Sigal Ben-David & Les St. Leon
” My Playground of Others’ Memories “
Sigal Ben-David is a graduate of Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel-Aviv, Israel, where she majored in Photography, and was a Digital Media student at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology, and the Arts. Ben-David’s work attempts to visually articulate the role of objects in constructing and deconstructing the narratives around which we organize our lives, questioning the ways in which we form our social and political identity, while experimenting with forms, textures, patterns, and substance.
Les St. Leon received a B.A in Fine Art from Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL. He continued his studies in Computer Animation in San Francisco Computer Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. St. Leon’s visual language explores the very nature of perception, while aiming to convey movement and continuity. Whether his compositions start out as familiar settings, soon morph into abstraction, or the subject matter stays somewhat true to life – the narrative context remains rather obscure.
William A. Brown
“Trying to Paint with a Camera”
William A. Brown has been making still photographs and experimental videos since the 1970s. Starting in the 1990s William became interested is exploring slow motion studies of street scenes. He describes these as somewhere between the still photography and motion pictures. These videos were designed to be played on a flat wall screen in an architectural setting. He believes he was one of the first artists to show a flat screen experimental video, certainly one of the first in the South. Informed by both street photography and avant-garde cinema, these works reveal unseen details of the quotidian world of people in public places and events.
Min young Kang
“A conversation with A.I.”
Kang MinYoung studies Printmaking and Art history and currently works on printmaking, photography, video and theory. In particular, she records psychological insights into human life through combining visual images and text.
Eliseo Ortiz
“The conflicting definition of players: a revision of competitive games”
Eliseo Ortiz is a Mexican media artist. He makes games, interactive media and relational art to address political and social conflicts. His work has been presented in Mono No Aware in New York City, Centro Cultural Tlatelolco in Mexico City and Currents New Media in Santa Fe. His films had been included at the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, Festival Internacional de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana Cuba, San Diego Underground Film Festival and Experiments in Cinema in Albuquerque. Eliseo holds an MFA in Media Arts Production from SUNY University at Buffalo and is currently a PhD candidate in Emergent Technologies and Media Arts Practices at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Agatha Park
“Gangnam Makeover(2020): A Participatory AR Intervention to Redefine Beauty in South Korea”
Agatha Park is an XR artist/technologist from South Korea working in the United States. She trained as a 3D artist at the School of Visual Arts and recently earned a Masters in Design Studies studying art in the public domain and immersive technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Growing up as a Third-Culture Kid, she often creates narratives that connect divides between physical places or between physical and digital cultures. She is currently experimenting with expanding AR experiences through online participation. https://www.agathapark.com
Jennifer Sova & Jeanne Donegan
Thrill of the Chase: The Threat of Male Desire in American Film
Thrill of the Chase is a collaborative short film by visual artists Jeanne Donegan and Jennifer Fagan that appropriates clips from over fifty notable American romantic comedy and horror films.
Jennifer Sova is an artist, organizer, and arts advocate. Her interdisciplinary art practice is an exploration of masculinity, loss, and identity through photography, video, and performance. Sova is the founder and director of The Overlook, a mission-driven nomadic arts project. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Photography from Columbia College Chicago with concentrations in gender studies and business. She currently splits her time between Chicago and Bloomington, Indiana. www.jennifersova.com
Jeanne Donegan is an image based artist and educator working in Chicago. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut, her home state, and her Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. Donegan works in both still and moving image to focus on issues of femininity, desire, and intimate relationships. She is interested in the potential of women’s desire to elicit questions of power, autonomy, and pleasure. She is currently the Director of the Photography Department at Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago, IL. www.jeannedonegan.com