Eddie the y3t1

"Eddie the y3t1" (y3t1) has been affiliated with and gooned for DEF CON for years and has worked with Neil and Mar to create art for DEF CON for a long time. He was featured prominently  in the DEF CON 20 Documentary by Jason Scott. He has also created art for 303 and Skytalks for many years as well. He created the Faces of DEF CON series of portraits several years ago and many of those portraits continue to be the Avatar for several in our community on Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin. "Y3t1" can be reached at facesofdefcon@gmail.com.

Tavet Gilson

Tavet Gillson is a New York City-born and based artist and animator.  His animated work includes promos for MTV, ESPN and HBO, as well as music videos for Primus, My Morning Jacket, J-Dilla and Pinback.  Tavet's collaboration with artist Dréya St. Clair is in the permanent collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum in SoHo. He is this co-creator of Video Mouth (videomouth.tv) and the comic Hank & Purpleface. 

Caroline Sinders

Caroline Sinders is a machine learning researcher and artist obsessed with language, culture and images. Her work explores the intersections between natural language processing, artificial intelligence, abuse, online harassment, and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Her work has been featured in the Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA Ps1, the Modern Art Museum of Bologna as well as others. She is the founder of Convocation Design + Research an agency focusing on the use of machine learning and design for public good.

Nex

Nex (Claudio Guarnieri) is a security researcher, free software developer and artist. He researches the use of technology as a mean for repression, and provides assistance to human rights organizations, journalists, and activists with issues of computer security, privacy and surveillance.

Yana Vasilyeva

Yana Vasilyeva is an art photographer also works with installation; currently lives in Krasnodar, Russia. Her researches focus on the interaction of human and nature, human and society and their mutual penetration; with the approach reflecting the cohabitation between self-expression, freedom of thought and equality. She is a recipient and finalist of numerous international photo awards: International Photography Awards, USA; Prix de la Photographie Paris; Fine Art Photography Awards, London; Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers; GoSee Awards, Berlin, etc. Her projects have been exhibited internationally in biennales and festivals such as Berlin Foto Biennale, Germany; Incart Festival d'Art Contemporari and Barcelona Foto Biennale, Spain; Head On Photo Festival, Australia; International Festival of Photography PhotoVisa, Russia.

GLITCHAUS

Since 2007, Jeff Donaldson has designed for textiles with generative processes he developed in 2001. Beginning by adapting SEGA Genesis & Nintendo Entertainment Systems to generate patterns, Jeff's design work combines contemporary digital culture with traditional textile art practices. This New Paradigm in Design™ is a synthesis that draws inspiration from digital errors & data to create a unique form of generative textile design. 

A son of the 8-bit videogame generation, Jeff Donaldson uses 80’s game consoles and computer software in unconventional ways to create his images by bending, corrupting and then visualising data.

There isn’t anything nostalgic about his work: the game consoles are simply an instrument to explore a new digital universe that goes beyond the frontiers of the orderly and limited worlds the videogames showed us. Jeff is a virtual tourist who takes snapshots of these surreal dimensions, a digital explorer and a storyteller.

Taezoo Park

Taezoo Park has been making artwork out of abandoned technology combined with digital media to bring to life a hypothetical creature from inside machines. He calls this new life “Digital Being". He has been working on finding and depicting these inherent creature of digital technology as a new media artist in New York City for the past 10 years.

Additionally, to find out the new direction of developing technology, he had been researching with social scientists of the department of information science in Cornell University from 2013 to 2015. To see the reality of e-waste matters, he, as a residency artist, worked in Gowanus E-waste Warehouse, which is owned by LES Ecology Center from 2014 to 2015. To find a proper way to maintain electric/electronic artworks, he, as one of technicians, has been helping to restore Nam June Paik’s video artworks in New York City from 2015 until now.

Inna Vasilyeva

Inna is a security researcher. She loves Korean food, Japanese candy, and Emotet.

Jacquelyn Klein

Jacquelyn Klein is a painter and printmaker based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Her early, atelier style training is evident in her interest in light, reflections, and figuration. At Columbia University, she explored the symbolist concepts of making the invisible visible, working with magical, dreamlike elements, and utilizing symbols to express her interior world. She creates both naturalistic depictions of fantastical scenes, and dreamlike interpretations of realities, highlighting the imaginary that can be found in the ordinary. Her work deals with nostalgia, melancholy, and the uncanny.

Edith Wilson

Edith Wilson is a product manager passionate about intuitive products, anti-human trafficking advocate and artist.