MEDIA ARTIST · RESEARCHER · DESIGNER

Hao Li is a media artist, researcher and designer whose practice explores media space, audiovisual expression and generative art, increasingly developing AI and Mixed Reality as creative methods and research trajectories. He is pursuing a PhD in Computational Media and Arts at HKUST(GZ), where he serves as Exhibition Lead for the 2025 and 2026 editions of SURREALITY.

ARTIST · RESEARCHER · CREATIVE ROBOTICS

Zoe Qi-Jing Li is an artist and researcher investigating human–machine configurations through creative robotics. She is a PhD candidate at HKUST(GZ) and a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab. Her work has been shown at museums, biennials and galleries across China and internationally.

ARTIST · RESEARCHER

Yu-Fan Li is a PhD candidate in Computational Media and Arts working across research and artistic practice. Her artworks explore bodily, material and uncomfortable forms of experience by combining everyday materials with AI, data and interactive systems. Her research focuses on neuroaesthetics, embodied aesthetic experience and visual art beyond fluent or pleasure-based models.

RESEARCHER · ARTIST

Tian-Cheng Liu is a researcher and artist working at the intersection of computational art, embodied interaction and human–AI co-creation. He is pursuing a PhD in Computational Media and Arts at HKUST(GZ). His art-led research has been presented and published at ACM SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia Art Papers, ISEA, ACM Multimedia and VINCI.

ART PRACTITIONER · RESEARCHER

Xin-Yu Ma is an art practitioner and researcher based in Hangzhou and Shenzhen. He is pursuing a PhD in Computational Media and Arts at HKUST(GZ), following an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths and a bachelor’s degree from the Sculpture Department at the China Academy of Art. His research investigates materiality through the nonhuman turn and speculative realism.

ARTIST · RESEARCHER

Heng-Yu Meng is a Ph.D. student in Arts and Machine Creativity at HKUST. His research explores generative geometry processing for human-centered 3D content creation, human–computer interaction, and computational art. His work has been presented at SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH art, ICCV, IEEE VR, 3DV, and Creativity & Cognition.

RESEARCHER · DESIGNER · EDUCATOR

Nicolò Merendino, also known as Chi ha ucciso Il Conte?, is a researcher, designer and educator working at the intersection of human–computer interaction, digital fabrication and digital musical instruments. His research investigates sustainable design practices, FLOSS methodologies and the long-term maintainability of interactive systems.

CROSS-MEDIA ARTIST · RESEARCHER

Jue Joanna Wang is a cross-media artist and researcher pursuing a PhD in Computational Media and Arts at HKUST(GZ). Operating at the intersection of biosensing, computational art and spatial narrative, her practice combines expanded cinema, interactive art and hybrid placemaking to render new materialism tangible.

TEXTILE ARTIST

Qing Yang is a textile artist from China. Her practice explores memory and emotion through the material presence of textiles. Interested in the tactile, temporal and embodied qualities of the medium, she investigates how materials bear traces of personal experience while reflecting broader social and urban transformations.