Tamar Khelashvili

There are arts you look at. And then there is an art that looks at you. And the same is for music. Not as a subject to be illustrated, but as a condition to be entered. If all art is a translation of life, music is the original language. The most visceral, the most immediate. Before the image, before the word, there was rhythm. A pulse. A breath held and released. There is no story, no era, no ritual, no thought, no emotion that cannot be mirrored in music. Grief has its chord. Joy has its...

Alessandro Speciale is an Italian composer, orchestrator and score preparator, specialized in music for visual media. He developed an early allure for music and musical creativity at the age of four, as he used to plunk away on his grandmother’s old upright piano. A visceral fascination for symphonic music followed later in high school, when he started performing as a keyboard player in some symphonic metal bands. After the high school, Alessandro decided to embark a brave journey as a...

Jan Wurm is an artist, educator, and curator engaged in expanding the community forum for contemporary art dialogue. Having lived in California, where she received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Europe, where she received an M.A.R.C.A. from the Royal College of Art in London, Jan Wurm has honed an eye for social patterns and conventions. She currently divides her time between Berkeley and L.A. and her hand between drawing and painting.As an artist, Wurm has been...