Dangerous Rose

Dangerous Rose is a classically trained ballerina turned provocateur leading the art world in erotic performance. We are a community of trans and queer artists hell bent on breaking the status quo in the art world. Our sex positive platform creates a safe space for marginalized voices, and their passion for the provocative. We are lust. We are fantasy. We are grandeur.

Compilation of evocative live performances. Video by Raphaël Chatelain

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Andy Wauman & Pablo Salafurka

The motion piece Ghost Of Peace is the result of a collaboration between Artist Andy Wauman and New Media Artist Pablo Salafurka, as a part of the ongoing Virtual Art Project / Module / Playground Copy Planet. Copy Planet is an ongoing virtual art project that creates an authentic experience in a virtual space. Elevating the idea of virtual showrooms and vir- tual chatrooms by combining the features of both into Copy Planet. The project was conceived by an intimate group of people made up of and led by artist Andy Wauman, together with tech wizard and game developer Jonathan Pugh, and artist & curator James Ly, who is currently doing his PHD in heritage conservation & curating virtual and augmented reality. And recently the audiovi- sual motion / touch designer artist Pablo Salafurka joined our team.

website: andywauman.com

Jonas Franklin

Jonas Franklin (a.k.a. Tofu Junior) is a teenage barista who makes music on the side while drinking gallons of water in his bedroom and has a man bun. He makes instrumentals inspired by retro video game scores and hip-hop music, with combinations of 8 bit sounds and piano keyboard.

YouTube: Tofu Jr.

Myra Lilith Day

Myra Lilith Day is a trans artist working in Portland Oregon, using digital tools to examine the social and material implications of marginalization.

website: myralilithday.com

Alanna Risse

Alanna Risse is an instructor, artist, and web developer. She holds an MFA in visual studies from PNCA and a BFA in painting/drawing from CCA.

Risse's work explore vulnerability and the precariousness of life through installation, time-based art, and traditional drawing/painting.

website: alannarisse.com

João Rochela (1991) is a visual artist from São Paulo, Brazil. Making images is a way of investigating reality. They are drawn towards the banality of everyday things, the strangeness they often assume when carefully inspected. Our technological artifacts and digital lives. The archaeology of media. Through different mediums, they seek to record and reinvent narratives through the appropriation, combination and resignification of different collected pieces.

Max Etttel is a designer based in Portland OR whose interests lie in Digital work, primarily photography, 3D, and generative art.

Ettel's approach towards artistic work is primarily defined by the visual identity of a given medium, looking towards what defines the form of a medium's visual identity, and using that as a framework for the development of a specific piece.

Nicole Kouts | Multimedia Artist | São Paulo - SP, Brazil (1997)

Nicole Kouts holds a BA in Visual Arts from Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo (2018), and studying Set and Costume Design as a postgraduate course (2020).

Kouts' artworks have been exhibited in Brazil, around the world and online. She likes to think about images: creating, recovering, archiving, transforming, unveiling, resurrecting. Transits between analog and digital media. The construction of a cyber-nautical identity, in a Latin American megalopolis, granddaughter of greek immigrants and in search of deep dives.

Website: NicoleKouts.com

Noah Beckham is a non-binary, interdisciplinary, African American artist, who currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Dayton, Ohio, Noah transitioned to Pacific Northwest College of Art to pursue a fine arts degree. While exploring themes of social justice, self expression, and turning process into meaning, Beckham creates content by: painting, performance work, curating objects, digital collages and writing. This emerging artist practices “Recycling, Reusing, and Renewing” material and documentation, as a way to create a hybrid experience that is accessible both digitally and physically. This practice is evolving into a self -sufficient process that allows the artist to “Deconstruct , Reconstruct, and Reintroduce” an idea.

Instagram @imaplasticsmartphone

Rashad Pridgen is a multidisciplinary performance artist, creative director and innovation strategist. His works span dance, theater, music video, fashion, film, tech, mix media and creative project making. Recent works include; Today at Apple Video Lab: Record a Global Street Dance 2020 at the Apple Store Union Square San Francisco.

Pridgen’s multidisciplinary artistry seeks to elevate the black experience through conceptual ritual and creative ecosystems. His work is a metamorphosis of dance, theater, video, film, tech, mixed media and creative project making. He has forged independent studies in a variety of transdisciplinary practices, from underground experimental dance, to interactive tech.

Ashlin is a Portland-based sound and software artist involved in placemaking. They use the Web as a primary medium because they believe that the networks we are so familiar with model the relationships inherent in natural ecosystems and human communities. They construct evolving aural locales using natural and synthetic materials, blurring the separation between individuals and the world around them. These virtual, synthesized places demonstrate the interdependence and co-location of seemingly separate places and events. Their work can be experienced by anyone with a computer anywhere in the world, including people who wouldn't feel comfortable entering a white box gallery.

Website: ashlin.me

Vo Vo (they/them) is a interdisciplinary artist, anarchist and immigrant from Aotearoa. Navigating through information overload during a constantly shifting time *and* whilst short of resources becomes a challenge. This was developed in March 2020, rendering itself almost immediately obsolete. This is to bring up questions about technology and accessibility, for communities who are already facing barriers due to language, vicarious housing, documentation, bureaucracy and economic disparity.

Hilary Tsai is a digital content creator who explores the intersection between art and technology. She creates music-based motion graphics as a hobby.

Ice Scape exists somewhere between two well-loved mall staples: the big fountain and the ice rink. It’s a space literally frozen in time, where visitors can go to “chill.” Listen to nature sounds. Throw a penny in the fountain. Glide over ice puddles. Eat some mall snacks and leave your trash behind—everybody does it! You can even skate on the fountain ice. Use way points to get around faster, and move between fountain and ground levels. (Hold space and click the avatar icons.) If you look closely, you can still see evidence of by-gone mall life frozen in the layers of ice.

Roy Trammell /TheWiz has been a light artist for fifteen years. His large scale interactive installations have been shown at Burning Man and other local, regional, and international events. He seeks to blend technology and art and to push the boundaries of interactivity. See other examples of his work at Facebook: TheWiz Trammell.

PDF: Roy Trammell Work Samples

sandra araújo is a < non-binary && genderqueer > digital artist that spent endless hours fighting monsters & strolling through mazes. so, it only felt natural for < them > 2 evolve through an experimental & explorative process of gaming visual culture & popular gif files. also feeds on social media platforms 2 engage < her > animations into the depths of gender role play & political plots. < they > still plays old school video games.

Judit is a trans-disciplinary artist, born in the late communist era of Hungary, lives in San Francisco, and moving soon to Salt Spring Island (Canada). Navratil earned an MFA in Painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2008 and an MFA at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2019. She has been exhibiting in Hungary, Canada, France, Korea and the Bay Area. Her work has been recognized through by the Cadogan Art Award, a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), the Dennis Leon and Christin Nelson Scholarship and a Presidential Scholarship for Anderson Ranch.

She is currently an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

Website: juditnavratile

website: chaneec.com

Reeves lives between worlds of art, motherhood, and dreaming. Reeves also co-organizes exhibitions as a part of Dispersal Collective, a mail art project. Inspired by dreams and intuition, their work depicts potential post-dystopian peace and adaptation of beings within ethereal landscapes. Their methods include meditation drawing, spills, spray paint, brush, and carving the painting surface to develop a sensation of ethereal, impermanence. Saturated colors, neons, iridescents, metallics and mattes play with the tension between layers and space.

website: veronicareevesart.com

Alex Gottlieb is an artist and designer based in Los Angeles, CA.

Noah Beckham is a non-binary, interdisciplinary, African American artist, who currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Dayton, Ohio, Noah transitioned to Pacific Northwest College of Art to pursue a fine arts degree. While exploring themes of social justice, self expression, and turning process into meaning, Beckham creates content by: painting, performance work, curating objects, digital collages and writing. This emerging artist practices “Recycling, Reusing, and Renewing” material and documentation, as a way to create a hybrid experience that is accessible both digitally and physically. This practice is evolving into a self -sufficient process that allows the artist to “Deconstruct, Reconstruct, and Reintroduce” an idea.

I used the time spent locked up in my room during the fires thinking a lot about breathing. I wanted to learn more about Blender - specifically how to bake in morph targets and animations into some simple geometry, as I'm not an experienced 3D modeler. What emerged was this sort of primitive, breathing, heart - a bit mangled, a bit gasping.

Mike Heavers is a Creative Coder and Prototyper.

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Sonal Jadhav is a fine artist from India specializing in relief printmaking and creative visualization. She perceives the intraction between mind and visual expression and try to release direct thoughts. She feels abundantly that social norms and philosophy affect our brain, and that thoughts that are the main process of conceptual works . In her drawings, perspectives of point of view, self-control, concepts around distraction, attraction, and racism are explored. She strongly believes our vision is everything for us that survive and nurture our mind, feeding thoughts and psychological concept of EFT(emotional freedom technique). This is all about how people feel the same racism, distractions, attractions and social life.

Tatiana is an interdisciplinary artist. She received her Art History degree from a liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon.

Website: SuperReal.me

Palmarin Merges is an artist whose work draws from the desire to become more sustainable by re-using materials close at hand and by adapting restriction as a generative force for creation. Currently, their work is playing in and around Concrete Poetry and incorporating junk mail, plastic and other household waste into objects, toys and artist books. As a Filipina-American in Japan, they hope their imperfect knowledge of Ilokano and Japanese lead to a child-like manipulation of language resulting in playful and humorous results of Concrete Poetry.

Website: palmarinmerges.com

"Daniela Naomi Molnar is a visual artist / poet / wilderness guide / educator / essayist / activist / eternal student. She is a member of the third generation of the Holocaust and a daughter of immigrants. She grew up in and around New York City and lives in Portland, Oregon, in the Cascadian bioregion on the unceded land of the Clackamas, Cowlitz, Chinook, Multnomah, and other Indigenous peoples.

Molnar's work revolves around intersectional questions of social, political, and ecological justice. She works across forms, melding painting, poetry, writing, curation, editing, site-specific intervention, activism, and teaching.

How to make art that has both spiritual and political agency, that is responsive and engages response? How do we perceive / what do we perceive / what do we fail to perceive?

How to remain porous in a culture obsessed with enclosure? Document, artifact, dirge, trace : what is it I am making?"

Website: danielamolnar.com

Christopher Farstad is an American artist based in San Francisco, CA who records and performs under the name 555 Sounds. His work is a fusion of modern and traditional instruments and improvisational techniques. In creating this work, his wishes to suggest a way of hearing music that was a fusion of form and anti-form - a kind of sound sculpture in non-dimensional space. In doing this, it explores the limits to which these elements could be pushed out of sync while still retaining an emotional register. Dirtmall is an expression of the artist's feelings about the limits of freedom in a techno-fetishistic and capitalist society.

Website: 555sounds.space

Hydropower, fragmented landscapes, cars returning to a metallic state--how do we get to net zero? These medium format photographs are explorations of small towns near dams in central Oregon during the COVID-19 pandemic. The work examines how climate, community and landscape are interdependent.

These medium format photographs are explorations of small towns near dams in central Oregon during the COVID-19 pandemic. The work examines how climate, community and landscape are interdependent.

Marin Vesely is a new media artist currently based in Los Angeles, California. Her work centers around the meeting point of art, technology, and activism.

Website: marinvesely.com

Scott Nieradka is an installation artist living in Portland, OR. Before the pandemic, he worked with total installation, analog electronics, and printmaking, with a focus on narrative and labor.

Diego Morales-Portillo is a multidisciplinary artist and designer (and immigrant) born in Guatemala. Diego had presented work in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Italy, Korea, Spain and the US. Through an iconoclastic, epistemological and historicist study, Morale-Portillo focuses on the revision of the symbols of everyday life as a byproduct of liquid postmodernity. Failure, absurdity and black humor are used to create impossible or imaginary spaces. The visual language of his work represents his own mestizo identity: ambiguous between North and South, West and East; and the failure of the tragicomedy of the reality in which we exist due to the western imperialism.

Website: moralesportillo.com

Milan Prokeš is a Czech based contemporary artist using painting as a primary medium. In their work, they study the definition of reality, how they relate to it as an artist and also what lies beyond the boundaries of consciousness. It is about the capturing of what is seen, but at the same time exploring and highlighting the suspected and the hidden matter in art. To try to see more BEYOND the boundaries and realize the wider context - to uncover, view, connect, discover and tune.

Website: milanprokes.com

Ryan is a painter who creates otherworldly landscapes, many of which are based on locations near Detroit's North End Neighborhood where he lives and works. He received his BFA from the Stamps School at the University of Michigan in 2012 and his MFA from Wayne State University in 2018. His paintings are imagined architectures and landscapes created from combining multiple reference points of extant locations. Human figures are notably absent from these environs but evidence of sentient activity remain. Objects and constructions represented in these works point to possible futures in which the ways that we sustain ourselves have been fundamentally altered. Screen reader support enabled.

Hasan uses a fluid set of art/design, animation, and storytelling skills in order to understand the complex social systems of today’s world through the exploration of the unconscious mind. It is nice to dream of hope but it shall be despair that releases us from the chains of systematic social injustice.

Website: syedhasanabbas.wix.com/portfolio

Berna Kılıçoğlu was born in 1985 in Turkey and is living in İstanbul as a a lecturer in graphic design and visual arts. The artist is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Art Experience. Her basis of production methods are a combination of digital illustration, photography, collage, sound, and video projection. These mediums inspires by the subconscious, human situations, primitive life, cultures, myths, time and nature. In addition to the contextual process she tries to emphasize empirical, multi-layered and conceptual facts that push the boundaries of art and to include the audience's practices in the work.

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Instagram: @bernakilicoglu_

Albert Ortega is most known for his 20 years of Acousmatic practice in Los Angeles having deep involvements across several experimental music scenes. His more recent work explores building augmented & virtual worlds for his sounds to play with as an alternate way of experiencing sound.

Prior to Covid, he taught an Immersive Sound Design class at USC's School of Cinematic Arts informed not by standard film theory but by applied exhibit design practices and the practice of "object-oriented ontology" (a Graham Harman term) which advocates for giving equal agency to inanimate objects as humans—a great mindset for world building.

Maddy Gold is a LA native that loves to sing, protest, and make art. She believes art has the power to spark dialogue and change the world, with hopes for a world beyond borders with respect for each other.

Instagram: @maddy_gold

Rob is an Animation Director, having worked in film, television, commercials and games on drawn, computer and stop motion projects in the US, Canada and UK. He has created curriculum and taught at several local schools, frequently reviews advanced projects at PNCA and provides bi-annual consultation with a large media University in Central Florida.