21 Pictoplasma Conference – Original Characters

Scottish illustrator and animator with a distinct DIY aesthetic playing on feelings of childhood nostalgia, approaching all projects with a unique sense of irreverence and silliness

Barcelona based artistic brothers with an organic and manual approach to digital experimentation, research and development, seeking constant creative and technological evolution

Art & design duo working across design, illustration, animation and installation creating bold, playful, multi-disciplinary work rooted in an evolving exploration of colour, pattern, shape and texture

Industrial designer turned illustrator working with traditional mediums such as marker, watercolour, pencil, and ink to create warm, intricate, and sometimes strange and emotional works

Danish textile artist exploring the inner animal within us all – a complex interplay of embracing beauty and flaws, the wild, the masculine, the feminine and perhaps the beast

French artist animator and filmmaker delving into the unexpected relationships between characters and objects, exploring social dynamics through striking, fluid visuals

Real-time rendering studio co-founded by Jack Wedge and Will Freudenheim creating worlds, stories and characters using game engines

Animator of the bizarre and surreal nature – having gained massive internet notoriety over the years, with many of his animations becoming strange viral sensations on social media

Swiss game designer investigating complex topics such as decision taking or the finiteness of human life with little more than a minimal style of line drawing

Multi-disciplinary British-Sri Lankan artist, illustrator and designer creating candy coated visuals to explore the complexities of his South Asian identity

Romanian born, Bucharest based artist remixing his favourite influences – from Iranian miniatures and Asian carpets to hip hop and urban culture

Illustrator and creative director for a variety of international clients from Valencia, combining his freelance work with teaching and hosting the quarterly event Cuaderno Blablabla to connec the creative scene in Valencia and beyond

Italian artist producing ceramics with an eerie, dreamy quality. The style is eclectic, the scope is underground, embracing surrealism entwined with nature

Stop motion animator and model maker moving fluidly between animation, illustration and mixed media sculptures

Irish author/illustrator who has recently published his first non-fiction title The History Of Information, tracing the history of information technology, from language and pre-historic drawing to writing, to print, media, computing, the internet and Artificial Intelligence

Assistant professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich with a focus on the self-constitution of modern art, with links to the history of design, the writing of art history and the criticism of modernism at the time

British 3D studio founded by Vince Ibay and Jessica Miller, crafting worlds and experiences rooted in camp, kitsch and pop-culture

Illustrator and artist dividing her time between freelance work with analogue tools for magazines, brands, and publishers – and building large scale sculptures for exhibitions and public spaces

German cartoonist with a knack for subtle observation exploring the struggles of daily existence, humour, melancholy and rage in her unmistakable style

With a distinctive style that has amassed 35 million followers across social media, the Nobody Sausage phenomena explores humor, social media trends, and universally “relatable” moments

Media and visual culture scholar and DIZH Bridge Professor for Digital Cultures and Arts at the University of Zurich, researching networked image cultures, platform aesthetics and synthetic realities

Researcher at the Department of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin, focusing on transcultural features of modern and contemporary art

Artist, illustrator and animator known for the cult video game Art Sqool, who has recently venture into feature-length film with “Boys Go To Jupiter”