LUCY FARMER:

Lucy Farmer is a performance artist, visual artist, choreographer and dancer. She has completed a Bachelor of Arts: Performance Studies (Hons) and is currently studying a Masters of Fine Art at RMIT. Her films explore power relationships between the artist, the artist's medium and the audience.

Works screened will be Bear Me: Me Bear (2007) and For Bear (2005).

JADE BURSTALL:

Jade Burstall is a Media Arts student at RMIT. Her works include Apples Apologies, Final Stella Wolf Hunter and Last Lupine Bride (2008). There’s a mechanistic repetition to these fabled characters - lost in a modern world, where Snow White smokes and Little Red Riding Hood is the wolf. Good girl/ bad girl roles shift and reverse and ripe red apples become symbols of desire to be fought over and devoured, no longer pure as the driven snow.

QINGLAN HUANG:

QingLan Huang is a student of Public Art at RMIT. Her work 888 (2008) is a short animation about the 888 Monument. It tells a story of Mr. Nobody's hard-working day. His day to work is like a PC game. On his way to work he has to find the cherry and fight against the crocodile, but unfortunately he loses the game.

OLAF MEYER and JADE BLAIR:

Olaf Meyer is a multimedia installation artist who uses video, sound, custom hardware and software to present multimedia content that physically engages its audience. Meyer's experience in Interactive Multimedia design and engagement with the performing arts has inspired experimentation resulting in interdisciplinary artwork encompassing the body, a visual experience and electronic soundscapes. Jade Blair is a choreographer and performer experimenting with how dance and movement can engage, challenge and communicate. Jade, Olaf and jazz musician Willow Neilson presented Indentation (2006) as part of 'We Like Short Shorts' shown at Dancehouse.

SHADOWED PRODUCTIONS:

The Shadowed Productions group fuses Performing Arts, obscure, abstract, beautiful and bizarre. A surreal atmosphere and ethereal ambiance is created, which provoke people's perception of reality. Shadowd Productions produce and coordinate experimental physical theatre and video art, to cabaret, burlesque, circus and fire shows for Stage, Atmospheric, Roving, and Floor Performances, Interactive and Non-Interactive Installations.

TOM GLEISNER:

Tom Gleisner studied at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia,  earning bachelors degree's in Painting & Sculpture. Tom lived and exhibited in Los Angeles, California before moving to Melbourne to enrol in the Master of Fine Art program at RMIT.

Works screened will be An Illegal Arrangement (2008) and Roll Camera (2008).

COLLETTE DANE:

Collette Dane is a Melbourne artist. She explores various media including animation, book-making and painting.  After completing a Bachelor of Media Arts, Collette continued to screen her animations in various festivals and locations around Melbourne.  Currently she is finishing a Bachelor of Fine Art, majoring in painting at RMIT University, and preparing for a solo show at RMIT’s First Site gallery in August 2008.

Her work Agneau (2008) is a stop motion animation about a little lamb.

JACQUI HAGEN:

Jacqui Hagen is a young filmmaker and video artist.  Her work reflects a fascination with the artistic elegance and beauty of early scientific studies, and explores this seemingly contradictory characteristic through the form of quick, dirty and vernacular new media.  She recently directed the short film 'Feathers', which will screen at various film festivals throughout Melbourne later this year.  Jacqui studies Media at Rmit University.