2024/25 BRIClab Video Art Residency: Screening & Talkback

Aishamanne Williams is a multidisciplinary artist and documentarian. Her artistic practice centers around filmmaking, photography and writing. Hailing from Brooklyn, NY with Caribbean heritage, she pulls inspiration from collective lived experiences to create work that feels intimate, nostalgic and imaginative. Her work includes narrative and documentary films, fiction/poetry books, photography and zines.

She seeks to create expressions of urban life that are authentic in documentation and experimental in imagination, investigating both the concrete and that which grows from it. Employing text and image with freedom from a singular discipline, Aishamanne’s artistic practice centers on pouring into a living archive honoring and preserving the beauty of the present. Her aim is to build new worlds for posterity by documenting expressions of identity and culture.

Aishamanne received her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Design with minors in Film Production and Photography from The New School in 2021. Her film Hoodwear Diaries was featured in Afrikana Film Fest in 2022 and her film A Smaller Sun was featured in Short Side Film Fest in 2023.

Website: https://aishamanne.com/

Instagram @aishamoney

Anto(n) Astudillo (they/he) is a Lenapehoking/NYC-based filmmaker, performance artist, and curator of trans experience from Wallmapu (Santiago, Chile). Astudillo explores dynamic interconnections between the practice of embodiment and experimental cinema to create visual portraits of personal and political themes in the form of 16mm film, video and performance. Astudillo was 2023 Lead Programmer and 2024 Festival Director of TRANS|Lations, Seattle Trans Film Festival and is a year-round programmer for NewFest, the New York LGBTQ+ Film Media Organization. Currently, Astudillo is program director of Millennium Film Workshop, an organization promoting independent artists since 1966.

Cerine is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Via video, music, psycho/psychic geographies, and blading– they traverse the continuum between camouflage and enchantment.

Chuck Moss (he/him) is a NYC based film-maker, producer and editor. Chuck specializes in short film, documentary, public access, photography, and visual abstract realism.  As a progressive critical thinker, he is interested in the practice of curiosity and how compassion is used to explore shared spaces of uncertainty, advocacy and human potential. 

Chuck was a BRIC/ARTS Documentary Cohort, and produced “The Way of Glass” highlighting the work of Corning Museum Glass and Creative Glass Center of America Award Winner, Jamie Harris.  Chuck produced the winning film in the Kwanzaa Film 2023 Festival, “V’DaNessa Monk, Veronica White, “A Life in the Key of Community”. Chuck’s short film, “Restraint Within Freedom” featuring the work of artist Suzanne GreenBerg, was screened at the ’24 Kolaj Fest in New Orleans.

Chuck holds an MA from NYU in Educational Communication and Technology and an MA from The New School in Media Studies. Whether through political, economic, cultural or social narratives, Chuck enjoys providing associative imagery to assist with considering our own roles in contested arenas of change and transition.

www.iconoclastsix.com

Eriko Tsogo (she/they)

Born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, based in Brooklyn

Eriko Tsogo, a Mongolian American artist and cultural producer, melds visual art, film, and socially-engaged projects. Her work explores the complex space of a first-generation Mongolian American woman straddling Eastern and Western cultures, delving into themes of identity, culture, and the concept of home. The ENTEREXIT PROJECT prompts viewers to reconsider movement: through a collection of short digital animations, Tsogo collaborates with immigrant leaders to bring their stories to life within immersive three-dimensional sculptures, crafting a boundary-blurring exploration of mixed migration narratives and the choices immigrants and refugees make regarding home and departure, shedding light on contrasting aspects of the American immigration system and showcasing individuals' resilient pursuit of a borderless existence.

Tsogo has shown work at the Currier Museum of Art, NH; the Contemporary Mongolian Art Biennial, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, all CO; and Art Basel Miami Beach, FL. She received a “Juuh” Honorarium from the Mongolian Ministry of Education Culture and Science, an Alliance for Artist Communities Fellowship, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. She is one of the creators of Mongovoo Temple at Meow Wolf Denver. Tsogo has held residencies at Platteforum Artist Residency, Currier Museum, and Fountainhead. She holds an MFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University. She is represented by Tappan Collective.

SAMUEL WRIGHT SMITH is a multimedia artist based in Manhattan. His experimental animation work has shown at such festivals as DOCNYC and recently in a documentary produced by PBS. He is an NYU Tisch Film/TV graduate, National Board of Review student grant winner and Untitled Filmmaker Organization 2024-25 fellow. 

Sam is interested in projects that are guided by the heart. Their animation work is primarily out-of-the-box physical media techniques such as watercolor, linocut print, collage cutout and chalk pastel. He is a lover of backpacking, music and halal cart falafel sandwiches.

samwsmith.net

samwsmith.net/animation

instagram.com/sws_animation

instagram.com/samwsmith33

Headshot credit Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter

https://www.instagram.com/malcolm.qsvm/

Lai Yi Ohlsen (she/her,  www.laiyiohlsen.com) is an artist, writer and researcher whose work considers systems and the narratives of their histories. She was a 2019 Artist in Residence at Movement Research, a Year 8 Member of New Inc’s Art + Code Track in partnership with Rhizome and was a Spring 2020 Technology Resident at Pioneer Works. Her work has been shown at Tech Zine Fair, Movement Research’s Fall Festival, New York Art Book Fair, the Internet Archive’s Decentralized Web Summit and Our Networks. She is the Research and Data Lead at Measurement Lab, where she studies the evolution of the Internet, and a part-time lecturer at The New School where she teaches in the Parsons Design & Technology BFA and MFA programs, as well as in the University Lecture program.

https://www.instagram.com/laiyi____/