Jim Finn (b. 1968, St. Louis)
lives in Chicago and makes videos about small animals, love and communism. His house is a kind of MGM lot for experimental animal videos. His work has screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, Cinematexas, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. His work has also appeared on the PBS and in Harper's magazine. He is one of the organizers of the experimental Video Mundi festival at the Chicago Cultural Center and is currently working on a series of needlepoint portraits of South American communists.


Arthur Jones
(b. 1974, Plainview Texas)
is an animator and illustrator who studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. His animated shorts are fast-paced, meticulously detailed, creepy and cute. They have shown in the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Worm Film Series (Rotterdam), Chicago International Children's Film Festival, LA Shorts, and Gavin Brown Passerby Gallery in New York. His design work includes promotional paint-by-number kits for the public radio program This American Life, advertising for Thrill Jockey Records, and art direction for Dirty Found magazine. His online sketchbook, www.gorillasuit.com, receives thousands of hits a week and has been viewed by nerds the world over.