YUGE ZHOU

Artist

Yuge Zhou has moved between continents and from the East Coast to the Midwest. She has become deeply intrigued with coexistence and our social encounters across urban spaces. Her recent projects explore the geographical, ideological, and emotional distance between her homeland and America — her adopted country — and broader challenges of transcending separation. 

Yuge has exhibited nationally and internationally in prominent art and public venues. Her work has been featured in New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Frieze, and recently acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation. Yuge is the recipient of the 2024 Joyce Foundation Artadia Award and a 2021 Artist Fellowship Award in Media Arts from Illinois Arts Council.

The work “Trampoline,” shown in our exhibition, was most recently presented in a takeover of Time Square’s LED system, immersing the iconic area in her mesmerizing digital film.

BEATIE WOLFE

Musician

Wolfe is an Anglo-American conceptual artist and composer described as a "musical weirdo and visionary" known for seeing music differently and creating new formats for music and art in the digital era. These projects include a space broadcast via the Holmdel Horn Antenna, the world's first 360° AR live-stream, and a dynamic visualization of 800,000 years of climate data charting rising CO2 levels. Wolfe's work has been featured internationally at 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Nobel Prize Summit, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The New York Times Climate Summit, the London Design Biennale, Somerset House, the Rauschenberg Gallery, South by Southwest, and the Barbican Centre. Wired selected Wolfe as one of 22 changing the world; she is a winner of Webby Awards’ inaugural Anthem Awards; and UN Women chose Wolfe as one of nine innovators for a global campaign for International Women's Day. Wolfe is also the co-founder of a "profound" research project looking at the Power of Music for people living with dementia. The artist has collaborated with experimental artists Brian Eno, Mark Mothersbaugh, Michael Stipe, Allee Willis and producer Linda Perry, among others.

VICTORIA VESNA, PhD

Artist

Vesna is an internationally renowned atist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci Center at the School of the Arts (North campus) and California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) (South campus). With her installations, she investigates how communication technologies affect collective behavior and perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. Her work involves long-term collaborations with composers, nano-scientists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary biologists, and she brings this experience to students.

JOANN KUCHERA-MORIN

Composer

> JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is the Director and Chief Scientist of the AlloSphere Research Facility and Professor of Media Arts and Technology and Music (Composition), in the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). < > She is also the Founding Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology at UCSB.<

Kuchera-Morin's research focuses on composition, creative computational systems, content, and facilities design.< > Her 35 years of experience in digital media research led to the creation of a multimillion-dollar sponsored research program for the University of California: the Digital Media Innovation Program.< > She was Chief Scientist of the program from 1998 to 2003. The culmination of her creativity and research is the AlloSphere, a 30-foot-diameter, three-story-high metal cylinder inside an echo-free cube, designed for immersive/interactive scientific/artistic investigation of multidimensional data sets.<

RICHELLE ELLIS GRIBBLE

Nomadic Artist, Analog Astronaut

> Ellis is an expeditionary artist, curator, and analog astronaut.< > Her art and research aims to use space to help life on Earth, to see the world – and ourselves – in new ways. Richelle creates artworks made for international orbit, etched on satellites, suspended by Stratollite balloons and aboard rockets. < > Her work spans exhibitions from the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, with recent artworks on the surface of the moon. <

> Richelle is the Founding Director of Supercollider, which brings together leading artists, scientists, and the public to celebrate the future and reframe the challenges facing our world. < > She is also the Co-Founder and Director of Space Programs for Beyond Earth, an all-female international transdisciplinary artist collective exploring the frontiers of art, space, and biology through space-bound artworks. < > Most recently, she is Co-Founder of Inploration, a nonprofit art and space initiative to deepen community appreciation for our planet by fostering new perspectives.<

NANCY BAKER CAHILL

Artist, Extended Filmmaker, Activist

> Baker Cahill is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body. < > A transdisciplinary artist and expanded filmmaker, her work examines complex systems, with an emphasis on the relationship between consciousness, intelligence, and embodiment.< > Systems thinking plays an important role in her poetics; she is especially concerned with power and its biopolitical impacts, particularly ecological and social harms.<

> Baker Cahill is an artist scholar alumnus of the Berggruen Institute and a TEDx speaker.< > In 2021, she was awarded the Williams College Bicentennial Medal of Honor and a C.O.L.A. Master Artist Fellowship. < > She is a 2022 LACMA Art + Tech Grant recipient, winner of the 2024 Infinity Festival's Monolith Award for New Media Fine Art, and winner of the 2025 Full Dome Festival's Janus Award for Best Feature Film, and she is an Affiliate of the Harvard metaLAB. <

> Her work is held in the collections of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and nany others.