Toby Shorin
Toby Shorin is a researcher and writer studying community formation, cultural change, and technology. He is the co-founder of Other Internet Research Institute, and the author of numerous essays.
Toby Shorin
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Star Amerasu
Star Amerasu
Star Amerasu is a critically acclaimed musician, multidisciplinary performance artist, DJ, filmmaker, and storyteller whose work merges club culture with speculative fiction. Known for embodying original artificial intelligence characters from a dystopian year 2099– evoking the theatrical precision of the Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager. She delivers viral missives that fuse humor, social critique, and sci-fi worldbuilding.
Her genre-crossing practice—spanning house and tech house DJ sets, short films, and new media performances—has earned recognition from many publications including Billboard, Nowness, Paper, and Interview Magazine, which spotlighted her innovative use of technology in narrative performance. Whether commanding a dance floor or performing in character, Star uses technology as both subject and stage, crafting seductive, subversive visions of the future.
micha cárdenas
micha cárdenas
micha cárdenas, PhD, MFA, is an artist, author and Associate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the director of the Critical Realities Studio. Her debut novel Atoms Never Touch (AK Press 2023) imagines trans latina love crossing multiple quantum realities. Her academic monograph Poetic Operations : Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (Duke UP 2022) was the co-winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women’s Studies Association.
cárdenas is an artist/theorist who was the winner of the 2020 Impact Award at the Indiecade Festival and the 2016 Creative Award from the Gender Justice League. She is a member of the artist collective Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0.
cárdenas’ solo and collaborative artworks have been presented in museums, galleries, and biennials including the SUR Biennial (2023), Outfest Fusion (2023), Tangled Arts + Disability in Toronto (2022), Transmediale in Berlin (2021), the alt_cph Copenhagen Biennial (2020); the Stamps Gallery (2020) in Ann Arbor and the Thessaloniki Biennial (2019) in Greece.
M. Ty
M. Ty
M. Ty is an ember of a diaspora. They’re also an Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Leia Chang
Leia Chang
Leia S. Chang (they/them) is an artist, organizer, and creative technologist exploring unusual materiality and embodied identity. With a strong command over creative fabrication, Leia channels their perspective as a second-generation Chinese-American into interactive installations, poetic texts, and tangible multi-media objects made of wood, resin, and found materials. Their work often integrates digital media into physical forms with the aim of spotlighting the connection between memory, identity, and storytelling.
Leia is currently an exhibit developer at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Their work has been shown at the likes of La Mama’s CultureHub, theBlanc Art Space, the Gray Area SF and Resistor NYC. They organize creative communities and facilitate workshops on making-as-art.
Fitnesss
Fitnesss
FITNESSS is an experimental electronic performance art project based in Los Angeles, USA.
A FITNESSS performance is an expression of raw energy—an exercise in stretching physical and emotional limits—creating immersive experiences that challenge concepts of being and communion through movement, electronic sound architecture, and post-modern aesthetics.
With an emphasis on audience involvement and collective presence, FITNESSS explores the volatile nature of interpersonal dynamics, as well as the transformative power of crowd synchronization.
FITNESSS is grounded in the cycle of atrophy and hypertrophy—deconstruction, reconstruction, expansion.
Beyond the scope of muscle mass, this cycle of breaking down and rebuilding becomes strength training for the human spirit.
FITNESSS strives to create a sacred space where one can reflect on their own experiences of pain and transmute them into sources of power—an eternal progression of self-resilience.
Hirad Sab
Hirad Sab
Hirad Sab is a technologist and designer working across real-time graphics, machine learning, and open-source ecosystems. His past works, including presentations at SIGGRAPH, explore the aesthetic and ethical implications of interpolative technologies on the human form. As co-founder and CTO of Fuser, he builds creative infrastructure for artists working with AI—emphasizing modularity, embodiment, and experimental agency.
Dalena Tran
Dalena Tran
Dalena Tran is an artist, designer, and creative technologist whose work explores media systems, generative tools, and embodied storytelling. As co-founder of Fuser, she builds AI tools that center creative agency and cultural context. Her films and installations—featured at NYFF, ICA London, and Berlin Biennale—probe how emerging technologies shape memory, perception, and the body.
Debit
Debit
Debit (Delia Beatriz) is a Mexican-American electronic-music composer, producer, DJ, and adjunct professor at NYU whose work fuses performance, archival research, and music technologies spanning ancient acoustics, hardware electronics, computer synthesis, and machine learning. She moves through archaeological, algorithmic, and communal archives, with a primary focus on live concert formats and a deep interest in landmark compositions, site-specific sound installations, and evolving modes of performance. The result is a contemporary Gesamtkunstwerk: an immersive event where music, spatial design, and critical commentary converge in a single, visceral experience.
By tracing music-technology lineages across epochs and scenes, Beatriz reveals the social contexts, power structures, econ-political conditions and AI-driven databases that shape musical aesthetics today. This approach informs The Long Count (Modern Love, 2022). Drawing from her research into Mayan wind instruments and utilizing AI to digitally recontextualize this ancient archive, she created an electro-acoustic masterpiece that transcends time. The record was lauded by The Guardian, BBC Radio 3, and Pitchfork.
Earlier releases trace the same research-to-performance arc, translating regional sonic lineages into experimental electronic formats: Animus (N.A.A.F.I., 2018) recast pneumatic club idioms, developed through fieldwork on various Latin American electronic dance traditions, while System (2020) reverse-engineered tribal guarachero using industrial-techno heuristics.
These works have expanded into large-format installations, concerts, and DJ sets. She has performed in hundreds of shows and festivals worldwide, including Roskilde, Berlin Atonal, SXSW, Norberg Festival, Red Bull Music Festival, Tono, the Whitney Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. She has also been featured in conferences and panels such as the Audio Engineering Society, UNAM’s Aleph, MUTEK Montréal, MUTEK Mexico, and Rewire Festival, among others.
At NYU, she teaches Global Electronic Music, Electronic Music Performance, and Computer-Music Synthesis, guiding artists to combine historical insight, technological experimentation, and critical inquiry as they shape new futures for sound.
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Briana Marela Lizárraga
Briana Marela Lizárraga
Briana Marela is a Peruvian American composer, vocalist, and performing artist based out of Oakland, CA. Using her voice as a focal point, she makes use of visually engaging elements of tech augmented gestures and objects to compose and perform her music live. Her gestural and lyrical song performances draw from elements of both experimental electronic music and vocal driven pop music. Using a visual programming language and machine learning, she is able to make custom tools to create compositions with varying fixed elements that transition into moments of improvisation. She was most recently a spatial sound artist in residence at Audium in San Francisco for their residency New Voices IV, performing her multi-channel piece live every weekend from February to April 2025. She is currently a Montalvo Lucas Arts Music and Composition fellow. She received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in 2020.
Her newest full length release My Inner Rest, was released on June 6th 2025 via AKP Recordings. Marela has self-released past albums, as well as releasing records with Jagjaguwar, Surface World and PIAPTK.
