Lisa Adams Cast

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Scott Arbuckle Cast

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Tricia Avant Cast

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Jordan Biren Cast

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Victor Borrayo Cast

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Nick Bourlend Cast

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Keturah Cummings Production Designer

Keturah Cummings is a Bay Area artist preoccupied with pseudo-science, magic, and archetypes. She received her undergraduate degree in History from Centenary College and an MFA in media arts from the California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, Minicine?, Lobot Gallery, Turner Gallery, and the West Edge.

She worked with The Museum of Viral Memory previously on The Henry Wing. She is also a founding member of the art collective MessHall, and played an instrumental role in their 2005 installation, Hysterical Paroxysms, at PLAySPACE Gallery.

She is currently working with Carol Anne McChrystal on The Diana Project, a NightmareCity publication.

Megan Daalder Cast

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Mario Davila Cast

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Steve DeGroodt Cast

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Michael Dominguez Cast

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Kenny Duncan Cast

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Sidra Durst Cast

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marcella faustini Cinematographer

marcella is a videomaker and culture diddler. recent projects include curatorial internships at new langton arts, maker faire, triplebase and the recent biotechnique show at yerba buena center for the arts.

she is the founder of the echo de penseés sound series in san francisco, which is going on its 4th year of showcasing audio artists and experimental musicians.

her work examines the concept that "home is in the head" along with all the ensuing architectural and cinematic implications of this statement.

Tiffiny Fyans Cast

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Tutti Greyy Executive Producer

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Erin Grindstaff Graphic Designer, IT

As a young child, Erin spent her summers in the remote mountains of northern Idaho giving her much time to ponder life. Winters were spent in Alaska, giving her time to ponder life in sunnier places. She received her BFA in Graphic Design from the California College of Arts and Crafts. Erin's career thus far ranges from the role of production manager and graphic designer at an alternative weekly newspaper in Alaska to concepting for international ad campaigns at Goodby, Silverstein and Partners in San Francisco. Erin is currently a freelance graphic designer experiencing the "Midwest nice" in Omaha, Nebraska.

Jonathan Grindstaff Technology Coordinator

First and foremost Jonathan Grindstaff is a scientist. His work with the South Yorkshire Trading Standards Unit in 2002 resulted in the creation of the worlds most accurate commercial liquid density measurement system. He designed software and hardware for the liquid density lab. He led the installation process, wrote procedures with the Senior Laboratory Technician and trained technicians on site.

In 2007, Jonathan and Lee Pembleton jointly created www.Portal5.org, the fifth portal in the 23 Entryways Into My Mind series (of which 23E Studios and Disembody are Portal 6). Jonathan wrote a series of scripts that capture and send a display of the screens from Lee's three computers to owners of Portal5.org, who see, in real time, everything that is happening on all of Lee's computers.

Most recently, Jonathan created the scripts that allow the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection to load rapidly, and which automate the process of managing their vast, multi-terabyte store of digital video files. Of his work on that project the curator of the DTP collection on the Internet Archive wrote: "Without Jonathan's muscle, we never would have been able to manage this much video. Period."

David Gurman Contractor

David Gurman is an Artist working and living in San Francisco, CA. Gurman recently received the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. He received his MFA from CCA in 2007 and is currently an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

David Gurman makes evolving mechanized spaces where the mechanism presents a view of the changing rhythm of the earth we are shaping. The installations monitor human influence on remote landscapes. The goal is to connect the installation to obscure sites of malignant institutional land use. Gurman uses real-time data feeds such as tidal patterns, seismic data, and satellite imagery to create a real-time experience of the remote activity for the viewer. The installation is intended to be meditative and pleasurable, which belies the darker underbelly of the driving mechanism: for example in one work light waves rippling across a wall were triggered by real gun shots and IED explosions in Iraq, while in another work, a bell tolled according to seismic data from sub-critical nuclear weapons tests in the Nevada dessert.

Judy Guttierez Cast

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Yosh Han Perfumer

Yosh is a Bay Area perfumer working with fragrances and essences that correspond with chakras and numerology. Her clients include: Barneys New York, Takashimaya, Colette, SF Opera and SFJAZZ. Artistic collaborations include projects with art historian, Jeannene Przyblyski and the Bureau of Urban Secrets, artist-engineer Natalie Jeremijenko for Pond, art critic Alison Bing and artist Tucker Nichols. Yosh’s work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Town & Country, Allure, Vogue, The SF Chronicle, The LA Times, BlackBook, Antenna, Forbes, NPR and others.

Jaimie Huang Cast

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elise irving Editor

elise irving was born in 1978 and raised in THE O.C.

She graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Photography and Painting, and received her MFA in Photography from California College of the Arts. Her work revolves around her interests in science fiction, quantum physics, perception, time and the mutable nature of reality. She uses her photographs as raw material for varied projects that include video, installation, sculpture, and traditional photography.

Her work has been shown at Aftermodern Gallery, Mills College Art Museum, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Eleanor Harwood Gallery among many other places.

Her music videos have been shown at The New York Underground Film Festival, NY NY; The Mission Creek Festival, SF CA; All Tomorrows Parties, Camber Sands, UK; Barden’s Boudoir, London, UK; Twisted Robot, Berlin, Germany; and Chikandeer, Vienna, Austria.

She just completed working on the production sound and editing of Laurel Nakadate's film "Stay The Same Never Change", currently showing in a limited run at Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri. She is currently finishing a music video for Colossal Yes, as well as teaching photography at California College for the Arts.

elise is an Aquarius who enjoys stinky cheese, reality TV, NPR, and long walks on the beach.

Richard Irving Cast

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Lili Jackson Cast

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Susan Joyce Executive Producer

Susan Joyce is Director of Fringe Exhibitions, an experimental art gallery dedicated to showing cutting edge art projects. Interdisciplinary collaborations with artists, architects, engineers, scientists, writers, performers, and musical composers are some of the driving forces that inspire the creative vision of this exhibition design and curatorial practice. She is a founding board member of the Nevada Lightning Lab and works with Survival Research Laboratories organizing large-scale mechanical performance events.

Chantal Kambrude Cast

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Neal Krone Cast

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Sojung Kwon Cast

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Chris Liem Cast

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Alex Lukas Producer

Alex worked with The Museum of Viral Memory previously on The Henry Wing. He is a founding member of the art collective MessHall and provided support for their 2005 installation, Hysterical Paroxysms, at PLAySPACE Gallery. He is currently producing
a series of works as a subsidiary of NightmareCity.

He has been an employee of the UC Berkeley Films Studies dept. for over five years as a projectionist and technician and, more recently, done work for UCB's Center for New Media.

He has been producing and performing experimental/alternative audio work for over a decade both alone and with various collaborators, a practice which he actively continues.

Steve Marianne Cast

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Terry Mason Contractor

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Lino Martinez Cast

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Carol-Anne McChrystal Production Designer

Carol Anne McChrystal (b. 1982) graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with degrees in studio art and gender studies. Her primary interests lie in the realm of understanding how we organize knowledge as well as the limitations/possibilities of those structures. As one half of the San Francisco based collaborative project Nightmare City, her videos, installations, and performances look simultaneously forward and backward in time using the obsolete, out-moded and idle to examine what endless repetition can do to the sentiment of cultural movements. She is the author of "Cliffs Notes on Art School Rhetoric," and "You Have No Power You Have No Power," which both investigate the relationship between theory and the practice of contemporary art. As a representative of her MFA program at the California College of the Arts, she won an award for most reasoned vision at the 2005 Grad School debates.

Suzanne Masterson Cast

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Eric Medine Cast

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Carson J Murdach Executive Producer, Jack-Of-All-Trades

Carson J Murdach was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. He received his BFA in Steel and Bronze Sculpture from Washington State University. Since graduating in 2000 he has supported himself by working in professions such as foundry worker, metal fabricator, bus driver, tour guide; even working in Alaska as a Naturalist and Bear Guide. During this time he continued to show paintings and sculptures throughout the Northwest. In 2004, He moved to San Francisco to attend California College of the Arts and received his MFA in Painting in 2006. Since graduating Carson’s work has shown in Oakland’s First Friday at Ego Park Gallery, the Oakland Art Gallery, OSP Gallery in Boston and appeared at Aqua Art Miami. He also is a winner of the New American Paintings MFA Annual 2005-2006 Competition.

Carson currently lives in San Francisco. When not in the studio he works for the San Francisco museums, and the Berkeley Anthropology Museum as a Preparator.

Johnny Naked Cast

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Kristina Newhouse Cast

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Susan O'Malley Cast

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Hanif O'Neil Conceptual Personal Trainer

With a range of interests including media, art, economics, guns, technology law, and information privacy his daily practice remains deeply engaged with visual culture (internet media, music videos, commercial advertising, news, comedy, politics, and cinema). He considers his art practice a fantastical hobby, which allows him to collaborate with others in creating their own significance. Much of his work utilizes drawings, essays, and found footage, to tease out cues of identity formation(s), status, and power operating in contemporary media. He is an adjunct member of the Space 1026 collective whose work has been exhibited, in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, including The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the 96 Gillespie Gallery in London, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. His current research involves surveillance, dataveillance and strategic uses of information in the public sphere.

Honyo Ohte Graphic Designer (Japanese distribution)

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Parris Patton Cast

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Alexandria Pembleton Crew Hoodie Designer

A diverse range of subjects inform Alexandria's practice which she sees as related to human nature and contemporary cultural fads. She is curious about relationships. Whether finite or infinite, she questions ways in which we bond, creating a place of inquisitiveness, questioning what it is that brings us together, how people share intimacy and wondering how it effects and illuminates us in our daily lives.

She has participated in exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe; at the luggage store, Southern Exposure, the Richmond Art Center, the Garage Biennial, Facere Gallery, the Second City Council, ISE Cultural Foundation and other galleries from California to New York.

Alexandria has also instigated and curated interventions in Central Park during “the Gates” of Jean Claude and Christo, at the 2006 Venice Biennale,the Tate Modern in London, the 2008 Venice Biennale, the Prague Biennial, Munster Sculpture Project, and Documenta.

Alexandria and her partner, Terry Mason share a studio in Oakland, CA. They first met in 1999 while Terry was getting his MFA in sculpture and Alexandria her BFA in Metal Arts, both at CCA. In 2007 they ran into one another at an opening in which Terry was showing work and soon they were in love; laughing, running, working and living happily ever after together.

Arthur Pembleton Production Assistant

After studying at UCSB, UCLA and Chouinard Art Institute, Arthur moved to New York where he began work as an assistant to a well-known fashion, commercial and celebrity photographer. Quickly becoming a second tier director/cameraman of national television commercials, he pursued that career for the next twenty-five years gradually working his way down to local car spots. Retiring in 1990 to drink full time, he returned to Los Angeles, sobered up and renewed his connection with photography. For the last eight years he has devoted himself to his wife, his psyciatrist and digital video.

Lee Pembleton Director

Lee Pembleton has been composing and performing music and art for over twenty years. The bulk of that time has been spent investigating sound environments and creating performative installations. He has been a member of several contemporary music/performance ensembles & jazz bands along with the occasional rock, psychedelic & folk groups. He has performed his works at a variety of venues, ranging from the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to Chicago's infamous punk club, the Czar Bar. His installations have been featured in museums, galleries and clubs in America and Europe.

Libby Reed Composer

Libby Reed is a multi instrumentalist and composer who has explored the landscapes of modern music to find her own cozy little niche. Her band coat will be releasing its first record this summer. She is a photographer, seamstress and a lover of bee's wax, sometimes incorporating all three into her visual work. Her accesories label, Ohwn, hopes to be selling her textile creations by the Fall of 2008.

Theodor Rzad Architect

Theodor Rzad is a San Francisco based architectural and urban designer. His commercial work is rooted in adaptive-reuse and includes libraries, contemporary art museums, and social housing. He has completed projects on both the West and East coasts of the United States, Vietnam, and UAE. Building on his professional proclivity for juxtaposing and synergizing the old with the new, he has designed two temporary installations including a tensile self-supported catenary surface for the SFMoMA and a collaborative multimedia space with video artist Lee Pembleton (published in Zyzzyva, Fall 07).

Amy Sampson Executive Producer, Cinematographer, Den Mother

Amy still holds the record for high jump and long jump at her elementary school in Reseda, California. She was semi famous at age 7 for her distinguished yet piercing, high pitched screams which are featured in the movie Top Gun as part of the sound the jets make when they go really, really fast. Her screams can also be heard in the movie version of the book by Jean M. Auel, Clan of the Cave Bear. It's the parts when young Ayla's parents get sucked up by the earth during an earthquake, and then when she gets attacked by a Mountain Lion, and also the part after Ayla grows up, has a baby, and the baby gets carried off by a wolf.

Amy has never given up on the idea that she might one day be famous again.

Amy has a BFA from Sonoma State University in Traditional printmaking, and an MFA from California College of Art in Photography. She has exhibited her photography and short films in the Moscow Biennial; the Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose; Valand School of Art, Gothenberg, Sweden; Tart Gallery, San Francisco; the DiRosa Preserve, Napa, CA; Materials and Applications, Los Angeles, CA; and The SilverLake Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA.

She is one of the founding members of Mess Hall Collective and works closely with the band Forever What? as an image consultant. She also sells pants, wigs and alcohol to famous people.

Vickie Sampson Investor

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Yuki Satomi Cast

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Greg Schenk Cast

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Steven Schweickart Cast

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Tim Shriner Cast

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Alex Simpson Cast

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Sue Sparks Embroiderer

Sue Sparks attended Chouinard Art Institute, before moving to New york City to raise a family. She currently lives on the Oregon coast where she gardens, paints and practices yoga. In 2004 The California College of the Arts hosted a retrospective of her works, including quilts, drawings, paintings, children's books, personal correspondence and hand painted china.

Phil Spirito Composer

Phil Spirito is a multi instrumentalist who has been involved in the creation, performance and recording of music for over 20 years. For the last decade under the name oRSo he has brought a multitude of talented musicians together. This loose collective known as the Binto family assembles to perform and record his compositions. oRSo is preparing to release its fourth full length record "ask your neighbor" this summer and has recorded and performed all over the US and Europe. For the last several years Spirito has been moving into the world of film. The first egg movie was completed in 2006. This rich and textured silent film, is always shown with a live performance of the score, composed by Spirito and performed by Binto family members. A new film and score are being fine tuned for 2008.

Janet Stott Executive Producer, Lawyer, Den Mother

Janet Stott has worked as a motion picture and television attorney in Los Angeles since 1986, usually representing production companies and independent producers. She started her legal career as a corporate lawyer in New York, and then briefly escaped from that life to work for two years as an administrative assistant and fundraiser in a non profit theatre off-Broadway. She is currently a senior vice president of business affairs at Showtime Networks, specializing in international co-productions and television series production. This is her first venture with The MVM.

Tsunghan Sun Conceptual Personal Trainer

Tsunghan Sun was born in 1980 and raised in Hualien, Taiwan. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Film Studies and received his MFA in Media Arts from California College of the Arts.

He engages with culture(s) under the global content: cinema, theories, fashion, pop music, contemporary art, media, politics, sexuality, literature, and everything else.

Tsunghan currently lives in Taipei, Taiwan where he tries to do business in the culture industry (in Adorno's words) between America and the Chinese-speaking diaspora.

Marilyn Szabo Cast

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Skye Thorstenson Editor

Skye is a media artist, combining diverse interests into an "uneasy flickering glob of pop culture; a sort of giddy candy-colored spectacle that is complicated by melodramatic gestures and improvise psychosexual absurdity."

His film installations have been shown at Monkey Town in Brooklyn, Leslie Lohmann Gallery in Manhattan; Current Gallery in Baltimore, Neville Public Museum in Green Bay; and Oliver Art Center, Swell Gallery, LoBot Gallery, Southern Exposure and SFMOMA in San Francisco.

His films have also screened as part of The Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival, The Fierce Femmes Film Fetsival, The New York Underground Film Festival, The Rififi Film Festival, The Zeitgeist Film Festival, The San Francisco Underground Film Festival, and The FAF Film Festival, where he won the Director's Choice Award.

Recent awards and grants include an OES Grant in 2007; California College of the Arts All College Honors Award in 2005 and an AIGC Fellowship in 2005.

Skye is currently shooting "S/Z: a re-enactment" for 23E Studios, as well as working as director on Disembody.

Sabastian Torrit Executive Producer

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Jack Trammel Usherette

Jack Trammel is an actress and artist living in Las Vegas, Nevada. She recently appeared in Inherit The Wind. Her art is inspired by manga, and focuses on the trials of the contemporary teen - trials she is appallingly familiar with as a 16 year old.

She has performed in several art films and installations, including works by the Palestinian artist Lina Bokhary and the San Francisco artist David Stein. Jack has been involved with The Museum of Viral Memory previously as a graphic designer, model, builder and critic.

Jim Tucker Cast

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Angela Valavanis Cast

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Stelios Valavanis Executive Producer, A/V Design

Stel is an artist, musician and business owner in Chicago, IL. After getting his BA in Physics from the University of Chicago, he founded the computer consultancy, onShore, Inc. He has over 20 years of live sound design and control, lighting design and control, set building, audio and video art, audio and video performance, audio and video production, interactive audio, electronics and computer hacking, computer network design, business, and parenting experience.

He serves on the boards of community outreach and advocate, We the People Media; arts collective, M5; free wireless advocate, ChiFi; and community networking advocate, Association for Community Networking as well as advisory committees for several organizations and educational institutions.

Stel's love for things technical has spanned most of his life. As early as the age of 15, he was writing dBase code for a market research company, eventually producing an analysis tool for sale to other marketing firms. He formed his first business in 1981, producing and distributing Apple II software packages, including a visual music transcription program, various file system and font utilities and a few games. Stel also has been involved and remains active in many artistic projects including various full-length audio CD releases, video compilations, short films, stage production, soundtracks, and interactive installations.

Robert Wechsler Cast

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Paige Wery Cast

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Kathryn Wood Costume Designer, Seamstress

Kathryn Wood made her first foray into theatrical costume design when she was 11 years old, designing hats for a summer stock production of "My Fair Lady." She went on to work professionally as a seamstress, milliner, and costume designer for various organizations and private clients for a number of years. These days, she prefers to ply her needle mostly for her own amusement.

Bobbi Woods Cast

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Michiko Yao Cast

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Oscar Zhang Cast

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Diana Zlotneck Cast

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