Carla Gannis is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She produces works that consider the uncanny complications between grounded and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science fiction in contemporary culture. Fascinated by digital semiotics, Gannis takes a horror vacui approach to her artistic practice, culling inspiration from networked communication, art and literary history, emerging technologies, and speculative design.

Since 2003, Gannis’ work has appeared in exhibitions, screenings, and internet projects across the globe. She is an Industry Professor at New York University (NYU) in the Integrated Digital Media Program, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, Tandon School of Engineering.

Lin Zhipeng, also known as No.223, is a leading figure of new Chinese photography emerging in the last decade, popularizing his work originally via social media and other online platforms. Amidst an otherwise conservative and often closed traditional society and cultural background, Lin’s photographs act as a collective not-so-private diary of a young generation wishing to escape the pressures from a high-stakes society and play within its limits.

Lin Zhipeng offers his point of view on an alternative youth spirit and culture in an often conservatively Chinese cultural context. His spontaneous photographs portray a young generation who indulge in love and life, oscillating between jubilation and deep melancholy, playful sexuality, and often just the simple human need to be loved in an otherwise indifferent and ever-changing society.

Matjaž Tančič (1982) is a lens-based artist working mainly on documentary and independent projects between China and Slovenia. His work explores the lines between documentary, portrait, and art photography to engage with social and cultural issues.

He likes to experiment within the photographic medium and is mainly known for his 3D stereography projects. Tančič holds a BA in photography from the University of the Arts, London.

Reuben Wu is a multi-disciplinary artist working in photography, motion, and music.

Coming from a background in design, he co-founded the band Ladytron, releasing six internationally-acclaimed albums as well as writing and producing music for Christina Aguilera and remixing others such as Nine Inch Nails and Blondie.

The extensive touring introduced him to photography, which grew from a hobby into the career it is today. Reuben is based in Chicago but work takes him far and wide. The notion of journey and discovery is central to his art, bound with his love for new technology and the opportunities it brings to modern storytelling.

Reuben’s book LUX NOCTIS was published in Oct 2018 and has since been added to the archives of The Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Reuben’s work has been published by National Geographic, Colossal, Wired, The Smithsonian and has been commissioned by clients such as Apple, Audi, GE, and Samsung. He is also a Phase One Ambassador and National Geographic Storytellers Summit speaker.

Photo Credit: Lucy Hewett

Sebastian Mayer is a visual artist with a camera. He finished his studies in Media Art at the Bauhaus-influenced independent college 'bildo akademie berlin' with a focus on Analogue Photography, Digital Production and Media Theory, as well as Gestalt Theory.

His professional career as a photographer with a focus on portrait and architecture includes (among others) publications in the New York Times, Dazed and Confused, Wire Magazine, Pen International, The Observer, and Leica Fotografie International, as well as commissions by clients such as ERCO, Freitag, Espace Louis Vuitton, BMW, and Lotus Cars.

Sebastian Mayer has photographed musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yamataka Eye, Iggy Pop, Peaches, and King Krule and collaborated with artists Carsten Nicolai, Dirk Bell, Daniel Josefsohn, The Otolith Group.