Eric Fleischauer is a Chicago-based artist, curator, and educator.  Utilizing various strategies such as repurposing discarded VHS tapes as sculptural material, making imperfect drawings of computer generated CAPTCHA’s, or curating videos from YouTube and presenting them in the cinema, his work examines the ramifications of technology’s expansive influence on both the individual and the cultural sphere. He has exhibited internationally at venues including threewallsSOLO and the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Rooftop Films and Interstate Projects (NYC), Corcoran Gallery of Art (WashingtonDC), and the Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany). Fleischauer currently teaches in the department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.


Jason Lazarus is a Chicago-based artist, curator, educator, and writer.  His photo-based practice has expanded in recent years to include multiple public archive projects and the use of impossibility as a medium.  His exhibition history includes the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), the Art Institute of Chicago, PPOW Gallery (NYC), the Queens Museum of Art (NY), Kaune, Sudendorf (Cologne, Germany) and The Future Gallery (Berlin) among many others.  Lazarus will be the Kennedy Visiting Artist at the University of South Florida, Tampa in the fall of 2011, and currently is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.


Theodore Darst (curatorial assistant) was born in nyc, became a man in new haven, ct and currently lives, works, and goes to school in chicago. His videos and prints have been shown internationally and he has provided live visuals for some of the freshest names in drone/glitch/noise music.