Matik is a multidisciplinary artist from the Sunshine Coast of Australia, first emerging onto the downbeat electronic music scene as producer Sun in Aquarius in the early 2000’s he performed at festivals all around Australia such as Rainbow Serpent and Earth Frequency before eventually touring the North America in 2012, supporting artists like Tipper, Opiuo & Spoonbill along the way. He is the founder and operator of Enig’matik Records, an experimental label focusing on twisted sound design, releasing many highly underrated producers along the way, as well as spearheading sound design collaborations with respected companies such as Twisted Tools & Glitchmachines. Beginning to create experimental 3d art for his own label he later branched out and began working with producers all around to the globe on record label art, currently having worked on over 400 projects over the last 10 years. Matik’s art is inspired by surreal and dystopian landscapes, splattered with sci fi design aesthetics and a constant drive to explore new creation techniques. Constantly tinkering away out of curiosity and deep seeded propulsion to create, whatever the medium.
Mikko Lyytinen is a visual artist from Finland. He graduated from Lahti institute of Fine Arts in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, specializing in painting. Same year he won the first prize in the Art of Basware art contest and had his art is in the Lahti Art Museum collection. He has been working and exhibiting regularly and participating in joined and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad. Since beginning of studies painting was his main interest being attracted to the immediateness and versality of the medium. The feel of material is important to him and that is big part of what he explores in his digital work as well, which in recent years has climbed next to painting if not surpassed it. Digital art is something that he has been doing ever since his childhood. Growing up in the 80´s and 90´s among the videogames, personal computers, and internet it was everywhere and integral part of his life. While the technology is inspiring his approach while embracing, is not completely uncritical to it His first involvement in blockchain was in 2014 taking part in a design contest for a cryptocurrency. Ideas of decentralization was his main interest to the world of crypto. The journey towards NFTs begin in 2016 when he started posting on blockchain based blogsite called Steemit and later Hive following a fork after a dramatic chain of events, which there is no shortness in the world of crypto. In 2018 Lyytinen minted and sold his first rare digital art on platform called Ascribe. Unfortunately, world was not ready, and the platform was soon after discontinued. Meanwhile he kept posting art on his blog while of course continuing work on the traditional side. In the early 2020 he started publishing NFTs on Makerspace and soon after joining other platforms such as AsyncARt and KnownOrigin. He has been active in the NFT art community ever since then. He has participated in events and collaborative projects such as Kolectiv Cards. His work has been collected by many esteemed collectors and fellow artists in the space. He also has a modest but steadily growing collection of his own. His art is inspired by nature and spirituality as much as technology and progress. Influence can come from any direction; from ancient myths to pop culture and everyday experience. Chaos, change and growth have been some of the main underlying subjects throughout his work, which ranges from large abstract, expressive oil paintings to surreal symbolistic digital drawings.
Photographer Mayo studied art, with an emphasis in photography, at California Institute of the Arts. He applied his studies to commercial assignments, being awarded the Lurzer's Archive 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide, Communication Arts Photography Annual, Graphis Photography Annual, and the Prix de la Photographie, Paris PX3.
Ruth Allen is an artist drawing and painting and living in a little green house with a little white hound in a small town in the southern US.
Her work exists on paper, canvas, ceramics, textiles and the blockchain. She has written, illustrated and self published one children's book, illustrated two Korean book covers, created hand drawn and digital art for an album cover and a digital collage for a book of poetry. She has been minting stills, gifs and small animations of her work since February 2019 and exploring AI since fall of that year.
Currently investigating the intersection of analog and digital via AI art, collage, gif and a little glitch.