Team:
Art Clay (CHE) is an artist working with sound. He is a specialist in the performance of self created works with the use of intermedia and has appeared at international festivals, on radio and television television in Europe, Asia and North America. His recent output focuses on large media based performative works and spectacles using mobile device. He has received prizes for performance, theatre, new media art, music composition and curation. As an educator, he has taught media and interactive arts at various art schools and universities in Asia, Europe and North America including the University of the Arts in Zurich.
Yasuyuki Saegusa (JAP) was born in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. He received his BA in1982 from Wako University in Kanagawa. In 1986, he established the design studio Drawing Sense - LUNACY, which has continue to produce graphics for a number of renowned Butoh artists. As an educator, he has taught at Sojo University in both the arts and the design departments. AS an artists,he has exhibited in a wider range of spaces including galleries and museums in both group and solo shows including the Kumamoto Art Museum, the Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale. die Kunsthalle Faust, and the Unzen Disaster Museum. He was also directed from 2010 to 2015 in the Genesis Art Festival in which takes place annually in Takamori Town, Kumamoto, Japan.
Artists:
Warren Armstrong (AUS) is a new media artist and the organizer of (Un) seen Sculptures. Prior to immersing himself in augmented reality, he worked with composer Amanda Cole on a series of installations that turned Twitter updates into generative musical compositions. He sincerely hopes that people who come to (Un) seen Sculptures are moved, excited and/or delighted by the amazing work of the artists involved, and maybe will walk away inspired to create their own augmented reality art.
Art Clay (CHE) is an artist working with sound. He is a specialist in the performance of self created works with the use of intermedia and has appeared at international festivals, on radio and television television in Europe, Asia and North America. His recent output focuses on large media based performative works and spectacles using mobile device. He has received prizes for performance, theatre, new media art, music composition and curation. As an educator, he has taught media and interactive arts at various art schools and universities in Asia, Europe and North America including the University of the Arts in Zurich.
Based in New York and Beijng, Lily & Honglei (CHN) work as an artist collective. Utilizing traditional painting and animation, as well as new media such as virtual reality and augmented reality, Lily & Honglei create ‘visual fables’ intertwining current social issues with cultural heritages.Their works have been exhibited international and national venues, including Museum of Art and Design in New York, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, The Painting Center of New York, Eyebeam Art Technology Center New York, Zero1 Biennial in San Jose CA, New York Artist Residency Studios Foundation Gallery, Shanghai University Gallery in China, FILE-Electronic Language International Festival in Brazil, Queens Museum of Art in New York.
Jake Hempson (AUS) is a Zimbabwean born multi-disciplinary artist. His visual arts practice emerged from research done during a Masters, which focused on digital sculptural works based on natural forms found in bones. The technical side of his practice stems from years spent in computer game development and vfx, while his explorations of bone forms a memento vita, harking back to his post colonial childhood in Africa. The works are an exploration of memento vita (memento of life), which the artists interprets as the way he has chosen to re-experience childhood fascination with the remains of life, evangelizing the beauty of bones, without associations with the macabre.
Ingo Lie (DEU) is the founder of the Red and Blue Cosmology, an artistic project of focusing on the depiction of connections in life. As a painter, draftsman, and sculptor he has been represented in numerous exhibitions in Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, and China. Trained in offset reprography, he is self-taught artist. Has lived in the USA and in Norway and since 1981 in Hanover, Germany. Numerous works are represented in public and private collections.
Yasuyuki Saegusa (JAP) was born in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. He received his BA in1982 from Wako University in Kanagawa. In 1986, he established the design studio Drawing Sense - LUNACY, which has continue to produce graphics for a number of renowned Butoh artists. As an educator, he has taught at Sojo University in both the arts and the design departments. AS an artists,he has exhibited in a wider range of spaces including galleries and museums in both group and solo shows including the Kumamoto Art Museum, the Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale. die Kunsthalle Faust, and the Unzen Disaster Museum. He was also directed from 2010 to 2015 in the Genesis Art Festival in which takes place annually in Takamori Town, Kumamoto, Japan.
Harro Schmidt (DEU) studied art at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences under Stefan von Huehne and Professor Ulrich Baehr as well as geology and paleontology at the University of Hanover, both of which concluded with diplomas. In 1992, Schmidt was a master student under Professor Ulrich Baehr and then became a freelance artist, exhibiting in Germany and abroad with numerous group and individual exhibitions. Since 1998, Harro Schmidt has been the director and curator of numerous projects in at home in the Kunsthalle Faust (on the Faust area in Hanover), and abroad in diverse countries.
Kristin Lucas (USA) is an artist who synthesizes digital media, emerging tech, networks, performance and her fascination with flamingos into art apps, experiences and installations. Her current work is made in partnership with conservation scientists and explores the impacts of human activity, technological and climate change on human-wildlife relationships. Lucas is the recipient of numerous grants and residencies. Her art is represented by And/Or Gallery in Los Angeles, and Postmasters and EAI in New York. She holds degrees from The Cooper Union and Stanford University, and teaches in the art department of University of Texas at Austin.
Mark Skwarek (USA) is an artist working to bridge the gap between virtual and physical world with augmented reality. His art explores the translation our everyday digital experience into the physical world using mobile augmented reality. Skwarek’s practice is also largely based in art activism with emerging technologies. He has a long record of international augmented reality work, ranging from “erasing” the DMZ battlements between North and South Korea (a piece he did on site), to the virtual elimination of the barricades between Palestine and Israel, at the Gaza Strip. He has created political work and symbols in a variety of locations across the United States, including pieces at Wall St., U.S. Mexico Border and the Whitehouse to name a few. Skwarek has exhibited in various venues, including: the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; ISEA; Dumbo Arts Festival, UCLA Digital Grad Gallery; the CyberArts Festival; the Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing; and the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois.
Mark Skwarek (USA) is an artist working to bridge the gap between virtual and physical world with augmented reality. His art explores the translation our everyday digital experience into the physical world using mobile augmented reality. Skwarek’s practice is also largely based in art activism with emerging technologies. He has a long record of international augmented reality work, ranging from “erasing” the DMZ battlements between North and South Korea (a piece he did on site), to the virtual elimination of the barricades between Palestine and Israel, at the Gaza Strip. He has created political work and symbols in a variety of locations across the United States, including pieces at Wall St., U.S. Mexico Border and the Whitehouse to name a few. Skwarek has exhibited in various venues, including: the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; ISEA; Dumbo Arts Festival, UCLA Digital Grad Gallery; the CyberArts Festival; the Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing; and the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois.