Yousif Alzayed

Yousif Alzayed is a multidisciplinary artist that works with light and sound to create work for exhibitions and performances.

Ralph Darden

Ralph Darden is a Chicago-based musician, DJ, composer & Educator

Baudouin Saintyves

Baudouin Saintyves is a physicist, engineer and multimedia artist.

Tanner Masseth

Tanner D. Masseth is a Fargo, ND native who spent nearly a decade working in Chicago's vibrant film production industry.

Brooke Nielson

Brook is a bar dj; playing a variety of styles of music in dance, lounge, experimental and more.

Kim Nucci

Kim Nucci is a Chicago-based media artist, composer, and technologist.

Veronica Salinas

Veronica Anne Salinas is a sound artist, educator, writer, and Deep Listener based between Chicago, IL and Texas.

Blake Robbins

Blake Robbins is an artist from Austin, Texas who lives in Brooklyn. He makes film, theatre, and music.

Jackie Turpin

JACKIE TURPIN is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and designer based in Los angeles, CA.

Cameron Worden

AJ Mendelsohn

AJ Mendelsohn is a Chicago-based curator, modern and contemporary art historian, and film/video programmer. He is currently the Program Coordinator for the Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Nicky Ni

Nicky Ni is a Chinese expat living and working between Chicago and Beijing. She writes and curates exhibitions and screenings. Currently she is Assistant Editor at Newcity, Contributing Editor at Sixty Inches From Center, and Programmer for Onion City Experimental Film Festival. She is Co-Founder of [LITHIUM/TNL.

Elise Schierbeek

Elise Schierbeek (they/she) is a writer, media archivist, and film programmer living in Chicago.

Kristin McWharter

'Kristin McWharter uses performance and play to interrogate the relationship between competition and intimacy. Inspired by sports narratives and strategies for collective decision making, her work blurs the boundaries of intimacy and hype culture to challenge viewer's relationships to affection and competitive drive.'

Garrett Laroy Johnson

Garrett Laroy Johnson is a Chicago-based sound and media artist, researcher, and theorist. His transdisciplinary work engages Guattarian process theory, politics and the production of subjectivity, computation and materialism, and post-psychoanalysis.

Onion City Film Festival

The Onion City Experimental Film Festival is one of the premiere international festivals exclusively devoted to experimental film and video. Their mission is to provide local and regional audiences with an opportunity to view a wide variety of contemporary experimental works, focused on artistic excellence, but also with an eye towards representing differing styles, forms, and nationalities.

Public Works

Public Works is an art & design gallery and storefront in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Chicago Filmmakers

Chicago Filmmakers is a not-for-profit media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation, and understanding of film and video as media for artistic and personal expression. Their organization is a catalyst for media of important social and community impact.

Sketchbook Brewing

Marz Community Brewing