- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee - Chris Evans
Chris Evans (born 1967) is an English artist. He works in various media, including video, sculpture, air-brush painting and installation. - Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California) is a contemporary artist who works with film, video, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing and performance art. Barney has described himself as being primarily a sculptor. - Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing and performance. - Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006) was a South Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is credited for first working with video art. - Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy (born in 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a performance artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He studied art at the University of Utah in 1969. He went on the study at the San Francisco Art Institute getting his B.F.A. in painting. Then in 1972 he studied film, video, and art at the University of Southern California getting his M.F.A. From 1982 until the present he has taught performance, video, installation, … - Kim Gordon
Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is a musician, vocalist, and artist. She plays bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. She also plays in the band Free Kitten with Julie Cafritz (of Pussy Galore), and she has collaborated with musicians such as Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, William Winant, Lydia Lunch, Alan Licht, and Chris Corsano. - David Hall
David Hall (born in 1937) is a significant British video artist. He began as a sculptor exhibiting internationally, winning 1st prize at the Paris Biennale in 1965. In 1966 he was represented in the seminal minimal art show, Primary Structures, at the Jewish Museum, New York. In 1967 he began working with photography and film and in 1969-70 video (the technology then becoming available outside the broadcast industry). - Solitair
Solitair and fellow MC/producer Kardinal Offishall founded a production company called Silver House and the Girl (S.H.A.G.) in 2000. They mainly produced for other hip-hop artists on the local Canadian music scene. After Solitair produced Kardinal's smash hit "BaKardi Slang" to critical acclaim in 2001, he felt that it was his turn to shine. Also in 2001, Solitair released a video for his single "Easy 2 Slip", which he calls a "tribute to fallen soldiers". - John Duncan
John Duncan (born 1953) is an artist who has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Amsterdam, currently lives and works in Bologna. His range of work, including performance art, installations, contemporary music, video and film, is considered to be a form of existential research, usually involving the extensive use of recorded sound. His music is composed mainly of recordings from shortwave radio, field recordings and voice. - Denise Austin
Denise Austin (born February 13, 1957) is an American fitness and exercise expert, author, columnist and instructor. She is also a member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. She is married to sports attorney Jeff Austin, with whom she has two daughters: Kelly (born 1990) and Katie (born 1993). Her sister-in-law is U.S. tennis champion Tracy Austin. Austin was born Denise Katnich in San Pedro, CA. She started gymnastics at the age of 12, … - Steve Wilson
Steve Wilson is Chief Investigative Reporter for WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan. During the early 1990s, he was a former reporter for the syndicated news program "Inside Edition". Wilson came to national prominence in 1998, when, together with his wife and reporting partner Jane Akre, he filed suit against Tampa, Florida Fox television station WTVT, his former employer. After spending some time away from the broadcast media, Wilson joined WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan. - Randy West
Randy West (born 1960, Indianapolis, Indiana) is a noted American fine art photographer, perhaps best known for his distinctive and avant-garde use of the photographic medium, as seen across several series of his work. West is also on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, and a director of the school's Master of Fine Arts program for photography, video, and related media. - Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley (born 1954 in Detroit, lives and works in Los Angeles) is an American artist. His work involves stuffed animals, textile banners and carpets, and his output also includes drawings, objects, assemblage, collage, performance and video. His oeuvre is often discussed by critics as engaging with the concept of Abjection. He staged his most ambitious show to date in November/December 2005, … - Sam Taylor-Wood
Sam Taylor-Wood (born London, England, 4 March 1967) is a contemporary artist working mostly in video and photography. She has been identified as a member of the young British Artist group, and is a graduate of Goldsmiths College. She is married to her art dealer Jay Jopling. she also inspired artists such as Louis Joseph Higgins. Taylor-Wood's parents divorced when she was a teenager, and she moved with her mother and step-father to a new-age commune in Surrey. - David Jaffe
David Jaffe is a video game designer and currently resides in San Diego, California. He is married and has two children. Jaffe attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He applied to their prestigious film school, but was never admitted. After a few years pursuing his dream of directing movies, he turned to game design. He is best known for directing the critically-acclaimed "Twisted Metal" series and, more recently, "God of War". - Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) is an American conceptual artist. She was born in Newark, New Jersey and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. After a year at Syracuse, she moved to New York, where she began attending Parsons School of Design. She studied with Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel, who, as a graphic designer and art director for Harper's Bazaar in the 1960s, introduced Kruger to photographers and fashion/magazine sub-cultures. - Paolo Fresu
Paolo Fresu (born in Berchidda, Sardinia, on February 10 1961) is a trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player, as well as an arranger of music, and music composer. Fresu graduated from the Conservatory of Cagliari in trumpet studies in 1984 and attended the University of Musical and performing arts in Bologna. He teaches at the Siena Jazz National Seminars, as well as jazz university courses in Terni, and is the director of Nuoro Jazz Seminars in Nuoro, Italy. - Darren James
Darren James (born Darren Keith Edwards on February 25, 1964 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African-American ex-pornographic actor who sent shock waves throughout the adult entertainment industry and made worldwide headlines after testing positive for HIV. The six-year veteran performer tested positive on April 13, … - Ivy
Ivy (아이비) (born 박은혜 (Park Eunhye), November 7 1982) is a K-pop singer who debuted in 2005 with the album "Vol. 1 - My Sweet and Free Day". Although she has a strong voice, the record company chose the "sexy" route by releasing "오늘밤 일 ("What Happened Tonight") as her first single. Since the song was about her cheating on her boyfriend with a one night stand, it was accompanied by a suggestive video. - Andrew Wright
Andrew Wright (born September 4, 1971) is a Canadian multimedia artist from Waterloo, Ontario. He is best known for his work with video and large-scale photography. - Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler is an artist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. She graduated from Brooklyn College (1965) and the University of California, San Diego (1974). Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Her work and writing have been widely influential. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and teaches art at Rutgers University and the Städelschule in Frankfurt. - Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe is an acclaimed French artist who works in a variety of media, from film and video to public interventions. He trained at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, and started his artistic career as the assistant of Xavier Veilhan. Later, he started showing with the Fac-Simile Gallery in Milan, invited by Horazio Goni. Much of Huyghe's work examines the structural properties of film and its problematic relationship to reality. - Candy Dulfer
Candy Dulfer (born 19 September, 1969, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is a Dutch smooth jazz alto saxophonist. - Noah Kalina
Noah Kalina (b. 1980) is a New York City photographer who gained Internet fame for his viral video entitled "everyday". Kalina began taking a photo of himself everyday beginning on January 11, 2000, at age 19. The video, "everyday", shows the photos chronologically, in rapid succession, with an original piano score by musician Carly Comando. Throughout the compilation, Kalina's face, which is always in the center of the video, remains emotionless. - Dobie Gray
Dobie Gray (born Lawrence Victor Ainsworth, 26 July 1940) is an African-American musician/singer best known for his song "Drift Away", which was one of the biggest hits of 1973, and still remains a staple of radio airplay. He was born in Texas although the exact place is unknown; (Simonton being one of the most generally agreed on locations). There is also some argument as to his date of birth, but it is generally placed in the early 1940s. - Negar Khan
Born in Iran, Negar Khan (sometimes credited as Nigar Khan) grew up in Norway, studied in Australia and was pursuing a career in Bollywood until she was deported in February 2005 by Mumbai authorities for working illegally. She shot to fame with her scantily clad appearance in the 'Chadti Jawani' remix video and numbers in the movies "Rudraksh" and "Shaadi Ka Laddoo". Negar took part in the film "Double Cross", … - Lisa Maffia
Lisa Maffia (born 16 June 1979 in South London) originally came to the public's attention as the main female member of So Solid Crew. Whilst in So Solid, the singer notched up 5 top 20 hits, including a platinum selling single "21 Seconds" and a platinum selling album "They Dont Know". She was born to an Italian mother and a black father. Her own first solo album, "First Lady" was released in August 2003, … - Ed Lee
Ed Lee is an American publisher and video producer and distributor. Lee produces pornographic content focusing on the fetish of erotic spanking through his companies Nu-West and Leda in San Diego, California. He created the companies in 1982, with Nu-West devoted to the fantasy of women receiving spankings and Leda to female domination material depicting women administering spankings to men. The companies have revised their distribution methods many times over the years, … - Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller (born 1966) is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. He is a Turner Prize winner. - Joan Jonas
Born in 1936 in New York City, Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960's and early 1970's. She began her career in New York City as a sculptor. By 1968 she moved into what was then leading edge territory: mixing performance with props and mediated images, situated outside in natural and/or industrial environments. In her early works, such as "Wind" (1968), … - Madv
MadV birthdate unknown, is an anonymous YouTube video director and illusionist, active since April 11, 2006. His video persona or character wears a replica Guy Fawkes mask, popularised by Alan Moore's graphic novel V for Vendetta, also the source of his character name 'V'. His style is that of a silent illusionist, displaying various tricks or miracles without saying a word. It is alleged that he 'quit' YouTube to pursue a career in television. - Jem Cohen
Jem A. Cohen (born 1962, Kabul, Afghanistan) is a New York City-based filmmaker known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats (16mm, Super 8, video) and collaborations with music artists. He was born in Afghanistan where his father was working for the U.S. Agency for Information and Development. Cohen's longer works include his feature film, "CHAIN", (Berlin Film Festival premiere, 2004), and the experimental documentary, … - Vito Acconci
Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. His father was an Italian immigrant who took him to museums and opera houses and gave him his first arts education. Vito attended Regis High School on New York City. He received a B.A. in literature from the College of the Holy Cross in 1962 and an M.F.A. in literature and poetry from the University of Iowa. - Shana Hiatt
Shana Hiatt (born 1975) is a model and presenter who has appeared in several magazines. A former Army brat raised primarily in Tabernacle, New Jersey, she is best known for hosting the first three seasons of "World Poker Tour" on the The Travel Channel. While Hiatt was a non-player prior to her job with the "World Poker Tour", she is now an avid online poker player who occasionally plays in casinos. - Mariko Mori
Mariko Mori is a Japanese video and photographic artist. While studying at Bunka Fashion College, she worked as a fashion model in the late 1980s. This strongly influenced her early works, such as "Play with Me", in which she takes control of her role in the image, becoming an exotic, alien creature in everyday scenes. In 1989, she moved to London to study at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. - Toni Basil
Toni Basil (born Antonia Christina Basilotta, September 22 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a musician, video artist, actress, and choreographer. - Jad Choueiri
Jad Choueiri is a Lebanese singer and music-video director. His first album: "El Mouftah" ("The Key", 2006) compiled singles released between 2003 and 2006 along with new material. - Keith Flint
Keith Charles Flint (born 17 September 1969 in Chelmsford, Essex, England) is a member of the British hard dance/rave band The Prodigy. Flint was born and raised in Chelmsford, Essex. In the late 1980s he met the DJ Liam Howlett in a rave club and expressed his appreciation of Howlett's taste in music. After receiving a mixtape from Liam Howlett, the tapes B side had a few of Liams own tracks on it that he made in his bedroom studio 'Earthbound'. - A. J. Johnson
Anthony Johnson is an African American actor and comedian. He got his start in acting when he starred in House Party in 1990 as E.Z.E. He then went on to appear in other urban films. He is also remembered for appearing in Dr. Dre's video "Dre Day", in which he was portraying Sleazy-E, a parody of rapper Eazy-E. He also appeared in the classic 1995 Los Angeles based film "Friday" as Ezal, a crackhead, who would do anything just to make some money.
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