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Charlie Curran is a Filmmaker with a focus on the intersection between avant culture and contemporary storytelling.  His first feature film See Know Evil documents the life and work of photographer Davide Sorrenti, who went on to define 90's fashion photography.  His work has been featured in Art Forum, The Guardian, Dazed Magazine, Nowness, ID Magazine, Office Magazine, Another Magazine, Paper Magazine, Ad Age, and Rolling Stone.  He has worked with creative companies including Telfar, MADE Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week, Nike, Intel, Culture Sport, Maybelline, Campari America, Google, Dazed Media, American Express, Spotify, Endeavor, Marc Jacobs, and Dis Magazine.

Artist Maggie Cnossen displays playful vulgarity through paintings, sculptures, and other mediums. Utilizing watercolours in an unconventional way, allowing the paint to bleed through to the opposite side of the work—a process she calls reverse painting. Maggie is focused on constructing a signature style that blends texts and images, cultivating a balancing act that emits both cleverness and personal mundanity.

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Ashley Hood is a Seattle-born, LA-based, ex New Yorker by way of Paris fashion editor, creative director, and event coordinator amongst many other things.

“I moved to NYC as a teenager and worked as a stylist assistant, PR assistant, photo assistant, in and out of restaurants…anything anyone offered me to begin my career.

I am most passionate about connecting friends, introducing them to ideas and people who can help share their vision. I love to party and I love even more to make the best ones happen.”

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Extra Small is a musical artist duo comprised of two guys, Ian and Levy. They both grew up in Korea until they moved to Palo Alto, California and became best friends. They released their first album, Cubicle, right before joining the military in South Korea as an attempt to make a very cool, original piece of music before it’s too late. They are currently based in LA creating music and art that fuses electronic and club sounds with hip hop and other genres, taking inspirations from their own experiences being a multicultural Korean/American party professional.

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DeSe Escobar is a multimedia artist, stylist, and event coordinator. Born and raised in Southern California and currently based in New York City, DeSe studied fashion design at Otis College of Art and Design. Known for her work on the downtown New York party known as “Club Glam,” DeSe considers events as a practice, which she calls “social sculpture.” Her work now expands into the art scene, exhibiting an upcoming solo show at Gandt in Astoria, Queens.

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Jaki Doyka (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist whose live drawing practice combines visual art, performance art, social practice, and social media. She works directly from observation, pushing the boundaries of time, speed, and endurance all while opening herself up to flowstate, accessing the subconscious. Works on paper are completed in one-shot, where witnesses can watch the artwork come to life before their eyes. As a mobile artist, Jaki activates both public and private spaces including but not limited to: clubs, music venues, restaurants, karaoke bars, coffee shops, beaches, hotels, schools, and museums. 


Materials are portable and so is the energy. The work requires complete immersion and total presence, infused with a sense of play. It’s spontaneous, improvised, and in motion. Drawing as jazz—no eraser, no mistakes. Primarily using ink, watercolor, or pastel, works have taken anywhere from 2 minutes to 6 hours—averaging 20 minutes each. Part-painting, performance, and documentary, Jaki Doyka's work connects art traditions with current cultural modes of experience. As we collectively create the moment, she creates the record. All coming together in the spirit of seeing and being seen. That shared experience is broadcasted digitally, expanding viewership while preserving the alchemy of craftsmanship in a digital age.
 
Jaki has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Boston University and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from New York Academy of Art. Her background in classical training includes oil painting at The Copyist Program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and figurative sculpture at The Florence Academy of Art. As an artist, musician, and collaborator, Jaki Doyka has performed at MoMA PS1, Essex Flowers, Soho House, and Irving Plaza, as well as exhibited in New York at O’Flaherty’s Gallery and The Bruce High Quality Foundation.  Among the notable figures she has drawn are The Rolling Stones, Björk, Charli XCX, Cornell West, Ke Huy Quan, Bill Hader, Roberta Smith, and Jerry Saltz. 

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“Entanglements” is a selection from a performance between artist and 29 Speedway founder Ben Shirken [a.k.a. Ex Wiish] and real-time rendering, worldbuilding studio Laser Days. The selected work combines live stream diffusion AI, modular synthesis, Max MSP, and laser projection, creating a system for live improvisatory performance. Initially intended as a 45-minute live set, the work utilizes generativity and randomness as the impetus for a controlled abstraction. Focussed on the entanglements between analog and digital machines, the work becomes a method of communication.

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Ex Wiish is the project of Ben Shirken, a sound artist and composer based in New York City, founder of record label/performance series 29 Speedway, and producer of rough jazz sextet Nu Jazz. Shirken’s practice is often collage-based, involving work with Max MSP, modular synths, and chamber instruments to compose generatively based yet composed works. His debut record “Shards of Axel” was released in 2023 on Anthony Naples’ Incienso Records, and he has performed and curated at spaces such as Pioneer Works, WSA, New Museum, Dripping Music And Arts Festival, Rhizome, NYC Winter Jazz Fest, Public Records, Cafe Oto, Trauma Bar, Hyperreality Festival and Nowadays. His music has been featured in Dazed, Resident Advisor, DJ Mag, Clot Mag, The Line Of Best Fit, Office Magazine, and Vice.

Laser Days is a real-time rendering, worldbuilding studio co-founded by Jack Wedge and Will Freudenheim. We build worlds, stories, and characters using game engines and animation. Their work is multifaceted, crossing over many different storytelling mediums, ranging from narrative short films and commercials to music videos and live performances. They have designed live animated performances for the Long Beach Opera, Dripping Music Festival, as well as a hybrid animated puppet show in collaboration with Poncili Creación and Pioneer Works. They have also worked with artists, brands, and companies such as Perfume Genius, A. G. Cook, Coi Leray, James Blake, John Glacier, Megan Thee Stallion, Issam Harris, King Gizzard, Jordan Raf, Arthur, Kodak Black, Beshken, Adult Swim Smalls, Off The Air, MTV, Sprite, YZY Gap, Superplastic.

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Y7 (Hannah Cobb & Declan Colquitt) are a duo of post-disciplinary artists operating out of Manchester, UK, specialising in the use of artificial intelligence for audio-visual works alongside
a written practice of cultural criticism, which has been published in 032c, Flash Art and Polyester Zine. They are particularly interested in the emergence of new cultural trends and how they relate to philosophy, media theory and political theory.  

In 2023 they worked alongside Shumon Basar on the final instantiation of his Lorecore series for Zora and were commissioned by him to present work at the Global Art Forum 2024 in Dubai. Last year also saw them complete their first major work, ‘Report 5923’: an hour-long sci-fi film co-written, visualised and soundtracked with generative AI tools, which was prompted by the work of Ursula K Le Guin. Finally, they regularly host reading groups and communal listening events in Manchester. 

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YWGI is the AI and new media collaborative practice between Kevin James Neal and A. L. Bahta.

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Leighton McDonald, also known as LateFX, is a visionary concept and spatial designer based in New York City. With a foundation in industrial design thinking and avant-garde fashion, Leighton explores new dimensions of digital and physical expression through groundbreaking work in 3D printing and Augmented/Spatial Reality. Internationally acclaimed for his award-winning Blacksoul Gallery and collaborations with META, SNAP, and NETFLIX, Leighton is also deeply committed to education and mentorship, recently serving as a contractor for CFDA and Best Buy Teen Tech Centers. There, he teaches kids about sustainability, using 3D printing as a substitute for leather, showcasing his passion for empowering the next generation with creative skills and innovative thinking.

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LOLA (b. 1997) has been online for a very long time. 

She lives and works in New York, NY.
She is one third of Lucky Jewel collective (c. 2018). 
She is obsessed with acting corny on the internet because she values her privacy.

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Guruguruhyena crosses opposites and invites the creation of a new dimension. Weaving illusions in the mind, and realizing the conscious mind.

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Isabella Smith is a fashion designer and artist that reimagines contemporary glamour to transform the way we see ourselves. Her work explores sculptural, androgynous silhouettes, using metal and experimental materials alongside hazes of colour. 

Isabella explores an expansive view of fashion as a medium that creates community and bridges art, installation, and personal expression.Through her practice she uses immersive events to invite others to become active protagonists within the worlds her pieces exist in.

Working across Paris and London, she has developed her design and cutting skills at the houses of Givenchy and Maison Margiela in both Prêt-à-Porter and Haute Couture. She trained at Central Saint Martins in London. Selected features include Vogue, Dazed, Harpers Bazaar, V Magazine, Showstudio, Culted and Sixteen Journal among others.

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Rhizome.org is a pocket of the web with more than 25 years of history. It’s an archive of more than 2000 works. It’s a home for forgotten histories of digital culture. It’s where artists gather since the web was just a series of hyperlinks. It’s an evolving community of communities, a pioneer in the world of digital arts that has evolved alongside technology. From blockchain to low tech. 

Rhizome has crossed paths with artists and thinkers such Petra Cortright, Aaron Swartz, and Ryan Trecartin. And over time, we’ve surfed through the rapid waves of obsolescence and shifting attentions that lead to entire movements disappearing overnight. Together, we rediscover cultural memory, expanding public understanding and appreciation for born-digital art.

We dream of supporting digital culture and its legacies in ways that are accessible everywhere, and for everyone.

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