Peggy Ahwesh is a Brooklyn based media artist whose work spans a variety of technologies and styles in an inquiry into feminism, cultural identity and genre. The discourses of film theory are applied to themes of gender subjectivity and social relations through improvised situations, found footage and low end technologies while turning the conventions of realism on end. Ahwesh came of age in the 1970s with S8 filmmaking, feminism and the punk underground in Pittsburgh. Ahwesh is represented by Microscope Gallery, New York. In 2022, she received The Acker Award that honors contributions to the downtown NYC art community. Find her on the web at Senses of Cinema’s Great Directors Critical Database, World Picture Journal #4 and the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
Jacqueline Goss makes movies about scientific systems and how they change the ways we think about ourselves. Her work has shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York Film Festival, and International Film Festival at Rotterdam, among many other venues. She is a recipient of awards from the Alpert Foundation and Creative Capital. Goss teaches in the Film and Electronic Arts program at Bard College in the Hudson Valley of New York.
Zachary Layton is a guitarist, composer, curator, teacher and visual artist based in New York.
He has composed orchestral music for the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn and has performed and exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, the Kitchen, MoMa/PS1, ISSUE Project Room, Roulette, and EMPAC, among many others. He has worked with a diverse range of artists and musicians including Vito Acconci, Bradley Eros, Bobby Previte, Henry Fraser, Ben Vida, Tony Conrad, Victoria Keddie, Tristan Perich, Elliott Sharp, and many more.