February 28 @ 7:30pm
Skip Blumberg is one of the first generation of video artists and an award-winning documentary video-maker. His videos are distributed by EAI.org, VDB.org, Facets, the Museum of Modern Art and MyHero.com.  One of his most recent works is an homage to his friend, video art pioneer Nam June Paik.

March 6 @ 7:30pm
Owen Shapiro is a Senior Professor at Syracuse University and the Artistic Director of the Syracuse International Film Festival that he created in 2004. Since 1969 Shapiro has made over 30 films and a dozen videos on a wide range of subjects, all exploring the boundaries between documentary, narrative, and experimental genres. He has also co-written and produced two feature films, Session (2007, presently in post-production) and Hotel Syracuse (to be shot in May 2008). His films have been in festivals in Edinburgh, Athens, Hong Kong, Israel, England, Germany, France, and throughout the USA. In addition to his work as a film and video maker he is also Associate Editor for Point of Contact, an international journal on the verbal and visual arts, and the author of numerous film theory articles.

March 13 @ 7:30pm

J.T. Rinker writes music and works in other media such as film, video, machine vision and robotic arts. His work is informed by and often combines elements from these various fields. J.T. recently received his Ph.D. in Music Composition at the Universityat Buffalo and he currently volunteer’s time at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, teaches digitalaudio workshops at Squeaky Wheel and organizes events at Big Orbit'sSoundLab.  

Carolyn Tennant is a media artist, independent curator and teacher whose interests in documentary, experimental and expanded media art installations, and the histories of science/art/technology sustain her own arts practice.  Carolyn received her MFA from University of Buffalo in 2006 and is currently an adjunct lecturer in the Dept. of Media Study and is the Media Arts Director at Hallwalls.

March 27th @ 7:30pm
Andrew Deutsch is a sound, video and graphic artist who lives in Hornell, NY. He is the founding operator of his Magic If label dedicated to experimental electronic music and hand produced packaging. His music has been released on CDs through Magic If, Deep Listening Publications, and JdK.  Andrew received his MFA in Integrated Electronic Art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1994 and currently teaches Sound & Video Art in the Division of Expanded Media at Alfred University

April 3rd @ 7:30pm

Mika Johnson is a film and video artist from NYC.  His work has been screened at the following venues and festivals: Anthology Film Archives - New Filmmakers Series, European Media Art Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, and Victory Media Network Film Festival.  He studied film, religion and theater at Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio and is currently living and working in New York City, where he is raising funds for his first feature film: AMERIKA: a notebook in three parts.