What is ARTEX?

ARTEX is a home for your work.

You make art the way you already make it. Paint, code, camera, clay, whatever you use. Then you put it on ARTEX, and it stays there, with your name on it, for as long as you want.

That is the whole idea. A place where your work lives, where people who run art programs can find you, and where you get paid when your work is shown or sold.

We built it at CODAME after fifteen years of running festivals, print clubs, and hackathons with artists. We kept seeing the same problem, and we finally decided to fix it.

What problem?

Every opportunity starts from zero.

You get into a show. The show ends. You start over. You answer an open call. You get picked, or you don’t. The next call has no idea who you are. Ten years of work, and every door you knock on is a stranger’s door.

ARTEX remembers you. Your page stays up. The curator who found you for one program can find you again for the next one. The collector who bought one piece can follow what you make next. Nothing resets.

Why should I join?

Three plain reasons.

You get found. Curators, galleries, festivals, nonprofits, collectors, and venues all come to ARTEX looking for artists, and when they look, they see everyone here. Every new organization that joins is a new group of people who can find your work. You do nothing extra. You are already there.

You get paid. When a venue shows your work on their walls, 70 percent of what they pay comes to you. When someone buys directly from you, you keep 90 percent. These numbers are written down and they do not change on you.

You keep everything. Your copyright is yours, all of it, always. Nobody trains AI on your work unless you say so in writing. That is in the agreement you sign, not a promise on a web page.

Who else is here, and why does it matter to me?

Because the other people on ARTEX are how your work gets seen and paid for.

Organizations and curators run the programs. A festival, a gallery, an arts nonprofit, an independent curator putting a show together. Each one that joins brings its own audience and its own collectors, and each one looks at the artists on ARTEX when they choose who to show.

Venues show the work. An office lobby, a hotel, a public space. Each one is a wall where real art plays for real people, and the artist gets paid while it plays.

Collectors find and support you. Not just the artists one gallery decided to represent. Anyone on ARTEX.

More organizations, more places your work can be found. More venues, more places it can be shown and earn. More collectors, more people who can support you. You put your work up once. Everything else grows around it.

What does it cost me?

Nothing to join. Nothing to publish. Nothing to be found.

There is one optional thing called Studio, for $12 a month. It lets you take a finished piece and give it a living quality, so when it plays on a venue wall it shifts with the light in the room, or the sound, or the time of day. It does not replace any tool you already use. Your work gets found and shown without it.

Who is this for?

You, if you make things. Painter, photographer, coder, sculptor, animator, musician, writer, dancer, someone who does not have a word for what they do yet. Artist is a mindset before it is a job title.

This is one round of answers.

Let’s do the rest together. What is still unclear? What would make this worth your time? What is the one thing that would make you trust it enough to try?

Leave it in the comments. We will answer every single one.

And if you already know enough: join here. It takes a minute and costs nothing.

Like the best bars in Milan or San Francisco, ARTEX has two menus.

The signature list, and the R&D menu.

The signature list is what is proven. What people come back for, what can be trusted at any hour. The R&D menu is where intuition moves faster than structure: a seasonal experiment, a shift in technique, a question that came up during a late-night session. It exists briefly, recorded like a lab note in motion. The favorites get refined into the signature list. Until then, the menu is an open laboratory. Fluid, iterative, intentionally unfinished.

ARTEX works the same way. And today, both menus are open to you.

Where this comes from

CODAME has been running this experiment for fifteen years: bringing people from art, technology, and everywhere in between into the same room, in a spirit of curiosity, generosity, and creative risk. San Francisco. Milan. Online and off. A community built on the conviction that art and technology can belong together. For us, diversity is where the magic comes from. The more different the people, disciplines, and backgrounds in the room, the more interesting what gets made.

ARTEX is what happens when that conviction becomes infrastructure.

It started at a hackathon, chasing one specific idea: how living art could outlast the hardware it runs on. That idea still holds. But we listened to you, and we pivoted to something harder and more important: making what CODAME has done for fifteen years replicable. A platform for any organization that believes art belongs at the edges of technology. Not as decoration, not as content, but as a first-class participant in what gets built.

That is ARTEX. A platform for living art, where any organization can run its programs, any artist can publish their practice, and any collector can join in and support the work.

The signature list

What is built, and not an experiment:

Artists own their work and keep 100% of their copyright. They keep the long-term value of what they create. No AI training on their work without explicit written consent. Every program publishes its split on its public page before submissions open. No per-artist overrides. No surprises at settlement.

CODAME’s own programs on ARTEX pay the same published rates as any other organization. That is not a courtesy. It is enforced in the fee schedule itself.

The R&D menu

What is open in the lab right now:

Shader parameter binding. Your work responds to sound, motion, and live data in real time. In testing.

Venue lighting as output. WLED, Philips Hue, LIFX, Nanoleaf. Work that fills a room, not just a screen. Open source, community contributed.

Print Club. Living work becomes a physical limited edition, and the prints keep evolving. Collectors vote. Artists get paid. Running now on codame.org with ARTEX underneath.

Multi-organization surfacing. Every organization that joins can surface artists from across the platform. Each new org is a new community, new collectors, new context for your practice. This is the multiplier that makes the ecosystem worth building together.

Provenance on every package. Creative lineage made visible and creditable. Structure, not policy.

The experiments that resonate graduate into the signature list.

Who this is for

Artists. Publish your practice, on your terms. No gallery, no approval process, no technical prerequisite. Your IP stays yours, and every organization that joins the platform is a new place your work can be surfaced. Artist is a mindset before it is a job title: fine artists, generative artists, designers who code, developers with a creative practice. You belong here.

Organizations. Run your programs on shared infrastructure. Festivals, nonprofits, galleries, art programs: bring your community and run your events, exhibitions, and artist programs without rebuilding the scaffolding every time. CODAME runs its programs here. You can too.

Collectors and patrons. Follow a practice, not just a moment. Discover work as it evolves, support artists directly, and become part of how a practice grows.

Venues and event makers. Connect your space to a living ecosystem. Host exhibitions and installations with artists and organizations already working here, and reach an audience that is already present and engaged.

The whole picture, on one page: codame.com/artex#about

The door is open

This is not a waitlist.

Create your profile today. It is free, and it is your permanent home on the platform. Browse the artists and living work already here, follow practices as they evolve, collect, vote, and join programs. Organizations can apply to run their programs on ARTEX now.

ARTEX Studio, the toolset for building interactive living work, opens by invitation, and we are expanding it. Register, tell us about your practice, and we will be in touch.

This is just the beginning. Every artist, organization, and collector who joins now expands what is possible, and shapes what ARTEX becomes. Just as you shaped CODAME.

We built this because of you. Come into the lab.

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With full transparency and with love for what you make,

The CODAME team

Built by artists. For artists. Since 2010. Now with room for everyone.

ARTEX, The Art Experience · 100% artist copyright retained · No AI training without consent

It understands what it is spoken to in a primitive way and responds to us in a primitive, emotional and simple way both sonically and visually. As opposed to the cutting edge AIs and interfaces like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, OK Google, Illy does not understand natural language, defined commands or even language at all.

It does not respond using fine-tuned intonations to deliver the information gathered from the cloud, it is not integrated with any services. It does not show maps, or pictures about the topic. Instead, as an antithesis, it only tries to understand the sonic properties of the spoken language like the attack, loudness, roughness and pitch. And responds sonically, in a non-language, musical, psychoacoustical way: without the symbolic sounds that we call language but with tonal sounds, timbre, frequency, consonance and rhythm.

Visually, it shapes the visuals focusing on size, speed and color determined by its understanding and creating an abstract visual. Ignoring the symbolic data, like an infant, Primitive Intelligence tries to understand the emotion in the human voice - free from symbols of the language - and responds you with your emotions like sonic mirror to the soul. The interactive experience brings questions about human sound and human-machine interface that we sometimes ignore in this age of information.

lly is a semi-intelligent system powered by Web Audio API and WebGL. It analyzes sonic properties of speech — attack, loudness, roughness, and pitch — rather than language content. It responds through tonal sounds, timbre, frequency, consonance, and rhythm alongside abstract visuals. An emotional mirror, understanding emotion in the human voice free from language symbols.

This version prioritizes faithful cadence and public access inside ARTEX.

Try it yourself codame.com/art/illy-primitive-intelligence

How to Interact

Tap and hold anywhere on the canvas to speak or sing into the microphone. Release to hear Illy’s harmonic reply. Headphones recommended. If the captured signal is too weak or unvoiced, the system falls back to a did-not-understand sweep rather than fabricating a response.

Visual Mapping

The iris and outer shell are driven by live or synthesized audio analysis. Loudness expands the core, bass increases ring weight, pitch shifts the internal hue, and interval relationships tint the outer shell. During reply, the visuals follow the synthesized answer — not the microphone.

Original Work

Illy: A Primitive Intelligence was created by illy-pi and exhibited at CODAME ARTOBOTS (2018), SIGGRAPH Digital Art Community (2017), and Bay Area Maker Faire (2017). This ARTEX edition preserves the original listen-and-respond grammar while adapting the interaction for gesture-based control across desktop and mobile.

Next Steps

Future iterations can deepen the harmonic classifier, widen the reply voice palette, and publish additional debug traces for tuning noisy environments.

Artist:

This digital artwork explores the tension between individuality and collective identity in the contemporary data-driven world. The composition presents a grid of human silhouettes constructed through granular particle-like textures, suggesting the idea of identities formed by digital information.

While most of the figures appear identical, a single element at the center breaks the visual pattern with a contrasting purple background. This interruption transforms the grid into a symbolic system where repetition represents conformity and the central figure embodies awareness, difference, and emergence.

Through a minimal visual language and modular structure, the work reflects on how individuality can surface within increasingly uniform digital environments.

Artist

Emanuele Ratti

Future Direction

Through ARTEX, this work can evolve from a fixed composition into a living system.

The central disruption — the purple field — is no longer static. It can shift across the grid, respond to presence, react to sound, or emerge based on unseen data, continuously redefining where individuality appears within the collective.

At times, it may follow the viewer. At others, it may disappear into the system, only to re-emerge elsewhere — making difference something that is not owned, but experienced.

Presented during Milano Design Week and beyond, the piece can live across spaces — from public installations to homes and organizations — carrying its evolving behavior with it.

Every medium begins before it has a final form. It begins when a few people, often coming from different worlds, start sensing the same absence and are drawn toward the same possibility. Painters once imagined oil on canvas not simply as a technique, but as a way of holding light, matter, and time. Filmmakers imagined moving images before cinema had fully become itself. Digital artists, in their own way, imagined that code could become more than instruction — that it could become texture, rhythm, atmosphere, and expression.

ARTEX is the current working title for an emerging artistic exploration into how digital artworks might live, evolve, and remain present over time.

It is also an open invitation to artists, hackers, designers, and technologists who feel called to explore this language with us.

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This exploration was initiated by , with early creative collaboration from Anna Sapelnikova, Giovanni Muzio (Kesson), Lorenzo Gecchelin, and Alessandro Merletti De Palo.

A Living Medium

For centuries, art has often arrived to us as something still. A painting, a sculpture, a photograph: each one holding a gesture, a vision, a moment suspended. There is something beautiful in that stillness. It allows us to return, to look again, and to discover that what does not move can still change within us.

And yet digital art introduced another condition. It opened extraordinary possibilities, but it also introduced a new fragility. Software ages. Devices disappear. Formats become unreadable. A work may continue to exist in theory, yet lose the very environment that allows it to live. That is why, beneath the excitement surrounding digital art, there is often a quieter question, especially from artists, collectors, and caretakers of culture: will this work still be here in twenty years? Will it still breathe in 2036? Will it remain accessible, visible, meaningful?

This exploration begins there, with that question, but it does not answer it defensively. It answers by imagining another possibility: that a digital artwork might not be treated only as a fragile file temporarily hosted by technology, but as part of a living medium designed to persist, adapt, and endure.

In this vision, the work is not trapped in a single static state. It can unfold slowly. It can respond to the light in a room, to the sound of a space, to the subtle presence of a person passing nearby. It does not need to become theatrical in order to feel alive. What matters is not spectacle, but presence — a quiet life within the artwork, faithful to the artist’s language, yet open to time.

Time and Digital Art

Time has always belonged to art, though not always in the same way. Sometimes time enters through decay, sometimes through memory, sometimes through ritual, repetition, or narrative. But in digital art, time often arrives with a particular tension: the work may be conceptually alive, while technically vulnerable. It depends on systems that are themselves impermanent.

Some artists have chosen to make that impermanence part of the work itself. In Enough by Daniele Sigalot, a digital counter slowly approaches zero, moving toward an ending inscribed within the piece. Its disappearance is not a flaw, nor a technical problem to be solved. It is part of the artwork’s poetic logic. Time, in this case, is not simply an external threat. It is the work’s language.

That remains a valid and powerful artistic choice. Some artworks are meant to disappear. Others may be meant to endure. Both possibilities should remain in the hands of the artist.

This exploration does not seek to erase impermanence. Rather, it opens another path. When an artist wants a digital work to remain present across decades — to continue evolving, responding, and living in the world over time — longevity too can become part of the artistic vision.

A First Artistic Medium

To begin exploring this idea, we started experimenting with modular visual surfaces — luminous forms able to sense aspects of the environment and respond to them.

Individually, they can host a single artwork. Together, they can form larger compositions, installations, or spatial environments. In this sense, the artwork is no longer confined to a frame in the traditional way. It can inhabit a wall, a corner, a room, even an architectural gesture.

What matters here is not only the technology, but the artistic possibility it opens. An artist can imagine a work unfolding across multiple surfaces, shifting through visual states, responding to environmental changes, moving through subtle narrative transitions, or acknowledging the presence of those who encounter it.

The intention is not to replace existing forms of art. It is to open another language: one in which digital art can become more spatial, more temporal, and more quietly alive.

What Kind of Art Could This Become?

This leads to a simple but important question: what kind of art could emerge from such a medium?

It would not be defined by a single style. It would not belong to one aesthetic. What defines it is not only how it looks at first glance, but how it behaves over time. Instead of remaining fixed, a work might shift gently with daylight in a room, breathe with ambient sound, move through emotional or narrative states, or subtly respond when someone approaches.

These changes need not be dramatic. In fact, the most interesting ones may be the least obvious — the kind of transformations that are felt before they are consciously noticed.

The ambition is not to make digital art louder. It is to make it more present. A painting made of light. A sculpture made of time. A work that shares space with us not as a screen demanding attention, but as a living composition unfolding slowly, almost like weather, almost like memory.

The Artist’s Studio

To make this possible, we created an early prototype system through which artists can begin transforming static works into living artworks. The intention is not to burden the artist with technical complexity, but to create a process that feels open, intuitive, and generative.

An artist can upload different states of a work, shape how it evolves over time, experiment with environmental signals, and preview how the piece behaves in space.

This matters because a new medium only becomes meaningful when artists can actually inhabit it. The goal is not to ask every creator to become an engineer. It is to offer artists a way of composing with duration, presence, and response, much as earlier artists learned to compose with pigment, lens, montage, or code.

If photography expanded the possibilities of painting rather than ending them, perhaps a living medium can expand the possibilities of digital art in a similar way.

This medium is still taking shape, and part of its meaning will come from the people who choose to explore it.

Artists, hackers, and collaborators are invited to help shape what this language can become.

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Interaction

Interaction, in this context, should not be misunderstood as novelty or gimmick. This exploration is not interested in interactivity for its own sake. What matters is the possibility that an artwork might become sensitive to the conditions around it and, through that sensitivity, become more alive.

A work might react when someone approaches, perhaps with the smallest sign of acknowledgement — a blink, a shift, a pause. It might move through dawn, day, dusk, and night, not as a loop, but as a rhythm. It might change with the seasons, with light, with weather, with the sound of a room. It might even pass through narrative states, like a seed becoming plant, then flower, or emotional tones moving from calm to curiosity to excitement.

What matters is that these transitions feel organic rather than mechanical. The work should not feel like it is repeating a trick. It should feel as though it is inhabiting time.

White Mirror

So much of the cultural imagination around technology is shaped by anxiety. We are used to futures in which technology distances us from ourselves, from one another, and from the subtle things that make life meaningful. CODAME has often tried to hold space for another direction — a White Mirror direction — one in which technology can deepen our relationship with creativity, beauty, and human expression instead of flattening it.

This exploration belongs to that vision. It imagines a future in which artists retain ownership of their work, where artworks do not simply disappear because the supporting systems fail, and where technology expands artistic language rather than replacing it.

The image is simple, but it stays with us: a painting that breathes, a sculpture that notices you, art that lives with us not as an interruption, but as a companion.

From Hackathon to the World

Like many meaningful things, this did not begin as a finished system. It began as a spark. During the Creative Hackathon, in Milan and online across different geographies, artists, technologists, designers, and curious minds came together not just to build projects, but to prototype sensibilities, test ways of thinking, and imagine what kinds of cultural forms might become possible in the years ahead.

What emerged from that atmosphere feels less like a collection of finished works and more like a constellation of beginnings — ideas, gestures, and artistic signals that deserve time to keep unfolding.

In that spirit, CODAME has chosen to use ARTEX, as a current working title, as a shared vessel for the continuation of selected hackathon projects, wherever that feels meaningful and wherever artists wish to participate.

It is an invitation to keep building together — to continue hacking, co-hacking, and evolving these works toward Milano Design Week, future CODAME moments, and new encounters around the world.

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Through this shared path, some of these works may continue evolving toward Milano Design Week, future CODAME moments, and cultural encounters in other cities around the world.

The hackathon was not the end of the work.

Perhaps that is also the deeper invitation inside this exploration:

to artists, hackers, technologists, and curious humans who want to help imagine what living digital art could become.

It was where another chapter began.

Through ARTEX, we continue to hack, co-hack, and imagine that future together.

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Looking Toward 2036

When we speak about 2036, we are not trying to predict the future with precision. We are trying to cultivate a horizon. The future does not arrive all at once; it emerges through what we create together, through the values we embed in our tools, through the kinds of experiences we choose to design, and through the forms of culture we decide are worth carrying forward.

Looking toward 2036, this exploration invites us to imagine a world in which artworks evolve quietly in homes and public spaces, where artists compose living works rather than static images, where artworks in different cities influence one another across distance, and where collectors become not only owners, but caretakers of living cultural systems.

These are not fixed outcomes, nor a closed roadmap. They are signals. Hints. Openings. They suggest where a new artistic medium might lead if nurtured with care, imagination, and time.

And perhaps, underneath all of this, the same simple question remains:

What if art did not simply hang on the wall, but lived with us?

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Cesca is joining with an existing team but looking for specific complementary skills to realize her vision. She is seeking:

• Visual Designers to shape the aesthetic depth of the project.

• Technical Alchemists to bridge the gap between concept and interaction.

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Cesca explores the tension between “upgrading” and “becoming.” She challenges the mainstream view of the future human as a mere checklist of efficiency, cognition, and control. Her vision pulls attention back to the unquantifiable—depth, responsibility, and the right to be imperfectly human. She asks: If we can redesign minds, bodies, and societies, what do we owe the parts of us that don’t scale, such as grief, wonder, intimacy, and slowness? Her latest work explores these themes through experiential design, providing a counter-narrative to the drive for technological optimization.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a becoming being. For Cesca, this means acknowledging that our evolution is not just a technological upgrade but a deeper commitment to the parts of our humanity that cannot and should not be quantified or automated.

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Silvie Claes and Srix Sriramkumar are joining as an existing team and looking for specialized collaborators to turn their concept into a compelling, buildable ritual. They are seeking:

• Creative Technologists (WebXR, Unity, wearables prototyping).

• Sound Designers/Composers skilled in adaptive and spatial audio.

• Accessibility Designers (blind/low-vision, inclusive interaction).

• Architects/Spatial Storytellers to map historical eras into musical rules.

• AI/Systems Thinkers for generative logic and geo-mapping.

• Performance/Scenography talent to stage a live composition.

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What if we could hear what we see? Imagine a tool that translates the world around you into a new sense. Sonic Lens looks toward the year 2036, where our physical bodies and digital tools work together as one. By turning your surroundings into sound, this project transforms every building and every step into a living piece of music.

Imagine a visitor with low vision standing in the Vatican with their eyes closed. They don’t just hear a description; they “hear” the architecture itself. The high vaults become rising chords, the repeating columns become a steady drumbeat, and the gold walls become a bright shimmer. Similarly, a runner moving through a forest hears their pace and the landscape turn into a calm, steady rhythm. If they push too hard, the music automatically softens to help them breathe and find their flow.

This technology also turns history into a living layer. Walking through a poppy field or an old battlefield allows the land to “play back” its memory through sound and narrative fragments, making the past feel present without a flashy spectacle. By matching the patterns of a space to your own movement, Sonic Lens offers a “right-dopamine” deep dive—shifting focus away from noisy notifications and back to the beauty of the moment. It opens unlimited possibilities to reconnect people with spaces, turning the entire world into a shared, inclusive symphony.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a polyphonic being, evolving to sense the world through overlapping layers of history, architecture, and rhythm, using digital tools to expand human perception into a collective auditory awareness.

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Jon Somerscales is joining individually and seeking a specialized squad of “The Alchemists” and “The Systems Imagineers” to realize a metabolic vision. He is looking for:

• Technical creatives, cyberneticists, and ML engineers.

• Biological scientists, biotechnologists, and ecologists.

• Acousticians and experiential designers.

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Jon’s project hack idea revolves around 'holobiont/metabolic' imaginaries—inspired by the coral holobiont and its implications for human societal structures. He views the current era as unstable, where technologies often act upon us within out-of-control systems. His vision seeks new ways of relating to each other and the planet that are not brokered by incumbent systems, instead leveraging science that is finally catching up with indigenous intuition regarding nature's interactions. He is particularly inspired by recent breakthroughs in quantum biology, such as the engineering of quantum-enabled proteins in bacteria, which shift from observing quantum effects in nature to deliberately designing them for real-world use.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a holobiont entity. For Somerscales, this represents a shift away from human-centric worldviews toward a shared metabolic existence where technology, biology, and indigenous intuition converge to foster environmental stewardship.

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Briam Rolon is looking for:

• Partners for artistic production and co-creation.

• Mentoring in connecting science and technology.

• Multimedia designers for fulldome environments.

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Briam is interested in co-creating immersive experiences that connect science, technology, art, and culture. His vision focuses on the fulldome format, which offers a unique perspective on perception and spatial immersion, allowing participants to feel the “vibration” of the technological and natural worlds.

The New Human is...

The New Human is an immersive explorer. For Rolon, this means the human experience is expanded through all-encompassing digital environments that reframe our relationship with space and culture.

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Deniz Kurt is looking for creative hackers to work on:

• Workflows involving TouchDesigner and machine learning.

• 3D and AI tools

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Deniz explores how the intersection of art and technology connects with humanity and nature. Her vision involves creating small-scale prototypes that evolve into big-scale immersive projects, focusing on computational creativity and algorithmic aesthetics. She seeks to create audiovisual experiences that function as speculative projects for future human-nature interactions.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a speculative technologist. For Kurt, this means using technology to build prototypes of a future where algorithmic beauty and natural systems are indistinguishable.

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Moe Angelo is looking for partners to help evolve:

• Interactive AI Agent projects.

• EEG and bio-sensor integration.

• Interactive projection mapping and lasers.

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Moe is obsessed with the intersection of art and tech, specifically how biological signals like EEG can drive interactive environments. His current vision involves an interactive AI agent project called “TaoBot,” which seeks to manifest technological intelligence through visual and spatial media.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a bio-digital conduit. For Angelo, this means using technology to bridge the gap between human neural activity and the physical world through algorithmic translation.

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Wen Yu is looking for collaborators who want to explore:

• Interdisciplinary, curiosity-driven curricula.

• How machines and humans expand aesthetics and empathy.

Storytelling merged with creative learning.

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Wen Yu is interested in how humans and machines co-create to expand the boundaries of empathy and aesthetics. Her vision focuses on nurturing imagination through interdisciplinary art curricula inspired by constructionist learning. Her recent research explores how AI can amplify creative agency, specifically looking at how intelligence—both natural and artificial—can shape new narrative experiences.

The New Human is...

The New Human is an imaginative co-creator. For Yu, this means utilizing AI not as a replacement for human thought, but as a partner in building curiosity-driven worlds that foster empathy.

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NeoMeta is looking for team members interested in:

• Interspecies Kinship and Communication.

• Bio-art and Computational systems.

• Eco Art and Environmental Advocacy.

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NeoMeta's work explores the interconnectedness of life and non-life, investigating the systems—natural, digital, and social—that shape shared futures. She treats living, discarded, and digital entities as co-agents, reimagining waste as material and decay as part of life's natural continuum. Her vision advocates for post-anthropocentric coexistence through the creation of collaborative ecosystems.

The New Human is...

The New Human is an interconnected node. For NeoMeta, this means existing within a shared system where the boundaries between biological and digital decay are blurred, fostering new forms of kinship across species.

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Erika Marthins is looking for collaborators who can bridge the gap between technical execution and experiential design. She is specifically seeking:

• Alchemists with skills in code, AI systems, hardware, or interactive media

• Storyworld Architects or performers to shape how prototypes are perceived and felt

• Research-driven thinkers interested in mapping systems and questioning assumptions

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Erika Marthins views “The New Human” not as a destination but as a condition defined by the tension between augmentation and vulnerability. She is fascinated by how technologies designed to optimize the human form often end up exposing our deep dependencies, biases, and inherent limits. Her vision explores the redistribution of intelligence, agency, and care between biological bodies and machine systems. Rather than aiming for a perfected future, she seeks to prototype tangible moments—experienced through food, interfaces, or specific environments—that allow participants to sense what is being gained, lost, or quietly transformed.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a vulnerable system. For Marthins, this means acknowledging that as we augment our capabilities, we also redistribute our agency into systems we no longer fully control. Her work seeks to make these shifts tangible through the senses, ensuring the human remains a central, albeit transformed, part of the equation.

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Chiara is looking for specialized support in:

• Curatorship and Critical Judgment.

• Technical implementation for interactive installations.
  

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Chiara’s vision focuses on a “new way of participation and interactivity for humanity”. She is interested in how the explorer mindset can lead to new forms of engagement that prioritize human sensitivity and critical judgment. Her work explores the transition from net art to virtual sculpture, as seen in her interest in the work of Auriea Harvey.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a critical participant. For Chiara, this archetype represents the transition from passive consumption of technology to active, critical interaction that prioritizes human experience and aesthetic judgment.

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Thomas is looking for a partner to provide:

• Visual Design support to enhance his technical prototypes.

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Thomas Miley’s work is a search for moments of beauty within the technological landscape. His vision is to use his skills as an alchemist to turn technical ideas into tangible prototypes that allow for these aesthetic experiences to emerge. He is connected to the Grey Area community in San Francisco, which has long been a hub for the intersection of art and tech.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a beauty-seeker. For Miley, this means using technology to uncover and manifest moments of aesthetic grace, ensuring that the future is not just efficient but also beautiful.

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Arden is looking for folks with strong conceptual and ethical alignment:

• Partners who share a similar understanding of the creative process.

• Collaborators interested in speculative methods and biotech.

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Arden Schager addresses the deep tensions of our current inflection point—where powerful tools are made by ethically dubious companies and connectivity often leads to loneliness. His vision is to work through these feelings using creative speculative processes. He is particularly interested in how biotech could be used to literally make new humans this century. By using speculative methods, he hopes to think outside or beyond the current moment where things feel “stuck and strange”. He is inspired by the “Emissaries” work of Ian Cheng, which uses AI to create autonomous, evolving worlds.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a speculative explorer. For Schager, this means using the creative process to navigate the ethical tensions of the modern age, moving toward a future that is intentionally designed rather than one we simply stumble into.

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Maria Rita is joining with an existing team and is looking to refine their collaboration:

• Open to discussing team roles as the project evolves.

• Looking for conceptual alignment on the tension between embodiment and tech.

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Maria Rita Nogueira focuses on the tension between embodiment and technology, viewing them not as an opposition but as a “co-presence”. Her vision for “The New Human” is one where we are redefined through our relationships with machines, but where movement, gesture, and sensation remain central. She asks how human presence, vulnerability, and intuition persist and even become more visible through interaction with intelligent systems. For her, technology is not a distancing force but a lens that invites reflection on our most human qualities.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a co-present being. For Nogueira, this archetype represents the persistence of human vulnerability and sensation within the digital framework, ensuring that we remain grounded in our own bodies even as we interact with intelligent systems.

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Gargi is looking for specialists to complement her design and storytelling background:

• Alchemists to help turn ideas into tangible prototypes.

• Systems Thinkers to map world-building consequences.

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Gargi Garg views “The New Human” as the bridge between raw human intuition and the power of AI. As the founder of Scenory, she works in the tension between “perfect” digital output and the “soul” of storytelling. Her vision is to use AI to expand the boundaries of imagination, allowing for the construction of immersive worlds that once seemed unreachable. The critical challenge she addresses is keeping unique aesthetic voices and “human scars” alive in an era of digital perfection.

The New Human is...

The New Human is an augmented creator. For Gargi, this means we are not replaced by AI but are instead expanded by it, using machine power to reach our imaginative limits while retaining the imperfect, soulful qualities that make us human.

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Anastasiia is looking for technical partners to bridge the implementation gap:

• Programming and Systems Development.

• Sensor integration and real-time processing.

• Collaborative “reef-thinking” across disciplines.

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Anastasiia Tsukanova’s vision is centered on "The Reef Model," which suggests that posthumanist ideas are not abstract theories but lived experiences. This occurs when sound, body, and technology merge to create an "expanded version of the self". Her work as a violinist informs her spatial and temporal thinking, which she applies to creating audiovisual systems that expand the listening experience. She seeks to move beyond isolated creation toward a collaborative energy where art, science, and technology are unified through "reef-thinking"—the idea that we thrive as part of a larger, interconnected ecosystem.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a reef-thinker. For Tsukanova, this means the new human is an interdisciplinary entity whose boundaries are expanded through collaboration and the merging of biological and digital soundscapes.

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We will imagine and build The New Human together at the Creative Hackathon…

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Kicking things off the Hackathon on March 6th @ Google in Milan, Italy + Online