
About Karina Abramova
Las
Palmas
Doradas
is
a
purpose-driven
digital
eco-art
activism
project
by
Karina
Abramova,
where
every
artwork
is
a
vehicle
of
ecological
awareness
and
environmental
action.
It
is
the
result
of
her
visceral
emotional
response
to
encounters
with
natural
degradation.
Las
Palmas
Doradas
blends
natural
objects,
climate
literacy,
disruptive
technologies,
community
engagement,
and
environmental
regeneration.
Karina
Abramova
(b.
1986)
enjoys
communicating
the
future,
and
she
has
done
that
professionally
as
a
world
class
future
trends
consultant
and
an
artist
bringing
the
future
vision
to
the
present.
She
has
a
track
record
of
bringing
creative
groups
together
through
immersive
experiences,
community
gatherings
and
managing
other
artists.
She
has
a
Bachelor
of
Commerce
from
the
Toronto
Metropolitan
University,
and
is
a
candidate
of
Master
of
Arts
at
Central
Saint
Martins,
University
of
Arts
London.
She
works
between
the
UK
and
Mexico.
Her
work
was
exhibited
in
Amsterdam
and
London.

About Bob Bicknell-Knight
Bob
Bicknell-Knight
is
a
multidisciplinary
artist,
curator
and
writer,
working
primarily
in
painting,
sculpture,
video,
installation
and
digital
media.
His
work
is
influenced
by
surveillance
capitalism
and
responds
to
the
hyper
consumerism
of
the
internet,
exploring
ideas
surrounding
the
automation
of
work,
global
power
structures
and
technocratic
authoritarianism,
as
well
as
critically
examining
contemporary
technologies.

About Afroscope
Nana
Opoku
aka
Afroscope
(b.
1991,
Ghana)
is
a
multidisciplinary
artist
and
designer
who
experiments
across
the
full
scope
of
digital
and
analog
media.
His
process
is
quite
spontaneous
and
intuitive,
resulting
in
imagery
that
is
often
surreal,
otherworldly
and
afrofuturist.
Afroscope’s
works
have
been
showcased
across
the
world,
including
exhibitions
such
as
the
prestigious
Venice
Biennale
(April
2022),
where
he
represented
his
country,
at
Art
Dubai
(March
2022),
at
Museum
Ostwall
in
Dortmund
(December
2021),
at
the
Digital
Art
Fair
Asia,
Hong
Kong
(October
2021),
and
in
several
other
expositions.
Through
his
practice,
he
has
also
had
the
unique
opportunity
to
collaborate
with
notable
organizations
and
individuals
such
as
Adobe
Inc.,
Chance
the
Rapper,
MTV
Base,
and
several
other
prominent
creative
entities.
He
views
his
work
and
the
world
he
creates
as
extensions
of
his
fascination
with
oneness,
meditation
and
play,
and
he
revels
in
the
mystical
quality
of
his
art-making
process.

About Cecilia Bengolea
Cecilia
Bengolea
(Buenos
Aires,
1979),
works
on
a
range
of
media
including
performance,
video
and
sculpture.
Using
dance
as
a
tool
and
a
medium
for
radical
empathy
and
emotional
exchange.
Infused
with
the
symbolic
energies
found
within
nature
and
relationships,
her
compositions
are
formed
around
ideas
of
the
body
-
both
individually
and
collectively
-
as
a
medium.
Bengolea
develops
a
broad
artistry
where
she
sees
movement,
dance
and
performance
as
animated
sculpture.
Bengolea
has
collaborated
with
dancehall
artists
such
as
Craig
Black
Eagle,
Bombom
DHQ,
Damion
BG,
and
with
artists
Dominique
Gonzalez
Forster
and
Jeremy
Deller.
Her
collaborative
work
with
French
choreographer
François
Chaignaud,
Pâquerette
(2005-2008)
and
Sylphides
(2009),
have
earned
several
awards
such
as
the
Award
de
la
Critique
de
Paris
in
2010
and
the
Young
Artist
Prize
at
the
Gwangju
Biennial
in
2014.
They
have
also
co-created
dance
pieces
for
their
dance
company
as
well
as
for
the
Ballet
de
Lyon
(2013),
the
Ballet
de
Lorraine
(2014)
and
Pina
Bausch
Tanztheater
Wuppertal.