Rebekka Beischall

BIO: Beischall studied Fine Art under professor Thomas Virnich and professor Wolfgang Ellenrieder at the University of Arts in Brunswick in Germany. She graduated in 2020 as a master student with the additional qualification in art education.

https://beischall.jimdosite.com

@fliegende.bauten

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Rebekka Beischall's artistic work consists of drawing, storytelling and animation.

Her works include small silhouettes as well as large-format, walk-in backdrops. A gloomy mood often prevails in her pictures, which in its depth leads through the darkness into the light.

The opening sequence of the hopscotch animation shows a hopscotch being jumped over by a hand. In the children's game, which is actually drawn on the ground with chalk, there are three stations: earth, heaven and hell. Hell is about to skip. In this film, this rule is overridden. The hand jumps to hell.

The film shows the way to positive personality development, in which people can free themselves and develop freely by dealing with the negative.

Paul Belloni

BIO: I was born in 1964 and currently live in Douglas, Michigan with my husband and 2 dogs. I have worked as a librarian and social worker but have also been making films and other types of art my entire life. As well as working on several films right now, shooting in super 8 and DIY developing and digitizing, I have recently started making oil and cold wax paintings. I am most interested in art forms that help strengthen the awareness of my intuition and help me to live a more unguarded life.

@paulbelloni

ARTIST STATEMENT: Most of this film was shot in the mid 1980s while I was attending the University of Rhode Island. I had recently come out of the closet and was living in my first openly queer household. URI’s campus is in a rural part of the state and our house became a safe hangout place for a bunch of misfits. I began asking whoever was in our home to let me film them kissing one another. When I watch this film now, I remember how proud, excited, tired, and scared I was. My life had changed so quickly.

Joseph Bercen

BIO: Joseph Bercen graduated from the University of North Texas with a BFA of studio art with a focus in Printmaking, and has been a part of numerous shows in the Denton, Tx area. Joseph has worked in numerous media, from installation to animation and retains an interest in the beauty of imperfections.

www.josephbercen.com

@joeyberc

ARTIST STATEMENT: This animation was made in context with my other animation loops. In my other animations looping and leisurely paced movements were meant to leave space for the mind to wander and explore, a parallel to the themes of self-reflection or moments that seem to hang on in time. This piece breaks from the undisturbed moment by introducing another human element and acknowledging the harm one can bring, however unintended, from being wrapped up too much in your self.

Sophie Bosselut

BIO: Sophie Bosselut is a french visual artist graduated from the National School of Decorative Arts in 2009 (Paris). Lives and works in Switzerland. Via abstraction, in her pieces there is always a question of back and forth between an intuitive, even surrealist practice around color and line - flirting with the fantastic parietal and the marvelous of the abyss. All it's about transformation, mutation, regeneration. Through its "microcosms" and "storms" composition she's looking to show dance of life, always in motion. They are mental landscapes. Possible volcanoes...

www.sophiebosselut.com

@sophiebosselut

ARTIST STATEMENT: Fireworks, "Feux d'Artifices" in French. Artificial world : "Clever way to disguise the truth". Disguise, party. 2022, all is well… With digital process, space can become a playground, an organic party, filled with « pacotille », confetti, where the real and the unreal, the matter and the pixel become one. A dance of psychedelic colors, a kind of orgasmic order in the composition, a wonderland. In this série is a question of playing with the limits between fake and reality, irony and serious things, inner world and biological microcosms. Everything here is a world of appearance, and I seek behind these convoluted nodes to find a semblance of truth, a form of evidence, a freedom, a spaceship to travel... a dream.

Lena Chen & Michael Neumann

BIO: Lena Chen & Michael Neumann's collaborative performance practice explores desire and intimacy. We celebrate and interrogate the all-consuming nature of love: a force both beautiful and violent, blinding and revelatory, debilitating and transformative. We test the boundaries between audience and performer through site-specific performances and interventions. By performing affection, care, and conflict in public view, we invite witnesses to ask how a relationship exists in the context of the political, economic, and technological structures in which it is embedded.

www.lenachen.com

https://michaelcharlesneumann.com

@elleperil @snakekittens

ARTIST STATEMENT: Crosswind Landing explores the desire to see and be seen. Technology collides with the gaze of the Other as an energy exchange unfolds between the artists through their phone screens. The live-streamed durational performance is an attempt to bridge the distance between intimate partners in the age of lens-mediated relationships.

Autumn Elizabeth Clark

BIO: I started making collages and photographs in high school and took classes at the Rhode Island School of Design.I received my BFA in photography from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2011. I achieved my MFA from the University of Chicago in 2015. Work has been collected by MOMA Library and New York Public Library. I have also exhibited work at Chicago Expo, 65grand, Fluffy Crimes and Baby Blue Gallery in Chicago, BOY TOY CHAMPIONSHIP in LA, LA Art Book Fair, Cinco Espacios en el Quinto art fair in Mexico City and VAR Gallery in Milwaukee.

www.autumnelizabethclark.com

@autumnelizabethclark.tif

ARTIST STATEMENT: My mother always used to remark on the strangeness of giving someone a gift that will wither and die as a condolence for a loss in their life. When my father died the house was filled with flowers, as if their colorful petals and sweet scent would distract from the dark cloud hanging in the room. Gestures in the work are to reflect the sort of chaos and blur that exists in moments of sorrow and grief. A movement of color, static moments sticking out in the unfocused moments. Looking at the world when your eyes are filled with tears.

Francis

BIO:  Francis. Chicago-based creative making videos, cakes + baubles. Three things: go vegan, be kind, be less afraid to shoplift. Thanks for your time <3.

www.vimeo.com/truebluedummy

@dairyfreepervert

ARTIST STATEMENT:  Do you miss a moment or a friend? Sometimes you dream about them. Sometimes you make your own dreams about them. A harddrive is like a cache of memories to help you do so. What are you dreaming about? Lastly– I love and miss you my friend. We’ll always have Boston, 9/29/19.

Grant Gasser

BIO: Grant Gasser (b. 1997) is an artist / graphic designer originally from Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently working and living in Nashville, Tennessee. His work spans from print making to digital art to electronic music.

www.grantgasser.com

ARTIST STATEMENT: His work aims to highlight an improvisational style within a seemingly structured world, graphic design. His work consists of digital and photographic aesthetics which are manipulated and distorted to reveal their bones. While converting these digital works to a printed form, his goal is to humanize and materialize their texture and depth. He pulls (literally) from media around him comparable to how a beat maker samples sounds.

N Godsell

BIO: N Godsell utilises their Asperger's to make concise poignant short films. Sometimes these films document artists in their practice, other times they are a collection of abstract, surreal and experimental footage, meticulously edited together. Godsell sees things and emulates them in their own style, refining the inspiration down to its core elements. Godsell has edited several films for other artists, as Teatime and Tide, modestly refusing recognition for any individual input into the pieces' narratives and overall style. In 2022 they are working with the Turner Contemporary Art Gallery, in Margate, England to produce a film for a national charity.

www.teatimeandtide.co.uk

@teatimeandtide

ARTIST STATEMENT: 'Sur la Pointe des Pieds' is a minimalist film focused on the unnoticeable nature of temporal change. It is inspired by recollections of shared regret; garish childhood dreams and ambitions, forfeited to the mundanity of adulthood.

Margaux Halloran

BIO: Margaux Halloran (born 1999) is an American artist currently studying in Florence, Italy. After growing up in Florida, they were accepted at Parsons School of Design. Working with 2D, 3D, and 4D mediums—their work is centered around the surreal, and the abstract. Their work as a collective focuses on opening up the realm of objects, and machinery in relation to the human. In the spring of 2021, they attended an artist residency at The Fish Factory in eastern Iceland. Currently a third year at Parsons School of Design—the experience of stepping out of a University environment aided in their work's progression.

www.margauxhalloran.com

@margauxhalloran

ARTIST STATEMENT: Before your eyes is a dissection of the relationship between digital bodies, and living bodies. They meet one another in an imagined, and unstructure realm—unknown by all. Instead of a human appearing as flesh and blood, the figures that are recognizable are artificial creatures. With this lack of a human presence, the digital and reality form an environment that has no sense of time. The naturalist qualities of humans become mutilated and lost as machinery grows stronger. How will humans and machines co-exist? The lack of time, and forced repetition create a place where this artificial figure has no place to exist. A sense of urgency is communicated through the loss of time, and through abstracted imagery and sound—memory and the understanding of the present is tampered with through this technology. Consider the dissection of the frog as a parallel to the human—The frog is intact. The tools are given to the scientist—the engineer of machinery. As the frog is dissected, the insides become seen, and vulnerable to the one in charge. In the end, the frog is gutted, and the life taken from its body.

Ignacio Henríquez

BIO: Ignacio Henriquez is a Chilean self taught visual artist specializing in hyper realistic graphite drawings. Dreamlike and intimate, his work focuses on exploring different dimensions of the coexistence between traumatic memory, mind and body. Conveying male fragility and vulnerability, his images bring forth such taboo subjects as depression, male sexual abuse, suicide ideation, etc.

Starting 2019, he has participated in multiple group shows in Chile, and since landing a finalist spot in Chile's prestigious MAVI young artist award, his work has been also shown in Mexico, Wales, Germany and the United states.

@ignacio.henriquez.c

ARTIST STATEMENT: A conversation with a sexual abuse survivor stems off the thought of capturing his recurring dissociative state, from invading traumatic memories, and unfolding crude response: fantasising about ending his life.

While connecting with painful memories, he is asked to interpret the discomfort with his body fronting a camera taking pictures every few seconds, while spelling out what goes through his mind, myself taking the assailant role.

The digitally modified photographic sequence is presented as a GIF, alluding to the repetitive nature of the format as to the revictimization in his mind.

The trauma never really leaves both mind and body.

Debbie Lee

BIO: Born in 1967, Debbie Lee graduated with a first class degree in Painting from the Glasgow School of Art in 1989 and subsequently went on to study at the Royal College of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago as well as being a Commonwealth Research Scholar at Delhi College of Art. She has also trained and worked as an art therapist, which is reflected in the exploration of psychological and transformational themes in her art work. Her animations have been screened in ‘The Quickening’ Nightingale cinema, Chicago (2017) and Exeter Phoenix ‘Broodfest’ (2016).

www.debbieleeart.co.uk

@debbie.lee88

ARTIST STATEMENT: Short Shock animation (44 seconds) by Debbie Lee, music by Amy Lee Jefferis

‘Short Shock’ was inspired by Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’. Mary Shelley is buried in Dorset where I live. Mary writes about the potential of reanimating life through the process of galvanism. The figures in my animation, a boy and a girl, lie between 2 chairs as if they are preparing to levitate. Instead they swap heads through the band of electrical interference above them. This transformation takes place to the sound of cello music composed by my daughter to accompany the moving image. It was made by frame by frame animation of one drawing being erased and redrawn.

Hege Liseth

BIO: Hege Liseth (1969) works across different media and techniques, such as painting / drawing and animation / video. Thematically, the work revolves around cycles in nature and everyday life, and reflects on related areas such as movement, time and presence. Liseth har been the subject of numerous exhibitions both nationally (Norway) and internationally, in New York, Reykjavik, Barcelona, Riga, Colombo. She studied Fine Art at The National College of Craft and Art (SHKS) in Oslo and Chelsea College of Art & Design in London.

https://hegeliseth.com

@hegeliseth

ARTIST STATEMENT: The animation is made by traditional stop-motion technique. That is, drawings on paper are photographed, 24 drawings per second. They are drawn on white copy paper, and later inverted. Simple line drawing create intuitive sequences that alternate between representative situations and completely abstract constructions.

Liseth works with 2D animation and minimal line drawings to create short stories, whimsical animated sequences that capture an unreal reality, or the experience of time in meditation and reveries. Situations in life where time and place cease to exist, thereby leading to a change in thought.

Adriana Lup

BIO: I am Adriana Lup, an abstract painter living in Transylvania, Romania, in a wonderful mountain city called Brasov. I was always into art, but I started painting around 8 years ago mostly influenced by the amazing work of Helen Frankenthaler. Because I always wanted to be part of the local artistic community, I decided to enrol to Tiberiu Brediceanu Art school in Brasov, specialization - painting.

@adriana_lup

ARTIST STATEMENT: The Abstract Metamorphosis is a collaborative project between artists Adriana Lup and Carsten Bund. The whole experiment started as a curiosity to find out if an Ai can independently create a set of human like painted abstract works. And it can. All the works are the result of the creativity of some algorithms. In a very particular and very hard to explain way, a computer system has managed to transform some curated images and transform them into something else. The entire Metamorphosis project is about a big transformation, it’s about transition and about being reborn as a new entity.

Mrs. Luva Luva

BIO: I’m a British self-taught artist, living and working nomadically. I use a variety of 3D software and am continually exploring ways to integrate the physical with the digital in my practice.

I’m interested by imperfection as a hallmark of humanity and my work is a reaction to the symbiotic growth of our digital selves and a cultural ideology that relentlessly drives us to seek increasingly perfect and more efficient versions of ourselves.

I’ve worked commercially in animation for several years and made music videos and short films which have shown at film festivals internationally. I have recently changed my name to Mrs Luvaluva to represent my digital self.

https://mrsluvaluva.myportfolio.com

@mrs_luvaluva

ARTIST STATEMENT: I use a mix of 3D scanning, sculpting, digital painting and real textures to create models that have my individual mark on them as an imperfect human depicting other imperfect humans.

The poses my model is adopting are from an 3D animation library from the search ‘female pose’ This piece was inspired by the following quote in Catherine McCormacks’ book ‘Women in the Picture,’

‘By looking more closely at what makes the mythical image of Venus, we can think about the repressed fears and desires that are projected onto the female body in our collective cultural consciousness. These include fears about our human physiology, how our bodies bleed, grow hair, and have diseases. I’d like us to think about how pictures of Venus can start conversations about racial and sexual difference and how the female body has been exploited to shape ideas about male genius and creativity’.

Austin Nash

BIO: Austin Nash is a Minneapolis-based printmaker. His work has been exhibited at the International Print Center of New York, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He is included in collections at MCBA and the Hamilton Wood Type Museum.

https://austinnash.cargo.site

ARTIST STATEMENT: The work is an animation composed of 428 screen prints from a daily practice of printing. I think of it as a mind changing direction, trying to make sense, failing and continuing anyways. As if writing on a chalkboard and constantly rewriting. It is also a translation between the language of print and animation. The analog monoprints when scanned become frames of animation and act as a material I can compose and edit in the digital.

Dakota Noot

BIO: Dakota Noot is a Los Angeles-based artist and curator. He received his BFA from the University of North Dakota; and his MFA from the Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. He has exhibited in galleries and institutions throughout the Los Angeles area including Charlie James Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, and the Torrance Art Museum. His work has been featured in Hi-Fructose, the Fourdrinier, LUM Art Magazine, Visual Art Source, and The Fight Magazine.

www.dakotanoot.com

@dakotanoot

ARTIST STATEMENT: Trailers can be greater than their films. In “Simply the Best,” Noot and Velasco construct a trailer for a movie that doesn’t exist, blending drawn and physical locations from their studio apartment. The trailer becomes a sandbox of camp, violence, and sound-effects, creating a semi-coherent vampire film in the process. They transform into various characters: victims to vampire hunters, bats to women in paper drag.

Christopher Anthony Velasco

BIO: Christopher Anthony Velasco is a Los Angeles-based photographer and performance artist. Christopher received his Master of Fine Arts from UC Santa Barbara and BFA from California Institute of the Arts. Velasco is an instructor at CSSSA (California State Summer School of the Arts). Velasco’s work has been featured in exhibitions at Art Center College of Design, AD&A Museum, Avenue 50 Studios, California Institute of the Arts, the Getty Museum, and the Vincent Price Art Museum. In addition, he has performed at Los Angeles Union Station, UC Santa Barbara, and LAST Projects.

www.christopheravelascophotography.com

@caver83

ARTIST STATEMENT: Trailers can be greater than their films. In “Simply the Best,” Noot and Velasco construct a trailer for a movie that doesn’t exist, blending drawn and physical locations from their studio apartment. The trailer becomes a sandbox of camp, violence, and sound-effects, creating a semi-coherent vampire film in the process. They transform into various characters: victims to vampire hunters, bats to women in paper drag.

Juan Pizzani Ochoa

BIO: Juan Pizzani Ochoa (Caracas, 1979) authored the art books Enclopedia Ilustrada del Arte (2002), Crayon Picture Books (2003), and Nuevo Abesedario Digital Version (2020). He published some of his poems in the compilation Voces Nuevas (2004, CELARG), the novella Visita guiada (2007) and autoethnographic texts like Autoetnografía en una agencia de marketing de Lima (2020) and Onaka Ga Peko Peko (2021). He has been making digital art since 2020.

@kunemo79

ARTIST STATEMENT: Valentine's Day, wedding or relationship anniversaries –among other scenarios– are occasions to dine together on a romantic dream date. Choice of food normally leans towards luxury: lobster, wagyu steak, caviar, champagne and other delicacies are on the menu. With the idea of future generations facing sustainability issues and the fact that more insect restaurants are trending nowadays, the lo-fi video piece "New Delicacies" emerges as a postcard from a dystopian world, one already set in motion.

Michał Orzechowski

BIO: Born in 1983 in Szczebrzeszyn. Graduated in 2016 after studying Animation and Special Effects at The Cinematography and Television Production Department of the Lodz School of Film.

ARTIST STATEMENT: Tomorrow/Jutro - The animation from Michał Orzechowski illustrates the difficult experience of parting with that which both creates and destroys a human being. It also talks about those things that pack themselves into every suitcase and are always ready to travel. And finally – or perhaps primarily – it talks about time travel that takes place in a completely different direction than before.

Liam Owings

BIO: Liam Owings is a practicing multimedia artist and current undergraduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Experimenting with shape and form, Owings investigates what it means for something to have a body and exist within or without the constructs of society and other systems. Owings’s sculpture, painting, and video works focus on exploring the meanings of sexuality and spirituality within identity, importance of psychological awareness, and breaking free from systematic social structures that have rooted their ways into the human experience.

www.liamowings.com

@unsubsequentifiability

ARTIST STATEMENT: ‘Working’ is a two-minute video by Liam Owings encapsulating processes of labor and how they’re taken for granted. Combining hours of footage that document the performance of Owings continuously putting together furniture in the background of many layers of him painting into a short amount of time, ‘Working’ investigates the meaning of overconsumption relating to capitalist America and the environment. In this video, Owings explores how this takes a toll on not only the individuals of the working class but also society as a whole.

Katherine Palmer

BIO: Katherine Palmer is a Chicago based artist and educator. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She uses photographic processes, painting and drawing to examine the peculiarity of day to day living.

www.katherinepalmer.org

@k_palmer22

ARTIST STATEMENT: “Yaga’s house is the instinctual world…The house is alive and bursting with enthusiasm and joyous life. These attributes are the main fundaments of the archetypal psyche of the Wild Woman; a joyous and wild life force, where house’s dance… where an old woman can make magic, where nothing is what it seems, but for the most part, is far better than it seemed to begin with.” -Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Estes’s retelling of the Baba Yaga tale in Women Who Run With Wolves guided my process as I created this animation. I am interested in the embedded, unruly and exuberant spirit coursing through everything.

Tracie Paisley

BIO: Peisley is a multidisciplinary Artist who moves peripatetically in series of work in different media. Arguably  all the work is made as a reprieve from trauma, giving the Artist a distanced perspective  to themes of intimacy, attachment and abuse, where experiences can be processed within the artist’s window of tolerance. The work circumnavigates personal truths in a helical manner, sometimes searingly close to confessional journaling,  to other worldly characterisation, to  ground in traditional disciplines.

The collaboration with N Godsell uses the film maker as an empathic witness to her self-directed performances.

www.traciepeisley.com

@peisleyart

ARTIST STATEMENT: Peisley’s films are working with dissociative states.

The bud slipping out is fiercely erotic , it  has the wonder of a sword eating women pulling an endless object from her throat. Peisley takes back desire differentiating abuse from pleasure. Following  corruption of  innocence, ‘Toots’ represents the child lost in the woodland . Creating her is an attempt to reach the child and bring her home. The shadows of the adult women are shrunk to child-size as she divines with thistles across a  wilderness , she wonders through liminal space, where location of self is complex.

Michael Pfleghaar

BIO: Michael Pfleghaar is a gay artist living and working in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received his MFA in visual arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design, in Cambridge, Massachusetts  in 2011. Modern and contemporary furniture, lighting, objects, and houseplants inspire Pfleghaar’s colorist autobiographical, representational, and abstract mixed media artwork.

His artwork has been featured in Arcadia Magazine, Studio Visit, Metropolitan Home, Solace, and American Craft. Apple, HBO, CBS, ForeSee, Hayworth, and Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts are a few of the organizations that have utilized Pfleghaar's artwork as illustrations.

http://blog.pfleghaar.com

@pfleghaar

ARTIST STATEMENT: This body of abstract and botanical digital drawings are inspired by mid-century modern design and my own collection of houseplants.  I am a self taught digital artist while being a lifelong painter and ceramic sculptor. Often the digital drawings are conceived as loose sketches for paintings or as prints on paper and canvas.  Devoid of the figure, the objects in my compositions become the surrogates for them. Through abstraction I strive to capture the spirit of modernism in a non-objective manner.

E Rake

BIO: E Rake graduated from The Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) with a BFA in Painting with an Emphasis in Sculpture and Expanded Media and a Concentration in Creative Writing. They are currently living in Sejong-si, South Korea. They have been working with Leah Yochman as the collaborative group, Kitschy Kids. They have shown in Cleveland, Ohio, Seoul, and Jeonju, South Korea together. When Rake works independently, they use their experience as a genderfluid woman and what they have witnessed from the people around them to create an intersectional feminist fictional story with their work.

www.erake.art

@grandmaerake

ARTIST STATEMENT: Grandma knows that some people who would categorize themselves under the more masculine region of the gender spectrum can be pretty sensitive to this kind of content. They want to give a proper warning instead of misleading the consumers of this product.

Ravic

BIO: To the public, I wish to be known as Ravic. I was born in the city of Kharkiv, in Ukraine. My family emigrated to the United States in 1987. I have lived in New York City since we arrived. I attended LaGuardia High School then Hunter College and then post-graduate school. To be honest, all the schooling does not seem relevant to my art. Since 2016, I have been drawing almost exclusively on my iPad. I am now transitioning to tangible materials, in search of texture.

@ravic12

ARTIST STATEMENT: I never have any plan or preconceived idea when I begin a drawing. No destination. There is only a white surface in front of me - digital or real - and I must make a decision and commit a mark to that blankness. Once that first mark is made, I try to reach a harmony, a balance. Sometimes a theme appears in that process. But that theme is never premeditated. I am seeking to make order out of the disorder I myself initiated. I hope others find something they enjoy in my drawings. My personal feelings about the work are not important.

Charles E. Roberts III

BIO: Charles E. Roberts III is an artist living in Chicago, Illinois. For twenty years they worked primarily in video, photography, assemblage and installation. Recently they've returned to their first love, drawing.

www.charlesroberts3.com

@charlesroberts3

ARTIST STATEMENT: I made this video in 2016 because I had yet to make a performance video in the genre of someone awkwardly eating something in a single take. Also, I wanted to make a music video in reverse. Michael Perkins created the beautiful track especially for this glamorous fruit feast. Amanda Joy Calobrisi heroically devoured three very unripe pears in three takes even though I knew we had probably got it in the first.

Breanna Robinson

BIO: Breanna (b. Chicago, 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. Working with a variety of processes including printmaking, collage, drawing, and coding, her projects tend to take shape through a mix of hand + digital renderings and image manipulation. Prevalent themes in her work include nostalgia (and time, broadly), femininity, media and technology in the context of Black American culture, history, and traditions. She earned a BFA with emphasis in print media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017, and has shown work in Chicago, New York, and Berlin, Germany.

www.breanna-studio.github.io

David Rustile

BIO: I am 51 year old gay man working in the medium of transgressive photography and now video.

ARTIST STATEMENT: Joe and I spent much of the first round of Covid wandering around abandoned buildings with his knapsack of leather/ climbing gear and my IPhone. We felt a great desire to escape reality and create something exciting to us both. These video clips are a very small portion of the work documenting the artistic relationship between an older gay man and a straight union plumber. The time I spent photographing Joe in the ruins of schools and churches provided a great sense of peace and joy in a very dark time. I can never thank him enough.

Salix

BIO: Salix is a graphic artist living and working in the city of Chicago. He enjoys working in both the digital and printed mediums to explore shape, color, and archetypal symbols combined into compositions based on anything from outdated color theory charts to 2am infomercial nostalgia.

ARTIST STATEMENT: A short video influenced by years of being bathed in the glow of CRT televisions, and the nostalgia of both the hectic visuals and abrupt audio from flipping through channels, changing VHS tapes, and cassettes. In looking for something to keep our attention on-screen, there's a sort of under-appreciated magic that lives in the liminal space of the in-between of the programs, news casts, commercials, and music videos etc. If nothing else, call it a belated love-letter to the beauty of the modern "in media res".

Carlos Luis Sánchez Becerra

BIO: Carlos Luis Sánchez Becerra, (Maracaibo, Venezuela. 1987). He has a degree in Plastic Arts from the University of Zulia (2009), where he also studied dance and theater. He was a set designer and actor for the group La Casa-Teatro in 2011 in Maracaibo. In 2012 he lived in a circus in Caracas where he tried to be a contortionist. Since 2013 he lives in a city called Carora, where he studied singing and guitar. He has created Paintings, mache paper masks, comics, illustrations, stories and animations that he publishes through social networks and in fanzines.

ARTIST STATEMENT: We live in times of random accumulation, we can browse social networks and at the same (me watch the news of an ecological disaster, the premiere of the pop song of the year, a video clip starring a cat and so on. This has an undeniable reminiscence of the surreal and this cybernetic contemporary surrealism that has reached everyone's culture and mine. I enjoy seeing this in my work through humor. As an artist, I am interested in exploring the frontiers of imaginative freedom, using different artistic media such as: music, comics, painting, drawing, literature and video; mixing them without losing that something "fun" that defines them.

Eleanor Schachtel

BIO: Eleanor Schichtel is a new media artist working in 3D animation. Her work deals with depictions of history (and historicity) in digital media, and their myriad influences on an increasingly isolated American public. Her research examines popular media that exists at the intersection of the historical and the digital, or rather, media that utilizes contemporary image-making technology to depict varying historical periods. She is currently interested in high fantasy media franchises, fandom, and masculinity as it presents in fandom communities, as well as imagery related to agriculture, labor, and rural activities, in particular from the medieval period and early renaissance.

ARTIST STATEMENT: A crew of peasants rises with the dawn and works digital fields with unnatural, calculated movements. They exude the determined, selfless neutrality of fieldworkers in the Barbizon school paintings of Millet, but with the oblivious ineffectuality of an NPC. Meanwhile, a cloaked figure watches wrathfully from a high tower, alone in a room with a beige feast to himself. For YWSTWOBTGOG, I researched blockbuster costume dramas which depict quixotic, Eurocentric visions of labor. Crucially with no working knowledge of modern or historical farming practices, I synthesized this research and simulated the peasant-overlord relationship through the lens of new media technology.

Martin Severinson

BIO: I’m a multidisciplinary artist. I’ve been exploring art and doing exhibitions since the early 90’s. Studies in philosophy and arts at the university got me going into the Art World. From there on I’m reflecting through art.

ARTIST STATEMENT: The short film "Eyespeaker" was made as a spin-off product from my art book "Eyespeaker". I felt that I wanted to hear voices and put some kind of movement to my painted faces and texts. Together with the help of my friend and musician Henrik Meierkord and his family members we did this slow story about people in our time. Strangely the movement is not in the pictures in themselves, but in the voices, sounds, and the music by "The desert folks". The movie has been exposed at the Modern Museum of Art in Malmö, Sweden, the Filmfestival in Athen, and at a gallery in Helsingborg, Sweden. And now - at Fluffy crimes in Chicago. (Every still picture in the production is to be found in "Eyespeaker", the art book.)

Perdita Sinclair

BIO: Perdita Sinclair, visual artist, and Alan M Jackson, sound artist, both from the UK, worked collaboratively on these videos. Alan works with experimental sound and has performed internationally as well as posting videos on Youtube under the name orsheeboo. Perdita works nationally and internationally as an artist and curator, her work resides in collections in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and China.

www.perditasinclair.com

@perditasinclair

ARTIST STATEMENT: The idea for these videos came out of my frustration over being cooped up during the UK Lockdowns coupled with the benefits and inadequacies of screens replacing real life experiences. At the time of making this work all of my exhibitions had been cancelled and it was hard to get into the studio because of government restrictions and home schooling. So, I approached Alan about the possibility of faking a deep-sea experience using only what we had in our own homes. For me this was sweets (candy), craft materials and a smart phone, for Alan this was gathered sound in and around his house.

Alan M. Jackson

BIO: Alan M Jackson, sound artist, and Perdita Sinclair, visual artist, both from the UK, worked collaboratively on these videos. Alan works with experimental sound and has performed internationally as well as posting videos on Youtube under the name orsheeboo. Perdita works nationally and internationally as an artist and curator, her work resides in collections in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and China.

www.speakersonstrings.com/wedo.html

ARTIST STATEMENT: The idea for these videos came out of my frustration over being cooped up during the UK Lockdowns coupled with the benefits and inadequacies of screens replacing real life experiences. At the time of making this work all of my exhibitions had been cancelled and it was hard to get into the studio because of government restrictions and home schooling. So, I approached Alan about the possibility of faking a deep-sea experience using only what we had in our own homes. For me this was sweets (candy), craft materials and a smart phone, for Alan this was gathered sound in and around his house.

Ana Skolnik

BIO: Ana Skolnik is constantly inspired by functionality and design in her day-to-day surroundings. She draws information from structural grids, textiles and modular relief patterns to reorder and further examine how shapes and volumes come together. Her art practice employs hula hoops as a movement tool to illustrate flow patterns as they appear in motion and how those relationships lend themselves to ways we study the built environment. Examples that elaborate on how she goes about this process are featured online at PechaKucha.org in a series of three short presentations.

@anahoops

ARTIST STATEMENT: The title Drawing With Hoops speaks to my approach in making this set of images. By capturing hula hoop trajectories in a series of still frames stacked together, it directs attention to patterns and geometries that aren’t as readily perceived in real-time. The trails imprinted in space are a nod to chronophotography and in this instance, they are decidedly drawing sequences and alignments that are the product of a decade-long obsession with honing and articulating a movement language that is unique to hula hooping.

UNSEETHAT / Efthymios Charmalias

BIO: Unseethat is Efthymios Charmalias. An artist/art director from Athens, Greece. Unseethat is creating queer art, touching on different topics, and plays around with boundaries. What do we believe is pornographic? What do we consider too much? How do we chose to expose ourselves on the various digital platforms or dating apps? Also, testing the limits of what can be published on social media. How comfortable are we with our own bodies and sexuality? Is sexual revolution becoming sexual oppression in certain ways within the LGBTQ community? Why self "labelling" has become a type of self identification?

www.patreon.com/unseethat_v3

@unseethat_v4

ARTIST STATEMENT: Personal/Another human’s sexual experiences. Fantasies/Reality. All of it exposed in triptychs of digital sketching. The central panel works as the main theme while the other two complete the message. Sometimes obvious, sometimes ironic, sometimes hidden behind a sex act. Always trying to understand the human behaviour. Does that behaviour change to the core when presented (anonymously or not) publicly?  Is it an act of provocation? Artistic freedom? Sexual evolution? Do we really feel comfortable with it? Do we go with the flow? Is it a way to cover wounds or modern time loneliness? The answers are personal. The questions universal.

Clark Woods

BIO: Clark Woods self identifies as a “Genderf*cked-Cyborg-Cowboy” in their artistic practice. Implied by their title, they are a queer non-binary trans artist making works that blend the real and the virtual, while attempting to embody the spirit of CAMP that has existing in the history of the cowboy. Their works utilize video, 3D, augmented reality, web-art, and performance to create blended reality experiences.

www.clarkwoods.art

@art.cowboy

ARTIST STATEMENT: 2 Dreams in C64 - A looping piece made to emulate the style of the Commodore 64, it uses the retro style of the early computer and the aesthetic of the CRT monitor to explore nostalgia and early ideations of gender. The idea of binaries is also confronted; i.e. what is a binary and what happens when you create a binary out of two things that don’t seem to be binary. What does it mean when we reduce complexities into two “opposing” sides, and how does viewing things in opposition frame them together and separately? The piece also takes reference to early internet culture and early 2000’s media to attempt an understanding of how these early depictions of gender have impacted Clark and their complex ideas of gender.

Leah Yochman

BIO: Leah Yochman graduated from The Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) with her BFA in Photo/Video. Yochman is constantly exploring different mediums and is expanding the subjects of her work. Through this process of exploring different media, Yochman has found a passion in working with light, the 2D and the 3D worlds, and video installation. With many of her pieces, Yochman strives to create a positive environment to share with the viewer. Her pieces focus on satire, social commentary, and communal emotions.

https://lyochman.wixsite.com/artist

ARTIST STATEMENT: This video is a mocking commentary on the culture that infomercials created, individuals are pressured to purchase products in order to “enhance their life.” In reality, the products are un-needed by most. The majority of infomercial products are meant for the elderly or disabled, however are advertised in a way that focuses on able bodied people in order to make more profit. This makes the product look comical when it is actually useful and needed by some. The video exaggerates the low quality aspects of infomercials and shows easily people can be manipulated to “buy in” to certain products, 2021.

Caleb Yono

BIO: Caleb Yono (b. 1981) lives and works in Chicago, where they received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Yono’s work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions including Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, the Chicago Cultural Center, Andrew Rafacz in Chicago and Monya Rowe in New York. Yono has also worked extensively with s+s project in Mexico City and has performed and exhibited at the Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo. They were the 2016 ACRE Residency performance scholar.

ARTIST STATEMENT: Red carpet 1 min loop/ is a diary entry. A video vignette. I made this with my tv and my phone around noon one day when I was feeling anxious. I use hyperbole and create euphoria for myself through expressions of femininity. Intense and dissonant this video is funny.