Nicole Yi Messier is a creative technologist, designer, and artist with a focus on storytelling, community, and installations. She creates expressive, soft, and tangible technological interfaces through digital mediums and experimental craft techniques.  With an unconventional creative technology practice that spans commercial and cultural sectors, Messier is a creative with a passion for constructing beautifully orchestrated objects and designs at the core of her experiences. She has worked in the interactive experiential space helping create large-scale, multi-year installations for both commercial and cultural clients. Her work has been shown and exhibited internationally. Messier also teaches at Parsons School of Design and co-organizes electronic textile camp. 

Victoria Manganiello is an artist, designer, organizer, and educator. Victoria has received multiple international, recognized grants, awards, commissions, and residency appointments. She is also a part-time associate professor at NYU and the New School and co-organizes electronic textile camp, an annual artist residency for e-textile practitioners. Exploring the intersections between materiality, technology, geography, and storytelling, Victoria’s multi-disciplinary and installation work, abstract paintings, and kinetic sculptures are made meticulously with hand-woven textiles using hand-spun yarn and hand-mixed natural and synthetic color dyes alongside mechanical alternatives and modern technologies. She is well-known in the textile community as an accomplished artist and innovative storyteller and facilitates many socially engaged projects in collaboration with other artists, designers and educators.