Adam Nankervis is an artist and independent curator. His practice has infused artistic, conceptual and curatorial practice in his lived in nomadic museum, Museum MAN, which renders the ready made, the habitated box, an apartment, to the navigation of the expanse of museum into an installation of threads of multifarious artists and artistic practice into a whole.
http://www.museumman.org/
Amelie Zadeh is a student at The Academy of the Fine Arts in Vienna. Her work has been collected by the Austrian government and Immersive Surfaces marks her American debut as an artist.
http://ameliezadeh.com/
Christine Schulz’s public works have recently appeared in buildings and structures (including the Manhattan Bridge in April) in NYC and Frankfurt. Her works on paper and video-based installations are represented in many collections.
Devon Elise Atkins is an emerging Australian artist, currently based in Berlin. Devon’s films, videos and installations have been exhibited in Melbourne and Berlin and she has received various awards for her work. Immersive Surfaces is her North American debut.
Eike’s work of art ranges from light boxes to videos, to computer graphics and 3D-simulation, from photos and site specific installations to computer-based media art.
http://eike.hu/
In the course of political change in the former Communist Poland of 1989 Elisabeth Smolarz’s family emigrated to Germany. Age thirteen at that time, she grew up between two different cultures and was affected by a post-communist and a democratic system. As a consequence she got more and more involved in the idea of how consciousness and perception is formed by one’s surrounding and its specific cultural, political, social and economical conditions. Since then her work has been shown nationally and internationally – in venues such as the 3rd Moscow Biennale, Reykjavik Photography Museum, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, and the Sculpture Center New York among others.
Eszter Szabó lives and works in Budapest. Her art explores two main areas: painting and video. The videos are based on her paintings which are water color on latex or oil on wood. She graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Since graduating, she’s had several solo exhibitions in Hungary and in Europe. She is also taking part in numerous group shows and art fairs in all over Europe and the US.
Farkas Fülöp is Hungarian artist who has recently relocated to NYC. His work using projected digital mapping appeared at Berlin’s Hungarian Cultural Institute in 2009, as well as appearing during last year’s “The Endless Bridge.”
John Ensor Parker is a painter, video and new media artist whose work draws upon both analytical and primitive processes. Inherent in his work is a holistic balance of both science and art. Fall 2011 he is a visiting artist at Eugene Lang/The New School of new media studies and will instruct a course called “Art & Science” This year, Mr. Parker was responsible for much of the original conceptualization and technical development of “As Above, So Below,” the mapped projection covering 30,000+ sq feet of the Manhattan Bridge Archway and Anchorage.
http://www.johnparkerart.com/
Johnny Moreno is an independent filmmaker, video artist and photographer. Utilizing film and digital mediums, motion and still-works, his pieces delicately balance dramatic intensity and absurd playfulness, while also maintaining a relevant point of view within contemporary society. Moreno frequently collaborates with various artists and musicians in order to create an array of interpretive live-art-video pieces. For “Immersive Surfaces,” Mr Moreno helped conceive of and manage the process of development for “As Above, So Below,” the mapped projection covering 30,000+ sq feet of the Manhattan Bridge Archway and Anchorage.
http://www.media77.com/
JUBAL BROWN is a video maker, multi-media artist, organizer, and writer and based in Toronto. He has shown extensively in Europe and North America. His projects consistently challenge boundaries of culture regardless of medium, pushing limits of spectatorship, often manifesting an amoral barrage of mindless directionless energy, often a tragic and beautiful collision of despair and longing.
Curator Leo Kuelbs has presented a variety of works in spaces both public and private, emphasizing the connection and blurring the boundaries between art (as object, spectacle and business) and daily life. Hundreds of thousands of viewers have seen works by hundreds of international artists presented by Mr Kuelbs.
http://www.leokuelbscollection.com
Application Design:
Meg Pullis Roebling is a digital media designer and marketing professional who explores the intersection of technology and creative expression, the real and the perceived. The Immersive Surfaces app was designed especially for the 2011 Dumbo Arts Festival / www.elysiummedia.com
Creative Assistance:
Andrew Esterly is a Video Editor/DVD Author from Woodridge Illinois. He has participated in the setup of many installations and helped many artists achieve their final vision from inception to exhibition. / http://www.facebook.com/andyesterly
Malado Baldwin is a Brooklyn based painter, filmmaker, and installation artist. Her video work was recently featured in Konstfestival /Audio Visual Loop Party at Magasinet, Falun, Sweden, and in Failed Entertainment at Land of Tomorrow in Louisville, Kentucky. Her artwork has recently shown in Paper 2011 at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery in Brooklyn, and in DECAMERON: David Cohen’s Decade of Exhibitions at The New York Studio School, NY; The BRUCENNIAL 2010, NY, andPairs, Perimeter Gallery, Cleveland, OH. Baldwin’s solo exhibitions include OpenHouse Gallery, NY (2011), KeyHole Gallery, Brooklyn (2005, 2006), and at the Dumbo Arts Festival, NY (1999, 2000). Her work has been reviewed on artcritical.com,art21.com, hyperallergic.com and in Esquire Magazine. A graduate of Swarthmore College (BA, 1997) and The New York Studio School (MFA, 2006), Malado Baldwin is the recipient of the Buckingham Prize (2005), the Visual Arts Foundation Grant (2007) and a nominee for The Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award (2008, 2010).
http://maladobaldwin.com
Noah has screened work domestically and internationally, including The Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Video Marathon at Art in General (New York), The SIMULTAN Video and Media Arts Festival (Romania), The Barcelona Art Contemporani Festival (Spain), The Performance Intermedia Festival in Poland, The COURTisane International Festival for Short Film and Mixed Media (Belgium). His work has been screened with two national tours (HI/LO Film Festival and Rooftop Films) and has won awards from the Center on Contemporary Arts in Seattle and The ASU Film and Video Festival. He is currently working on a commission for the 92nd Street Y in New York City and for the Los Angeles International airport (LAX).
http://www.noahklersfeld.com/
Richard Jochum is a visiting scholar and artist at Columbia University. He works as a media artist since the late 1990s setting up exhibitions all over the world. An Austrian citizen, Richard received his MA in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck, and his PhD from the University of Vienna dealing with strategies of coping with complexity in contemporary philosophy. He received his MFA in sculpture and media art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna before he moved first to Berlin and later to New York.
Ryan Uzilevsky is a filmmaker and multimedia artist based in New York. His short films and music videos have won various international awards but ultimately inspired him to expand the cinematic experience beyond the 16×9 rectangle, and create large-scale narrative video installations on buildings, sculptures, theater stages, planetariums and other transformative spaces. To help realize this vision, he operates Light Harvest Studio, a visual design and production lab in NYC.
Sara has exhibited nationally and internationally since the late 80′s. Selected exhibitions and screenings in the past three years include a solo show at Sarah Lawrence College, a sound and video installation project for Open Source Gallery, CologneOFF2011, Ende Tymes Sound Vision Screening, D-Block Gallery, L.A., CA, Central Connecticut State University, Pixilerations New Media Festival in Providence, RI, the Rotunda Gallery, Video Dumbo and 42nd International Film Festival screening at The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Sara received her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles and her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.
http://www.saracysun.com
Sarah Walko is a multimedia sculptor/installation artist and writer. She is currently the executive director of Triangle Arts Association in Brooklyn, New York. El Cadaver Exquisito, a collaboration feature film project by Victor Ruano, Rossemberg Rivas and Sarah Walko is currently in festival circuits and she is art director/production designer on several current film projects. Her fiction and non fiction essays have been published by While Whale Review Literary Journal and Hyperallergic Art Blog. Her visual artwork has been published by The Dirty Goat, Redivider, Blood Lotus, Apple Valley Review, 2 River, A Capella Zoo, Awosting Alchemy, 5×5 Literary Magazine, Bathhouse, 491 Magazine, 5×5 and Host Publications. She has participated in many exhibitions and artists residency programs in the US and her next exhibition will open in December 2011 at the Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Canada.
http://www.sarahwalko.com/
Swiss installation artist, Seline Baumgartner explores political and social themes in her sculptures and videos. Her work has been included in solo and museum shows in Europe (Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, Austria, Czech Republic) and the USA.Seline Baumgartner has received many awards, fellowships and artist residencies in New York, South Africa, India.
http://www.selinebaumgartner.com/
Simon Anaya is the founder and Multi-Media Producer of Anaya Visual FX based in Southern California. With 10 years of experience, his skills includes Large Scale Projection Systems, Video Mapping, Motion Graphics, Interactive Media, 3D Animation, and Sound Production. Simon has produced events for Disney, Sony, and General Motors, as well venues such as the Hollywood Bowl and Madison Square Gardens.
http://www.anayafx.com/
Sina Taherkhani is an Iranian American artist working in art direction for motion design and visual effects animation. He has a strong background in traditional and computer art which reflects his broad range of work. His personal work ranges anywhere from illustration and print design to filmmaking and animation. He attended the MFA program at Pratt institute and has since become a Brooklyn implant. He is currently a staff artist at Resident Creative Studio helping conceptualize and create striking media for broadcast and film.
http://vimeo.com/13394933
Thomas Draschan works mostly with collages and found footage imagery. His “Metropolis of Recklessness” consists of hundreds of 16mm films meticulously spliced together. “participation mystique” starts a new series of films where he actually returns to camera work. he studied at the staedel in frankfurt and received several international film awards such as the “best contribution to the language of film” at the Re-cine film festival.
born 1971 in Barth, Germany
graduated 2000 in Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts
lives and works in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
http://www.thomaslueer.de/
Tomas Eller likes to roll out the heavy artillery for his experimental studies. One of his video installations, Stabilize my Horizon (2000/2001), on view in Austria last year, featured four motorbikes battling it out on winding mountain roads. Eller was born in Maran, Italy, and studied sculpting, painting, art design, and new media at The University of Applied Arts and at The Academy of the Fine Arts in Vienna.
Vadim Schaeffler studied fine art at Braunschweig College of Art (BA & MA). He works with digital landscapes, non-places, creatures and people and he brings them into a confrontation with each other. A touch of narrative is often found in his works along with pictures of deformation, struggles and conflicts of the “virtual” and the “real” world. His media are video, installations and digital prints. Vadim lives and works in Berlin.
http://aliasvadim.firmaformat.de/109.0.html
