Video FIRST featured a sculptural installation by Marcy B. Freedman and Gene Panczenko entitled Ambiguous Imperatives that focuses one's attention upon sensory experiences of looking, hearing, and speaking. As well, these two artists will be showing individual video works on a separate monitor. Anita Di Bianco, in collaboration with the Italian actress Elisabetta Milani, will be showing Betty Talks a series of video works that explore particular cinematic iconographies. Angelo Jannuzzi will present, amongst other works, Songs from Sing Sing, an inside look into the poetry and violence of four Sing Sing inmates, three of whom have won PEN Awards. Maryam Jafri, a video artist born in Pakistan, will show several short pieces that deal with issues of gender, culture, experimental narrative and performance. jeep Johnson, will exhibit a series of short videos dealing with exchanges of emotion and abstraction. Tom Halsall, an artist/activist/teacher, will present an edited history of politics and art from the 1980's that speak to us contemporaneously in 2002. This work will be completed by Halsall especially for Video FIRSrin collaboration with Martin Eastwood, a filmmaker originally from Ireland. The messages all these video works present are eclectic and various, linked only because they utilize this relatively new 20th Century art form. These artists are exploring and exploiting the medium of art video. in its uniqueness, as a way to reach a wider audience while maintaining individual artistic integrity. The Peekskill community is invited to also explore this new medium in its curious and atypical ways of communication and personal expression. A VideoFIRST for Peekskill.

Marcy B. Freedman is well known to us in Westchester, coming from Croton-on-Hudson and maintaining a working studio in Peekskill. Largely known for her collage, Polaroid and text works, she takes on a new and very challenging medium for this exhibition.

Gene Panczenko is a Peekskill artist who recently exhibited his photographic works in Zahra's Gallery in Beacon. He also works in the professional A/V industry.

Anita Di Bianco is originally from Chappaqua and now lives and works in Rotterdam. Collaborating with Elisabetta Milani, Di Bianco's videos have screened at festivals in Germany, the Netherlands, and most recently, in London.

Angelo Jannuzzi, a two-time winner of a N.Y. Council on the Arts Award in Video, lives in Yonkers and works mostly in the Bronx, having exhibited at the Bronx Museum and NYC's Anthology of Film Archives.

Maryam Jafri is a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and has shown her video works in New York City and abroad, including Apex Art, The Lux Centre (London) and Galerie Buchmann (Cologne).

Jeep Johnson works in a variety of media to create his artwork including photography, film, video, painting and poetry. Johnson just presented one of his latest video works, Still Runninia at the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie.

Tom Halsall is a Professor of Art at SUNY Westchester where he teaches painting and drawing as well as being the Curriculum Chair. He has exhibited his two-dimensional pieces widely and has shown his video works at the Whitney Museum and Columbia University's Macy Gallery.

Martin Eastwood is a filmmaker (OPUS 2), editor and emerging videographer who has had his work shown in The Lizard's Tail and The Cat's Hed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Dana DeVito, the organizer for Video FIRST, codirects MAXWELLFINEARTS and is a painter, showing most recently at THE STUDIO in Armonk, New York.