Damaris Guzman is a digital media artist pursuing her MFA in Digital Media Art at San Jose State University. Her 3D animations and layered videos distort reality with immersive textures and high-energy, fast-paced edits to visualize the dopamine hits and instant gratification of social media and consumer culture. Her work centers around identity, perception, and posthuman existence in an age of rapid technological consumption.

Nica is the writer, artist, and narrator of Kwento by Nica. Her work weaves together personal narratives, geography, and time as visual expressions on the internet. By revealing scenes and pages of her memoir manuscript on the web, Nica challenges the ways in which creative nonfiction texts are traditionally disseminated. In her current practice, Nica is producing a series of video portraits that could travel as an installation. Her goal is to capture what is real in the digital form.

Xiao Wu is a Digital Media Artist who blends his expertise in visual programming, coding and generative AI with Art and Design, driven by a passion to craft impactful and meaningful experiences. His focus lies in harnessing these skills to produce work that not only captivates but also positively influences on a personal level.

Through digital media, graphic design, and professional knowledge of corporate marketing and communications, Sam Swenor builds graphic systems that take a stand, hold information, educate others, and communicate visual messages through digital and physical touch points. Her work operates in the space of institutional critique as it pertains to artifacts that have been displaced through time, with a focus on Hellenic antiquity.

Sam Swenor currently works at eBay as Lead Designer, Global Communications and as a Lecturer at San José State in the Department of Design. Her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Graphic Design is from Chapman University (2017) and she graduated with her Master’s of Fine Arts in Digital Media Art from San José State University in the fall of 2024.

Tyler Stannard is an multimedia artist pursuing his MFA in Digital Media Art at SJSU. His work has been presented at events and venues across the Bay Area, California. Currently his practice is centered around upcoming technologies through Video Game Design, Virtual environment building, and Mixed Reality, further advancing his practice and exploration with techno-illusionary devices.

Don Hanson is an internet artist, electronic musician, graphic designer, visual jockey, gif maker, label boss and new media art researcher based in Oakland, California.

George Piliotis is a 3D artist in both traditional and digital mediums. His current interest is on centered exploring 3D worlds with a focus on environmentalism. Combining bronze sculptures with 3D spaces using augmented reality and photogrammetry is one of the ways he wishes to bridge the gap between the two mediums. He is currently teaching alongside working on his MFA in Digital Media Art at San Jose State University.

Brian Anderson is a graphic designer, tattoo illustrator, and digital media artist. He hopes to expand his skills in animation while continuing to discover a way to unite people through art in a unique style. He practices his skills by utilizing a variety of mediums and enjoys the culture of underground and street art. He is always seeking new perspective as his source of inspiration.

Cleia Muggler is a digital media artist and educator who loves to experiment with innovative mediums. Her passion for art and technology has been her inspiration to create genuine experiences in her designs. With her diverse cultural background, she appreciates diversity and hopes to incorporate unique perspectives into her artwork.

Leily Khatibi is a digital designer/artist based in Silicon Valley and specialized in developing immersive extended reality experiences. Using cutting-edge technology, she creates interactive experiences and tells stories that explore the role of art and design in shaping and humanizing technological environments.

Khatibi is currently pursuing her MFA degree in Digital Media Arts at San Jose State University, where she is also teaching. She received her B.S. in Architecture from Art & Architecture Azad University in Tehran, Iran. Her work has been exhibited at galleries across the Bay Area including Root Division, B4B3L4B, SJSU galleries, and Maker Faire.

Yi Liu here doing digital illustration, animation, and probably doing UiUx and software designs now, and the one just said "Welcome!" above. Yes, same one. And processing my last semester in DMA.

Lacey Nein is an interdisciplinary artist who work focuses on the human experience, technology, and pedagogy. More specifically how these worlds collide and merge with one another. Her practice ranges from creative coding, digital exploitation, and textiles. She seeks to bridge the digital gap by creating work that sparks curiosity in the viewer, causing them to seek further knowledge and self exploration.

Her current project is focusing on connecting the threads between the world of code and the tactile world of textiles.

I’m a digital media artist whose research interests include human-computer interaction, internet culture, and modern mythology. Inspired by the metaphysic relationship to my family's memory, my works investigate the transformation of the cultural symbols across dimensions from physical space, virtual space to psychological matters. The massive demand on the computer to create art motivates me to import the idea of animism into human-computer interactions and concentrate on altering the human-centered mentality in order to explore the more complicated systemic problems regarding digital life. Theories from Joseph Campbell, Donna Haraway, and Rosa Menkman lead me to stare thoughtfully into the core value of being a digital media artist “advocate humanity in technology.”