Bob Laine is a poet, playwright and actor. He was a member of the award winning Inverse Theater Company where he performed in over 20 of Kirk Wood Bromley’s original verse plays. He has been acting in New York's independent theater scene for over two decades and is an Innovative Theater Award winner. He can be seen monthly at the PIT Loft in Roger Nasser’s live on stage hit soap opera It’s Getting Tired Mildred. He has been performing his original work since 1991 in Chicago and New York. @madkingbob

Jani Rose is a Nuyorican poet, artist, activist, educator, cultural organizer, and curator, born in Spanish Harlem and raised in the Bronx during the harsh, creative era from the 70s to the 90s. Jani Rose writes to find the part of you that lives in her, the part of her that lives in you. Her work can be found in several online anthologies, videos, and in The Breakbeat Poets, Vol. 4 LatiNext Edition. You can visit her at JaniRose.com to find out more and connect. @jani_rose_poet

Described by PUT UP, SHUT UP & STAND UP, Governor Comedy Club’s Podcast as a dynamic, amusing, electrifying & talented performer who shares vulnerability & truth with her audiences, giving them a spectacularly hilarious experience. Her ‘Univer-Soul’ performances are a mixture of observations, radical confessions, parodies, characters & physical comedy. Featured in Mercedes Benz, Garnier, Comedy Central, Santander Bank, Nissan, Nickelodeon webseries, Grown-Up Words & season one Chappelle’s Show. @sheilahdsmiley

Leticia Almeida AKA Tanky (Montevideo, Uruguay) is a multidisciplinary artist in the fields of poetry, music, photography, digital art and augmented reality; as well as a VFX producer for film and advertising. Her personal work explores the physical and digital transcendence, the construction of self, the relationship between identity, ego and vanity, and the representations of death and memento mori in the multiple digital realms. She’s half of Clovvder and 93 studio. @tankydarling

Mathías Chumino AKA c03ra (Montevideo, Uruguay) is a multimedia artist, director, editor and musician, specialized in experimental image and sound manipulation, using state of the art software and hardware. His work delivers captivating, dark and mysterious immersive experiences achieved by a combination of heavy image processing with polished aesthetics and a poetic vision of the world. @c03ra

David Lobser is a designer, director, and developer. His work in the XR space includes multi-user experiences such as Flock, produced with help from the Future Reality Lab at NYU. More recently he has moved into the therapeutic space with Luxury Escapism, New York's first digital spa, and Visitations, VR meant to be combined with ketamine infusion therapy. Cosmic Sugar is an ongoing project that allows users to experience deep states of creative flow in a galaxy of stars. https://dlobser.com/

Sean Devare is a NY-based interdisciplinary performer, designer, musician, writer & director. 'First Violin,' premiered at HERE Arts Center, recently streamed for Mabou Mines' SUITE/Space, exploring cultural inheritance & hybridization by reinterpreting folklore & Asian diasporic performance traditions, from mask-making & shadow puppetry to Carnatic violin. Singapore, Ecuador, Sicily, NYC incl. BAM, Signature, Target Margin, The Flea. MFA Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College; BFA Illustration, RISD. http://www.seandevare.com/

MX Oops is a multimedia performance artist & educator whose work centers hybridity, encouraging ecstatic disobedience as a path toward embodied wellness. Their work is NYC-based, while centering the party as a queer site of transnational Afro-diasporic imagining. MX works in a range of mediums including: dance, video design, costume, rap, and guided meditation. They currently teach in Lehman College's Dance (BA) & Multimedia Performing Arts (BFA) Programs part of the City University of New York. https://www.mxoops.com/

Milena is a holistic wellness healer, researcher, university professor & Transdisciplinary Artist. With over 20 years in the healthcare field she uses performance, video art, ancestral healing rituals, post-traumatic therapy & intimate energetic dialogues. Her Sanarte Quantico system uses Love philosophy, conscience science, ancestral medicine, quantum healing, integrative health, intercultural healthcare, arts in medicine & environmentalism to approach pedagogical alternatives for humanity. @sanartecuantico

Chloé uses color, collage & drawing to create densely layered, moving & still images, exploring where digital & analog worlds meet. Fascinations include 3D & VR environments & how these new spaces can be used to explore memory, identity & how we make meaning. Named Creative Arts Fulbright grantee, working with anthropologist Dr. Maxime La Calvé, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany from September 2021. Resides in Brooklyn, NY, pursuing Master of Fine Arts, Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College, CUNY. https://www.chloeyenlinglee.com/

Leo Lion is an artist, educator, & storyteller based in NYC, & the founder & Artistic Director of The Firebird Project, a national-award winning independent arts education & production company. Leo also serves as the Associate Artistic Director of Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, theatre in NYC & Rockland. Leo is also a theatre director who has received multiple National Youth Arts Awards. Author of plays and flash-fiction collection: “Over the Bed: A Little Book About Things That Dwell.” https://www.leolion.com/

Sky Rolnick is a creative technology expert who has delivered numerous virtual and augmented reality applications over the years. His expertise covers a broad range of topics including video production, motion capture, volumetric video, 3D modeling/scanning, and Unity development. Over the years, he has built multiple interactive exhibits that cover a wide range of immersive technologies. https://www.skyrolnick.com/