Volcano – Emily Candela

Emily Candela completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College in 2006. Working in video, sculpture and collage, she exhibits internationally, and is based in London.

Making Art – Gabriela Vainsencher

Gabriela Vainsencher was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1982. She grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She's been discussing her personal life and other people's art for as long as anyone can remember, and has taken her show on the road to various locations in Western and Eastern Europe as well as the very Eastern edge of the city of New York. She will have her first New York solo show at WORK gallery in Brooklyn in November 2008 and her first Canadian solo debut at La Chambre Blanche in Quebec City in January 2009.

Looking down – Gabriela Vainsencher

Gabriela Vainsencher was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1982. She grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She's been discussing her personal life and other people's art for as long as anyone can remember, and has taken her show on the road to various locations in Western and Eastern Europe as well as the very Eastern edge of the city of New York. She will have her first New York solo show at WORK gallery in Brooklyn in November 2008 and her first Canadian solo debut at La Chambre Blanche in Quebec City in January 2009.

RITUAL –  Sergio Cruz

Sergio Cruz is an award-winning artist/filmmaker, born in Portugal (1977). He studied in Portugal, Amsterdam and London, where he currently lives and works as an independent artist/filmmaker. His recent work involves experimental film and video with performance and explores ideas about human movement through filmmaking, blurring the line between documentary, experimental and dance film. He also works frequently as a sound designer with Portuguese choreographers. Since 2004 he has been creating film and video for international broadcast, galleries and film festivals.

Big Cat Dream - Tony Burhouse

Tony Burhouse was born in Leeds, UK in 1987. He has studied at Leeds College of Art and Design, and is currently in the third year of a Fine Art degree at Leeds Metropolitan University. His biggest achievement to date has been the inclusion of his work in the BBC's Northern Design Competition 2008 as one of five finalists in the Fine Art category. The majority of his work are drawings on paper, but he has also worked in animation, installation, sound, graffiti/street art and interactive electronic formats. Aside from course work he has an ongoing involvement with Leeds based music groups and DIY party organisers in creating promotional work.

Born 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, Andrew Sims studied Contemporary Creative Practice (BA) at Leeds Metropolitan University. After graduating in 2007 he has exhibited art works in the UK and Europe.  He currently lives in London where he has taught at the University of the Arts London and continues to produce art. Sims' is interested in the factors that condition the construction of our perception. He uses images, objects and experiences harnessed from television, books, computers and the world around him to mirror the process of how they are collected and shaped into parts of ourselves. He has described his work as “the excretion of a perceptual digestive system.”

Four Views - Barry W Hughes

Barry W. Hughes / Bahs (b. 1980, Ireland) holds a BA in Fine Art Media from the National College of Art & Design, Ireland. He has exhibited both digital and analogue photography, video and web-based projects throughout Ireland and internationally.
Hughes’ practice involves the use of time-based media in exploring the conceptual themes of his work, such as psychological states relating to the process of time as interpreted by physical activity. Comparing the intentional gesture with the unintentional action, much of his explorations are carried out in minimal, everyday language, drawing on references from forensic science, Information and Quantum Theory to Buddhist Zen and Marxist philosophy. He currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.

Displacement of a cultural self portrait – Funda Ozgunaydin

Funda Ozgunaydin lives and works in Berlin, Germany & Cork City, Ireland. She was born in Frankfurt/Main in 1974 and after studying natural sciences there Funda travelled widely, spending a year in Capetown, before settling in Cork city to study art at the Crawford College of Art & Design. She is currently at UDK – Berlin, as a guest with Hito Steyerl, and will soon complete her artist's residency at GlogauAir, Berlin. Her work – both in video and as site specific installations – has been shown in Budapest, Cork and Berlin and in 2009 she will participate in VideoAkt 2009 in Barcelona. Funda is Turkish by descent, and has lived in Istanbul, and this dual nationality informs her work.

Magpie – Serge Le Squer

Serge Le Squer lives in Marseille. Since 2000, he photographs, films and records sounds of the real to question our relation in the space. He participates in exhibitions in Paris, Montreal, Alexandria, Beirut, Hamburg, Lyon, Marseille, Yokohama, Rio de Janeiro. www.lesquerserge.o-n.fr

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Flashing Time - Claudia Mateus

Born in Lisbon, in 1979. Currently lives and works in London. She studied Fine Art (Licentiate degree) at Faculdade de Belas-Artes de Lisboa, Lisbon and the MA at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Previous shows include “Misuse” (solo show at Galeria Sete, Coimbra, PT, 2008), “Videoholica 08” (Varna Biennial of Visual Arts, Varna, Bulgaria, 2008), “In Reality & Fiction” (CHPL Espaço Polivalente, Lisbon, PT, 2008), “Project” (Another Roadside Attraction Gallery, Griffin, London, UK, 2008).Her work is represented in the PLMJ Collection and AIP Collection, among others, and in several private collections.

Quote - Angel Bellaran

Angel Marie Bellaran was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey in 1984. She has studied at Wagner College in New York, Montclair State University in New Jersey and received her BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She currently lives and works in New York.

The Legend of Pwdre Sêr - Dave Griffiths

Dave Griffiths is a Manchester-based artist. His filmworks dwell on the physical and fictive borders of frames, combining a rigorous attention to barely perceptible matter in moving images with an aesthetic study of their dramatic potential. The work is filtered through the languages and strategies of cinema to attempt an ironic critique of our social bond with visual technologies. Griffiths "close-up epics" playfully touch on illusions of security or perfection that surround media, and attempt to commemorate their temporary structures. He uses moving images, often arising from laborious search or unstable technical methods, to devise encounters between various apparatus and accidental, faltering or abandoned codes.

Griffiths recent exhibtions and screenings include British & European
Legs, OUTPOST, Norwich; Backup Festival, Bauhaus Weimar, Germany; Pixilerations, Rhode Island, USA; Rencontres Internationales, Madrid; Stuttgart Filmwinter, Germany; Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol; Antimatter, Victoria Island, Canada; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany; S1 Salon, Sheffield, UK; London Short Film Festival; Imapkt, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Dave Griffiths is represented by Bureau Gallery, Salford, UK.
www.davegriffiths.info