Ruiqi Zhang (b. Liaoyang, China) is a multimedia artist who works with moving images, video installations, and game engines to explore the complexity of emerging technology and computation as an alternative narrative container. His work highlights the ability of people today to read complex information and its impact on our daily lives while forming new modes of politics, aesthetics, and consciousness.

Ruiqi’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Times Art Museum Chengdu, Imaginary Z Gallery, Hangzhou, Stove Works, Chattanooga, CICA Museum Gimpo-si, The Anderson, Richmond, Towson University, Baltimore, Cardinal Space, Baltimore, and Thatalright Art Space, Taipei, and others.

ShanMu Sun was born in Jinan City, Shandong province, China. She is an experimental artist who explores live simulation, digital storytelling, artificial intelligence, Human-computer interaction, game development, Brain-computer interface, and Installation art. Her work explores the methodology of programming languages, deep learning algorithms, cross-cultural experience, and potential ways of communication between humans and machines. She earned an MFA in Kinetic Imaging from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Arts and holds a BS in computer science with minors in Mathematics and Arts from the University of Delaware. ShanMu has experience as a lab assistant at the Human-Computer Interactive Laboratory of the University of Delaware.