Michele Cheng & Simona Fitcal

Michele Cheng, a 1.5 generation Taiwanese American, is an interdisciplinary composer intertwining diverse media such as music, experimental theatre, and puppetry to engage with social issues and cultural identities. Her works have been performed at CCRMA (US), ICMC (CL), ISSTA (IE), SICMF (KR), SEAMUS (US), NYCEMF (US), among others. She has received commissions from JACK Studio, National Sawdust, I Care If You Listen; grant from New Music USA; and scholarship from Atlantic Center for the Arts. She co-founded the experimental pop duet Meoark and fff, an interdisciplinary improv collective led by feminist media artists.

Simona Fitcal is a media artist, whose work offers a symbolic and expressive approach to digital visual effects by means of experimental video, multimedia performances, art installations, and interactive art. Fitcal is a graduate of the MFA Program in Art Practice in the Art and Art History Department at Stanford University. She holds an MA in Digital Media from the University of the Arts Bremen, Germany.