World's Palette

Shanghai-based multimedia artist Lu Yang creates fantastical, often painful and shocking images which represent an interdisciplinary blend of religion, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and modern technology, as well as the allusions to real life forms and structures of natural and religious origin. The output of Lu Yang’s artistic practice spans game engines, 3D-animated films, video game installations, holograms, motion capture performances, virtual reality, and software manipulation. The artist also collaborates with acclaimed scientists, psychologists, performers, designers, experimental composers, music producers, robotics companies, and pop stars.

Her work has been featured in major museums and institutions internationally including recent solo exhibitions at the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark; Spiral, Tokyo, Japan; M WOODS, Beijing; MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, USA; UCCA, Beijing; and Fukuoka Asia Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan. Recent works in large-scale thematic exhibitions include Asia Society Triennial 2021, New York; Shanghai Biennale 2018 and 2012; Athens Biennale 2018; Liverpool Biennial 2016; Montreal International Digital Art Biennial 2016; 56th Venice Biennale 2015 China Pavilion; and Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2014. Lu Yang’s work has also been recently curated into exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2020. Lu Yang was recently awarded the BMW Art Journey in 2019, following which he commenced the making of a new digital body of work titled DOKU.

Baboo graduated from the graduate school of Theatrical Arts, TNUA, with a master's degree in directing. He was artist in residency at National Theater & Concert Hall, Taipei in 2017. He was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship Award and participated in a residency program in New York City in 2018. He was artist in residence at Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2019.
Since his theatre directing debut in 1997, Baboo has directed some thirty productions, two of which have earned him the awards for Taishin Arts Awards for Annual Top 10 Performing Arts. Three of his plays were invited to premiere in Festival Off d’Avignon and have toured several major cities in France since then.

Baboo has been frequently invited to international exchange programs and performances, and as a prolific young director, he continues to maintain high visibility, receiving much attention from various fields. His work has been invited to perform in New York, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Avignon, and Seoul.

Baboo’s VR work Chroma: A Derek Jarman Project was shortlisted for Taiwan’s Taishin Arts Award. The nominating committee speaks of it as “a pioneering work of sound technology, which reconstructs the sexual identity of Jarman, and of his obsession with the color blue; it also provides the post-human with a possible solution to the predicament in the face of the pandemic.”

His Recent works include: Am Königsweg, Chroma: A Derek Jarman Project, Corona Villa (2020), Mythology Upon the Table (2019), God Knows (2018), Caged Time, Common Tragedies (2017), and How Long is Now?, Serenade, One Hundred Years of Solitude (2016).

Tina Sauerlaender is the co-founder of Radiance VR. She is Artistic Director of the VR ART PRIZE by DKB in Cooperation with CAA Berlin. She is the Director and Head Curator of the exhibition hub peer to space that is based in Berlin. Since 2010 she is the curator of many exhibitions dealing with the impact of the digital and the Internet on individual environments and society involving digital media, post-internet art and VR. She curated the international group exhibition THE UNFRAMED WORLD (HeK Basel, 2017), "Europe's first large-scale show on virtual reality" in art (ArteFuse, New York). She is the author of many comprehensive texts on contemporary artists, such as Alicja Kwade, Taryn Simon or Gregor Hildebrandt for Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst. She is the founder of the SALOON, an international network for women in art in 10 cities. She is based in Berlin.

Jakob Kudsk Steensen is an artist and director working with environmental storytelling through 3d animation, sound, and immersive installations. He creates poetic interpretations about overlooked natural phenomena through collaborations with field biologists, composers, and writers. Projects are based on extensive fieldwork. Key collaborators include Musician ARCA, Composer and Musical Director for the Philip Glass Ensemble Michael Riesman, Ornithologist and author Dr. Douglas H. Pratt, Architect Sir David Adjaye OBE RA, BTS, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the Natural History Museum Berlin, among others.
Jakob was a finalist for the Future Generation Art Prize at the 2019 Venice Biennale. He received the Serpentine Augmented Architecture commission in 2019 to create his work The Deep Listener with Google Arts and Culture. He is the recipient of the best VR graphics for RE-ANIMATED (2019) at the Cinequest Festival for Technology and Cinema, the Prix du Jury (2019) at Les Rencontres Arles, the Webby Award - People’s Choice VR (2018), and the Games for Change Award - Most Innovative (2018), among others.