Sparrow Read is a software engineer, traditional artist (encaustic wax medium) and digital artist. Finding a synergy between technology and art, Sparrow explores the latent space of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) deep learning algorithms and other digital manipulation techniques to create artworks that are a collaboration between human and machine. Most recently she has been creating “programmable art”, wherein owners of individual elements of an artwork can control the rendering of a master image to create an artwork that changes over time. Her current focus: allowing control of some elements of the artwork to be controlled by external data, such as weather, Tweet sentiments and market prices.
web: blackbox.art
Stina Jones is an independent artist, best known for her quirky character designs that incorporate her trademark use of clean lines and bright, happy colours. She has managed to find an overlap between her two main disciplines – graphic design and illustration – creating her own niche in the digital art world. Stina has made a natural progression to digital media from its more traditional roots thanks to technology’s advances, although you will still find blends between the two in her work.
web: www.stinajones.co.uk
Ben Harriott uses lens-based media as a tool to explore the relationship between the physical, emotional and the subconscious. Through the lens of the camera he seeks to uncover the unseen and little-known.
Lens-based media allow me to make sense of my emotions and to make concrete my place in the world. Light and image are the tools that enable me to capture a ‘true moment’ that may otherwise be lost to memory. I have spent over ten years developing my technical lens-based media skills, specifically lighting techniques. I now wish to use these technical skills to develop conceptual art and tell stories.
Web: benharriott.com
Gareth Davies is a teacher, writer and digital artist from south London who goes by Unrealcity in the cryptoart space. He has been making digital art since 2019 and uses digital collage, AI mapping and animation. He sees poetry as language made strange, and his visual art as an attempt to make the language of perception strange. The funding for his visual art has come entirely through private sales on the cryptoart market, through the platforms Known Origin and Blockchain Art Exchange. Links to his work can be found below and a curated collection can be viewed in his virtual gallery in the VR art space Cryptovoxels.
Twitter: @unrealcityart
Experimental digital artist Karen Frances Eng (aka oculardelusion in the cryptoart world) uses a variety of digital tools and chance processes to explore and express dreams and states of consciousness in a surreal, organic style often bordering on psychedelic. She also creates ambitious town-scale mixed-reality public art projects – including large-scale projections on medieval buildings, hacking fictional narratives into people's daily lives in cinemas and in print, interactive AR/VR installations, and more. Her toolkit includes VR, AR, AI, and live animated projection. She believes in art as a catalyst for innovation, cooperation and galvanising communities. Founding member of Women of Crypto Art, cofounder of the 105 Collective and Web3 publishing site The Platform.
web: karenfranceseng.com
twitter/instagram: @oculardelusion
