Carlotta Aoun is a Venezuelan-born / French-embraced artist, a disillusioned physicist and a keen observer of digital mutations. Her latest work, The Uncanny Valley of Breath, was commissioned by The Science Gallery Dublin as part of the exhibition BIAS: BUILT THIS WAY. Her work is also featured in Solimán López’ Harddiskmuseum and in the Design Science Studio’s Museum Of Regenerative Art (MORA). Her work reflects the idea of adaptability, and in particular how living beings adapt to technological changes. As the world races to cope with technological progress, Carlotta’s questions evolve around real and imagined techno-mutations endured by bodies, psyches and landscapes. What happens when the digital world permeates through material reality? A digital mutation? A symbiosis? Or perhaps an interference? Her research imagines the effects of technological change in behaviors and interactions, language and sensitivity, as well as reception and transmission of information.

www.carlottaaoun.com

As the only female neon practitioner in the male-dominant and dangerous neon industry in Hong Kong, I hope to empower and enhance female capability through my work. With a collective of international women’s bodies images collected amongst my friends, I wish to feature their bodyscapes and express the idea of “Every body is a beach body” through an organic heart shape achieved from glass blowing and neon bending. The work celebrates all kinds of female bodies despite their shape and skin colour. The heart shape also illustrates self-love and the courage from those women who submitted their images on a different level of self-confidence in their bodies.

theneongirl.com/every-body-is-a-beach-body/

Interaction designer and creative technologist based in Paris, France. Jaime enjoys creating experimental, multidimensional and generative art that explores the relationships between complex systems of energy, healing, and nature. Jaime is American, originally from Arkansas. She has been working as a digital product designer in Paris for the last 6 years and also teaches interactive art and creative coding workshops at Parsons Paris. She is a graduate of the 2016 MFA Design and Technology program and Parsons Paris.

@jaimerative_art

Dasha Ilina is a Russian artist based in Paris. Through the employment of low tech and DIY approaches her work highlights the nebulous relationship between our desire to incorporate modern technologies into our daily lives and proposed social imperatives for care of oneself and others. Her practice engages the public in order to facilitate a space for the development of critical thought regarding our modern day relationships, privacy in the digital age, and the reflexive contemporary desire to turn to technology for answers. She is the founder of the Center for Technological Pain and the co-director of NØ SCHOOL.

dashailina.com

Amanda Lewis is an artist and designer from Saint Louis, Missouri and based in Paris, France. She is currently a master’s student at ENSCI Les Ateliers in Paris studying Nature Inspired Design. She also works as the coordinator for Parsons Paris’ Galerie D. She graduated with a BFA in Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons Paris in 2018. In her work, she examines the intersection of environments and digital technologies through research and artistic practices. Her goal is to discover a tangible and accessible way to comment on, augment, or improve our relationship with nature through technology.

www.amandalewis.fr

Kris Madden is an American designer, developer, and creative technologist based in Bordeaux, France. Kris enjoys finding oddities in our interactions with technology and with the technologies themselves. She creates experiences that poke at these oddities, bugs, or unintentional behaviors to highlight the fragility of technology and our relationship with tech. Kris is a graduate from the MFA Design and Technology program at Parsons School of Design.

www.martiandesignlab.com

Ryan McNamara, a young artist from Chicago, questions the “former” through his films, his photographs, and his sculptures which combine recycled materials and resin. The objects that he creates or the images he captures are established by
their sense of disintegration of past notions, focusing on the questioning or dispostion of their future. He works with an aesthetic of ruins, with an intention to re-actualize lost elements of the past, transmuting old segments with modern insight to give them an enigmatic second life. His work plays with the reintegration of relics and remains, appropriating the residues of the bygone into new narratives, while inspirited by the natural or anthropogenic factors that lead to
their extinction.

@ryanmc.1

Aditi s is an Indian multimedia artist currently based in Paris. She is interested in themes of displacement and ecology.  Her current research involves looking at alternative ways of dealing with reality and intergenerational shifts of landscapes. The driving force behind her work is her own healing process, a spiritual exploration. It comes from a place of unexplained feelings and the crave to dig, to examine them and to ultimately engage in the never-ending process of healing. It comes from emotional spaces and personal memories. She is a recent graduate of the Parsons Paris Art, Media, and Technology BFA program.