Maura Mudd (aka MizMudd) has been a digital artist and graphic designer for over 2 decades. She draws inspiration from the infinite possibilities of technology, otherworldly concepts, the future and the past. Her distinctive style aims to capture the viewers’ attention with dazzling displays of color, patterns, and light.

Travis Helix has been creating art with technology for the better part of his life. Where others see a structure he sees a canvas. Light is his preferred medium due to its infinite possibilities. Rendering gives him the opportunity to translate the visions dancing in his head into something tangible that can be shared. He hopes to inspire others to do the same with every piece he has a hand in.

Calamity Andy is a visual artist, engineer, and founder at Light Lab. Light Lab was founded in 2015 for a love of high-efficiency LEDs, music, and digital art.

Having served the electronic music industry in St. Louis since its release, LightLab’s visual artists have always been behind cutting-edge technology using software such as Resolume, TouchDesigner, Lemur, TouchOSC, Obsidian Onyx, Cinema 4D, Capture, and Xbox Kinect.

St. Louis polymath Stan Chisholm works under the alias 18andCounting and has built himself as a staple in his city's creative community for nearly two decades.

As an experimental musician, vinyl DJ, visual artist and educator he commonly works in collaborative, communal and improvised settings. Visually, Chisholm’s works are socio-reflective pop art pieces thatuse an evervolving lexicon of characters, graphic abstractions, and text. Sonically, he brings modular hardware into immersive live experiences, mutating idea of hip-hop and electronic music into visions both grim and wholly life-affirming.

In 2009, he earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2012, he co-founded Blank Space, a creative hub and community space on Cherokee Street. In 2013, he became the Regional Arts Commission’s first “Artists Count” Fellow. In 2018, he served as the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’s first-ever DJ-in-Residence. From 2019-2023, he developed and full-time taught Kairos Academies Middle School’s Visual Arts Program. And in 2021, he became the first awardee of an STL Art Place Initiative home.

Chisholm has exhibited at Laumeier Sculpture Park, City Museum, The Hyde Park Art Center, Paint Louis, Hoffman-LaChance Contemporary, and many other museums, galleries, venues, festivals, and DIY spaces.

St Louis-based desiger of shapes & color, in both 2 & 3D art. A creator of many mediums with a primary focus on abstract & organic acrylic painting & a recent fascination in latex balloon installations ~ exploring the idea of art as play and how composition of contrasting shapes & color make the viewer feel.

Charles Comstock is fascinated by the endless beauty of computation and of how complex generative works can derive from a few simple rules. He is interested in works that expose their inner mechanisms, allowing the viewer to reflect or participate in the process of design as well as experiencing the final piece.

After growing up in Maine, he has lived in St. Louis for most of his adult life. Fascinated by computers as a child, he first learned to program on a Commodore 128. This initial exposure to simple, observable computation left an interest in creating systems that offer that experience to others. He has a B.S. Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.

Ryan McCoy is an innovative artist renowned for his immersive projection mapping installations. His creative journey began in graphic design and large-format printing but quickly evolved into a passion for video mapping. He employs projection mapping as a powerful medium for human expression, captivating audiences with vibrant visuals and thought-provoking themes.

Ryan’s favorite projects range from creating immersive art in creative spaces to projecting powerful imagery in support of social movements. His creative process is a continual learning experience, as he experiments with various techniques in his workflow to produce captivating projections.

Owner and Operator of Kota Pop Studios, offering event design and decor, and Kota Pop Entertainment, flow arts performances.

St. Louis-based insured fire performer, LED entertainer, movement artist!

Bradshaw is an interdimensional poet who paints, sculpts and builds in many mediums. His “Temporal Field” site-specific installation series have been strung up all around St. Louis, including venue such as the Sheldon, Ssippi, Milquetoast, The Gem, GCADD, Houska and more. These works are made from UV-reactive craft yarn and netted by-hand onsite and designed to map the potential energy of our shared spaces.

You can find more on IG: @spacetime.mtn

Comet Crowbar (she/her) also known as Halley Murray is a creative jack-of-all-trades from Boston, Massachusetts who relocated to St. Louis, MO in November 2021. She is a maker, teacher, organizer, illustrator, screen-printer, graphic designer, musician, painter, artist, engineer and gardener among other things.

With over 15 years experience working as a teacher in STEM/ STEAM makerspaces for children, Crowbar is an expert at figuring out how to make all kinds of hands-on projects and showing people how things work. Her piece in Digital Ephemera includes “The DIY Oscilloscope”, a demonstration of how to see a sound wave using a simple oscillator circuit and a laser to project the vibrations of a square wave. Her installation also includes a unique puzzle-zine invention called “Find The Rabbit”, and an “Infinity Cube” puzzle/ toy made of mirror panels.

Halley is also the Manager of Uhuru Planet Reparations Apparel, and the Building Manager of the Uhuru Solidarity Center at 2654 Gravois, two institutions in St. Louis under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party with the goal of forwarding the culture of white reparations to African people.

Holly is a performer and co-founder of Ignited Arts, a local fire and light specialty performance troupe. She has been captivating audiences for over a decade. On stage, she brings the heat and shines brightly. She is known for creating group fire dancing spectacles that accompany large productions like St. Louis-based El Monstero. While LEDs have also been a mainstay in her performances this collaboration will transport you to a world where imagination meets innovation!

Maxi Glamour is a visionary artist, delving into the realms of demonology, Pan-Africanism, liberation, and gender abolition exploding with creativity. Through their distinctive blend of fantastic absurdism, Maxi seamlessly weaves together a unique realm of wit, whimsy, and wonder, offering both abstract and explicit narratives that explore themes of justice.

This particular work by Maxi draws inspiration from the intricate epistemological structures of Black and Arab cultures, highlighting their contributions to technological advancement. In a departure from the Eurocentric focus on technology, Maxi pays homage to the rich cultural heritage of intelligence that people of color have passed down through generations.

Shnolk is a St. Louis-based graphic designer, programmer, jeweler, DJ, printer, and occasional NASCAR sponsor. After graduating with a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia, he chose to not use his degree at all in favor of irresponsibly pursuing every distraction and self-teaching a vast array of skills and technologies. Today, he works full-time as a product designer and machinist for a small engineering firm. In his free time, he operates Halftone, a studio that lends its marketing, merchandising, and event management capabilities to local artists.

IG: @shnolk

Website: http://halftone.world

Jacob Hinz is a multimedia artist who, in the past two years, has made a name for themselves in the St. Louis music scene through both CRT TV installation art and DJ-ing. Working as “Scythe Heaven”, they have collaborated extensively with Materia, Halftone, Vaporspace, and other like-minded artists/collectives. They are currently studying studio art and computer science at Oberlin College.

Mechanical Engineer

Artist and lighting engineer living in St. Louis.

Welder and Metal Fabricator

Crew Member at City Museum

Available for hire.

Multi-disciplinary artist Deborah Katon earned her MFA at Washington University, and her BFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Outside of her body of work, she is also the founder of the St. Louis Neon Museum.

Her work can be found online on instagram: @katonstudios

the St Louis Neon Museum: @neonmuseumstl

Our live music of the evening, Mammoth Piano is a whimsical group of people who bring a unique sound with blends of alternative blues, rock, punk, pop, & a kiss of funk.

Mammoth Piano is:

Nanyamka Ewing (Vocal/Bass)
Shawn Moses (Guitar)

Casey Fulghum (Keys)

Nick Wetzel (Drums)