Shelly Silver is a New York based artist utilizing video, film and photography. Her work, which spans a wide range of subject matter and genres, explores the connections that bind and restrict us; the varied routes of pleasure and desire; the stories that are told about us and the stories we construct about ourselves. She has been exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Asia at venues such as MoMA, NYC; MoCA, LA; The Pompidou Center, Paris; The Kyoto Museum, Japan, The ICA London; The London Film Festival; The Singapore Film Festival and has won many awards including The Golden Dove for Best Long Form Documentary at The Leipzig International Documentary Festival, Best Narrative at The Australian Int'l Film & Video Festival and The Houston Int'l Film Festival and Jury Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival Media Forum. Silver has received numerous fellowships and grants including from the NEA, the DAAD, NYSCA, NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, the Japan Foundation and Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation. Broadcasts incude BBC/England, PBS/USA, Arte/Germany, France, Planete/Europe, RTE/Ireland, SWR/Germany, Atenor/Spain. She is a 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. She currently teaches at The Cooper Union and the MFA Department of Photography and Related Media, The School of Visual Arts.

We Are Each Other is an exploration of the boundaries between self and other, identity and transference. It is a psychological game of hide and seek, a portrait of what we each bring to our interactions and how easily the lines between us blur. After years of producing corporate documentaries and conducted countless interviews I wanted to see what would happen when the tables were turned.

Josh Weinstein has a relentless curiosity about the inherent paradoxes of identity and perception and is obsessed with understanding how we know what we know about each other. He does a lot of social experiments, some involving video and spends part of his time bringing art to corporations. He was awarded a residency at Experimental Television Center in 2004. He created Inside Cinema in 2000, which is devoted to using documentary video as a tool for self-reflection within organizations.

For 3 into 1, the most self-referential work I have made, I interviewed each of my parents, my mother, my father and my stepmother, asking them to speak about me, my personality and our relationships with one another. In the video, I act as them, wearing their clothes, mimicking their gestures, and sitting in their respective homes. Most importantly, I lip-synch their words as they describe me with both candor and humor. Switching roles between the three, I attempt to find the truth of my self, ending up in an almost hysterical flipping between them.

Oriana Fox was born in New York in 1978, where she continues to live and work. She received a BFA in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000 and went on to earn an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London in 2003. Since graduating she has shown her work in galleries and film festivals throughout the UK and US including the Video Biennale at Temporary Contemporary in London which traveled to venues in China and Germany. She received an award for Best Experimental Video Art at the Short Ends World Film Festival held at the ICA in London. Currently, Fox works primarily in video, using lip-synching and appropriation to tackle subjects such as the self-representation of feminist artists and TV’s role as mythmaker.

The artist employs the traditional structure of lace-making from her family in Brazil as a visual construction and deconstruction with language as pattern. In Tecendo (which means ‘weaving’), the artist weaves visually and orally the text with alternating Portuguese and English, following a lace pattern. As she describes her grandmother’s alphabetization in Brazil, she offers enough words in each language for the narrative to be comprehended, even though the text is not repeated nor translated from one language to another.

Jessica Mein was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She has shown at the Museu de Arte Contemporanea in Campinas and Museu de Arte de Ribeirao Preto in Brazil. Last year she participated in a group show at Slought Foundation in Philadelphia. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree from Duke University and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Hunter College. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.