Infinite Smile | Effie Wu | 2007 | 4:50 min.
  Is Effie Wu a good fairy or an evil witch? Neither nor. She is the charming hostess who welcomes you into her home and before you can even bat an eye, she's got you hypnotized and trapped with her **Super Smile**. You willingly float along as she moves from room to room performing her chores: there is no escape. And the moment when it is too late to do anything about it anyway, you realize suddenly that you have become part of Effie Wu. A delightful proposition.

Effie Wu was born 1973 Born in Taipei Taiwan, Living and working in Berlin, Germany She holds BFA in performing arts from the National Taipei University of the Arts in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2008 she receuived a MFA Experimental Media Art in Berlin University of the Arts

Kentucky Kingdom | Nancy Jean Tucker | 2008 | 6:00 min.
  A natural disaster strikes a faceless population, bringing an infestation of bugs, drugs, and driving rain. An animated visual feast that defies gravity, logic, and camera angles - all from the point of view of a chicken.

Nancy Jean Tucker is a Los Angeles based filmmaker and artist. Her animated films have shown at worldwide in galleries and festivals including the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the European Media Arts Festival, and the Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival.


To go for a song 2 | eteam | 2008 | 1:00 min
  "Eins-zwei-drei-vier-fünf-la-la-la-la-la-la..."

eteam’s members are Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger. Since 2002, most of their projects are based on random pieces of land they buy on ebay. Their projects have been featured in exhibitions at the PS1, NY; MUMOK, Vienna, Neues Museum, Weimar; EYEBEAM, NY and the New Museum NY. Videos by the eteam have been screened at the Transmediale; the Marler Video Kunst Preis,; Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taipei; New York Video Festival, NYC and the 11th Biennale of Moving Image, Geneva. They have been awarded a Harvestworks Artist Grant, an EYEBEAM Production Grant, and an Experimental Television Center Finishing Fund. One of them is Professor for Digital Media at the Art Department of the City College of New York.

Leere Mitte | (Stardust 2) | Jeremy Bernstein | 2007 | 15:59 min.
  I was invited to Prague in early 2006 to give a workshop and do a performance. I repeated the performance of "pluck click whine bass lines" and added this piece (made new for the ocassion). This is the third installment of the ideas I've been exploring with regard to granulating time and video, and parallel processing of sound and image using "equivalent" processes.

Jeremy Bernstein's sonic and visual artwork has at its root a deep concern for our experience of time and surroundings. In his work, concrete reality is extracted from any functional context, and carefully re-composed into assembled abstractions, composite reality. Whether working with sound or visual imagery, Bernstein approaches his work through the technical process
of digital sampling, using fragments of found materials (sound, video, still imagery or text) to form complex multi-layered structures. His work proposes a noisy, nervous, pluralistic world in which distorted traces of the familiar stray from the path of the anticipated, in a unique vision of modern beauty.

Dubus | Alexej Dmitriev / AV | 2005 | 4:00 min.
  A slow dance of the classical cinema to the music of Zelany Rashoho.Alexei Dmitriev + Selany Rashoho are AV = two visual artists from St.-Petersburg, Russia. “Dubus”is a debut Dubus has received over 16 international film and video awards in 2 years.

Black White and Red | Sara Ching-Yu Sun | 2008 | 1:00 min.
  Unrelated audio sources from live recordings of concert and parties are edited in sync with re-edited dance footage from "Shall We Dansu?" to recreate a seemingly real event made of cohesive sound and visuals that is in fact fabricated.

Sara Ching-Yu Sun lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is predominantly video and video based installations. Sara received her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles and her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the 42nd International Film Festival screening at The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Currently, her work is in a show, A Wrinkle in Time, at the Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn. In addition, a solo show of her work will be scheduled for Sarah Lawrence College during Feb-March, 2009. Sara received an award in 1994 at the 15th AIM Program-The Bronx Museum of the Arts; a 2001 awarded artist residency at the McColl Center, NC; the 2002 Annual Selection Exhibition at the Asian American Art Center, New York; a 2003 Honorary Fellowship at the Djerassi Residency, CA; and a 2004 awarded residency at the Ping-Tung Peninsula International Arts Festival and Residency in Taiwan.


Body/Mirror | Chen Yerushalmi | 2008 | 2:40 min.
  As human beings, the sight of another person’s naked form may incite in us primal feelings and sensations. “Body/Mirror” is a video that aims to investigate the power of the human body as a representational tool. Through the use of a simple video effect, my naked body becomes the raw material of a provocative virtual manipulation – distorting the natural shape of my figure, and producing an array of highly realistic yet implausible, illusionary images. While the mechanics of the video are quite transparent, the visuals remain captivating and effective. They are both beautiful and violent – testifying to the notion that our relationship to the human form is of a dichotomist nature.

Chen Yerushalmi is a New York based artist specializing in video art. Her work to date has focused on exploring the notion of identity and perception in contemporary society. Yerushalmi attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, graduating in 2007 at the top of her class and was the recipient of the Rhodes Family Award for achievement in Fine Arts. In 2007 she also received the Alumni Scholarship Award. During her school years, her works were selected for several of SVA's sponsored exhibitions. In addition, she was also among 20 students selected by Jerry Saltz for the first Annual SVA Fine Arts Catalogue.

Water Water | Cecile Fichter | 2008 | 2:59 min.
  ‘water water’, 2008, is a single-channel 3 minute meditation on the presence of water – both metaphorically and physically in our lives.

Celeste Fichter holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and has exhibited at Go North: A Space for Contemporary Art, PH Gallery, DeChiaraStewart, Islip Art Museum and the Bronx Museum of Art. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and the Village Voice. Her video work is currently in several traveling exhibitions and film festivals in Europe and the U.S. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.


Light Field II | Richard Garet | 2008 | 14:33 min.
  The piece has pre-meditated rules of action and scored-descriptive-formular that triggers the functions of the piece indicating that the work alone is everything -- the svore, performance, instriment, and medium in itself. The DVD incarnation od the piece embodies it being score/performance/instrument/medium at the same time.

Soundtrack by Wolfgang v. Stürmner (WvS) Richard Garet is a sound artist, a video artist, and a painter. he is interested in the phenomena found and produced in aural and visual time-based media, in nature’s processes, and human beings' relationship with both artificial and natural environments. garet explores the it-referential, communicational, and sensory characteristics of the various media he utilizes. additionally, he focuses on the investigation of aural and visual spatial-contexts, relational structures, process, materiality, and form. even though garet’s work suits the standard gallery setting, many of his other activities as an artist explore the various practices of experimental sound and video performance. all of these modes are additional ways in which garet’s work exposes the audience to visual and physical acoustic sensory perception.
 
The Spill | Stephanie Lempert | 2008 | 2:38 min.
  The Spill is a piece that centers around the spontaneity of creation. The video captures the formation of a brief “community” created by a common spill. By concentrating on this subtle moment, the otherwise mundane spill takes on a life of it’s own.

Stephanie Lempert’s work concentrates on various systems of communication, both literal and invented. Lempert uses a wide variety of media including sculpture, photography and video. By focusing viewers on small moments, they discover that all is not as it appears at first glance. Often using humor, Lempert attempts to stimulate the viewer to go beyond what they recognize as reality by immersing them in a created environment.

Lempert is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited and collected domestically and internationally at establishments such as A.I.R. Gallery, Socrates Sculpture Park, HVCCA, The Armory Show, Art Basel Miami, Loop Art Fair, Lmak Projects, Stella Art Gallery, The Moscow World Fine Art Fair, and The 2006 New York Video Festival.

Lempert is represented by the Claire Oliver Gallery in New York.