Yashar Shirdel is an emerging artist based in Berlin, who critically and playfully examines the potential of fiction at the intersection of digital media, physical materiality, and spatial practices. He approaches both digital and physical spaces as pre-constructed contexts that embody present human and non-human realities, which he seeks to deconstruct and reimagine. By utilizing various digital mediums, Shirdel creates critical fictions that question the foundational conditions of art-making while offering a sense of the fantastical.
Nastio Mosquito is a multifaceted artist (Luanda, Angola, 1981) who soon left behind his training as a television cameraman and film director to embrace an artistic practice that brings together music, video, installations and performance in unmistakably personal ways. Internationally acclaimed for his irreverent and provocative performances, Mosquito, more often than not, has adopted the role of an unpredictable showman, comprising the characters of a presenter, singer, actor and theatrical producer.
Petja Ivanova, born in Bulgaria, is an artist, lecturer and performer whose practice is framed by her “Studio for Poetic Futures and Speculative Ecologies”. Seeking to overcome the linear and binary thinking that technology carries, Petja introduces poetic, emotional, mycelial and psychic relations to the living world through Computational Art.
Tracey Snelling is an American contemporary artist. Working with sculpture, video, photography, and installation, and deriving from sociology, voyeurism, and geographical and architectural location, her work gives an impression of a place, its people, and their experience.
Lucas Mateluna, a Chilean architect and 3D artist, has contributed to international projects ranging from SANAA in Paris to Studio Tomás Saraceno in Berlin. Currently, he works as a CGI artist at Recom Berlin, focusing on Mixed Reality applications and AI research.