People Like Us
For 16 years English artist Vicki Bennett has been making avant-garde music, radio programs, and A/V multimedia under the name People Like Us. Her surreal found footage collages have gained notoriety for their dark and witty commentary on popular culture. She currently produces an ongoing experimental arts radio show on the freeform New York radio station WFMU, called "DO or DIY".
Thomas Callahan
Thomas Callahan is a Brooklyn based multimedia and video artist. His iconoclastic works that focus on American ideals and ideologies have been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. He currently works for Roebling Hall Gallery, New York. Thomas has natural born affinity for animals, particularly small rabbits.
Jason Halprin
Jason Halprin grew up in Southern Colorado building model rockets, raising sheep, and baking prize-winning muffins. He dreamed of being an astronaut or an Olympic skier but has opted for the far more glamorous life of an experimental film and video maker. He currently resides in Chicago where he teaches moving image media making.
Tony Gault
Tony Gault has produced a number of award-winning personal documentaries and experimental films and videos that explore issues of landscape, travel and psychedelic perception as they relate to a direct, personal experience of the human body. He currently teaches film production and media studies at the University of Denver.
Luis Valdovino
Luis Valdovino, from Argentina, is part of a wave of Latino video-makers creating works that testify to the experiences of Latino Americans in confronting categorical discrimination on the basis of language and culture. With the viewpoint of an insider, Valdovino raises difficult issues of racism and exclusion in our supposedly "democratic" society, showing the injustice and hypocrisy of the American Dream when it means being over-worked and under-paid, exploited, and unrecognized in the land of opportunity. Valdovino is currently a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dan Boord
Dan Boord is a video artist and a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; MOMA, NYC; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; and many more venues around the world.
Thorsten Fleisch
Born in 1972 in Koblenz, Germany, Thorsten Fleisch began experimenting with Super 8 in 1991. He attended Phillips-Univesitat in Marburg to study art, music and media. Fleisch obtained an eclectic work background ranging from community service in an institution for the mentally ill, to quality control in the automotive industry. He studied film and the culinary arts in Frankfurt with Peter Kubelka in 1996. Fleisch exhibited his films at festivals since 1999. In 2000, he declared Frankfurt's red light district his installation. It was during this time that Fleisch became recognized as one of the world's leading innovators of experimental film and video with the release of his 16mm film, Blutrausch, a film made entirely from his own blood.