Artists

ACT-I-VATE

ACT-I-VATE, a webcomix collective conceived by Dean Haspiel debuted February 1st, 2006 on Livejournal and featured the works of founding members Dean Haspiel, Dan Goldman, Nick Bertozzi, Michael Fiffe, Leland Purvis, Nikki Cook, Tim Hamilton and Josh Neufeld. Since then, the collective has expanded by hand-picking cartoonists at a regular rate to achieve its current membership.

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Ad Hoc Art

When Ad Hoc Art opened their doors off the Morgan Avenue stop in Bushwick, they became the first of nearly a dozen innovative spaces to populate the Buswick gallery scene.

Bushwick Art Gallery

Alejandro Jodorowsky

In 1942 Jodorowsky moved to Santiago where he attended university, was a circus clown and a puppeteer. In 1955 he went to Paris and studied mime with Marcel Marceau. He worked with Maurice Chevalier there and made a film, "The Severed Head" or "The Transposed Heads", which is now lost. He also befriended the surrealists Roland Topor and Fernando Arrabal, and in 1962 these three created the "Panic Movement" in homage to the mythical god Pan. As part of this group Jodorowsky wrote several books and theatrical pieces.

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Alfred Kubin

Kubin spent his childhood and student days in Salzburg, where he attended the arts and crafts school. After that he was trained for four years by the photographer Beer in Klagenfurt. In 1896 he tried to commit suicide at the grave of his mother, from whose untimely death he could not recover. In spite of his depression, he decided to finish his apprenticeship. In spring 1898 Kubin moved to Munich and studied graphics and art at private art schools and at the academy of art.

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Amoeba Technology

Amoeba is a collective of video artists, filmmakers and experimental musicians who are active in NYC and worldwide.

Amoeba is primarily concerned with the transcendence and alteration of ordinary reality and consciousness through the manipulation of sound and light waves. Extensions manifest into the physical realm through the creation of structures and environments reflective of the theories thereof.

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Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky was a Soviet Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director.

Tarkovsky's films include Andrei Rublev, Solaris and Stalker. He directed the first five of his seven feature films in the Soviet Union; his last two films were produced in Italy and Sweden. They are characterized by spirituality and metaphysical themes, extremely long takes, lack of conventional dramatic structure and plot, and memorable cinematography.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol,was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.

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Ann Liv Young

On stage, Ann Liv Young has rolled around in her dog’s ashes, had sex with her co-stars, covered herself in blood, drank urine and attacked a PETA activist. Off stage, she has given the audience lap dances and ridiculed  her own cast for fucking up during a performance.

As a graduate of the prestigious Hollins University dance program, as well as a former resident of the FUSED program in France and the Laban Centre in London, Ann Liv’s work has been presented at some of the most notable venues and festivals around America and Europe. Her shows, which she writes, performs, costume designs, stage designs and produces herself, are over-the-top performances that genre-bend elements of music video, porn, and fine art that really do go there.

Performer

Anton Perich

Croatian born Perich was a member of the Letterist group (the collective which later begat the Situationist International) in Paris before arriving in New York City in 1970. Although an accomplished painter, filmmaker, and poet, Perich is best known to New Yorkers for his cable access show Anton Perich Presents (1973), which featured movers, shakers, and players from the downtown scene. The antics portrayed spurred censorship and then subsequent liberation from broadcast regulators, opening the door for artists & scenesters on TV long before Glenn O'Brien's TV Party.

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Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel memoir, Maus. He is married to and frequently collaborates with artist and art editor Françoise Mouly.

Spiegelman was a major figure in the underground comics movement of the 1960s and 1970s, contributing to publications such as Real Pulp, Young Lust and Bizarre Sex.

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