Christian Croft

As an artist in an age of exponential information growth, Christian Croft’s work harnesses public data flows, filtering their contents to reveal changes in how people communicate. His work translates information trails into new and often contrary spaces to highlight the sociological influence of new technologies. His production methods include web programming, DIY electronics, rapid prototyping machinery, and telephone system networking. In Fall 2007, he will conclude his master’s research at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and he presently works at the Advanced Media Studio at NYU.

His work has been shown at The Kitchen Summer Institute, Centre Pompidou, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art (ATHICA), Rhizome Artbase, EYEBEAM Upgrade!, SIGGRAPH 2007, and Conflux 2007. For LMCC Swing Space, he is working on an installation entitled “the ‘is our machines learning?’ machine.” Documentation of his projects is online at xncroft.com.

Jeff Gray

Jeff Gray is an interface designer and artist exploring the boundaries between technology and human interaction. These range from augmented historical artifacts with extended memories, extra-sensory wearable technologies, and dynamic interfaces for musical expression, just to name a few. The overall goal remains establishing human-like qualities and relationships with the objects we interact with daily, in order to improve our interaction with the everyday world. Jeff has a master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, as well as a bachelor's degree in studio art from the University of Idaho.
In addition, Jeff is a creative technologist and developer with Learning Worlds. He builds visualization tools and asset management software, as well as physical hardware prototypes. While seeking his master's degree, he developed software for visualizing “network ecosystems” in an aesthetic framework and various physical interfaces. Recently, he has been involved in building tools and installations for the Children's Museum of Manhattan, 3 Legged Dog, as well as the United Nations.

Erik Guzman

Erik Guzman has been active as an artist in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for 8 years. During this time, Guzman has been involved in organizing and/or participating in over 50 art events. Among many professional accomplishments are his Joan Mitchell nomination, selection as School of Visual Arts representative at the New York College Art Association show and Cue Foundation resident. He has exhibited locally in New York City, Smack Mellon, El Museo Del Barrio (S Files), Front Room Gallery, Soap Factory, Hillwood Museum, Dumbo Art Festival, The Kitchen, Exit Art, St. Marks Church Gallery. International exposure includes shows at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Goliath in Hamburg, Germany and Gallery Tezz, Tokyo, Japan. Erik is the Co-Director of Goliath Visual Space in Brooklyn, which has been in operation for seven years and is a non-profit visual arts space dedicated to showing the work of emerging artists often overlooked by commercial galleries and regarded as commercially non-viable. Erik received his BFA, with honors, and MFA, with a full scholarship, from the School of Visual Arts. Erik is currently Director of SVA’s sculpture department, where he oversees safety and is responsible for the technical education of over 250 students. 

Lars Mathisen

Danish-born Lars Mathisen holds a BA in History from Copenhagen University, Denmark. He lives and works in Copenhagen and New York.
Mathisen has primarily worked with developing the visual languages of film and video in contemporary art. Mathisen’s video installations employ language and theatrical stage settings along with shifts in the synchronization between sound and image to create a deliberate disorientation on the part of the viewer. This sliding of elements is a critical device in his works that cancels the distance between opposites, bringing utopia in touch with dystopia and "normality" in touch with perversion.
Mathisen’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria, the Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland, the Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria, the ARoS Museum of Modern Art, Aarhus, Denmark, the São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (Danish representative 2004), the Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain, and the Nordic Biennale, Moss, Norway. 

Tim Maxwell

Tim Maxwell was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and works in New York City. He graduated from Penn State University in 2002 with a BFA in drawing and painting, and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2004 with an MFA in drawing and painting. Maxwell’s drawings are influenced by Celtic illuminated manuscripts, human ornamentation, idiosyncrasies of wisdom literature in the Bible, the self-help quality of punk and hardcore music, medieval depictions of the last judgment. And a reluctant pull towards metaphysics and Soren Kierkegaard’s endless musings of soul doubting.
He has had solo shows at Marvelli Lab, Derek Eller, and RARE gallery and has been included in group exhibitions at White Columns, Massimo Audiello, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen and Alona Kagan Gallery.

Julia Rommel

Julia Rommel was born in Salisbury, Maryland, and resides in Brooklyn. She received her MFA from American University in Washington D.C., and studied painting at the University of Richmond, and St. Andrews University, Scotland. She has participated in group shows at Moti Hasson Gallery in New York, and Connor Contemporary Art in Washington D.C.

Edin Velez

Through rich imagery and an acute sense of visual metaphor, Edin Velez, one of the pioneers of video art, has consistently expanded the paradigms of the genre. Velez was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico and the School of Fine Arts of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. In 1970, inspired by Marshall McLuhan's theories, he moved to New York City in order to explore the possibilities of television as a personal art form. 

His works have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, Documenta 8, Sao Paolo Biennial, The Tate Gallery, and the Louvre Museum, among others. His videos are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art: New York, Stedelijk Museum: Amsterdam, Nagoya Museum: Japan, and the Whitney Museum: NY. In 2000 he was an artist in residence at the World Trade Center where he created a site specific installation on the 91st Floor of Tower One. In 2004 Velez’s work was included in "Modern Means," a landmark survey show of 300 art works representing modern art from the late Nineteenth century to the present which was the flagship exhibition of the newly opened Mori Museum in Tokyo. 

Alex Villar

Born in Brazil and based in New York, Alex Villar holds an MFA from Hunter College ('98) and in 2000 was a Whitney ISP fellow. His work draws from interdisciplinary theoretical sources; it employs video, installation and photography. Individual and collaborative projects are part of a long-term investigation of potential spaces of dissent in the urban landscape; it has often taken the form of an exploration of negative spaces in architecture.

Carlo Bernardini

Carlo Bernardini was born in Viterbo in 1966 and obtained his diploma at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome in 1987. In 1997 he wrote the theoretical essay on "The division of visual unity", which was published by Stampa Alternativa. In 2000 and 2005 he received a grant "Overseas Grantee" from the Pollock - Krasner Foundation of  New York, and in 2002 the prize Targetti Art Light Collection “White Sculpture”.  He has created and installed permanent public sculptures in stainless steel and optic fibres in various Italian cities.
He currently teaches at the Fine Arts Academy of “Brera” in Milan. He lives and works both in Rome and Milan.
Carlo Bernardini is devoted to the dialectic relation between lines and monochrome, representing different moments of the figurative conception of space and light. The painstaking path of abstraction, far from being a sole intellectual strategy, is a gradual research of the line element in order to conquer its essence, as if to trace the invisible. His visual research is currently
developed by means of environmental
installations in optic fibres.

Eva Perez de Vega Steele and Ian Gordon

Architect/choreographer Eva Perez de Vega Steele and architect Ian Gordon form e+i architecture (ei-architecture.com), an interdisciplinary architecture practice also involved in interior design, product, set design and choreography. The work of e+i has been exhibited in New York (AIA Center for Architecture, Van Alen Institute, RIVAA art gallery), Milan design fair, Venice, Rome, Madrid, Stockholm and Seoul.
 
Eva Perez de Vega Steele  holds a Masters and Bachelors degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering from the University of Madrid School of Advanced Architecture (ETSAM) and has studied dance at the Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York. In 2004 she founded EPdVS Studio (epdvs.com) to explore techniques of exchange between both fields and continues to do so with e+i.  She currently teaches at Parsons The New School for Design and has taught at UPenn School of Landscape Architecture and Princeton School of Architecture.
 
Ian Gordon is a licensed architect in New York State with nine years of professional experience working in New York, North Carolina, and Madrid, Spain. He received his Master’s Degree in Advanced Architectural Design (AAD) and graduated with honors from Columbia University. He holds a Bachelors degree from NC State University and has a background in Fine Arts. In 2006 he initiated isgStudio, an office dedicated to design research and currently co-directs e+i architecture with Eva Perez de Vega.

Carlos Motta

200 Hudson, 4th Floor

July 2007

Carlos Motta is an artist (b. Bogotá, Colombia, 1978) whose work investigates the effects that historically significant political events have exercised on individual and collective subjectivity. At Swing Space (2007), Motta presented "The Good Life: Installation Sketch # 3," a sketch of his long-term video documentary project (in-progress) composed of interviews with people on the streets of 12 Latin American cities about their perceptions of current and historical US foreign policy in the region and of local forms of democratic governance. Motta is a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2006), received an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, in 2003, and a BFA in photography from The School of Visual Arts in 2001. His work has been widely exhibited, including in the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Palazzo Papesse, Siena, Italy; Foam_Fotografie Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia; SF; and Fries Museum, Groningen, Holland. Recent awards include the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), 2007; the Swing Space Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2007; the DaNY Arts Grant (with HOMEWORK), Danish Arts Council, 2007, and the Subvention Grant, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (CIFO), 2006.

Anja Hitzenberger

Anja Hitzenberger is a photographer, filmmaker and video artist whose work focuses on the body in motion. She has been commissioned to create video installations for dance, has photographed live on stage as part of a performance, and has been collaborating with movement artists on site-specific architecturally-aware pieces. She studied at the International Center of Photography in New York, and has exhibited her work in group and one-person shows in New York and throughout Europe, and published internationally in magazines, books and newspapers. Her short film, Barcelona in 48 Hours, co-directed with composer Edward Ratliff, has been screened in over 20 festivals across world. A multimedia performance version of the film was commissioned by and premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, and was also presented in Vienna at the ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival.

Troy Richards

Troy Richards currently lives and works in Ohio, where he is the chair of Drawing at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He received his MFA in 1997 from Cranbrook Art Academy. He has participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program and the Artists in the Marketplace Program at the Bronx Museum of Art. He has had solo exhibitions at Grand Arts in Kansas City, Duncan and Miller Gallery in Washington D.C., and a long-term installation at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. His work has been included in group exhibitions in New York City at P.S.1, White Columns, Socrates Sculpture Park, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LFL Gallery and Gallery 67 among others. Last December he performed at Artists Space in New York City as part of Performa 05.

Noah Fischer
andcompany
&Co

Founded by Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord and Sascha Sulimma from Frankfurt, Germany, andcompany&Co. is an international artists’ network that concentrates on performance. The network is open to collaborators, who take on the suffix &Co when they join. New York based visual artist Noah Fischer &Co joined in 2005 while on a Fulbright in the Netherlands, bringing his electric installations onto the stage alongside Sascha, who mixes sound live onstage, and Alex and Nicola, who write and perform text. The common thread that runs through andco.’s work is a reflection on communism in the West. In 2005, Noah Fischer presented an evening of multimedia performances with andcompany&Co, Jutta Koether, and Jashca Hoffman.
www.andco.de

Johanna S. Meyer is a choreographer and performer based in New York City. Her two full-length dance works include Every Hotel TV Plays On (2001) and Teaser (1999); she is currently developing an evening-length show called Bearshow. She has also created eleven short pieces, many in collaboration with Alexandra Hartmann. Meyer's dances have been presented at PS 122, The Ontological Theater, Joyce SoHo, Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Kitchen's Dance-In-Progress series and most recently at the University of Santa Barbara Summer Theater Lab. Comedic and intricate, her work sometimes employs video and often draws on historical material such as burlesque routines, medical textbooks, and vintage films.

Brought up playing soul and rock music in the old bars,clubs, and bordellos of Niagara Falls, NY, Bobby Previte 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.

Andrea Kleine's work as a playwright and director has been presented in New York City at the Duke Theater on 42nd Street, Performance Space 122, The Women’s Project Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, and across the US, and in Canada and Europe. She has received numerous commissions, grants and awards including two MacDowell Colony fellowships, and in 2004, the prestigious New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship award in playwriting/screenwriting. She lives in New York and recently completed CALF, her first novel.

125 Maiden Lane, Tenth Floor

June 2006

Gautam Kansara was born in London in 1979 and is currently based in New York. Working with Video and Photography Gautam is interested in the hierarchical shifts and role reversals that occur within a family as its members age and personalities evolve, as well as the resulting confusion of caretaking roles. Through this work the viewer is exposed to his family, and to their complex and fluctuating dynamic, bearing witness to their emotional exchanges, discussions, and arguments, largely an amalgamation of their generational and cultural dispersion from Bombay, London, Cupertino, and New York. Gautam’s Videos and Photographs have been shown at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Rotterdam Film Festival, Platform Garanti in Istanbul, Smack Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn, The Museo Nacional de Arte in La Paz, Bolivia, Dukwon Gallery in Seoul, Korea, and LMAK Projects in Manhattan among others. In 2006 Gautam was a Fellowship Artist at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn and also participated in the 26th Artist in the Marketplace program through the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Most recently Gautam was awarded a solo exhibition from Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut as part of their GO! series that will be on view in 2008. Gautam is also a faculty member at Manhattan College’s Department of Fine Arts teaching Digital Photography and Video Art.

125 Maiden Lane, Tenth Floor

May 2006

Amy Lincoln makes paintings and drawings of interior and exterior spaces.  She lives and works in Brooklyn, using her daily surroundings as source material for psychologically loaded images of restaurant booths, backyards and bedrooms.  Originally from the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, Lincoln moved to the east coast to attend graduate school at Brandeis University and the Tyler School of Art, where she earned an MFA in painting.  Lincoln earned her BA at the University of California, Davis.  In 2006 she received a Swing Space award from LMCC.  She has shown in Portland, Philadelphia, Boston, Davis, CA and Richmond, VA.

32 ave. of Americas

Joshua Abram Howard was born in Seattle, Washington, now resides in Sunnyside Queens. In 2003 he received a BFA in drawing from the Pratt Institute. The same year he was accepted into the Skowhegan School of painting and sculpture residency. In 2005 he was awarded a Swing Space from the LMCC. His work has been exhibited in  A Jamaica Queens Thing, 2007 at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in Jamaica Queens; The Queens International 2006, Everything all at once at the Queens Museum of Art, Binge and Purge 2006, at Magnan Projects in New York,
and Project Diversity Queens 2007.

"Totems inspire me. They reuse a system of symbols to make something that is customized. I combine familiar objects to create a potent representation of myself and the society that I belong to. My drawings and sculptures are based on objects and images that I have had an ongoing relationship with, some since childhood.  I compose my work digitally using the computer but I always draw/construct the final image/object by hand. It is very important to me that the physicality of the human hand is present in my artwork. It is a way to connect with disappearing human crafts."

32 Avenue of the Americas

May 2006

32 Avenue of the Americas

May 2006

Erik Sanko (puppet maker/composer) is an artist working and living in New York City. He cut his teeth on the surly streets of downtown N.Y.C. as an avant-garde musician where at the precious age of 19 he joined the superstars of noise, The Lounge Lizards with whom he played for 16 years. His reputation landed him roles with such luminaries as John Cale, Jim Carroll, Gavin Friday and They Might Be Giants before eventually starting his own band, Skeleton Key. He continues to write and perform with Skeleton Key and tour with Yoko Ono and James Chance and the Contortions. All during this time, he had been secretly making marionettes.

125 Maiden Lane, Tenth Floor

January 2006