From London to Tokyo to New York, internationally acclaimed visual artist Shantell Martin is expanding conventional definitions of drawing and animation to transform visual experience in the design, fashion and music industries. Her dazzling light projections have been featured in iconic spots such as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the megaclubs of Tokyo and London, and on the enormous screens at Shibuya and Harajuku crossings in Japan. Martin has quickly infiltrated popular culture stateside -- she’s been cast as herself on quintessential New York show Gossip Girl, interviewed on CNN, appeared on an NBC morning show, and deemed a muse of super-hip design blog, PSFK. In October 2011, she was interviewed in French Glamour as New York’s “coolest it girl.”

Her recent work includes a collaboration with celebrity photographer Nigel Barker from America’s Next Top model, where she created digital sets for a 10 page Tatler Asia editorial with supermodel ...

Sylvia Feichtinger was already gathering international professional experience in Munich and New York during her studies at the Graz University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum, from which she earned a master’s degree in industrial design. At first she remained in the Big Apple, where she was active in the areas of industrial, screen and product design and trend analysis in studios like Able Design, Razorfish, Pollen Design and Studio Dror. After her return to Austria and a time at KPMG Infodesign in Graz she was successful as a freelance Designer for several years before becoming design manager for aviation and transportation with Isovolta in Vienna. She has worked for Nokia Design since the end of 2006 and was stationed for several years in Helsinki. Since the beginning of 2011 she has been living and working as principal designer in London. Beside that she was jury member for the Impulse XS and XL Design and the Austrian Design Award 2011 with Dieter Rahms.

Florian cofounded Hi-Res in 1999 together with  his partner Alexandra Jugovic. Their current client list includes Dolce&Gabbana, Agent Provocateur, Jägermeister, Diesel, Nokia, Channel 4 UK, Rizzolli New York as well as artists such as Beck, Massive Attack and Goldfrapp.

Golan Levin is one of the most well known names in the field of generative design. He is Director of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art at Carnegie Mellon University.

Jared is the Principal Technologist for frog design for over a decade using Flash for User Experience and Interaction Design. He was such a crowd favorite last year that we had to have him back again. Jared mixes physics in with his digital works to create fun and engaging objects.

Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art. Recently, his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, The New Yorker, and the CBC.

Thorp’s award-winning software-based work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia and all over the web.

Jer has over a decade of teaching experience, in Langara College’s Electronic Media Design Program, at the Vancouver Film school, and as an artist-in-residence at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Most recently, he has presented at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Art, at Eyebeam in New York City, and at IBM’s Center for Social Software in Cambridge.

He is currently Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times, and is an adjunct Professor in New York ...