Anne Lesley Selcer -- Ch 3 from A Book of Poems on Beauty

Excerpts from a Book of Poems on Beauty are forthcoming in Action, Yes! and Try. Other work by Anne Lesley Selcer appears recently in The Clackamas Literary Review, Woo, The Graphic Tales of Mr Todd and Associates and Aunt Maude's Scrapbook, an artist book published by JRP Ringier in Zurich. She is the author of the book Banlieusard, commissioned by Artspeak in 2005. She writes on visual art for galleris and magazines.

Ronnie Cramer -- Cantata in C Major

Artist/Musician/Filmmakeer Ronnie Cramer has been active in the arts community for over thirty years. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries and other venues across the country, his music has achiieved airplay on over 100 radio stations nationwide and his critically acclaimed films have been screened at festivals around the world. He has also been featured as a guest lecturer on art and media at numerous museums and universities. Scorched Earth Productions

Desciple -- Freethrow

DESCIPLE is an Oakland native filmmaker who is known for producing larger than life movies at a Taco Bell budget. In 2007, Desciple's film, PURGATORY 2 screened at the 2007 Festival De Cannes Short Film Corner, San Diego's Comic-con and at Oakland International Film Festival with a cast gathered from Craigslist and a budget of only $106. Desciple also is the creator of Berkeley CH28's HORRORTV and the yearly action film festival known as HEROFEST. torridproductions.com/crow2d.html

Anna Whitehead -- Great Kings

Anna Whitehead makes semi-autobiographical work exploring oppositional racial, sexual and gender identities. Her practice explores the nuanced interstices of individual identity and collective knowledge within thematic discourses of diaspora, history, memory, melancholy and desire. With a background in painting and performance art and an interest in storytelling through music, experimental theatre and puppetry, she is currently enrolled at the California College of the Arts, venturing further into public performance and video.

Michael Trigilio -- Breaking Glass: My David Bowie Movie

Michael Trigilio was born and raised in San Antonio, TX. His media work has been presented nationally and internationally, notably at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco, and the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg. Michael is a co-founder of the collaborative Neighborhood Public Radio project which was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Michael lives in San Diego and is serving on the Visual Arts faculty at UC San Diego where he teaches courses in Media Arts. More info at www.starve.org.

SarahMatik -- Anitya

SarahMatik is a San Francisco based performer, costume designer, multimedia artist & educator.

Rebekah May -- Ablation

Rebekah May graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton NY with a BA in Fine Arts in 2003. She has completed internships at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village CO, the John Michael Kohler Center for Arts in Kohler WI & the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley CA. She attended residency programs at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and Sloss Furnaces Metal Artsw in Birmingham AL. Rebekah received her MFA degree at CCA in 2009. Her artwork has been shown in New York, California, Illinois, Alabama, & Colorado.

Raymond Yeh -- Hsauter

Raymond Yeh has hundreds of hours of video, most of which have never been seen nor viewed, but all of which have meaning.  Video, to him, serves two purposes: first, to record peoples lives so that they are not forgotten.  second, to record the world as he wishes it to be remembered; without lettering or language; and without common-intent.

Alfred Hernandez & Amy Green -- The Oasis Bloom

Alfred Hernandez has been making films and videos in the Bay Area for over twenty years.  His films usually employ the use of masks, miniatures and special visual effects.

Stephanie Sherriff -- Amalgam (live video performance)

Stephanie Sherriff is a sound artist interested in the intersection of video sculpture, performance art.

Featured Artist: David Cox -- Puppenhead, Otherzone, Dr Yes Trailer

David Cox is an award-winning filmaker with a background in animation and videogames. He lives in the Bay Area and teaches at City College of San Francisco and DeVry University.

Rebecca Najdowski -- Trace

Rebecca Najdowski is an exhibited visual artist who uses photography, video and landbased interventions in her practice. She lives in San Francisco where she is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts. Her work is strongly informed by having been born and raised in the high desert of New Mexico. Rebecca explores the complicated interaction between humans and nature.

Michael Goodier -- Love Lafayette

Michael Goodier captures real situations, the mundane; a friend packing up his apartment to move, or, as in his film The Searchers, he documented another friend driving from the East Coast to the West. We expect documentary films to be one way and Hollywood cinema to be another. We do not expect them to overlap, and when they do strange things can happen. In this way Goodier plays with the viewers' adapted ideas of cinema. He creates films out of everyday situations, situations that we can actually relate to, without the sensational fantasy that Hollywood cinema most often constructs.Born in Rhode Island, Michael Goodier moved to California in 2002 where he currently resides in Oakland. He received his MFA in New Media from California College of the Arts and his BA in Film Studies at Rhode Island College.

Tricia Lawless Murray -- Caught in a Labyrinth

Tricia Lawless Murray was born along the Southern California Coast, but received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from schools in the Bay Area. Her BA is in the History of Art from UC Berkeley and her MFA is from the California College of the Arts. Currently, she resides in a Disney cottage near Griffith Park.

Corrine Bot -- Skippy Bunny

Corrine Bot is a Video Artist. Recent showing including winning 1st Prize Total Film Festivals Cinema Paradiso Fort Lauderdale. Recent showings: Les Inattendus (Lyon, France), Platforma07 (Athens, Greece), Tirana Int’l Film Fest (Albania), Varmlansk Filmfestival (Arvika, Sweden), Int’l Fest of TV (Barcelona), Euroshorts (Warsaw, Poland), Videolab Lagos (Portugal), & many other International Festivals. corrinebot.com

Samara Halperin -- The Leather Daddy & The Unicorn

Samara Halperin is a filmmaker from New York City, currently living in Oakland, CA. She has been making short films & videos for queer youth since she was a queer youth & has screened in more than 50 film festivals worldwide. She received a BFA in film from Rhode Island School of Design & an MFA in film from The California College of Arts & Crafts. Halperin teaches at Mills College & won a 2007 Goldie Award. samarahalperin.com

Hilary Harp & Suzie Silver -- Robot Love

Collaborating since 2003, Hilary Harp & Suzie Silver have created a range of projects including objects, installations, videos and performances. Drawn to exotica, science fiction and pre-digital special effects, they created D.I.Y. spectacles by combining technical sophistication with humble materials. They have exhibited their objects and installations throughout the US. Their videos have screened all over the world. The Video Data Bank distributes their videos, Nebula, Robot Love and Eric Moe's Idyll. They have performed their live media variety show "Fruit Machine" in a number of venues nationally including Transformer Gallery, Washington DC; Around the Coyote Festival, Chicago, IL; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA; Phoenix Fringe Festival, AZ; and University of San Diego, CA. Harp is Assistant Professor of Sculptuer at Arizona State University. Silver is Associate Professor in Electronic and Time Based Art in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.

Tony Coleman & Sean Levon Nash -- Conspirabee Theory

Mostly known for surrealist representational figurative paintings shown in the SF Bay Area, Tony Coleman has also performed with alternative HipHop acts Maggot Brain & Fatomat. His first major animated work "Dead News Network" (2007) has toured internationally & is currently featured as part of an Opera written by John Leanos & Sean Levon Nash. "Conspirabee Theory" is the first animated piece Coleman has written & co-directed. Tony Coleman was born in Kokomo IN & currently resides in Oakland CA. He received his MFA from UC Berkeley in 1992 & BFA from Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, IN in 1987.

Katie Krohn -- Forever Yours

Berkeley City College Multi-media student.

Eve Edelson-- Insomnia

Eve Edelson's book "Scamorama: Turning the Tables on Email Scammers" was published by the Disinformation Company in 2006. She was a columnist for the A&E Webzine Shuffleboil and her story "The Underachiever" will appear in the 2009 Tallgrass Anthology, "Fearsome Fascinations".

Antero Alli -- The Word, Weird

Antero Alli (b.1952) is a Finnish born, Berkeley-based filmmaker whose idiosyncratic films defy easy categorization in their exploration of what he calls "the metaphysics of social collapse". His films have garnered high critical praise from filmthreat.com while screening the west coast arthouse circuit; Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), Portland Art Museum, UC Irvine Film Dept, Red Vic Movie House (S.F.), The Mills College Concert Hall (Oakland), Northwest Film Forum (Seattle), Hollywood Theatre (Portland) and others. He resides with his wife, the singer/composer Sylvi Alli, in Berkeley CA where he serves as director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch, a group of dancers and ritualists dedicated to the somatic expression of kinetic properties found in dreams. verticalpool.com/dvd.html

Magnetic Stripper -- Levitate the Pentagon

3D computer animator/designer....Halfway twixt Madonna and a black plastik action figure, with some blinking lights on top........Sifting for the lost computers of Phthagoras........Geometric solutions to irrational problems.........Futurist and romantik........Magnetic Stripper, Deactivated, Perfection, Light Shoxxx, Detached Modem, Joule, A Strawberry Shortcut........Tribe Pod, Vidlux, Obscura........The cat's cradle of lines crossed and crossed lines........Jack Kirby was my child hood hero, he was cyberpunk before there were hippies, I learned to draw by copying his work.........The balance of extremes: chiaroscuro........Huge fan of the paintings of Jan Vermeer (think Dali was correct about his spark of divinity, and the oil of wasps) Blacklight, Op_Art nightmare........Metatron's Cube and the DemiUrge's domain........Dancing like a short circuited robot........Human friendly....... .. ICV.......

Ian Winters w/ Mary Armentrout -- Traffic (or thoughts while eating ritz crackers)
live video based performance

Ian Winters, photographer, video-maker & performer, creates works at the intersection of architectural form, frozen image and time -based media frequently collaborating with musicians, composers and choreographers to create open-ended, but unavoidable encironments through the intersection of live perfomrance, photographic/video/film/media, architectural/sculptural forms and sonic environments. Winters trained in photography, film and performance at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston and Tufts University and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

My current work focuses on a fascination with time and its deconstruction, a long-standing interest in work that emerges out of specific sites using the accretion of imagery and exploration of series using animation and time-lapse techniques. Recent work has explored our ever closer relationships with the fictional hyperspecificity that technology can seem to offer and its intersection with the human landscape through a framework of mapping, technology and the body and loss.

Feature Artist: Bulk Foodveyor
The Talk of Creatures, Hootenanny Manifestation, New Day Trailer, The Purpose Driven Life

Experimental video artist, Bulk Foodveyor (Philip R. Bonner), creates media based theater using physical assemblage with a bizarre satirical humor. In 2008, Bulk Foodveyor was an Artist in Residence at the SFdump.