Artist Bios
(more coming soon!)
Arthur Arbit is the designer behind the clothing line King Gurvy. A “fine” artist with shows at legendary Williamsburg art galleries such as Dollhaus and The State of Art, he was a founding member of the Twisted Ones, a promo team that helped blow up the Brooklyn music scene, where he designed posters and fliers. A tailor for the past fifteen years, he is perfectly positioned to create handmade, one-of-a-kind garments for cult leaders, rock stars and divas – all without resorting to cliches. Arbit founded Williamsburg Fashion Weekend three years ago to showcase the worlds’ up-and-coming superstars of fashion design.
Perry Bard (www.perrybard.net) is an artist living in New York. She works individually and collaboratively on interdisciplinary projects for public space. She has worked with community groups to address issues of media representation engineering site specific public video installations for the Staten Island Ferry Terminal Building in New York and for Market Square in Middlesbrough UK. Public interventions about the war in Iraq include a mobile truckside billboard traveling the streets of New York, magazine ads and coffee cup sleeves featuring artifacts missing from the Baghdad Museum. Her current web and public space project Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake invites participation in a mashup of a 1929 film belonging to world cultural history. The work has been presented in 30 venues to date. It won Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities category at Ars Electronica ’08, was presented at Transmediale ’09, File ’09, Media Forum at Moscow International Film Festival ’09, at the Montreal Biennial ’09, has been installed in museums and galleries worldwide -at Shang Elements Museum Beijing, Ueno Town Art Museum Tokyo, Pera Museum Istanbul amongst others, and screened on public LED displays in Manchester, Leeds, Norwich and Sheffield UK, Federation Square Melbourne Australia, e4c Seattle U.S.A.
Rachel Blackwell is a video and collage artist in New York City. She sorts through the visual flotsam and jetsam in our 2D and cyber world. Then the re-mix starts; colors are enhanced or muted, figures are taken from their homes and placed in new landscapes. Everything is chopped up and reordered to expose a hidden point. This point is a new home for the artist and viewer to call their own.
Seth Indigo Carnes (www.sic.ph) - aka [sic] – is a conceptual media artist whose works focus on the creation of emotive narrative architectures and spiritual goods. His works explore the boundaries that permeate contemporary society: high / low culture, private / public, self / group, nature / machine. Many projects are immersive and interactive, where the recipient of structure can also be its producer. The path is the destination. With a background in history and media, influences intermix within a hybrid terrain: the moving image, pop, technology, the public/street, poetry, performance and music. Carnes’ past exhibitions include P.S. 1 MOMA, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, White Box (NY), Witzenhausen Gallery (NY) Fountain Art Fair (Miami), Lund 2014 (Sweden), The Drop (NYC), Leo Kesting Gallery, (NY), the luggage store (SF), Martin Gallery (Napa Valley), 39 Hotel (Honolulu). He has shown or performed work at Ars Electronica, Oberhausen Film Festival, Resfest, South by Southwest (SXSW), the Napa Valley Wine Auction, Pirineos Sur, and the Cinema Paradise Film Festival. Carnes is currently based in New York City.
Desiree D’Alessandro (www.desiree-dalessandro.com) is an artist from Tampa, FL who is currently earning her MFA degree as a Regents Special Fellow from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has exhibited works at the Brevard Art Museum in Melbourne, Fl; Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Fl; and the Contemporary Art Museum and the Tampa Museum of Art in Tampa, Fl. Beyond having her works exhibited in museums, her works have also been exhibited at various universities across the nation such as the University of California, Santa Barbara; University of South Florida, Tampa; and Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Additionally, her recent video works have been screened at venues such as the RE/Mixed Media Festival 2010 Brooklyn, NY; Rogue Political Remix Festival, Fresno, CA; Gallery 25, Fresno, CA; ARC Gallery & IMAX Dome Theater, Tampa, FL; Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Version 8 Festival 08, Chicago, IL; and the Festival of the Moving Image, Tampa, Fl.
Matt Daly is a lebanese-texan-cuban. His works and performances have appeared in various spots through Texas, New York, Berlin, Linz, Tokyo and some glorious internetal regions. He gets really wrapped up discovering new places, in this realm or that. He runs a small company called Metaversatility, which dips its way to and fro in the realm of video games, film and the web.
Robert Dohrmann received his BA in Art with an emphasis in Painting in 1989 and his MFA in Painting and Drawing in 1992 at Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington. He is currently an Associate Professor of Art at The University of Oklahoma. In 2001, Dohrmann turned his research interests to digital media. His most recent body of works include experimental video shorts, a series of large scale propaganda banners relating to the nuclear age and post September 11 issues, audio mash-up’s and nonlinear interactive web based media (concepts ranging from digital communication styles to the human genome project).
Josephine Dorado is a New York-based media artist, producer, social entrepreneur and skydiver. In her work, she explores the extension of the performance environment with technology and the process of cultural exchange through creative interplay in virtual spaces. She initiated the Kidz Connect program, which connects youth internationally via creative collaboration and theatrical performance in virtual worlds, and received a MacArthur Foundation award to co-found Fractor.org, which matches news with opportunities for activism. She was a Fulbright scholarship recipient and an artist-in-residence at the Waag Society in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and continues her involvement with Fulbright as a member of the Board of Directors. Performances include interdisciplinary productions for the ISEA and Romaeuropa Festivals as well as speaking engagements at SIGGRAPH, Queen’s University in Belfast, and London Knowledge Lab. Josephine currently teaches at the New School and is the live events producer for This Spartan Life.
Fort/Da is Kevin Messman, Todd Polenberg, and Sarah Porter. Kevin Messman is a film editor whose credits include Todd Solondz’ /Life During Wartime/ and Eve Sussman’s /The Rape of the Sabine Women/. Todd Polenberg is a technologist and electronic musician and founding member of Image Node. Sarah Porter’s stories, poems, and essays have appeared in publications including /Open City, The New Review Of Literature, [sic], sonaweb, and Teachers and Writers /magazine. Her novel /Lost Voices/ will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2011.
Kathleen Green (www.spygirlpix.com) has been working in film, video, and live event production since 1997. In that time, she has created documentaries, music videos, short films, and visual art with the goals of finding untold stories, exploring new ways to capture dance on camera, and generally making pretty things to look at. Kathleen’s work has been screened at the Dance on Camera Festival, Coney Island Film Festival, the New York Tango Film Festival, the 2007 Americans for the Arts Convention, the Pioneer Theatre, Collective: Unconscious, the Bowery Poetry Club, on the Fuse network, and at various galleries in New York. She is currently developing The Secret Life of… a documentary series exploring the lesser known history of various psychoactive compounds in different regions around the world.
Michelle-Leona Godin: Avant-Accordion brain smash.
Matthew Hawkins has been involved in the wild world of video games for ten years now. Things kickstarted with a gig at Ubi Soft’s short-lived New York City Studio, where he was lead game designer. He eventually formed his own company, Pixel Jump, where he developed games and applications that catered to the mobile lifestyle. Matt has also become a consultant and strategist for film and television studios, along with other traditional media houses interested in entering the interactive space. The list of clients includes Sony Classics, Paramount, Warner Bros, and Miramax. For a number of years, Matt taught game design at his alma mater, the School of Visual Arts. And like everyone these days, he too is working on an iPhone game. Matt is mostly known for is his work in the field of video game journalism and has contributed to numerous print and online publications on the subject of games, including Nickelodeon Magazine, GMR, Gamasutra, GameSetWatch, Anime Insider, and Heavy.com. Most recently, Matt has begun contributing to Electronic Gaming Monthly’s brand new digital initiative, EGMi. Matt also maintains a fairly popular blog which deals with video games, life in the Big Apple, wacky internet hijinks, and everything else that’s fit to bitch about. It’s perhaps why Matt has been called “The Harvey Pekar of video game journalism.” Recently, Matt became the east coast representative for Attract Mode, the premiere video game culture shop, which carries game-related apparel, music, original artwork, and publications, including the FORT90ZINE, a print version of his aforementioned blog, which has been called “the publication that helped spark the video game zine renaissance currently in effect.” For more information, simply head on over to http://www.fort90.com/.
Hobotech (www.hobo-tech.com) is a collective of electronic musicians in search of Lost America. Fueled by the independent spirit of America’s legendary Hobos, these artists create dance music that flies in the face of bottle-service pretentiousness and glorifies endless railroad adventure, half-smoked cigars and steaming cauldrons of stew. After a series of successful parties in New York, Hobotech is expanding it’s reach with an appearance at this year’s Coachella festival, and other performance on the west coast and midwest scheduled for this summer. Hobotech’s RE/MIXED performance will feature Hobotrail and Jon Margulies, the collective’s founder. More info at http://hobo-tech.com.
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung was born in Hong Kong and is now living and working in New York. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Arts degree from San Francisco State University. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum, New York; Yerba Buena Center Of The Arts, San Francisco; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California; Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah; Postmasters Gallery, New York; Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom; Urbis, Manchester, United Kingdom; Hebbel Am Ufer theatre, Berlin, Germany and ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark. He has received several awards throughout his career, including Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowships, the “VIPER International Award- Internet” in Switzerland and “Honorary Mention- Net Excellence” in the 2002 Prix Ars Electronica. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art In America, The Village Voice, Libération, Le Monde, El Pais, Spiegel and La Repubblica among many others. Hung is represented by Postmasters Gallery in New York, U.S.A. and Galerie Guy Bärtschi in Geneva, Switzerland.
Paul Jannicola, Creative Director and Co-owner of ILL Clan Studios, has been involved with machinima in many roles since 1997. Paul has worked with clients such as CBS, Paramount, MTV, Linden Lab and Microsoft. He has been a writer, cinematographer, composer and voice actor. He is a co-creator of the machinima series Tra5h Ta1k and producer, writer, voice actor as well as composer on the machinima series The Grid Review – Winner, Best Series in the Machinima Film Festival Europe. Paul was the cinematographer, producer, voice actor and composer for the multi-award-winning short film Tiny Nation which was also accepted into the 33rd Cleveland International Film Festival. Paul provided voiceover and scored all episodes of the AT&T sponsored Life In The Virtual Hills, he was also a writer on the CSI NY Virtual Crime Fighting Experience in Second Life. Paul produced and shot footage for CSI NY’s two Second Life based episodes, Down the Rabbit Hole and DOA for a Day. Most recently, Paul produced and shot the machinima videos for Linden Lab’s rebranding initiative and produced the build for Linden Lab’s redesigned New User Experience, Welcome Island and Discovery Island. Paul also served on the Advisory Board for Full Sail University’s Entertainment Media Design & Technology Master of Science program.
Jesper Juul has been working with the development of video game theory since the late 1990′s. He is a visiting arts professor at the NYU Game Center, but has previously worked at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Lab at MIT and at the IT University of Copenhagen. His book Half-Real on video game theory was published by MIT press in 2005. His recently published book, A Casual Revolution, examines how puzzle games, music games, and the Nintendo Wii are bringing video games to a new audience. He maintains the blog The Ludologist on “game research and other important things”.
Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk made their Off-Broadway debut with HENRY AND MUDGE, now on its fourth national tour. Their work has been developed by Goodspeed, NAMT, Primary Stages, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Lark, La Jolla, Perry-Mansfield, and ASCAP. Between them, they have received the 2009 Kleban Award, 2006 Jonathan Larson Award, a 2004-2005 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, a Richard Rodgers Award among others. They are members of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild.
Elisa Kreisinger (www.popculturepirate.com) is a video remix artist subverting the carefully constructed world of corporate content to work off her massive consumption of pop-culture and reverse the psycho-social toll it takes on her sense of self. She works with numerous sources, most recently HBO’s “Sex and the City” and Bravo’s “Real Housewives of NYC”. Her remix work has been featured in galleries and festivals nationwide in addition to events at UCLA, USC, NYU, and MIT. She co-edits the blog PoliticalRemixVideo.com, a well-curated safe haven for remixes that critique socio-cultural institutions. She is currently experimenting with remixed narratives and transmedia activism inspired by her experiences working on the set of Martin Scorcese’s “Shutter Island“, and informed by her volunteer work with Project New Media Literacies. She has spent the last five years teaching youth media literacy and practice and facilitating new media trainings for non-profit organizations at Cambridge Community TV, the best public access station in the country. Elisa’s narrative constructions can be found at popculturepirate.com but these videos take a long time to make, so in the interim, she’s most active on her blog (elisakreisinger.wordpress.com) and on twitter @elisakreisinger.
Diran Lyons received his MFA in Video and New Genres from University of California, Santa Barbara where he was a Regents Fellow. His Political Remix Videos toured with The Audacity of Desperation exhibition, helped launch RemixAmerica.Org, screened at Open Video Conference at New York University, and were presented by Jonathan McIntosh at Ars Electronica 2008 in Linz, Austria as part of the New Cultural Economy Symposium. His participation in notable film festivals and video exhibitions includes Athens Video Art Festival 2010 at Technopolis in Athens, Greece; RE/Mixed Media Festival 2010 at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY; WPA\C’s After Effects at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Xperimental 5 Film Festival at Pantheon Gallery in Nicosia, Cyprus; The Streaming Festival {The Hague} sponsored by Mediamatic Cultural Institution of Amsterdam; amongst others. His “Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges The Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize” reached #1 for 4 weeks on IMDb’s most popular ratings list for shorts.
Mad Happy, (www.madhappy.com) aka Mike iLL and Rivka, are a futuristic electronic musical combo that throw everything (including baby) into their potent musical mix – blending electro, hip-hop, latin, eastern european and folk. Their lyrics, intelligent verse promoting tolerance and individuality. Mad haPPy have been touring the USA for 10 years and are also developing a musical with James Rado (Hair), which is showing on June 18th and 19th at Mile Square Theater in Hoboken, NJ.
Karl Marx (karlmarxbeats.com) would like to borrow $40 until Monday.
Jonathan McIntosh (www.politicalremixvideo.com) is a video remix artist, a new media teacher and a fair-use activist. His video remixes transform fragments of mass media pop culture to tell alternative political, social and cultural narratives. Basically Jonathan is a pop culture hacker, but instead of hacking computer code he hacks television.
Katie McKay studied New Genres as an undergraduate at the San Francisco Art Institute, and received an associate degree in Fashion Design from The Parsons School of design. A self proclaimed design slut, she has designed costumes, fashion, textile prints, graphics, album covers, and ‘zines. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Miss Em is a burlesque performer and fire-eater here in NYC. She’s been featured in a variety of shows at the Slipper Room, The Delancey, Public Assembly and many other venues on both the east and west coast. Recently featured in the New York Times for a selected reading of Dorothy Parker’s works at Barnes & Noble, Miss Em is pleased to state that bosoms and brains are often synonymous.
Moby sings and plays keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and drums. A successful artist on the ambient electronica scene, he achieved eight top 40 singles in the UK during the 1990s. His albums include Play, 18, Hotel, Last Night, and Wait for Me. AllMusic considers Moby “one of the most important dance music figures of the early ’90s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in the UK and in America”. Moby recently launched mobygratis.com, a site that offers his tracks for free to independent filmmakers.
Jojo Monson (monsondesigns.com) is a multimedia artist, designer and performer located in New York City. She specializes in exotic costuming, jewelry and graphic design. Her work has been called “remarkable and renaissance,” and has been influenced by her wide travels and unique job experience. Her fashion portfolio includes everything from a 15th century Persian wedding gown, to first place in The Coney Island Mermaid Parade, to costume and concept design for the New York Circus Arts Academy. Her work is strikingly unique, versatile and accessible to all those with an eye for the wild.
Ashleigh Nankivell received her masters degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in 2005. Previously she served as Unit production Manager and Visual Effects Artist for the documentary “U.N. Me,” and is currently the Video & Social Media Producer at a health and beauty company. She does things on ThisIsWhereIdoThings.com
Amy “uzi” Ouzoonian is a media fairy and artist of many mediums. She is a yoga instructor and hold an MA in Media Studies and Doc Film from the New School for Social Research. She lives and creates in Manhattan. Namaste and Kick Ass! (amyouzoonian.com)
Elizabeth Pulos is a Canadian girl living in Brooklyn. She likes clothes, cats and telling people what to do.
Adrian Romero (adrianromero.com), a Santa Fe native, plays instruments (classical guitar, electric guitar, bass, fretless guitar, mandolin, drums, keys, Ken Butler’s bicycle wheel, samchillian tip tip tip cheeepeeeee,) and writes music. Songwriter, film composer. Electronic cut-up artist and deconstructor/ masher (under the Radiomen Roar moniker.) Equally regarded for yelling into a mic.
William K. Scurry Jr. is a digital filmmaker and editor from Manhattan who was raised on a healthy diet of Robert Towne, Hal Ashby, and Sidney Lumet films. He credits the Duplass brothers, Jay and Mark, for inspiring his work in storytelling and photography in film. View his reel at youtube.com/amcaesar.
Kerria Seabrooke, Creative Director and Co-owner of ILL Clan Studios, has directed, written and produced over 75 animated films and now lends her real-life design expertise into virtual world experiences. Her client list includes Paramount, CBS, MTV, IBM and Linden Lab. She is co-creator of Tra5hTa1k, the voice of Daisy in MTV’s Life In The Virtual Hills director/writer/producer for The Grid Review, Winner, Best Series in the Machinima Film Festival Europe and director/writer/producer for the multi-award-winning short-film Tiny Nation which was accepted into the 33rd Cleveland International Film Festival. She has a BFA from Corcoran College of Art and studied filmmaking at SVA. Kerria is a published author and a member of SCBWI (The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) as well as a contributor to The Kid’s World Almanac and the award-winning HBO documentary Nine Good Teeth. Her recent work includes her role as ILL Clan’s Lead Designer for Linden Lab’s new-user experience, Welcome Island and Discovery Island along with a video series for Linden Lab’s rebranding initiative, as well as writing the mysteries for the CSI NY Virtual Crime Fighting Experience in Second Life and directing and producing the machinima footage for two CSI NY episodes, Down The Rabbit Hole and DOA For A Day. Kerria currently serves on the Advisory Board for Full Sail University’s Entertainment Media Design & Technology Master of Science program.
Elizabeth Stark is a leader in the global free culture movement. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University. Elizabeth is a co-founder of the Open Video Alliance, and producer of the Open Video Conference, whose inaugural event garnered nearly 9000 participants in person and across the web. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stark founded the Harvard Free Culture Group and served on the board of directors of Students for Free Culture. While at Harvard, she was Editor-at-Large of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and worked with the Harvard Advocates for Human Rights to make better use of new media to promote human rights. Elizabeth spent years researching for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, and has taught courses ranging from Cyberlaw to Intellectual Property to Technology & Politics to Electronic Music. Elizabeth regularly gives talks around the world on free culture, and has collaborated with myriad organizations on promoting shared knowledge and the open web. Elizabeth has lived and worked in Berlin, Singapore, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, and speaks French, German, and Portuguese.
Steinski (www.steinski.com) has been a renowned remixer since the early 1980’s. Starting in 1983, he co-produced, with his partner Double-Dee, the series of records known as The Lessons: analog tape cut-and-paste collages, still widely bootlegged (and wildly illegal). These records are generally acknowledged as three of the most influential works in the world of hip-hop and dance music production, and cited as definitive influences by DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, and Fatboy Slim, among others. As a solo producer, he crafted The Motorcade Sped On, turning historic broadcasts of the Kennedy assassination into a hip-hop record, and has composed and produced dozens of soundtracks for various TV & radio commercials and industrial films.
SWEATSHOPPE (www.sweatshoppe.org) is a new multimedia performance collaboration between Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw that works at the intersection of art, music and technology. The duo develops software to construct a totally unique interactive performance, and creates unique ways of affecting an audience. Whether it be as a dance driven electronic music performance that emphasizes sound reactive visuals, building interactive installations, or the fabrication of guerrilla technologies to augment public space, the duo strives towards an element of pop accessibility that is so often ignored in the technocentric world of experimental media.
Christopher R. Weingarten is a professional freelancer living in Brooklyn, whose work can currently be seen in the Village Voice, RollingStone.com, Spin, Revolver, Nylon, The Guardian, eMusic and much more. His first book, a study of Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, is out now via Continuum. He reviewed 1000 of 2009’s new records over Twitter on his account, @1000TimesYes. He is also the shadowy figure behind hipsterpuppies.tumblr.com and the author of its corresponding book, upcoming via NAL/Penguin.
Lili White’s modus operandi is often an exploration on the subject of relationships of power and repression; sometimes drawing from ancient stories re-contextualized into meditations on the world in which we live and the ramifications of inaction and stagnation. Influenced by art history; informed by Eastern philosophy and psychological theory, her content highlights nature, myth, dreams, archetypal imagery and language. Lili has exhibited her videos in shows in the United States, Germany, England, Ireland and China. Her work has been called “a magical act” and is influenced by her painting studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. www.liliwhite.com
Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and the author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking (forthcoming: Berrett-Koehler, June 2010). She is a consultant to key progressive media organizations includingAlterNet and Jim Hightower’s Hightower Lowdown. Zandt specializes in social media, and is a leading expert in women and technology. She works with groups to create and implement effective web strategies toward organizational goals of civic engagement and empowerment, and uses her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance to complement her technical expertise.
http://deannazandt.com
