Arts

Talented creative individuals working in the field of visual, auditory and performance arts

Kay Cheung

Kay Cheung

New Media Artist, Digital Publisher, Visual Literacy and Visual Narrative Researcher, Visual Music Producer. Engaged in many years of international art education industry experience, focusing on the realization and exploration of human internal self-value, advocating harmony between man and nature, carrying the above concepts, combining visual art, interdisciplinary and current background state, spreading multiple abstract minimalist aesthetics. She constantly explores the positive effects and effects of visual literacy and visual rhetoric on human society and uses unique digital media to narrate higher-order visual spirituality in order to enhance the spiritual strength and significance of the existence of art culture in the world. Her presentation proposal “Architectures Of Vision: Creative Reflections” will participate in the Fifteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, at the University of Monterrey, 3–5 March 2021, Monterrey, Mexico.  

New Media Artist, Digital Publisher, Visual Literacy and Visual Narrative Researcher, Visual Music Producer. Engaged in many years of international art education industry experience, focusing on the realization and exploration of human internal self-... Show more

George Passakos

George Passakos

Background is the entertainment industry. I started producing live shows at the age of 19(EMF's/live acts/VIP lounges with well known DJ's/live acts which opened up doors(bigger opportunities) into the music business, where I managed the Grammy winning music production duo(Jake & the Phatman/The Mint Recording Studio) , working along side major artists(Raphael Saadiq, Snoop Dogg, Joss Stone, Angie Stone, TLC, etc.) to name just a few.
This eventually led me to Hollywood, opening up doors and a chance to produce my first film(Executive Producer-Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn) & TapOut/Boost Mobile nationally televised commercials ).
Oddly enough, this led me into the VFX, AR/VR and NFT world(I'm currently in)…and here we are today having this conversation.

Background is the entertainment industry. I started producing live shows at the age of 19(EMF's/live acts/VIP lounges with well known DJ's/live acts which opened up doors(bigger opportunities) into the music business, where I managed the Grammy winn... Show more

Alistair Davis

Alistair Davis

Alistair Davis, founder & Chief Speaking Officer at Jabba Training. Jabba has trained over 5000 professionals on the "Power of the Voice"

Jabba’s focus is on transforming professionals into powerful presenters, persuaders and negotiators focusing on the virtual communication trinity of production, platform, performance and voice.

He is currently also a professional voice actor and former actor. Over the past 10 years, he has voiced over 2000 commercial, radio & television voice overs. Alistair draws on his voice acting and acting skills when teaching his own proprietary methodology for voice improvement.

Previously, he worked for Oracle in sales and was in the Oracle economy for 10 years. He has also run his own business in energy efficiency and successfully taught his own sales people to use the power of their voice to find and close business.

Alistair Davis, founder & Chief Speaking Officer at Jabba Training. Jabba has trained over 5000 professionals on the "Power of the Voice" Jabba’s focus is on transforming professionals into powerful presenters, persuaders and negotiators focusing ... Show more

MaryanneChisholm.eth ᴺᶠᵀ Known Origin Ambassador

MaryanneChisholm.eth ᴺᶠᵀ Known Origin Ambassador

Maryanne Chisholm is an acclaimed Surreal Painter and Illustrator. Her work has shown in Galleries nationally & internationally including Stratosphere in 2022 NYC, NFT.LA, NFT.NYC, the Herberger Theatre & Art Gallery in Scottsdale & Tempe, AZ, Milan Fashion Week with the #DressME MADS Milano Exhibition, Exhibited during Miami Art Week/ Art Basel Week 2022, Featured Speaker at Breathe Convention in May of 2023.

Featured and profiled by PBS, Bloomberg Magazine, Business Insider Magazine, MOCA, Outsider Magazine, Artist Magazine. Host of weekly top-rated NFT Twitter Space that supports 1/1 artists worldwide.

In 2021 Maryanne was awarded the Collectors Vision Award, by Contemporary Curator Magazine, for completing a body of socially significant work.

Maryanne Chisholm is an acclaimed Surreal Painter and Illustrator. Her work has shown in Galleries nationally & internationally including Stratosphere in 2022 NYC, NFT.LA, NFT.NYC, the Herberger Theatre & Art Gallery in Scottsdale & Tempe, AZ, Milan ... Show more

Zoey Luo

Zoey Luo

Artist with 10+ years of experience in fine art and digital art.

A lifelong student of everything spiritual and magical, her Oracle collections were born from her deep love for nature, esoterica and mythology.
She's excited to build a wonderful community around the lore & art of her collections. In addition to exploring the possibitilies of Web3.0.

On the more business side Zoey launched 2 sucessful businesses (one was sold to Canva). And her NFT collections are top selling on $ftm marketplaces with 115k volume across 4 collections.

In addition to making art she's also experienced in front-end coding, marketing, community building and growth strategy.

She's an avid collector of NFTs cross-chain & supporting other NFT projects and also a L1 technology enthusiast.

Learn more about her with this Fantom Foundation Spotlight https://fantom.foundation/blog/fantom-community-spotlight-zoey/

Artist with 10+ years of experience in fine art and digital art. A lifelong student of everything spiritual and magical, her Oracle collections were born from her deep love for nature, esoterica and mythology. She's excited to build a wonderful c... Show more

Fifi Rong

Fifi Rong

I'm a British-Chinese Avant-Pop Vocalist/Songwriter/Producer and Music NFT Community builder. My mission is to create long term music success using the power of NFT and web3, and help as many other independent artists to make a sustainable living from their greatest passion along the way.

I'm a British-Chinese Avant-Pop Vocalist/Songwriter/Producer and Music NFT Community builder. My mission is to create long term music success using the power of NFT and web3, and help as many other independent artists to make a sustainable living fro... Show more

Mikael Thiery

Mikael Thiery

Creative producer and entrepreneur, Mikaël Thiery is the co-founder of Comedy App Ltd (trading as Twisted Mirror), the freemium comedy service developed in multiple platforms including Smart TVs. After his experience at Warner Bros France, Mikael has explored the comedy space by producing and directing sketches as well as comedy specials. He's also directed music videos for the London based record label Undertake Records. After his first successful fundraising campaign for his comedy venture, Mikael is delighted to continue his entrepreneurial journey by moving forward with his next fundraising round to scale up Comedy App Ltd. Mikael is also embracing the NFT phenomenon by creating the first Twisted Mirror Comedy NFTs collection.

Creative producer and entrepreneur, Mikaël Thiery is the co-founder of Comedy App Ltd (trading as Twisted Mirror), the freemium comedy service developed in multiple platforms including Smart TVs. After his experience at Warner Bros France, Mikael has... Show more

Jake Murphy

Jake Murphy

Jake is a creative director and entrepreneur, predominantly active across music, tech, media, fashion and social enterprises. He has a keen interest in finding paths to tackle gender and racial inequities, particularly in youth culture. He actively embraces the potential of decentralised tech to redistribute equity worldwide. He co-founded the crypto project ($AIR) and via its parent company, it has distributed c.$1m to music creators and community projects in the 4 months since launch. His advisory roles include the Sphere technology platform and US United. He is a founding member of The Freedom Project in partnership with the House of Mandela and is a member of the PTTOW! Social Justice Task Force. Jake also manages UK artist Jelani Blackman.

Jake is a creative director and entrepreneur, predominantly active across music, tech, media, fashion and social enterprises. He has a keen interest in finding paths to tackle gender and racial inequities, particularly in youth culture. He actively e... Show more

Dario De Siena

Dario De Siena

Dario De Siena is a painter based in Zürich, Switzerland.

His work portrays the beauty in everyday objects. His bold use of colour and the dynamic elements captured in his ethereal paintings reveal his thought process, the intense beauty he sees in the world around him.

Dario started out by painting graffiti as a hobby, using collage, stencils, acrylic paint and spray paint as his medium. He then made an important change in his artwork by moving on to abstract portraits, inspired by the beauty of a woman and the history behind her.

Dario has spent several years developing his style. A peek through his collection reveals a gradual evolution from collages and stencil to portrait painting with acrylics and spray paint which enables him better capture the boldness of his subject.

Dario De Siena is a painter based in Zürich, Switzerland. His work portrays the beauty in everyday objects. His bold use of colour and the dynamic elements captured in his ethereal paintings reveal his thought process, the intense beauty he sees i... Show more

Ben Couris

Ben Couris

Ben Couris is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Modern Edge Collective. After getting his degree at Florida Atlantic University, Ben began working in the web3 space consulting businesses and artists on how to utilize this new technology.

With a background in music, Ben saw the constant struggles and exploitation artists constantly have to deal with. His goal is to help combat these issues and provide a fair playing field for all creatives. Through his passion for the arts and his entrepreneurial mindset, Ben created Modern Edge Collective to be a driving force that will change the art industry as a whole.

Ben Couris is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Modern Edge Collective. After getting his degree at Florida Atlantic University, Ben began working in the web3 space consulting businesses and artists on how to utilize this new technology. ... Show more

Athena Cauley-Yu

Athena Cauley-Yu

With a creative fine arts background, Athena opened Meticulous Ink in 2010 using her life savings, a bank loan and three credit cards. An entrepreneur at heart, the business has grown to a small yet steady brand, with retail space, website and on site print-works where letterpress stationery and calligraphy supplies are made. Athena fell down the worm hole of NFTs in May 2021 after following Gary Vaynerchuk and his podcast for many years, and adores what the future holds for the space, with particular interest in the joining of the physical and the digital.

With a creative fine arts background, Athena opened Meticulous Ink in 2010 using her life savings, a bank loan and three credit cards. An entrepreneur at heart, the business has grown to a small yet steady brand, with retail space, website and on sit... Show more

Rishikesh Tirumalai

Rishikesh Tirumalai

I am primarily an improvisor and partner in creation to those I encounter moving through the world.

I am primarily an improvisor and partner in creation to those I encounter moving through the world. Show more

Andrey Drobitko

Andrey Drobitko

Multidisciplinary artist and founder of Sketchar – a mobile art-app that helps creators succeed in web3 with 8M+ on board. Among Europe’s Top 100 Hottest Companies of 2021.
– Member of The International Federation Of Artists (UNESCO).
– Member of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS).

Multidisciplinary artist and founder of Sketchar – a mobile art-app that helps creators succeed in web3 with 8M+ on board. Among Europe’s Top 100 Hottest Companies of 2021. – Member of The International Federation Of Artists (UNESCO). – Member of T... Show more

Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah

Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah

Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah alias Ava Silvery is an internationally exhibited and published German-Ghanaian visual artist and documentary photographer based in Zürich, Switzerland. Her work is frequently awarded for exploring new territories through image-making and research. Her current NFT photography and science project Behold The Ocean documents climate change. One of the roadmap's most significant milestones is an NFT-funded ocean expedition to Cape Horn, where environmental data will be collated to be published on the blockchain.

Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah alias Ava Silvery is an internationally exhibited and published German-Ghanaian visual artist and documentary photographer based in Zürich, Switzerland. Her work is frequently awarded for exploring new territories through i... Show more

Rocketgirl NFT

Rocketgirl NFT

Rocketgirl is a mixed-media artist and Director of NFT Agents Ltd, a consultancy advising large scale NFT projects and 1/1 NFT artists to brand themselves better.

She has sold art across multiple platforms and is known for her provocative, pop-art style.

Rocketgirl is a mixed-media artist and Director of NFT Agents Ltd, a consultancy advising large scale NFT projects and 1/1 NFT artists to brand themselves better. She has sold art across multiple platforms and is known for her provocative, pop-ar... Show more

Kayri Pozo

Kayri Pozo

Great day Beauty Bosses, I’m Kayri (Kay-ree) I am a nail educator at a beauty school, I’m a celebrity nail artist and a beauty brand founder. I’m the host of the nail club which has live interactive weekly chats with a community of over 1.5 K. I bring you Edutainment which is education mixed with entertainment
to bring you a course that is jampacked with information that you can use and will retain. Join me as we take the nail portion of beauty shows to the next level.

Great day Beauty Bosses, I’m Kayri (Kay-ree) I am a nail educator at a beauty school, I’m a celebrity nail artist and a beauty brand founder. I’m the host of the nail club which has live interactive weekly chats with a community of over 1.5 K. I brin... Show more

Den Simonenko

Den Simonenko

A product designer, innovation enthusiast and art lover based in Prague, Czech Republic. For more than 15 years I was helping clients in industries such as architecture, security, publishing, healthcare, art and various startups on their ways of digital transformation. Currently, my focus is on combining my previous background and passion in art to build better experiences and services for digital art market and the ways of organising communities on the blockchain.

A product designer, innovation enthusiast and art lover based in Prague, Czech Republic. For more than 15 years I was helping clients in industries such as architecture, security, publishing, healthcare, art and various startups on their ways of digi... Show more

Isabela Freire

Isabela Freire

I’m a cheerful Luso-Brazilian digital designer driven by people, art and technology. I’m an all-sorts-of design enthusiast.

I’m a cheerful Luso-Brazilian digital designer driven by people, art and technology. I’m an all-sorts-of design enthusiast. Show more

Sarah Nkembi

Sarah Nkembi

I’ve gone from experiencing a year long furlough, to redundancy to entrepreneurship. I know a thing or two on resiliency, staying focused on, and what I like to call explosive creativity and courageous confidence.

I’ve gone from experiencing a year long furlough, to redundancy to entrepreneurship. I know a thing or two on resiliency, staying focused on, and what I like to call explosive creativity and courageous confidence. Show more

Kate Becker

Kate Becker

Hello, this is Kate Becker from New York, USA. Passionate about photography and design. I am very much into city life photography. As an expert graphic designer, I worked on various projects with various people. You can find me here at Clipping Path Studio, come and explore our great services and expert solution.

Hello, this is Kate Becker from New York, USA. Passionate about photography and design. I am very much into city life photography. As an expert graphic designer, I worked on various projects with various people. You can find me here at Clipping Path ... Show more

Shara Rosenbalm

Shara Rosenbalm

Combine design, nerd, and humor, and you have Shara. She’s a new Digital Product Designer at Dialexa, a technology services firm that designs and engineers custom products and platforms.

Shara graduated with a BFA in Visual Communications from the University of Texas at Arlington. She also has an MFA in Media Design from Full Sail University and is a newly certified UX Designer courtesy of Southern Methodist University’s certificate program.

As a black woman, Shara’s personal and professional background includes relatable experience with imposter syndrome. Her success-driven perfectionist approach to her career allows her to share candid anecdotes with workshop attendees. Shara will bring with her a level of empathy attendees will resonate with.

Combine design, nerd, and humor, and you have Shara. She’s a new Digital Product Designer at Dialexa, a technology services firm that designs and engineers custom products and platforms. Shara graduated with a BFA in Visual Communications from th... Show more

Marquise Dennis

Marquise Dennis

Marquise is a hair stylist with 20 plus years of experience in braiding, extension hairstyling, and natural hair care. After a sudden house fire in 2016 Marquise was forced to relocate to another state leaving her devoted clientele of years behind. As a mother she needed an immediate income with a flexible schedule. She found a local blowout salon that was hiring, but with no previous blowout experience she was hesitant to apply. After a mediocre training session from the salon Marquise knew her level of excellence in blowouts would have to come from within. With lots of practice, dedication, and a bucket of tears she mastered this timeless technique. Because Marquise stayed focused and never gave up, she earned a salon position in management where she began teaching others how to perform fabulous blowouts, that even furthered her love for hairstyling. Marquise has had the pleasure of working on celebrity photo shoots, being lead stylist at industry based pop up shops, as well as worked on major red carpet events such as: The Country Music Awards, Telemundo Awards, Latin Music Awards, J. LO x Guess photo shoot, and numerous wedding and formal events on the infamous Las Vegas Strip.

Marquise is a hair stylist with 20 plus years of experience in braiding, extension hairstyling, and natural hair care. After a sudden house fire in 2016 Marquise was forced to relocate to another state leaving her devoted clientele of years behind. A... Show more

Onoriode Aluya

Onoriode Aluya

Onoriode is a passionate and purposeful designer with years of experience working with design agencies and businesses, both in teams and as a freelancer. He solves problems working hand-in-hand with businesses by creating timeless brand identity designs and digital products that are user-centered.

Onoriode is a passionate and purposeful designer with years of experience working with design agencies and businesses, both in teams and as a freelancer. He solves problems working hand-in-hand with businesses by creating timeless brand identity desi... Show more

Geeky Faye

Geeky Faye

Lifelong artist and maker, Faye is the one woman band behind Geeky Faye Art, an online channel looking to inspire creativity and exploration combining technology, traditional mediums, and geeky interests while also showing that you can be a woman in a pretty dress creating amazing things. While still relatively new in the digital sphere, her work and videos have been promoted by Tested.Com, The 3D Printing Nerd, Naomi Wu and Instructables.

Lifelong artist and maker, Faye is the one woman band behind Geeky Faye Art, an online channel looking to inspire creativity and exploration combining technology, traditional mediums, and geeky interests while also showing that you can be a woman in ... Show more

Mynah Marie

Mynah Marie

Mynah Marie is a writer, programmer, and musician from Montreal, Canada, currently based in Israel. As a musician and live coder, she performs under the name Earth To Abigail. Through her creative work, Mynah rejoices in bridging the gaps between the "rational" and "irrational" to find that fine line where, as humans, we find wholeness.

Mynah Marie is a writer, programmer, and musician from Montreal, Canada, currently based in Israel. As a musician and live coder, she performs under the name Earth To Abigail. Through her creative work, Mynah rejoices in bridging the gaps between th... Show more

Mihaela Gheorghe-Roman

Mihaela Gheorghe-Roman

Mihaela is a Software Architect at Systematic, Romania. Ph.D in artificial neural network algorithms, Assistant Professor at the University of Cybernetics and Informatics in Bucharest, she is a dedicated lead developer and architect who enjoys sharing her knowledge.

In her professional career, spanning over 13+ years, she worked for telecom and defence domains with a focus on Java, Spring Boot, C, C#, Scala and Angular.

Apart from her passion for programming, she loves parrots, she is enthusiastic about traveling the world and doing a lot of sports, from running at marathons, martial arts and to different aerobic trainings.

Mihaela is a Software Architect at Systematic, Romania. Ph.D in artificial neural network algorithms, Assistant Professor at the University of Cybernetics and Informatics in Bucharest, she is a dedicated lead developer and architect who enjoys sharin... Show more

JJ Asghar

JJ Asghar

JJ works as a Developer Advocate representing IBM worldwide. He mainly focuses on open-source AI and OpenShift, trying to help companies and users successfully onboard to the Cloud-Native ecosystem. He’s also known in the DevOps tooling ecosystem and generalized Linux communities. If he isn’t building automation to streamline his work, he’s building the groundwork to do just that.

He lives and grew up in Austin, Texas. A father and husband, trying to learn to balance his natural nerdiness with family life. He enjoys a good strong dark ale, hoppy IPA, some team-building Artemis, and epic Gloomhaven campaigning.

He has recently dove headfirst into Fedora since IBM bought Redhat, but still secretly wants FreeBSD everywhere. He’s always trying to become a better web technology developer, though he normally just uses bash to get the job done.

JJ works as a Developer Advocate representing IBM worldwide. He mainly focuses on open-source AI and OpenShift, trying to help companies and users successfully onboard to the Cloud-Native ecosystem. He’s also known in the DevOps tooling ecosystem an... Show more

Yannis Martin

Yannis Martin

Yannis Martin is an engineer and sociologist by training. With 15 years of experience in project and transition management, he is the founder of NISTIN and co-founder of OMK. Consultant and trainer certified COBIT® 2019, ITIL® 4, PECB Certified Trainer and PRINCE2®, his skills cover governance, IT security, and project management, making him a valuable asset for optimizing processes and managing the digital transformation of companies.

Speaker since 2019, he regularly speaks at international events: from Agile Tour to Devopsdays, or at the IIBA and SMP congresses. He enriches this career with an academic approach by becoming a temporary lecturer at the University of Avignon in 2021.

Since 2024, he is doctoral student at the Technological University of Compiègne (UTC) and attached to the COSTECH laboratory. His thesis attempts to identify how AI fits into the history of complexity and contributes to providing principles for approaching it in different concrete cases.

Yannis Martin is an engineer and sociologist by training. With 15 years of experience in project and transition management, he is the founder of NISTIN and co-founder of OMK. Consultant and trainer certified COBIT® 2019, ITIL® 4, PECB Certified Train... Show more

Lian Li

Lian Li

Lian always wanted to save the world.
After dropping out of law school, she decided to work with computers instead. While in Web Dev, she started attending and speaking at tech events, and soon fell in love with the tech community.
In her roles as Developer, Consultant and Developer Advocate, Lian combined technical knowledge with an understanding of the human condition.

Currently, Lian lives in Amsterdam, where she works as an independent Cloud Consultant and serves as Co-Chair for the CNCF TAG app-delivery. She can also be seen on stage at various English-speaking musical theatre productions, doing standup comedy and improv theatre.

Lian always wanted to save the world. After dropping out of law school, she decided to work with computers instead. While in Web Dev, she started attending and speaking at tech events, and soon fell in love with the tech community. In her roles as ... Show more

Codrina Merigo

Codrina Merigo

Microsoft MVP Alumni, SAFe PO/PM certified, passionate about mobile apps and AI, joined the 'Xamarin' dev world more than sevenyears ago, now onboarding into MAUI.
Passionate about UX and UI, with an eye on cross-platform solutions, mostly for Xamarin.Forms. In the last years, has focused on UI testing, best practices, continuous integration, and optimization for Xamarin apps. Also curious about AI and ML.
Recently more interested in product management and its capabilities.

Microsoft MVP Alumni, SAFe PO/PM certified, passionate about mobile apps and AI, joined the 'Xamarin' dev world more than sevenyears ago, now onboarding into MAUI. Passionate about UX and UI, with an eye on cross-platform solutions, mostly for Xamar... Show more

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