FeralVerse - Art exhibition on Feral File

Victoria Chang Victoria Chang’s forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World will be published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Corsair Books in the U.K. Her most recent book of poetry, The Trees Witness Everything was published by Copper Canyon Press and Corsair Books in the U.K. in 2022, and was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and The Guardian. Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions), was published in 2021 and was named a favorite nonfiction book of 2021 by Electric Literature and Kirkus. OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), her most recent poetry book, was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Time Must-Read Book, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also longlisted for a National Book Award and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. She has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chowdhury Prize in Literature. She lives in Los Angeles and is a Faculty member within Antioch’s low-residency MFA Program. Alexandra Crouwers Alexandra Crouwers (NL, 1974) is an artistic researcher and lecturer in the digital realm, working on the cusp of escapism and activism. Crouwers studied at Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, and is currently a PhD in arts candidate at LUCA School of Arts/Leuven University in Belgium, focusing on finding new and unusual – sometimes unsettling and occasionally sardonically funny – means to deal with eco-anxiety and ecological grief. In the research trajectory, a former family forest – a victim of the European spruce bark beetle plague – functions as a lens to look at global issues in the context of (post-)pandemic sentiments towards the ecological and climatological system crisis. Crouwers’ artistic practice is explorative and versatile, generating a range of output such as immersive video-installations, .gifs, emoji proposals, digital 3d sculptures, audio, in situ animations, woven tapestries, and public art works. Next to her visual practice, Crouwers publicizes her writings on the research, and on digital art and NFTs in relation to the wider field of contemporary art. Crouwers is currently based in Antwerp, Belgium.

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is an African American writer, poet, artist, and educator who works at the intersection of computation, AI, race, and gender. They are the author of Travesty Generator (Noemi Press), a book of computational poetry that received the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Anna Rabinowitz prize for interdisciplinary work and longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. They are the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Their other poetry books include How Narrow My Escapes (DIAGRAM/New Michigan), Personal Science (Tupelo Press), a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press), and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press). Their fifth book, Negative Money, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in 2023. Dina Chang Dina Chang is an American artist and curator whose work merges traditional photography with machine learning, video, misused software, and science. She seeks an emotional response from viewers as opposed to an intellectual one. Previous exhibitions of her work include MoMA PS1 as part of the Expo: 1 New York module ProBio; The Andy Warhol Museum; and Refraction Festival New York and Tokyo. She has been a visiting critic at Rutgers, Parsons the New School, and The International Center of Photography. She is also co-founder of Setta, an experimental creative studio based in New York City.

P. Scott Cunningham P. Scott Cunningham is the author of Ya Te Veo (University of Arkansas, 2018). His poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in The Nation, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, POETRY, A Public Space, Harvard Review, Monocle, and The Guardian, among others. He lives in Miami, FL, where he serves as the executive director of O, Miami. Connie Bakshi Connie Bakshi is an artist based in Los Angeles. Working predominantly with artificial intelligence, she probes postcolonial narratives that emerge on the boundaries between the synthetic and organic, material and immaterial, the human and nonhuman. Her works often re-code language, lore, and ritual to invoke the unspoken memories and desires of a collective consciousness. She has spoken and exhibited at FEMGEN at Art Basel Miami, VellumLA, MoCDA, NFCastle, The NFT Gallery in London, and SaloneSatellite in Milan. An alumna of NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for art, technology, and design, she is currently a resident artist at the VerticalCrypto Art Residency.

John James John James is the author of The Milk Hours (Milkweed, 2019), selected by Henri Cole for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His poems appear in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Best American Poetry, PEN Poetry Series, and elsewhere, and his work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, the Academy of American Poets, and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University. He holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia and is completing a PhD in English at the University of California, Berkeley. Solimán López Solimán López is a new media and biotech artist based in Paris. Founder of the Harddiskmuseum, the biotoken OLEA, and the DNA digital entities Introns, among other projects, Solimán’s works have been shown in more than 20 countries including festivals, museums, galleries and art centers.

Seth Bockley Seth Bockley is a writer of plays, poems, stories and screenplays. His stage works have been seen in Mexico City, Singapore, rural Ireland, Canada and all over the U.S. Current projects include King Gilgamesh & the Man of the Wild, a maqam-jazz inflected retelling of the ancient epic featuring Iraqi-Canadian actor-musician Ahmed Moneka. He is at work on a collection of short stories about magic in the American Midwest, and a novel about outsider art. He teaches at the University of Chicago, and serves as Director of Creative Engagement for the international eco-tech nonprofit Sovereign Nature Initiative, where he leads projects encouraging understanding and entanglement between humans and non-humans through art and technology. Helena Sarin Helena Sarin is a visual artist and software engineer who has always worked with cutting edge technologies. First at Bell Labs, designing commercial communication systems, and for the last few years as an independent consultant, developing computer vision software using deep learning. Save for the occasional foray into generative art with Processing and computational photography, all her art was analog... until she discovered GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks). With GANs, there is the adventure of new models and new datasets. There is a certain unpredictability that inspires, unblocks, and creates something special — something that goes far beyond Instagram/ Photoshop filters or ordinary style transfer. Recently she founded Neural Bricolage Studio to demystify, promote, and display AI assisted artwork.

Denise Duhamel Denise Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A proponent of collaboration, she and Maureen Seaton have co-authored five collections, the most recent of which is CAPRICE (Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New) (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). Her nonfiction publications include The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose (with Julie Marie Wade, Noctuary Press, 2019). A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami. Diane Drubay Diane Drubay is a visual artist who uses photographs and videos to create optimistic visions of possible futures, inspired by social science fiction literature, color psychology, and scientific discoveries. Her fascination with natural light and colors began in 2012 while waiting for the golden hour in Claude Monet's garden at Giverny. Her work includes projects such as “Odyssey,” a 23-minute video compiling impressions of rising and setting suns, and exploration of natural glitches and their impact on our vision of landscapes and the future. Her work has been exhibited in various galleries and festivals worldwide.

Ana María Caballero Ana María Caballero is a Colombian-American poet and artist. Her multiple award-winning work explores how biology delimits societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil off romanticized motherhood and questioning notions that package sacrifice as a virtue. She’s the recipient of the Beverly International Prize, Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, and a Sevens Foundation Grant. Her Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net-nominated work has been sold at live auction, published in top literary outlets and exhibited internationally. She’s the author of the chapbooks Reverse Commute and mid-life. In 2022 she published her first digital book TRYST. She published a full-length poetry collection Entre Domingo y Domingo and A Petit Mal, a nonfiction manuscript, in 2023 and will be publishing Mammal in 2024. Widely recognized as a web3 poetry pioneer for her own innovative work, she’s also the co-founder of digital poetry gallery theVERSEverse. Nancy Baker Cahill Nancy Baker Cahill is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body. She creates research-based immersive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects rooted in the history of drawing. Her monumental augmented reality (AR) artworks extend and subvert the lineage of land art, often highlighting the climate crisis, civics, and a desire for more equitable futures. She is the founder and artistic director of 4th Wall, a free AR public art platform exploring site interventions, resistance, and inclusive creative expression. She has exhibited internationally at museums and galleries, and her solo exhibition Slipstream: Table of Contents was recently acquired by LACMA. In 2023, she will have her first solo mid-career retrospective exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art which will travel in 2024. In addition, The Whitney Museum has commissioned and will acquire an Artport video and AR installation, launching in the fall of 2023.

Kalen Iwamoto and Julien Silvano have worked together on text-based art since 2021, and launched Wen New, an experimental art and language atelier, to create and experiment at the meeting-point of art, language, web3, digital and physical art. Kalen Iwamoto is a conceptual writer and artist. Her concept-driven work is based on a transdisciplinary and transmedia practice at the intersection of art, writing, and technology. She takes a playful and experimental approach in exploring new, blockchain-native writing practices and reading experiences. In addition to her literary and artistic practice, Iwamoto is the founder of the crypto writers discord and co-founder of theVERSEverse, a literary gallery where poems are works of art. Julien Silvano is a pluridisciplinary artist who explores the intersection of art, technology, and our relationship to systems of communication, data creation, and distribution.

Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist, and AI researcher widely recognized as a pioneer of generative literature and language art. Her award-winning work fuses text and technology to probe what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman era, and has garnered global attention from cultural powerhouses such as MoMA, Art Basel, Ars Electronica, Artforum, Christie’s, NPR, and Gucci. Stiles is author of the “instant techno-classic” Technelegy (2021), and co-founder of literary gallery theVERSEverse, and has served as Poetry Mentor to the humanoid android BINA48 since 2018.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of Hour of the Ox (Pittsburgh, 2016), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She co-translated Yi Won’s The World’s Lightest Motorcycle (Zephyr Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Translation Grand Prize from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. Cancio-Bello has received fellowships from the NEA, Kundiman, Knight Foundation, and American Literary Translators Association, and her work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, The New York Times, and more. She is co-director for the Adoptee Literary Festival and PEN America Miami/South Florida Chapter, and a program manager for Miami Book Fair. www.MarciCalabretta.com Gretta Louw Gretta Louw is a South African-born Australian artist, writer, and curator based in Munich, Germany. Her practice investigates the tensions between sensuality and efficiency; craft and automation; constant digital connectedness and corporeal dislocation: in short, the technosphere and the biosphere. Louw is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and her work has been exhibited widely in public institutions and galleries such as Tang Contemporary (HK), Honor Fraser Gallery (US), Kunstmuseum Solothurn (CH), Münchner Stadtmuseum (DE), UNSW Galleries (AU), Furtherfield (UK), and LABoral (ES). She has been the recipient of numerous awards and her artwork and curatorial projects have been covered by press outlets including Tatler Magazine, Vogue Hong Kong, Hyperallergic, Kunstforum, Motherboard, AQNB Magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and others.