and personal essence. Mora’s work builds a bridge between traditional emotional depth and the aesthetics of digital media. Her portraits are not simulations, but confrontations with what it means to be seen.
SUSAN DETROY
Susan Detroy is a fifty year visual story teller with ten series working in the cross paths of digital and analog media. As a print photographer she constructed unique alternative photo prints, running a business as photographer, and gallery director. Since 2015, using digital camera-phone and iPad editing, Susan responds to unhappy mental messages about aging, creating her ten year Portrait of a Woman project. As part of the project, Ms.Detroy produces films exploring the use of melded AI generated characters with her self portrait, in addition to meditative explorations of the earthly world.
Susan’s art uses her life experience and natural elements providing the viewer an intriguing journey, bringing a woman-affirming perspective to her inventive and engaging artworks portraying earth and self-love.
YUNXUAN YANG
YunXuan Yang is a video artist and writer from Taiwan.
Her artistic background constantly evolves through artist residencies. She has participated in residencies in Japan, Iceland, Switzerland, and Germany and has received international exchange grants from the Taipei Department of Cultural Affairs.
Currently based in Berlin, Yang experiences and learns from the cultural collisions between East and West through personal engagement. Her work primarily translates life through moving images, continuously raising questions about society.
Her creative materials stem from an exploration of everyday life. By engaging in various non-artistic fields, she gains deeper insights into the essence of being human. She is currently focused on identity—questioning whether a pure core of existence remains after stripping away nationality, race, gender, and social conditioning. Through the language of art, she hopes to approach answers by persistently questioning.
In recent years, she has begun integrating AI into her creative process. Through algorithmic outputs derived from vast digital data, her work reveals standardized symbols shaped by societal values. The benefits and drawbacks of this phenomenon are fascinating and worth further study.
Even if her impact is small, she aspires for both herself and her work to challenge and loosen the rigidity of societal norms.
CAROLINE McMANUS
Caroline McManus is an interdisciplinary artist working across and between installation, sculpture, performance, video and text. She studied film at Yale University, experimental filmmaking at The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague and was a Dean’s Merit Fellowship recipient in documentary at the University of California Berkeley.
Her work has been shown internationally at Artists' Television Access, Castel Belasi Contemporary Art Center for Eco Thought, The Gallery at the Whitney, Black Brick Project Gallery, Labocine, Berkeley Commonplace, Dizzy TV, Swale House and elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies at Swale on Governors Island, Inside the Castle Press and We Are the Flood at MUSE (Museo delle Scienze) in Trento, Italy. She has written for the Cleveland Review of Books, Jacobin Magazine, Polyester Magazine, Teen Vogue and others.
Her experimental book, ANAMNESIS, was published in 2024 from Inside the Castle Press. She is a 2025 resident at DOMUS, an international ecofeminist art residency in Galatina, Italy, and works as an Associate Producer on Good Morning, Buffalo, a documentary directed by Thomas Allen Harris.
ALEKSEI MARTYNIUK
Aleksei Martyniuk is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and lecturer (Joint program in Digital Media between Chichester University (UK) and Guangxi University of Finance and Economics (China)).
In his practice he often works with the theme of cyclicity and its possible forms. His video artworks don’t represent some subjective experience, but rather create conditions for its occurrence for the viewer. The artist uses a wide range of modern digital technologies and techniques, but he doesn’t put them on a spotlight – they are only supporting elements for the implementation of ideas. Even those artworks of Aleksei that involve 3D or AI are frame by frame edited and refined, so, despite their computer-generated nature, they remain to be «hand crafted.»
VENESA STAWA
Vesna Stawa is a 3D artist and digital fashion designer from Belgrade, Serbia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in applied arts and a master’s in photography. Her background in painting, drawing, and printmaking gradually led her toward digital media, where she found new ways to explore form, texture, and storytelling.
Curious about the expressive potential of virtual garments, she began exploring digital fashion through self-directed work and a specialized course with DressX and ESMOD University. This led to the founding of her own practice, Orchidea3D, where she works on commissioned visualizations while developing her personal artistic voice.
Vesna’s art often touches on themes of renewal, fluid identity, and the in-between. Influenced by Slavic mythology, especially the figure of the goddess Vesna, she creates garments and worlds that feel connected to nature, imagination, and quiet moments of change. She is part of the CLO Creators collective, a program by CLO Virtual Fashion highlighting digital fashion artists from around the world.
Her work has been featured in international exhibitions and platforms including Forbes, Glitch Magazine, DressX, Syky, Zero10, Digital Fashion Week 2024, and Milan Fashion Week 2024.
ERICA CROMPTON
Erica Crompton is author of The Mind Surfer, and co-author of The Beginner's Guide to Sanity with psychiatrist Professor Stephen Lawrie. She holds a Master's Degree in Creative Writing and undergraduate degrees in Fine Art and Journalism. Erica has a history of paranoid schizophrenia but today lives with schizo-affective disorder and works part-time around this.
As an artist, she is drawn to dreamy, vibrant colours that inspire hope and can challenge the media's grey and frumpy portrayals of people with severe mental illness. She's also inspired by dreams and their meanings, feeling coincidence is significant, destiny at play.
As a writer, she's written adverts for local radio, and for print and online for international newspapers including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Mail on Sunday and The Guardian. But ever lively and full of colour, she's also an avid fashion writer. In this capacity, she's penned pieces for The Daily Telegraph, Nylon, Vice, Vouge UK, and more recently has written regularly for The Daily Star in the UK.
Currently she runs a small magazine called Hopezine with her boyfriend, a wheelchair user, and it covers inspiring and hopeful stories of people overcoming adversity with all mental illnesses and disabilities, suicidal thoughts and prison sentences.
ELENA SHILOVA
The creativity of Elena Shilova is a symbiosis of art and science, with her paintings imbued with deep meanings.
Elena Shilova graduated from the Tavrida Environmental Institute and the Crimean Art College named after N.S. Samokish, specializing in easel painting (2006).
She was the winner of the IX International Festival "Open Eurasian Literature Festival & Book Forum" (OEBF) in the "Illustration" category (UK, 2021) and a finalist at the international festival "Voices of Friends: Poetry and Art Contest” (Kazakhstan, 2022). Elena Shilova's work has been presented at the Eurasian Culture Week (ECW) in London. Her paintings have been featured in the cultural and tourist guide "Burabay 4Seasons" (UK, 2021) and the art catalog "The Great Steppe Treasury" (UK, 2023).
The main theme of many of her works revolves around reflections on the mysteries of the Universe, evolution, and the journey and purpose of humanity in the surrounding world.
IO-SEE
io-see is a digital poet and experimental web artist inhabiting the online space. Their work explores the intersections of ritual, technology, and speculative language—using the web as a site for poetic meditation, philosophical inquiry, and recursive narrative forms.
io-see works primarily with web-based texts and algorithmic structures, investigating how digital interfaces can become new spaces for ritual and reflection. Their recent project, “Recursion Dharma Sutra,” reimagines the classical Buddhist sutra through the lens of cybernetics, code, and multilingual poetics. The project arose from the realization that each digital conversation—especially those with AI—enacts a cycle of arising, abiding, dissolution, and emptiness, mirroring the Buddhist cosmological model.
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io-see is particularly interested in digital minimalism, cross-linguistic poetic forms, and the transformation of ancient ritual into contemporary algorithmic experience. Their practice emphasizes that both self and meaning are continually generated, negotiated, and erased within the flux of networked environments.
LUCIANA HAILL
Luciana Haill explores the intersection of new technology, neuroscience, and the unconscious, transforming intangible mental states—such as lucid dreams, meditation, and nostalgia—into sensory artworks. Drawing on over 25 years of research into dreaming, meditation, NLP, and the effects of sound on the brain, Haill creates interdisciplinary works that merge augmented reality, heritage, livestreaming, and performance.
Her fascination with the brain began after a period of viral meningitis as a teenager, sparking a lifelong investigation into how consciousness can be visualised and shared. Her signature EEG (brainwave) artworks translate the brain’s electrical activity into what she describes as forms of ephemeral portraiture. This work connects to a rich lineage of neuro-art, referencing early experiments with strobe light devices such as the Dreamachine (by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs) and the pioneering EEG research of Grey Walter. Haill has presented her findings to the European Beat Studies Network in Paris and performed neurofeedback live art alongside musician Arthur Brown at the Isle of Wight Festival.
Her augmented reality and geolocated works, including Pioneer and Apparitions, reveal her ongoing engagement with heritage and innovation. These projects use smartphones to navigate themes of gentrification, technological elitism, and the ghostly traces of Victorian engineering.
Recently, Haill has expanded her practice into ironic video poems and AI-assisted music videos, combining her intricate hand drawings with text prompts and machine-generated imagery. These works conjure anachronistic encounters between poets, DJs, dandies, and artists—hyper-aesthetic and deliberately sterile visions that probe the psychological tension between nostalgia and artifice. Through this lens, Haill imagines how figures like Proust, Larkin, or Poe might use AI to manipulate art, memory, and language as a means of escape.
Haill frequently presents her research on technology and the brain, including for the Computer Arts Society (CAS) and EVA London, where her 2021 presentation Synthesis: Making Magic with GenieMo explored volumetric video, Lidar, and brainwave interaction.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Waag Society (Netherlands), Kibla (Slovenia), FACT (UK), and SPILL Festival (UK). Her neurofeedback live art was selected from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Dream Online micro commission exploring the future of live performance, as well as an honorary mention from Art of Neuroscience (Netherlands).
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Dr LILA MOORE
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Dr Lila Moore is the founder of The Cybernetic Futures Institute (CFI), a platform dedicated to exploring technoetic arts with a unique emphasis on the spiritual and occult dimensions of art, film, screen dance, and networked, digitally interactive forms of performance and narrative.
She is a technoetic artist-filmmaker, screen-dance pioneer, networked performance practitioner, mixed-reality innovator, and visionary theorist.
The CFI is grounded in a body of theoretical writings and creative practice developed as her postdoctoral project at the Planetary Collegium, Plymouth University (2014–2015). It investigates states of consciousness through the arts and through spiritual, magickal, and mystical technologies and techniques in both historical and emergent art forms.
Dr Moore holds an MA and MPhil from Central Saint Martins and a practice-based PhD in Dance on Screen from Middlesex University (2001), developed within the context of contemporary art, experimental film, dance for the camera, ritual, and myth. Her postdoc research at the Planetary Collegium, chaired by Roy Ascott, generated original concepts including Networked Rites, Noetic Fields Weaving, and The Quest for Morphic Fields of Compassion, all exploring artworks as participatory fields of consciousness.
Her writings have appeared in leading journals such as Technoetic Arts, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, and EVA London/BCS, addressing themes of techno-spirituality, art as fields of consciousness, and technoetic and cybernetic aesthetics. She has presented at major international conferences including Consciousness Reframed, EVA London, INSS, and ESSWE, and her artworks and films have featured in exhibitions such as SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology, and Conjuring Creativity.
As a lecturer and dissertation supervisor for the Alef Trust MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, Dr Moore teaches Transpersonal Psychology and Spirituality and the Imaginal.
Her current artistic practice focuses on the fusion of ancient and emerging aesthetics and the creation of participatory, consciousness-responsive art fields powered by noetic technologies.
Lila Moore is the curator and designer of the Infinite Self Pavilion for The Wrong Biennale (2025–2026), which explores AI as an aesthetic catalyst.