BRIClab 2024-2025 Video Art Artists

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.

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. 

In 2022 I 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.  I produced the winning film in the Kwanzaa Film 2023 Festival, “V’DaNessa Monk, Veronica White, “A Life in the Key of Community”. My short film, “Restraint Within Freedom” featuring the work of artist Suzanne GreenBerg, was screened at the ’24 Kolaj Fest in New Orleans.

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.

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.

Lai Yi Ohlsen (she/her) 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 Universy Lecture program.