"My work plays upon the ideas of mechanical reproduction, generation and transformation. I collect scans of hands. The hand begins as a tangible form that is then archived as source material. While documenting a person's presence I am also capturing a moment and recording his or her touch. Each filed hand is then edited and reproduced in multiple forms- as a sculpture, a sketch, a painting, a photograph. In this process of continuous reproduction and transformation of form and material I contemplate our ability to grasp connections with one another, the past, present and future."

Aimee Rhodes Cook was born and raised in West Texas. She received her B.A. from The University of Colorado, Boulder in political science and painting. In 1996, Aimee moved to New York City and worked for a number of years in the advertising and design world. From there she attended to the University of Texas, Austin to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in painting. It is here she began working in the digital realm. Today Aimee lives and works in Brooklyn. She maintains an artist's space, and works ... More >>

"The desire for knowledge in a society of singularly complex characters and crude and absurd values. A metaphor of time/space that whispers 'immersion in art and the cult to beauty will not save you', existence in a vaccum is futile and expensive, anonimity is only natural, and the cult of individualism and the mythology associated with it is sadly an encouraged goal of life. A comment on a consciously cultivated originality, which ceases to be original by the effort put into it. A question and a comment. but not an answer. The visual contradicts the auditory, in a parallel of current political affairs of 2004 and 2005, which has turned a mundane american existence into an actively questioning critical mass."

Alexander Kozovski was born in 1983 in Bulgaria. He moved to Japan in 1990, where he lived for 3 years. In 1998 he moved to the USA and in 2001 was accepted to the UT Art School. He will graduate in May of 2005 with a BFA and exhibit in the Crl Senior Show.

Alexander specializes in video art and digital image manipulation. His points of interest include video art, film and performance as well as installation with inspiration drawn from various fields including fashion, philosophy... More >>

Sue Costabile (a.k.a. sue & the musorkians) is a photographer and video artist working with a combination of analog and digital processes, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with various musicians. Born in long island, new york in 1974, she has resided in san francisco’s lower haight since 1996. With academic training largely focused on both the natural and built environments (first studying ecology and then architectural engineering) themes of the organic and the inorganic are often ex... More >>

"Life is often discussed and perceived in fragments but yet we attempt to form a clear and concrete understanding of the world around us. I believe that an examination of these fragments in the context of the whole will allow the viewer to see that the complete idea is not as concrete as we once thought. This ultimately forces a submission to the unknown; that we instinctually fear and fight. Some imagery in my work will be clear and distinct just as some ideas are, but other segments will be confusing and distorted all the while somehow still striving to understand and piece together the complete idea."

David Rowland graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City with a Studio Art Degree. He works with a plethora of digital media including video/animation, digital imaging, DVD authoring, and audio production. His work has been displayed in Kansas City, MO at the Video Garage and UMKC Art Gallery.

"For profit, por vida" is a split screen video with text that addresses peonage and issues surrounding inhumane work environments for farm workers.

Fernando Lafuente was born in 1982 and lives in Texas. Currently he is completing his BFA in studio art under photography and digital video at U.T.

Recently Fernando Lafuente has geared his work toward addressing social servitude and complacence. He feels that it is important to be vigilant and act on it.

He has exhibited work around the U.T. campus and at the CRL. He dumps countless hours into editing and onsight work. After completing school he hopes to continue working in... More >>

Justin is a Boston based designer that creates interactive exhibits for museums during the day, and performs with the audiovisual crew sosolimited by night.

He received his masters at the MIT Media Lab. The focus of his research there was on gestural control of media, where he developed software and hardware systems that would allow people's bodies and movements to edit and 'navigate' large quantities of video and audio footage.

Justin was an Artist in Residence at the ... More >>

Mumbleboy, aka Kinya Hanada, has made a name for himself in the world of Flash animation. He has an utterly individual art style that's blindingly colorful, hilarious, bizarre, and slightly unsettling. His work seems to draw inspiration from Japanese animation, video games, toy design, and surrealist art. Yet, perhaps his most direct influence comes from the unique limitations and capabilities of the vector graphics system within Macromedia Flash software.

Over the last several y... More >>

At once affirmative and critical, the videos of artist collective Paper Rad synthesize popular material from television, video games, and advertising, reprogramming these references with an exuberantly neo-primitivist digital aesthetic. As member Jacob Ciocci writes, "In the '70s and '80s cartoons and consumer electronics were bigger and trashier than ever and freaked kids out... Now these kids are getting older and are freaking everybody else out by using this same throw-away trash."
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Ryan Molloy is a recent MFA graduate and currently a visiting lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin's Design Division. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Texas Tech University in 1998. Upon graduation he returned to his hometown the dusty bodertown of El Paso, Texas. There he worked within the field of architecture towards receiving his architecture license and enrolled in post baccularate work in graphic design at the University of Texas at El Paso. His curren... More >>

Dylan Reece is a young designer originally from Dallas, TX. Now living in Austin, Dylan studies design and studio art at the University of Texas at Austin. Dylan also spends time making electronic music, appearing as Dillitex at a previous digital showcase and numerous other electronic events in Austin. Dylan is available for contract design work and is currently working on a new album.