Yanice Yang (Liuqingqing Yang) is an interactive graphic-based artist working as a human-computer interaction researcher and product designer in the San Francisco Bay area. She has a background in fashion design and is an expert in code-based computing and motion-graphics. The graphic-based interactive cards of Yanice Yang entail subtle motion graphics which seem to glide, as opposed to follow, the guided hand of the viewer. Not all of her works contain these motion-graphic elements, but the...

Hell is Here, and Sometimes I Rest Upon It is a two-part performance directed and performed by Mädchen Vivi. The performance conveys the concept of hell as a resting place to ruminate and liberate the self from the patriarchy. Consisting of two separately performed acts, Hell is Here, and Sometimes I Rest Upon It consists of Mädchen Vivi essentially in a hell-like safe-room ‘making love’ to a cigarette and a second part of Fedra Morini performing the same act within the display case of a...

Penance is a textile work by Ann Vollum. Unlike other pieces within her portfolio, Penance is notably anti-commercial and even overtly aggressive, as opposed to her more consistently delicate tapestries and fiber installations conveying themes of subtle underlying macabre narratives and themes. With Penance, there is a dichotomy between Victorian lace aesthetics and post-apocalyptic materials, such as industrial nails integrated into the textiles and resting on a piece of petrified...