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Leeroy New (b. 1986, General Santos City) is a Manila-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice overlaps and intersects with different creative industries: fashion, filmmaking, theater, public installations, product design, and performance. This practice of moving across different modes of creative production has become the backbone of his work, driven by concepts of world building, hybrid myth-making, and social change.

Aparisyon (Apparition), 2022
Leeroy New
USDZ

Eliza Victoria is the author of several books including the Philippine National Book Award-winning Dwellers, the novel Wounded Little Gods, the graphic novel After Lambana (a collaboration with Mervin Malonzo), and the science fiction novel-in-stories, Nightfall. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in several publications, most recently in LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, The Best Asian Speculative Fiction, The Dark Magazine, The Apex Book of World SF Volume 5, Fireside Fiction, and Future SF. She has won prizes in the Philippines’ top literary awards, including the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Her one-act plays have been staged at the Virgin LabFest at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Dwellers, Wounded Little Gods, and After Lambana are scheduled to be released internationally by Tuttle Publishing in 2022. Visit her at elizavictoria.com.

Let me hold your hand (2022)
Eliza Victoria
Story, USDZ

Commissioned by Art Fair Philippines

Tuomas A. Laitinen is an artist who works with moving image, sound, light, glass, chemical and microbial processes, as well as computer generated simulations to explore the entanglements of human and more-than-human coexistence. Laitinen composes situations and installations that inquire into the porous interconnectedness of language, body, and matter within morphing ecosystems. In recent years, Laitinen has been working around questions of ecology, the notion of the extended mind, and processes of knowledge production. The works are often made with transparent and translucent materials in order to find ways to layer different epistemological systems and narratives.

Acid coral template YP4 (2021)
Tuomas A Laitinen
USDZ

An original Daata commission

(b.1980, USA). Educated as a painter, Couillard is a self-taught new media artist who has made numerous well-received and internationally exhibited video, virtual reality, and video game works, accompanied by installations, paintings, and ephemera. His works often deploy humorous narratives about future dystopias to explore what motivates us as humans to work, live, and create. He is represented by Denny Dimin Gallery, New York.

Nerd Bug Plays the Organ (2021)
Jeremy Couillard
USDZ

JEF Idle Pose (2021)
Jeremy Couillard
USDZ

An original Daata commission

Eva Papamargariti (b. 1987, Greece) graduated from the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly with a Diploma in Architecture (2012). She holds a Master Degree in Visual Communication Design from Royal College of Art, London (2016). Her practice focuses on time-based media but also printed material and sculptural installations that explore the relationship between digital space and material reality.

Endless Falling (2021)
Eva Papamargariti
USDZ

An original Daata commission

The artist and activist aaajiao – the online handle of Xu Wenkai (b.1984, China) – draws on a broad range of languages, including sculpture, painting, drawing, multimedia installation, video, sound and design. Enriched by modern thought developed around the Internet sphere, his practice explores the evolution of the identity of the human being assimilated by the digital world, with special attention to the concepts of representation and simulation. His works narrate the experience of the new generation that inhabits the parallel worlds and saturated realities of the net. At the same time, the artist also looks at the countless possibilities offered by the digital and the numerous questions raised by this hyper-technologisation.

Totem (2021)
Aaajiao
USDZ

An original Daata commission

(b.1980, Germany) Meisenberg’s work reflects upon both the process of painting and the specific boundaries of the medium. Meisenberg’s practice has moments of performative or process based gestures which are simple, humorous and revealing of the material aspects within digital image making. Within his work, the physical act of pouring, staining or spraying a canvas become synonymous with swiping, glitching and tweeting.

Sculpture 12 (2021)
Florian Meisenberg
USDZ

An original Daata commission

Dodd (b.1978, Jersey) works with surfaces and techniques which embody the spirit of the global techno-macho-man. He designs sculptural objects, drawings, and moving images that reconfigure the languages of desire, confidence and authority into a new fluid, composite structure.

Ultra Corruption! Super Normal Returns (2021)
Elliott Dodd
USDZ

An original Daata commission

Keiken are a collaborative practice, co-founded by artists Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos in 2015, who frequently work with multiple collaborators. Based between London and Berlin, they come from mixed diasporic backgrounds (Mexican/Japanese/European/Jewish). Keiken, named after the Japanese word for experience, create speculative worlds, using moving-image, CGI, gaming software, installation, virtual and augmented reality, programming and performance to merge the physical and digital. Their work simulates new structures and ways of existing, exploring how societal introjection governs the way we feel, think and perceive.

Wisdoms for Love (2021)
Keiken
USDZ

An original Daata commission