Chrystine Rayburn
I am a sound collector and maker who listens to thresholds and entanglements of institutional and environmental spaces. Through archiving, electroacoustic composition, and installation I explore how organizing and manipulating sound can transform and complicate the boundaries of source, embodiment, and memory.
Leilei Xia
Leilei Xia was born in Guangzhou, China. She is a multimedia artist who works in tactile art, experimental animations, video art, and participatory collective art. As one of the editors of independent science zine Icosa Magazine and the founder of tactile art collective Tactileye, Leilei explores how tactility and bodily feelings are manifested in different medium, and is interested in combining the process and the result of art together to make art not as a noun but as a verb.
Her workshop has been hosted in Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and her films and animation has been awarded or selected in Ann Arbor Film Festival, Stop Trik Animation Festival, Berlin Female Film Festival, Paris International Animation Festival, and so on. Her works has been shown in exhibited internationally in New York, Geensboro, Richmond, Guangzhou, and other cities. She was also one of the speaker in TEDxVCU 2023. She holds an BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently pursuing MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University .
Website: www.leileixia.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/lilyxia99
Wren Tiffany
Growing up in the early 2000s, Tiffany found hope in art as a means of coping from a closeted childhood, spent in the shadows of an American puritanical culture of conformity. Coming-of-age in a world with one unprecedented tragedy after the next, their work dually reflects the cynicism that can be felt widespread across their generation and in the queer community. Through glitch art, drag performances, and experimental non-fiction, their work explores the performative nature of gender, Gen Z nihilism, fatphobia, and queerness. Their current research is informed by their non-binary trans masculine experience through a documentary lens. By incorporating genre-bending techniques in their videos, they seek to dismantle the gender binary, highlighting the limitations of this heteronormative dichotomy. Art is political, experimental art is inherently queer, and these two facts inform both their teaching and life.
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ladyboner
Substack: https://ladyboner.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/
Quinn Standley
Quinn Standley (B. Phoenix, Arizona) is an experimental artist who explores integrated imaging technologies to ontologically research the nature of being, time, and space. His practice investigates the materiality of the universe, the mechanics of consciousness, and ecological interconnectedness. His philosophical, critical, and introspective multimedia projects are simultaneously other-worldly and yet deeply human.
Website: https://www.quinnstandley.com/
Yvonne LeBien
Yvonne LeBien is a trans poet and performer. They have published books with GenderFail. Their music/sound can be found at yvonnelebien.bandcamp.com
Weitong Sun
Stories, once created, will never end. Same as the tales of the digital world. Weitong “ShanMu” Sun (Born in Jinan, China) is an experimental artist who explores the methodology of programming languages and its influence on our sense of history and time. Her practice provokes a conversation between the beholder and the work itself.
Instagram: Shanmu_sun