Wed, Jun 25
|New York
Bi-Annual Panel - Digital Breath& Emerging Artists Workshare & Salon
Digital Breath was a half-day event exploring the evolving intersections between technology and live performance.
Time & Location
Jun 25, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
New York, 47 Great Jones St, New York, NY 10012, USA
About the event
Digital Breath was a half-day event exploring the evolving intersections between technology and live performance. Featuring an afternoon workshare by emerging media artists and an evening panel with leading voices in new media, choreography, XR, motion capture, digital art, and sound, the event fostered cross-disciplinary dialogue and celebrated new ways of sensing, creating, and collaborating.
Date: June 25, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: La MaMa Galleria
Presented by: Quadrant International Art Association (QIAA)
Experience Highlights
Held at La MaMa Galleria in New York City, the event welcomed over 60 guests from across the creative and academic spectrum. The panel featured a diverse lineup of guest speakers—including educators from institutions like Pratt， NYU and accomplished practitioners in digital art, sound, XR, choreography, and immersive media—who are redefining the future of performance through technology and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Audience members were also invited to take part in a live interactive segment—blurring the lines between spectator and performer, and embodying QIAA’s vision of collaborative exchange.
Moderated by Valkyrie Yao, this panel brought together six artists working across fields of performing art and technology.
Panelists:
Special thanks to immersive experience designers Tong Wu and Jianing Cui, whose thoughtful spatial and technical design helped create an engaging, sensorial environment that brought the theme of “Digital Breath” to life for both panelists and audience alike.
QIAA’s Emerging Artists Workshare & Salon offered a vibrant platform for early-career artists working at the intersection of performance and technology. Through short presentations and open dialogue, participants shared works-in-progress spanning experimental dance, sound, and multimedia forms. The event emphasized creative process, peer exchange, and cross-disciplinary connection—fostering a supportive space for new voices to be seen, heard, and celebrated.
Featured Artists:
GAI Studio (Jack Chen, Qin Zhang, Dannie Zhao)
Jessie Han
John Luo & Mingjun Han
Bonan Li
Raven Tao
Chienn Tai
Zihao Zhang
Cookie Xia
