Based in Vienna, Austria, OMAi and the Tagtool Crew lead public art projection events and collaborative light painting workshops around the world.

Markus Dorninger is a digital artist and designer. His work comprises projection interventions as well as stage performances. He invented Tagtool to bring to life the images that inhabit our imagination.

Josef Dorninger is a true-to-the-game Tagtoolista who takes care of business at OMAi. With his extensive experience as youth worker and workshop leader, he explores the educational benefits of creative projectionism.

Matthias Fritz is an active VJ who joined forces with the Dorninger brothers. As a versatile visualist with a strong community focus, he has taught Tagtool to thousands around the world.

Mitchel Oliver

Documentary Curator (2014-2015)

Mitch works on visuals, audio, food and land with his cat Mica.

Samuel Holleran is an urbanist, interdisciplinary artist, writer, and design educator. He works at the intersection of art, urban design, and civic engagement. He is interested in mobilizing popular forms of visual culture like hand lettering, vernacular printing, model-making, and animation to address real-life issues and explore under-examined histories.Sam works as a Design Educator at the Center for Architecture Foundation and the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and previously worked at the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). From 2014-2015 he is the Participatory Design Fellow with the Design Trust for Public Space, working with the Queens Museum of Art and the NYC Parks Department to engage communities surrounding the Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Honi Ryan is an interdisciplinary artist based in The Blue Mountains, Australia and Berlin, Germany. 

Ryan works across media-arts, performance, social sculpture and installation. She is interested in art as alternative models for living. Her work has cross cultural concerns and approaches the body in dialogue with electronic media, a body that is both an organism and a part of social behaviour. 

Kate Gilbert is an artist and creative strategist exploring the role the arts and artists play in transforming our cities, our relationships, and ourselves. In her artwork, curatorial projects, and public art consultancy, she strives to facilitate joy and spontaneity and to help propel public appreciation of contemporary art practices.

In her practice, Gilbert employs humor, simulation, and meditative observation to question objects of comfort, the retail systems they operate in, our consumptive behaviors, and our collective fears.

Gilbert is a graduate of Connecticut College (MA ’96) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA ’13). She lives and works in Boston, MA.

Laura Bernstein is a multimedia artist who constructs idiosyncratic scenarios and vignettes through video and performance. Her fictional characters and creatures engage with the surrounding environment to expose unusual and absurd interactions. Playing with notions of public and private space, she pursues forms that disrupt distinctions between the interiority of imagination and habitual, uniform reality. Her sculptures sometimes perform without a body and toggle with time to conjure previous functions and future existences. Bernstein received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Pennsylvania with a certificate in Time-Based & Interactive Media in 2014. She was awarded a Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship (2014) and was a fellow at Vermont Studio Center (2013) as well an apprentice at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia (2013). She has shown her work in Philadelphia, NY and Austriaand is part of the permanent collection of the National Dance Institute in New York. Her most recent work includes public performance in Vienna as well as in Philadelphia. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Moi Tran creates work that exists between abstraction, craft, assemblage, painting, installation and drawing. Her investigations of line, volume, colour, texture, shape, repetition and form are imbued with a sense of questioning, concerned with the need to examine visual assumptions of the use of craft in spatial compositions. Incorporating the idea that cloth wears, fades, stains, stretches and becomes an intimate record of our physical presence and history, her work denotes philosophies of the unfamiliar in the familiar.Textile is the primary material in Tran’s work and traditional textile craft the main tool for manipulation. Importantly the artist insists the textile performs with more prominence than as mere grounds onto which paint would be traditionally applied. Her work considers the process, consideration and time taken in making objects link the close geography concerned with small movements of the hand and arms with the larger mental and physical geographies involved in the engagement of the broader environment. Tran also creates set and costume design for theatre and performance.

Hannon is an East Coast gone West kind of cat. She travels with her collaborator, Paul, and prefers things wild'n'out and definitely with ranch dressing. Or not.

Armando was raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas where he also received his education in architecture at the University of Arkansas. He is constantly in search for the next adventure whether it is a road trip, moving to a place he has never seen before, sleeping in the passenger seat of cars, or sitting in silence. You can usually catch him daydreaming about the beach and the sun's warm rays. Armando was once asked, “What are you the best at?” to which he replied, “Being me.”

Georgie was born into a family of river otters on the banks of the Potomac not far from the heart of D.C., so she slipped right in to the merry crew at Elsewhere. She's most well known as DJ Dirty Dishes and one-half of Young Payne.

Daniel is a musician and composer from central California. He has spent the last few years picking the banjo and eating burritos in Portland, OR, where his best friend is an Edgar Degas painting of a hazy looking lady in blue that lives at the Portland Art Museum.

From Richmond Virginia, Michelle is a video vixen gettin' it dun across the USA. A recent post-grad from the University of Virginia, she is interested in experimental filmmaking, performance art, and social practice. A mind reader, hand massager, and committed bad-dancer, her international notoriety is inevitably coming soon.

Stacy Lynn Waddell creates works that appropriate the power invested in linguistics, historical record and cultural leitmotifs. After earning her MFA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007, Waddell’s works and multimedia installations have been on view at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University (NC), the Weatherspoon Art Museum (NC), The North Carolina Museum of Art (NC), The Gibbes Museum of Art (SC), The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PA), Project Row Houses (TX), The Studio Museum in Harlem (NY) and Koplin Del Rio (CA) among other venues.

Waddell’s works are represented in public and private collections across the country. She has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, an Art Matters Grant and has been in residence at Project Row Houses. Currently, she is participating in When The Stars Begin To Fall: Imagination and the American South that originated at The Studio Museum in Harlem and will travel to the NSU Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (Fall ’14) and the Institute of Contemporary Art-Boston, MA (Spr ‘15). She resides in Chapel Hill, NC.

Living in Waikiki, being raised in the heartland of America, and commuting to work as a flight attendant out of New York City to Europe has given Robert a wealth of artistic material. He received his MFA in 2011 from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Robert has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally regarding current and controversial issues such as tourism, consumption, civil rights and pop culture. Observations about the realm of good and bad human behavior to reveal the ironic choices humans make are layered into his work as well as personal issues and topics. He uses mixed media to create sculpture, installation, performance and wearable art and often combines these mediums and makes them interactive.Robert prefers to use found or common universal objects in a new fashion rather than typical art supplies. He employs humor, sound, irony, bright colors and odd materials to lure in the viewer with a veiled hidden and layered meaning.

Ali Aschman creates hand-made worlds exploring emotional states. Hybridity, transformation, alienation and guilt are recurring themes. Her practice includes animation, installation, drawing and printmaking. She experiments with narrative forms through moving and still images, kinetic and static objects and sculptural tableaux. Aschman earned a BA from the University of Cape Town and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ali Aschman’s residency is supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

Judith Parker is a curator, writer and art historian who lives in Canada’s capital, Ottawa. The city is named after indigenous traders, the Odawa, who met explorers traveling the Kitchesippi River. Judith curates interdisciplinary contemporary exhibitions in non-traditional places where artists can respond to specific cultural sites or historic artifacts. Every August, she creates collaborative performance in the Canadian wilderness with R. Murray Schafer’s Wolf Project. In 2014, Beyond the Edge: Artists’ Gardens presented five outdoor plant-based installations addressing its location at Agriculture Canada’s Central Experimental Farm. As former curator at the historic Bytown Museum, Judith initiated Artist-in-Residence solo exhibitions presenting contemporary art in dialogue with Victorian-era artifacts.

I was born an artist. My beginning years were spent in a small community of black people who had come to Southern Ontario from the Southern U.S.A. My parents were married in 1951 and brought in and questioned by the Morality Squad of the Hamilton Police Dept. since mesegenation(the mixing of the races) was still against the law. I graduated from a comprehensive Arts High School and moved from Hamilton to Toronto were I graduated with honors from The Ontario College of Art and Design. I moved to Vancouver and became part of a small but intence live Arts and Music scene. From there I started researching Black Spiritual Practices through Slave Cultures and have lived and worked in Cuba, Haiti and the U.K. I was one of two Canadian artists invited to participate in the 1st International Arts Biennale in Johannesburg, South Africa after the official end of aparthied and met Nelson Mandela seven months after his electon. My work is an on going learning process and I have become interested in the enviroment and the use of recoverable materials and objects as building materials. This has become an important part of my process. For more info. www.janwade.com

Brenda Oelbaum is the current President of the Women's Caucus for Art, a national organization that supports women in the arts by creating community through art, education and social activism. As a multidisciplinary conceptual artist, Oelbaum works in whatever medium best suits her mission. For the past 10 years she has been focusing on taking down the 66 billion diet industry, turning diet books into art that will educate viewers about disordered eating, and an industry that thrives on personal failure, promoting low self-image and body loathing. She feels strongly that it is the Diet Industry that has created the so called "Obesity Epidemic," and believes in the principles of Health at Every Size (HAES)

Margaret Bowes (b. 1986) is a Canadian visual artist, writer and traveler, whose many activities involve exploring the friction between land and identity. Often traveling throughout border zones, resource-based economies and shifting channels, her practice opens up a space between landscape and the contemporaneity of colonization. An ongoing part of her practice involves immersing herself in these first-hand experiences, like fieldwork. For the past nine years Margaret has worked in seasonal forestry in Northern British Columbia to offset the costs of producing artwork. In the process she has become highly attached to, and inspired by, the diverse pockets of nomadic subcultures that travel according to season and economic flux. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Art from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, has exhibited nationally and has had works published in Canada and Australia. She has attended artist residencies at Nes Residency (Skagaströnd, Iceland) and Full Tilt (Newfoundland, Canada).