Lela Pierce is a black multiracial visual artist and dancer born and raised in rural Mnisota Makoce on Dakota and Anishinaabe land. Her main artistic practices include performance, painting, and installation work. Pierce has danced extensively with Ananya Dance Theatre, as a founding member of the company from 2004–2016, as well as with Pramila Vasudevan of Aniccha Arts and Rosy Simas Danse 2015–present. She holds a BA in studio art with honors from Macalester College and is currently pursuing an MFA from the University of Minnesota.

Credits: Performance and ideation for Refresh.

Snow Yunxue Fu (https://snowyunxuefu.com/home.html) is a New York based international New Media Artist, Curator, and Assistant Arts Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Using topographical computer-rendered images and installations, her practice merges historical, post-photographic, philosophical, and painterly explorations into the universal aesthetic and definitive nature of the techno sublime.

With a background in painting, Fu remains the youngest artist collected by the National Art Museum of China. She sees her transition into new media as a natural extension of her conceptual research in which she draws parallels between the physical, metaphysical, digital, and multi-dimensional spaces. Fu’s artwork has been shown internationally in solo shows, group exhibitions, screenings, and festivals including the New York Gallery of Chinese Art, New York; Ars Electronica, Austria; Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy; Pioneer Works, New York; NADA Art Fair, New York; Sedition, Hong Kong; Arebyte Gallery, London, UK; Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Shenzhen, China; Current Museum of Art, New York, Thoma Art House, Santa Fe; Currents Santa Fe New Media Art Festival, New Mexico; The Wrong Biennale, the Internet, and etc. Her work has also been collected by the Currents Museum of Art in New York.

Her work reviews and interviews have been covered in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Arebyte on Screen, Sedition, the St. Louis Magazine Art Review, Guangzhou Today’s Focus in China, and etc. She participated in residencies such as the Hatch Residency through the Chicago Artist Coalition, Biocultura Residency in Santa Fe NM, Lexington and Concord Artist Residency in Illinois, and Estudio Nómada’s Mas els Igols Residency in Barcelona, Spain. She has given lectures and presented on her work and research in conferences, symposiums, and institutions around the world including International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia in Brisbane Australia, the Chinese-American Art Faculty Symposium, Veritas Forum, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Chicago, and China Academy of Art.

Credits: Virtual Reality artwork (Karst)

Eric Anderson (www.howzero.com) is an artist and writer living in Rochester, MN. His interactive installations and artworks have been commissioned by or featured in collaboration with the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity at the University of Paris, France; the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History; the National Institutes of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; the Open Source Pharma Foundation, Bangalore, India; SciArt Initiative/SUPERCOLLIDER, Inglewood, CA; the Anderson Center, Redwing, MN; and the Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his writing has appeared in Granta, American Letters & Commentary, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere.

Credits:  Sensor and projection-based visuals, music and sound design for Refresh.

Zoe Cinel (www.cinelzoe.myportfolio.com) is an immigrant artist and curator from Italy currently working between the Twin Cities and Florence. Influenced by growing up in the Mediterranean area, with its rich history of cultural hybridization and exchange, she sees art as a platform to engage in multicultural/multimedia collaborations and conversations. Zoe works with a variety of media including performance, public art, video, installation and new media often highlighting the moments of tension and the creative opportunities provided by crossing worlds: the physical with the digital, languages and cultures, personal and collective histories. Zoe is a full time Curator at the Rochester Art Center; independently she curated exhibitions and events at the Walker Art Center, at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and at Gordon Parks Gallery at Metropolitan State University St Paul. Her artistic work has been exhibited/screened/performed in venues such as the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Gibney Dance Choreographic Center, Festival della Creatività (Italy).

Credits: Curation, ideation, video editing for Refresh.

Junyi Min is a Chinese artist born in Shanghai and raised in Singapore. Gifted with absolutely ordinary athleticism, their grit was honed through sports, the military, and meritocracy that has helped them engage with endurance performance art.

Credits: Assistant to the curation and ideation for Refresh.

Special thanks to:

Erica Rasmussen, Amy Sands, Prabhavanth Reddy, Giulia Angeli, Pramila Vasudevan, Valerie Oliveiro, Emily Gastineau, Piotr Szyhalski