The first edition of the new Bridge Chicago Open Readings series and Open Mic took place at the Open Books Pilsen store, 905 W. 19th St. on Saturday, February 18th, 2023 from 2-4pm. Runtime: 12 minutes, 35 seconds.

Video for “Language is a Virus,” performed by Laurie Anderson. Produced by Davidson Gigliotti. Runtime: 3 minutes, 06 seconds.

Here We Left It is an ongoing series of silent one minute videos. The work seeks escape routes into an imaginary world via the overlooked and the mundane. I use everyday objects such as bin bags and discarded packaging as video containers. They are brief, looped works where nothing much seems to happen. Silently flickering and barely moving, these works are short, fleeting moments destined to repeat forever. Runtime: 1 minutes 17 seconds.

Experimental video featuring the poem “Meditation / Die Sinnende” by German poet Gertrud Kolmar (1894-1943). Runtime: 5 minutes, 30 seconds.

"Infinity" is the first episode from a 5-episode, 30-minute series, "Non-Sequitur: transmissions, disruptions, transformations." Using choreographed abstract visuals and sound, the project creates an immersive experience that allows viewers to explore the concept of infinity from multiple perspectives. Runtime: 6 minutes, 33 seconds.

For this work, I wanted to play with surrealism and planimetric composition. The piece is inspired by the dynamics of friendships between women and Queer people. Runtime: 3 minutes, 51 seconds.

For Season 1, Episode 1 of Talking with Artists, Bridge Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman sits down for a conversation with Chicago artist Kestutis Nakas. Filmed live at Gather, a performance art soiree at SITE/less Chicago, Oct. 14, 2022. Runtime: 9 minutes, 13 seconds.

For Season 1, Episode 2 of Talking with Artists, Bridge Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman sits down for a conversation with Chicago artist Anna Brown. Filmed live at Gather, a performance art soiree at SITE/less Chicago, Oct. 14, 2022. Runtime: 9 minutes, 13 seconds.

For Season 1, Episode 3 of Talking with Artists, Bridge Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman sits down for a conversation with Chicago artist Mariela Acuña. Filmed live at Gather, a performance art soiree at SITE/less Chicago, Oct. 14, 2022. Runtime: 9 minutes, 7 seconds.

For Season 1, Episode 4 of Talking with Artists, Bridge Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman sits down for a conversation with Venezuelan artist Érika Ordosgoitti. Filmed live at Gather, a performance art soiree at SITE/less Chicago, Oct. 14, 2022. Runtime: 9 minutes, 6 seconds.

For Season 1, Episode 5 of Talking With Artists, Bridge Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman sits down for a conversation with Estonian artist Al Paldrok. Filmed live at Gather, a performance art soiree at SITE/less Chicago, Oct. 14, 2022. Runtime: 9 minutes, 37 seconds.

For Season 1, Episode 6 of Talking With Artists, Bridge Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman sits down for a conversation with Chicago artist Ricardo Vilas Freire. Filmed live at Gather, a performance art soiree at SITE/less Chicago, Oct. 14, 2022. Runtime: 7 minutes, 51 seconds.

For Season 1, Episode 7 of Talking With Artists, Bridge Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman sits down for a conversation with Chicago artist Joseph Ravens. Filmed live at Gather, a performance art soiree at SITE/less Chicago, Oct. 14, 2022. Runtime: 6 minutes, 36 seconds.

This video is to exist as my body. The digital ephemera pulled together feels as I do, weeps for pleasure and sorrow as my own skin. My body consists of found and made video, digital renders and photography, and aphorisms of joy. Directed by Ethan Edwards. Runtiume: 2 minutes, 27 seconds.

A lens into a projection mapped installation with a sound collaboration by Too Many Cooks. The concept for the piece stems from the myth of the tower of babel, which is meant to explain why people speak different languages. Instead of feeling discouraged by miscommunication, it asks how we can find play in that space. Directed by Lyndsey Gillespie. Runtime: 4 minutes, 37 seconds

This work explores a complete surrender–what it might be to undergo a corporeal shift with embodiment as undivided substance and sense. Directed by Jacob Tate. Runtime: 3 minutes, 36 seconds

The Corporeal Paintings series is a study of the human form and the impressions left thereon. This work asks, ”How do memories present themselves in the flesh?” and “In what ways do our experiences embed themselves in our bodies?” Directed by Dominick Rivers. Runtime: 2 minutes, 19 seconds.

Through an abstracted view of quotidian pathways, the piece explores our strange and amorphous impact within embodied landscapes. Directed by Gerich "Drew" Buerger. Runtime: 2 minutes, 26 seconds.

This piece explores relationships between augmented bodies and human interaction. Through a seemingly normal conversation utilizing an AI voice generator, viewers are prompted to observe their “new friend” through a simulated and posthuman reality. Directed by Erin Gieselman. Runtime: 2 minutes, 13 seconds.

”The transgender body is often seen as sensational or pervasive. Through utilizing footage from different periods of my life, with symbols from my spiritual practice, I explain my experience living in a transgender body. I do not see it as fascinating or shocking. I simply see it as myself.” Directed by Max Senter. Runtime: 3 minutes, 41 seconds.

The artist anthropomorphized an antique vase in the video meant to satirize Britain's looting of Chinese artifacts in 1900 and displayed it at the British Empire Museum. Directed by Wenqi Li. Runtime: 1 minutes, 39 seconds.

This looping media considers the collective and distributed bodies of waves and technology as both visual and sensorial material. Directed by Melody Reyes. Runtime: 3 minutes, 44 seconds.

In offering an abstracted portal making viewers feel they may be seeing what they're not supposed to, the work tackles conceptual invasions of privacy around the body and figures associated with our bodies. Directed by Emma O’Connor. Runtime: 1 minutes, 29 seconds.