BENTON-C BAINBRIDGE
For over two decades BENTON-C BAINBRIDGE has pursued moviemaking as a realtime, performable art form, playing live audiovisuals in a multitude of group and solo contexts. Using custom digital, analog and optical systems, Benton-C seeks to capture music's human abstraction in moving images. Benton-C has performed, screened, streamed, broadcast and installed video worldwide over the wires and airwaves and in museums, galleries, stadiums, clubs, colleges and festivals. Currently, Benton-C Bainbridge is designing video for RGB LED displays and live spectacles on stage and TV with FUEVOZ, a company he cofounded with V Owen Bush. (see also: The Poool, NNeng, 77 Hz, Valued Cu$tomer)
http://www.benton-c.com

BERKOY
BERKOY creates live spectacles for bands and showrooms, objects and shorts for the depot.  http://www.berkoy.com

ANGIE ENG
ANGIE ENG's video performance and new media work explores perception of movement in physical and mental space. Her current work draws from her peripatetic lifestyle. Her latest projects, Transhumance and Memobile address nomadic lifestyles.

Eng was born in 1969 in San Francisco California. In 1993 she moved to New York City to pursue her career in the arts. During this time she became involved in the downtown electronic arts scene and has collaborated on numerous video performance projects. She co-founded The Poool a live video performance group with Nancy Meli Walker and Benton Bainbridge in 1996-1999.

Her work has been performed and exhibited at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, Lincoln Center Video Festival, The Kitchen, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Roulette and Experimental Intermedia. She has received numerouse grants and commissions: New Museum of Radio and Performing Arts, Harvestworks, Art In General, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation and Experimental TV center. She is currently working on a series of paintings derived from a series of video vignettes, Life, Still.

She recently received a sponsorship to research and assist with a medical program for the Tuareg and Wodaabe nomads in Niger for a new video project, Radial Routes. http://www.angieeng.com

MARIE EVELYN
MARIE EVELYN was born in New York in December 1977. Marie uses voice as an instrument within a free-noise improvisational context. In an attempt to decentralize the vocalist, she experiments with abstraction, imitation, and impression. Using a single loop pedal devoid of effects, she layers sounds to build both melodic and dissonant textures -- interacting with her instrument and others in a reactionary or catalytic manner. She currently resides in New York.

RICHARD GARET
"I am a sound artist, a video artist, and a painter whose sources of inspiration are nature's processes and the relationships between nature and human beings. I explore the communicational, affective, and the sensory aspects of the various mediums I utilize, their constant intrusion on our senses, and how they affect our perception. Even though my work suits the standard gallery environment, manyof my other activities as an artist explore the various practices of experimental sound and video performance.All of these forms are different explorations of the ways in which my work exposes the visitors to visual and physical acoustic sensory perception. In my work I emphasize the content as the subject matter. I don't have much to say beyond what is achieved in the work itself and a brief description of the work. I consider myself an abstractionist and I'm interested in the exploration of the medium and subjectivity, therefore, it is quite important to me to leave the grasping of meaning as a open experience for the viewer where he/she can mirror him/herself. In that manner the participation of the viewer is quite vital for the conclusion of the work, once the viewer becomes exposed to the content of the work, in the precise moment of encounter, the work is finished while alsomaking this encounter an intimate experience. I don't finish the work the viewer does by placing the last piece of the puzzle." http://www.ruccas.org/

RHIANNON GIBBS
As far as experimental sound & noise is concerned, RHIANNON GIBBS has been involved in a couple of west coast collaborations & solo experiments utilizing cello & various forms of making noise & sound. After moving to NYC recently, she has been involved in participating in the share project of NYC. As well as working with sound, she is also into the creation & collaboration of experimental as well as premeditated video & film.

DARRYL HELL
DARRYL HELL (sektor 6 kommunikatons, Abstinence, Emergency Broadcast Network, Operation:Mindwipe) is a veteran multimedia artist, documentary maker, artivist, underground journalist / archivist. In the early 70's he began dj'ing and exploring audio 8-track recording experiments. By 1976 he began playing bass guitar and in 1981 he joined the New Jersey punk band Public Disturbance. This happened simultaneously as he was honing his skill as a hybrid collage dj / turntablist. Winter 1986 brought about the creation of Abstinence, New Jersey's first industrial project in the vein of Einstursende, Sisters of Mercy, and Puppy. Hell was instrumental in nurturing a hardcore industrial scene in New Jersey. Hell began working with video in the early 1980's. The current video production partnership of s6k Media and Wolfgang Busch Digital Video Prods. began in 1991. In the early 1990's Hell was granted the privilege of heading the Silent Records (San Francisco) industrial imprint Furnace Records under its highly skilled and imaginative leader Kim Cascone. Hell, along with the team of David Grau and Rob Psychotrope, created an American industrial label that explored a broad spectrum of global industrial / experimental music culture. David Grau [with Sheldon Hatch] led their team in bringing Hell's vision to fruition; create one of the first online record release parties...in 1995. In 1996, the call came from Emergency Broadcast Network for Hell to join forces with them. [EBN were the creators of one of the first midi-triggered video sampling systems.] In 1999, Hell became Director of Acquisition for Urban Box Office, under legendary ex-Motown bossman, GeorgeJackson and technical visionaries Tyrone Thomas and Jonn Nubian. Hell is currently one of the only industrial / experimental turntablists in NYC. In winter 2006 Abstinence will celebrate its twentieth anniversary. He continues to promulgate the breadth and historical legacy of industrial / experimental music culture. http://s6k.com/

CHiKA IIJIMA
CHiKA IIJIMA is a live computer visuals artist working within New York's expanded cinema community and VJ scene. Her videos implement geometricminimalist patterns and original graphics in unique, repetitive combinations. She has performed at the Museum of Modern Art, The Mapping Festival(Geneva), the Bushwick Art Project and the clubs Galapagos and Tonic, as well as private parties, festivals, events, galleries and night clubs. http://www.chiklet.com

CHRIS JORDON
Producer, educator, sculptor, visualist; Chris' focus has been on the fundamental aspects of light and the mechanics of vision. His work challenges the individual to examine how technology is altering the solipsistic beliefs of society and materialism. His live projection performances have been an integral part of dance, orchestra, rock, dj, theater, and circus performances. He teaches occasionally, gives sporadic lectures, organizes semi-regular salons, and for the past 5 years holds residency at Tonic in the L.E.S. Chris also organizes the T-Minus film festival, the only time-lapse film festival in the world. www.seej.net www.t-minus.org

LU(X)Z
LU(X)Z iis an Argentinian video artist, technologist and writer based in NYC. She has received her education in Argentina, Italy and New York, graduating with Honors with a double major BFA in Film/Video Production and Literature from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She received a full academic scholarship from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, where she conducts her Masters degree and directs the project Z-Hive, designing and developing an immersive environment. She received first prize in the Poetry Category from the Buenos Aires Cultural Council for Young Writers in a juried competition on creative writing in 1997. Sanz has conducted visual research, design and content creation at the Experimental TV Center, NY, working with the Center’s unique tool set and integrating it into innovative forms. For three years she was a full-time researcher and systems integration designer at the Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Natural History, where she implemented 3-D graphic systems for multiple projections, immersive environments and surround sound. In 2001 she joined the pioneering New York audiovisual group Amoeba Technology, with who she has traveled throughout the globe as videographer and multimedia artist, performing live video and screening works in places such as The Kitchen (NYC), Symphony Space (NYC), Basel Art Fair (Basel,Switzerland), Spannwerk (Berlin, Germany), Forum des Images (Paris, France), Center for Modern Art PRIBOY (St. Petersburg, Russia).She has directed, shot and edited over 10 films and videos which have been released on various experimental video labels in the US and abroad. Luciana Sanz composes imaginary landscapes through the visualization of sensory experiences: collaborating closely with musicians to achieve a unified audiovisual expression; incorporating camerawork, image processing and live video sequencing/mixing; blending art and technology, reality and abstraction to construct enveloping multimedia environments of perceptive unrealities and oniric states of mind. http://www.focusfovea.net http://www.amoebatechnology.net

STEPHAN MOORE
STEPHAN MOORE is a composer, audio artist, and sound designer in New York City. He has graduated from from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Western Michigan University, and Interlochen Arts Academy. His creative work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity. Recent performances and installation artworks make use of a large multi-channel array of his hemispherical speakers. He performs regularly as half of the electronic duo Evidence, and with a variety of musicians, live-video artists, and dancers. He has created custom music software for a number of composers and artists, and has taught courses in sound art and electronic music at Maryland Institute College of Art, Peabody Conservatory, Massachusetts College of Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Simon's Rock College of Bard. He is currently the Sound Supervisor of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. http://www.oddnoise.com

SHIGE MORIYA
SHIGE MORIYA, born 1967 in Kyoto, Japan, is a video artist and curator. He has been in New York since 1993, He first worked as an exhibition curator in Soho, but in 1996 Moriya moved to Williamsburg and opened CAVE. Since then he has been CAVE¹s Artistic and Executive Director. He has presented his video pieces both locally and internationally in Germany, Japan and Vietnam. In 2002 he received a grant for a residence in Hanoi, which was partly funded by the Ford Foundation. http://cavegallery.com/

NCHOO
NAVAL CASSIDY and HANDS OF ORLAK smother their audience with a large selection of lurid props and abrupt sounds. NCHOO perform with a wide array of gear, including small video cameras, computer controlled sound/video mixers, randomly edited video clips, and small homemade machines that can discharge frenetic associations between disparate elements, and create an atmosphere of confusion with thick clouds of dark humor. http://www.navalcassidy.com

NORTH GUINEA HILLS
NORTH GUINEA HILLS is Aaron Halley who started DJing in Florida while in various noise/improv combos before moving to NYC. He got his start in NYC w/ DJ Olive/Toshio Kajiwara's Phonomena party at Subtonic. He has formed groups that have performed everything from primitive dadaist hiphop to realizations of works from Bernard Parmegiani and Steve Reich to free psyche folk. He also has performed for free103point9's radio art performance tune-(in)))) (2003), performed turntabilized interperetations of Michael Count's Surrealist landscape sculpture "the world" for the Gale Gates gallery, and has recently performed for Share's "Anyware" at the Kitchen (part of the New Sound New york festival) where he collaborated w/ Sean Smith, clarkovsaturn, and remotely (via webstream) w/ Ryoko Kuwajima while she was in London.

DÓNAL Ó'CÉILLEACHAIR
DÓNAL Ó¹CÉILLEACHAIR is an Irish filmmaker and film editor who has lived in New York for fifteen years. As a filmmaker his work includes projects as diverse as; CUZCO 1999; a feature-length documentary that chronicles the final days of the century in the Ancient Capital of the Incas; WAR OF THE WORLDS - 2001, a Super 8 feature film project shot in collaboration with a host of New York underground, experimental and documentary filmmakers, and i, of k (imitation of kiss); a 10 screen film and video expanded cinema project. (for further info. see Ocularis Productions at http://www.ocularis.net. Dónal is the founder of Ocularis - the Brooklyn based weekly cinema forum which opened in 1996 - and was also one of the founding members of the NY based Expanded Cinema collective; kinoSonik (1999 - 2003).

BOBBY PREVITE
BOBBY PREVITE began his life in music as a great way to meet girls, but then fell in love with the drums instead. At thirteen, he fashioned his first set out of a rusted iron garbage can turned on its side (the bass drum), four upside-down rubber trash bins (the toms), a box with loose junk rattling around inside (the snare), three plungers with aluminum pie plates nailed on top, (the cymbals), and two pieces of linoleum crimped together, stuck through with a wire coat hanger wound into a spring, crowned with a rubber ball on top (the kick pedal)—and for hours on end would play to records in his dark basement with a lone spotlight shining on him. Eventually hired by a band, he rehearsed with them for a year, only to get fired the day of the first booking for not having "real" drums. After this experience he decided to strike out on his own, and has been doing so ever since.

Brought up playing soul and rock music in the old bars,clubs, and bordellos of Niagara Falls, NY, he later studied formally at the University of Buffalo, which boasted musicians John Cage, Lucas Foss, Morton Feldman, and Jan Williams. He then ran head on into Miles Davis, Edgard Varèse, Charles Mingus, Terry Reilly, Abstract Expressionism, Igor Stravinsky, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Balanchine and William Faulkner. That was that.

He moved to New York City in 1979, with great fortune quickly met the leading lights of the “Downtown” scene, settled in, and never looked back. For twenty-five years he has remained a leader, widely hailed for his electrifying drumming and his stunning, unclassifiable compositions.

He has played an astonishing range of genres and venues, from the Palace Burlesque House in Buffalo, NY to country music at Gloria’s Corral Club in the Kentucky backwoods (complete with, yes, a real corral surrounding the bandstand) to Carnegie Hall, and has presented his music at the major festivals around the world, from Europe to Russia, Japan to South America, and back.

The subject of articles in the world's major publications as well as in many books on music, Previte leads more bands than he probably should, and has added the electronic drums to his ever widening arsenal. He remains committed to form. And to beauty, in all its forms.
http://bobbyprevite.com/

KURT RALSKE
KURT RALSKE 's video installations and performances are created exclusively with his own custom software. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Los AngelesMuseum of Contemporary Art, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.

Kurt programmed and co-designed a 9-channel video installation that is permanently in the lobby of the MoMA in NYC. In 2003, his work received First Prize at the Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin, as a member of the video ensemble 242.pilots. Heis also the author/programmer of Auvi, a popular video software environment in use by artists in 22 countries.

Kurt resides in New York City. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in the Masters of Fine Art / Computer Art program.
http://retnull.com/

MATTHEW SCHLANGER
Exhibitions include the 1987 Biennial show at the Whitney Museum, PS1, The New Museum, The Kitchen, Tibor de Nagy, Thread Waxing, Film Anthology Archives, Time Based Arts and Monte Video in Amsterdam, the American Film Institute Video Festival, and The Bronx Museum. Collections include Monte Video, the Donnel Media Center of the New York Public Library and the Kitchen. Matthew taught video for several years at the School of Visual Arts, and has lectured about video art at SUNY Binghamton and Buffalo campuses, Rutgers University, Ithaca College and the American Film Institute in LA. Schlanger Currently teaches graduate courses in interactive programming for the School of Visual Arts M.F.A. degree program in Computer Art.

Matthew's video hardware development work for the Experimental Television Center, and for Design Lab, included a significant contribution in building the last generation of custom analog and digital image and sound synthesizers currently installed at the Television Center.

Matthew is currently the president of Black Hammer Productions and Black Hammer Game. Black Hammer Productions, formed in 1995, is a company that specializes in the development of new media products and solutions. BHP's many projects include game, educational and corporate CD-ROMs and websites. Black Hammer Game, formed in 2002, specializes in all aspects of game development and has completed its first Game Boy Advance title and is currently working on PC and GBA titles of its original design as well as providing services for hire. http://www.lumpybanger.com/

PETER SHAPIRO
PETER SHAPIRO .. with camera, is an active participant in video's interactive dance of life. Spawned from the heyday of The video revolution, of the seventies, He absorbed those grassroots philosophies and vision... Stay basic, experiment beyond the parameters and elements of technology, and now, more of an outcome than a slogan per se, "playing it till the computer crashes". He has tried to share what spirit and knowledge he has, and to continue to play with the video image as much as possible. http://petershapiro.com

JEREMY SLATER
JEREMY SLATER is an artist born in Reading, England who now lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn. He is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings doing interactive and ambient-reactive installations. Otherwise known as ( ) Jeremy Slater uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. He was one of the 1999 recipients of theComputer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. http://www.parenthesismedia.com

CASPAR STRACKE
CASPAR STRACKE is a Video Artist from Hamburg, Germany living and working in New York since 1993. He worked in the realm of Experimental Cinema, since 1993 in Digital Media and Media Archaeology. His films, videos and installation work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, retrospectives and festivals in the US, Europe and Japan. In 1999 he completed his first feature-length film project “CIRCLE'S SHORT CIRCUIT” which toured throughout the US and was selected for the American Century Part II exhibition at the Whitney Museum, NY. He has curated video programs for Knitting Factory, NY, Eighth Floor Gallery, NY, Ocularis, Brooklyn, Up and Coming, Hannover, Cityzooms Bremen, VIDEOEX, Zürich.
Since 2003 live video performances with MOSTRA http://www.videokasbah.net/

SUIT (KM)
S U I T (KM) Nathan Howe and Roland Toledo met while studying UrbanDesign/Landscape Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University, while exchanging presentation techniques of glamorized landscapes. Since moving to New York City to pursue music in 2000, it was not until 2002 that S U I T became the body from which they have released three EPs: Death March (2002), Mass Touching/Ninfa (2003), and Pang OS (2004), also two sound collages, KM (2003) and KM 2 (2004). These are all released under their limited edition platform KM. They currently reside in New York City. www.suit-km.com

SUBCARRIER
SUBCARRIER is a collaborative project between Andy Graydon, Giles Hendrix and Zach Layton in which they explore the synch moment: that area of correspondence in media where relationships resolve and dimensions expand. Synch in this way can mean the correspondence of image to sound, of object to media object, of language to referent, and of live moment to recorded timebase. Using video of simple actions shot specifically for the performance, both Hendrix and Graydon manipulate video and audio simultaneously to create a kind of "video concrète" in which media objects are the true instruments of performance. Zach Layton samples and processes this sound, adding it to his hypnotic compositions for sine waves.
http://www.andygraydon.net   http://gesture.org  http://www.zachlaytonindustries.com/

ELSA VIEIRA
ELSA VIEIRA (a.k.a. MONKEYFISH) - Film/Video Artist. Elsa divides her time and work between New York and Lisbon. She has written, produced and acted in independent/underground film and theater for the past two decades. Currently, she is exploring multiple modes of communication, language and movement and how they interact and interchange. Recently she has also been utilizing the Morse telegraph as a basis for both her 16mm film work as well as a live performance which converts various types of code into visual display. In addition to her own work, Elsa is deeply involved in bringing new media and digital art to a broader global community as part of her vision for RogueWaves (http://roguewaves.net), a company she founded in 2002, the goal of which is the furthering and evolution of counter-current, revolutionary ideas around the world through artistic experimentation and/or collaboration. Sometime in the near future, Elsa plans to bring SHARE (http://share.dj), a weekly multimedia event with which she is involved as one of many organizers and administrators, to Portugal as part of her vision for RogueWaves.
http://monkeyfishfilms.net/   http://www.roguewaves.net/