Brandon Barr is a mixed media artist and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. He received an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University in Alfred, NY and BFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at the Kansas City Art Institute. He has exhibited his work internationally including China, Brazil and Portugal. Recently, his work was featured in exhibits at the Torrance Art Museum and the San Diego Art Institute.

Sean Capone is a NYC-based video director and visual artist working primarily in the mediums of digital animation, avatar performance, text, photography, and large-scale digital projection. He often uses evolving motifs to explore themes of reality and illusion, beauty and decay, and the passage of time. His work has been shown internationally in the context of public art, galleries, and museum spaces, including the MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Biblical Art, and the Museum of Art & Design. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Matthias Dörfelt (1987, Hamburg, Germany) is a Los Angeles-based artist. He mainly works in software producing artifacts ranging from drawings, prints, animation, videos and interactive installations to robotics. In his works he often trades control in favor of surprise because he strongly believes in computation as an expressive, playful and humorous tool. Matthias will continue to explore these aspects by infusing technology with flaws, naivety and weirdness. He believes in a media arts practice that favors spontaneity over streamlining and hopes that his works contribute to shape our relationship to machines in a similar way. Matthias studied at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel and holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of California in Los Angeles.

Mark Essen an independent game designer and artist with ties to both the games industry world at large, and the newly emerging world of art-games. Characterized by pixelated animations and graphics, Messhof games look like “retro” games from the 1980s, but play like the most advanced games out there. Mark teaches classes at USC’s Interactive Media and Games Department and holds a MFA from UCLA's Design and Media Arts program. He created many independent games under the label Messhof such as "Flywrench" and the IGF and IndieCade award winning "Nidhogg". His work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, FILE in Sao Paulo, the New Museum in New York, MoCCA in Toronto, FACT, [DAM] Berlin, and Vice/Intel's international Creators Project.

Gregory Kalliche graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010 as well as the Honors Program at Muthesius Kunsthochshule in Kiel, Germany. His solo and two person shows include: New Day For You. MuseumofAmericabooks. Brooklyn, New York (2016); Damage Predictions. With Jesse Hlebo. Orgy Park. Brooklyn, New York (2015); Lines Like Legs. With Ted Gahl. FJORD. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (2014); GPOY. Museum of Art at University of Maine. Bangor, Maine (2013); ALPEIOS. Public Fiction. Los Angeles, California (2013)

Neil Mendoza is an artist and creative technologist exploring ways of breathing life into objects and spaces through the use of digital and mechanical technology. He is a founding member of the collective is this good?. He graduated from Oxford University with a masters in maths and computer science and has worked in many fields during his career, from game development to numerical analysis. His work has been exhibited by The AND Festival, The Barbican, BBC Big Screens, ISEA, Kinetica, The Museum of London, The Nottingham Playhouse, Oi Futuro, PICNIC Festival, The Science Museum, The V&A and Watermans, among others. He has also created installations and written software for a diverse range of clients including Accenture, Arcade Studios, Audi, Bentley, Brother, Burton Snowboards, Doritos, Ford, HTC, LCF, The Light Surgeons, Moving Brands, New Angle, Nokia, Nuit Sonores, Orange, Poke, Swatch, Universal Everything, Wieden & Kennedy and Wired Magazine.

Based in New York, Katie Torn works with special effects used in the advertisement, film, and video game industries to create hyperreal fairytale spaces that investigate American consumer culture and its impact on both the environment and the individual. Inspired by how Cubism and Futurism captured the essence of the industrial age, Torn uses new technologies to capture what life is like in the digital age where interacting in a virtual space is an everyday activity. Torn co-curated the “New Romantics” exhibition of digitally focused art at the Eyebeam Art+Technology Center in Chelsea, NY, and was a Visiting professor Pratt Institute (2013-14) and the Art Institute of Chicago (2013). She received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 and was awarded a Fellowship at Eyebeam the following year. Exhibitions of her work include a solo exhibition at the Musée Minuscule, Art in General, New York, NY (2015); The End of Flutter Valley, UPFOR Gallery, Portland, 2014; Dream House at Eyebeam Storefront, New York and Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Centre, Chicago, both 2013; Post Pictures, Bitforms Gallery, New York, 2013; and Casting a Wide Net, Postmasters Gallery, New York, 2013. Torn has performed a live video piece at VIA Music and New Media Festival, Pittsburgh, 2012; and screened work at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2013.

Katie Torn lives and works in New York City.

Her RealSelfCindy videos were made for Daata Editions, which has commissioned a wide range of digital artists including Tracey Emin, Ed Fornieles, Rachel Maclean, Michael Manning, Takeshi Murata, Rashaad Newsome, Hannah Perry, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Jon Rafman, Jacolby Satterwhite, Katie Torn, Amalia Ulman, Artie Vierkant and Chloe Wise. Daata Editions artworks form part of many institutional and private contemporary art collections including the Hammer Contemporary Collection, KIASMA, the Julia Stoschek Collection and the Zabludowicz Collection.

Theo Triantafyllidis (b. 1988) is an artist and architect from Greece. He is currently a student of Design Media Arts at UCLA, exploring the fields of internet art and interaractive virtual environments. He got his Diploma of Architecture from the Technical Universiy of Athens in 2012, and did an Erasmus semester in TU Berlin, before migrating to China for 2 years. There he founded the art collective 'doubleluckiness' as an avatar for surfing the Chinese net. He has worked in various creative architecture offices and collaborated with international artists. His work has been exhibited in galleries in Beijing, Athens, Paris and Los Angeles, as well as in many internet galleries. His studies are funded by a scholarship by Onassis Foundation.

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Theo Triantafyllidis (b. 1988) is an artist and architect from Greece. He recieved his MFA from UCLA, Design | Media Arts by presenting a guide called “how to everything” as his thesis, under scholarships by UCLA and the Onassis Foundation. Earlier, he got his diploma of architecture from the National Technical University of Athens. Humor, lush visuals and gaming tropes provide an entry point to his work. Computer simulations, improvisations and failures, awkward interactions and precarious physics are employed to produce visual gags. By manipulating emerging technologies, he is searching for their potential emotional impact and the designated limits of their use, often trying to break them. Webpages, virtual and augmented reality, games and interactive installations are his mediums of choice for this.

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At the point of their climax, his pieces often become overwhelming, exaggerated or outrageous, trying to expose the audience to the underlying themes that inform his practice. These are strongly related to internet culture and include isolation, sexuality, violence, addiction and fear of missing out. Together with a general overflow of information and its nonsensical nature, this is the part of the internet that he considers the context for his work. He has shown work in museums, including the Hammer Museum, the Armory Arts Museum in LA and various galleries such as Young Projects, Husslehof, New Wigh and Intelligentsia Gallery in North America, Europe and Asia. He has also participated in multiple online shows including thewrong.org, cloaque.org and h0000ff. Theo Triantafyllidis is based in LA.