Bill Brown

Bike box from Bill Brown on Vimeo.

Bill Brown is a film and video maker living and working in Madison, WI. He received a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His films have appeared at various venues around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Viennale Festival, Lincoln Center, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is the recipient of Fulbright, Creative Capital, Rockefeller, and Alpert/MacDowell Fellowships. An enthusiastic believer in the DIY media tour, he has toured by car, train, bus, and bike. He founded the Lo Fi Landscapes tour with filmmaker Tom Comerford, toured the U.S. by bicycle on the Pedal Powered Movie Tour, and toured France and Switzerland with fellow cyclo-cineaste Sabine Gruffat. He has participated in art residencies at the MacDowell Colony, as well as the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Wendover Residency, where he constructed a railbike-- a bicycle built to explore the abandoned Nevada Northern Railroad in northeastern Nevada.

In the summer of 2009, Brown and Gruffat toured the west coast with a multimedia performance piece called TIME MACHINE.

Sabine Gruffat

Sabine Gruffat is a media artist living and working in Madison, WI. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Currently Sabine is an Assistant Professor of Digital media at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sabine’s films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival in Japan, the Split Film Festival in Croatia, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the PDX Film Festival in Portland OR, the Dallas Video Festival, Migrating Forms in New York, The Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, and The Gramercy Theater in New York. Her photographs and video installations have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General and Hudson Franklin in New York, Brissot-Linz Gallery in Paris, the Rochester Art Center, and the Centro Cultural Telemar in Brazil.

Sabine Gruffat has also co-directed several films and videos with filmmaker Ben Russell and has been on bicycle and film tours across France and Switzerland (La Cyclocinematheque) with filmmaker Bill Brown. Last Spring she toured the East coast with video maker Mary Billyou and performed as the Free Translators. Currently she is working on a feature film about Dubai and Detroit.

http://www.sabinegruffat.com/BIKEBOX/

Zach Poff

Zach Poff is a New York area digital media artist, educator, and maker-of-things. Through his artwork, teaching, and software he examines the tremendous opportunities and challenges that arise from the translation of our experiences into "information". His recent work has been focused on how traditional broadcasting reverberates into digital media and influences notions of an emerging post-broadcast discourse.

He currently teaches Sound Art at Cooper Union School of Art in NYC. He has taught media theory, video art, and digital photography at Bennington College and Cooper Union Continuing Education.

 
He received a fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts in 2007, and his work has been shown in the U.S. and internationally at venues including ISEA 2008 (Singapore), Art Interactive, Artists Space, The Stonington Opera House, Hallwalls Art Center, Unity Performing Arts Center, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, and Polli Talu Art Center (Estonia).

 
He was a member of MAP Intermedia, a group that combined dance, video and sound work in a collaborative environment that challenged the traditions of authorship within the performing arts.

 
His sound-design credits include Walid Raad's performance/video My Neck is Thinner than a Hair, Lynn Sachs' documentaries States of Unbelonging and Investigation of a Flame, (Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival), Hollie Lavenstein's CLEAVE, (Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, Best Narrative Short at The Ann Arbor Film Festival).

http://www.zachpoff.com/site/