Max Almy

Max Almy is an award winning, internationally recognized and exhibited video and new media artist. She has experimented with video, film, computer and interactive media in works ranging from multi-media installations to single channel works for exhibition and broadcast. Her works are characterized by experimental narrative structure, compelling visuals and content that often critiques and satirizes contemporary life.

Almy's early video works such as "Leaving the 20th Century" and "Perfect Leader" explored the complexity of postmodern attitudes toward social issues, technology and the future. "Utopia", an interactive media installation in collaboration with Teri Yarbrow, focused on social and environmental crises in the modern city and has won awards from the Ars Electronic Festival in Austria and the Internationaler Videokunst Award in Germany. Her latest works, "Dream House" and "The Museum of Disappearance" combine video projections and digital media to explore consumerism, cultural erosion, environmental issues and the American Dream.

Since the mid-70s, Almy has participated in art and film festivals worldwide and has been exhibited in major museum and alternative art spaces, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the New Museum and The Kitchen (New York), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Geffen Contemporary, MOCA (Los Angeles), the ICA (Boston), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. Her awards and honors include an Academy of Television Arts and Sciences EMMY, a NEA Visual Artist Fellowship, an AFI Independent Filmmaker's Grant and grants from Sony, Philips and Apple.

Teri Yarbrow

Teri Yarbrow's artistic career began with two dimensional media including oil painting, collage and gaphics, exploring approaches to process painting and abstract structure. These early works were exhibited in one woman and groups shows at Barnsdale and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Her works were characterized by interest in dream, myth and transformative imagery. In 1982, she began experimental approaches to moving imagery using video, film and computers. She created numerous single channel video works and exhibited extensively in international festivals and exhibitions.

More recently Yarbrow has been involved with cutting edge processes that combine painting with computer and digital manipulation. Shamanic, spiritual and revelatory imagery form the core of her work with process painting as an act of psychic excavation.

Yarbrow has been exhibited widely, including in the Prix Ars Electronica and Landesmuseum (Austria), Art Futura Spain, the American film Institute, the Berlin Film Festival, the Videonale (Bonn), the World Wide Video Festival (Den Hague), and the Musee D'Art Moderne (Paris). Her awards and honors include: an Emmy, the Dorothy Arzner Director's Award, Silver Hugo Award (Chicago Film Festival), Silver Medal (New York Film Festival), and Special Jury Award (Houston Film Festival).

Yarbrow has collaborated extensively with Max Almy on multi-media installations and single channel video work. Yarbrows paintings and mixed-media digital works are featured in the installations "Utopia", "Dream House" and "The Museum of Disappearance".