From Vir-Amicus: I am a creator of experience that is a vessel for the artistic expression and
manifestation Of Life. I am the conscious art channeled dripped in green - coloring
outside the box evoking, uplifting and inspiring through: the voice (as an instrument),
music, movement and lights. I am a bringer of Light, investigator of the darkness,
the SoundJester and a WordWrangler
Mikhail Torich is an award-winning filmmaker, international music video director,
photographer and visual artist. Torich creates interactive Video Art Installations
& films presented in contemporary art museums, galleries and shows worldwide. Since
2009, Torich is running a sensory-stimulating interactive visual art and movement
experiment SynthesisRGB, continued in a month-long Interactive Video Art Experiment
at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Annual Fall Show 2016 curated by New Museum's
Helga Christoffsen, also presented at National US Landmark the Stonewall Inn and
many more. His video installation "CloudFace" was premiered at "SURFACES"
festival at Palazzo Ca'Zanardi, Venice, Italy in conjunction with Venice Biennale 2018.
Sunken Cages is the moniker of drummer/electronic music producer Ravish Momin,
who started out as an acoustic drummer and percussionist a couple of decades
ago. Momin studied with Jazz master-drummer Andrew Cyrille. He has worked as
a sideman with a wide array of musicians, from pop-star Shakira to legendary
avant-saxophonist Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (of the AACM.) As Sunken Cages,
Momin is able to showcase his unique hybrid approach which splits the difference
between live performance and production. He plays electronic and acoustic drums,
and triggers melodies and textures. He also layers loops while manipulating them
in real-time to blur the lines between composition and improvisation. While rooted
in Indian folk and Black Music traditions, he is also influenced by the street sounds
of underground dance music from Sao Paolo to Durban to Mumbai and beyond.
DJ Ripley is known for ferociously adventurous, globally-minded, bass heavy sets,
dancing across genres including amapiano, baile funk, bounce, champeta, club, cumbia,
dancehall, dembow, dub, garage, gqom, grime, hardcore, jungle, reggaeton, soca, and
more --which she has played in warehouses, squats, clubs, basements, festivals, rooftops,
back rooms, front yards, ships, pirate and legal radio and online, for 27 years. She's
been a member of Surya Dub (SF), Dutty Artz (NY), Heavy (NY), and now Subversion (PHL),
and is also the author of Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright and the
Reverberations of Colonial Power (UNC Press 2022).
Art Jones has worked with film/video, sound, and objects. He has produced and directed
pieces for organizations including MTV , Deep Dish Television, and the Women's Health
Project of New York City Department of Health. He has served as Director of Photography
on projects for clients including The New York Times, Red Bull BC One Tokyo, and the
American Civil Liberties Union. Jones is best known for his innovation in the art of
audio/visual mixing. His live mixes have been performed in collaboration with musicians
and artists including Soundlab, DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Phillip Virus with Alec
Empire, Teleseen, Amiri Baraka, Femmes with Fatal Breaks, and Anti-Pop Consortium.
