Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby have been working collaboratively since 1994 on printed matter, installations, curated programs, and sound projects. Their innovative work has been screened across the US and internationally and is included in the permanent collections of Harvard University, Princeton, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, V-Tape, Video Out and other prestigious organizations and institutions. Originally from Canada, they both currently teach video art at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Tonight they will introduce a program of their single-channel, performative videos including:

• RAPT AND HAPPY (17 mins, 1998), '.... disarmingly fresh, smelling of the long summer in which it was made. Cat fights, threesomes and daddy's porn emerge in video byte succession, as this duo turn intimacy into playtime' -Images Catalogue
• BEING FUCKED UP (10 mins, 2001), won first place at the Onion City Film Festival in 2001 and is included in the current UK/Canadian Video Exchange program
• THE FINE ARTS (3 mins, 2002), "I hate the fine arts, I am disgusted by the fine arts, because, um... the fine arts are always made with artifice"
BAD IDEAS FOR PARADISE (20 mins, 2002), a series of sardonic, self-obsessed, ethical, sad, bothersome, facetious video vignettes
• CURIOUS ABOUT EXISTENCE (11 mins, 2003), a collection of short episodes incorporating music, animation, and live action
• I AM A CONJUROR (9 mins, 2003), a short science-fiction narrative about a couple who have revolutionized the course of medical and scientific history
and
• ATTENTION PUBLIC! (9 mins, 2004), a world premiere!