I was born 1978 in Warsaw, Poland and migrated to Austria in 1988. I studied at the University of Art in Linz in the experimental design department (2008) and a semester at Kunsthochschule, Berlin-Weissensee in the Erasmus program (2005). The main focus of my work is on drawing, animated filmmaking and video. I live in Vienna and participate in many film festivals.

The aim in my work is to approach the structure behind things using methods like collection, repetition, reduction. On the other hand I am focused on issues like longing, observation from a distance, definitions of action versus stagnancy, interesting versus boring.

I am working at the Media-lab in Polymer from August 2009 until December 2009. I was invited to create a project for the Plektrum Festival in Tallinn on this years’ topic “Where is Virtuality?”. The idea for “Emoticonize Me“ appeared when I discovered that Skype was first developed in Estonia. I performed as a street portrait artist under the restriction that I interpreted peoples' faces as Skype emoticons icons. I compared individual expression within different fields of interaction. I made hand drawn animated versions of Skype emoticons and uploaded them on Youtube. Skype employees saw the video and invited me to visit the Skype office in Tallinn.

Currently I am working on a map of the stone pigeons serving as barricades spread all over Tallinn.

Rebecca Delange is an Australian installation artist. Her art practice explores ideas relating to mutation, repetition, destruction/construction and the fragility of the body. Central to the work is a search for finding materials, actions and process that physically articulate immaterial things such as fears, desires, thoughts and secrets. She is interested in exploring what sort of forms would these things take on if they existed tangibly in our reality. Her arts practice engages in a dialogue between controlled making and uncontrolled action. Currently the work takes the form of spatially responsive assemblages and installations made from materials such as plasticine, paint, clay, dirt, and lollies.

Adam Gooderham lives in Melbourne, Australia and is a musician and sound artist. He studied music at Deakin University and has been performing for almost 20 years. He works in different genres as his mood takes him and prefers live performance as the ultimate expression of his ideas. His music uses a variety of instruments and voice as well as field recordings of urban and wild spaces, industrial noise, mediaeval village ambience, spaceships, military installations, lo-fi accidents and hamburger factories. He is equally happy making an infernal racket as part of a ‘rock’ band as he is making minimal ambience involving the twiddling of knobs and manipulation of unobtrusive sounds. His music incorporates humour, political and social comment and, sometimes, dancing. He tries to break down barriers between audience and performer and prefers not to dazzle people with technical prowess as part of his artistic process. He believes that all people have an artistic contribution to make, even if they don’t call themselves artists.

Saulius Leonavicius is an artist, filmmaker and art director. He is a student in the Photography and Media Art department at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius Lithuania. Using different media he questions common perception of space, social norms and politics. In the work he appropriates cultural artifacts, rules and models of social behavior. By initiating creative interaction within temporary communities he defines the artists’ position in society.

After two weeks in Polymer Culture Factory Saulius piloted “Extraterrestrial Phone Home” (ETPH) party. ETPH is a multi format collaborative device which incorporates audio-visual media and interactive experience. ETPH was started during The Tourist Syndrome Summer Camp, (3 -11 September 2009), Palanga, Lithuania, a workshop on tourism and displacement, by Manuel Prados (Spain) and Saulius Leonavicius and now continues as an open source project. At Polymer Culture Factory the second ETPH party took place October 2 2009.

Justin Tyler Tate was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and grew up in Florida USA. He relocated back to Halifax to attend the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and has since made it his home. Graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts his solo practice incorporates a variety of media; primarily sculpture, installation and performance. Over the past few years, he has exhibited his work across Canada and internationally. Tate's work investigates the relationship between the viewer and the object questioning the weight of viewership and creation alike.

Artist in residence in Polymer August 14-27, 2009.
Error Collective formed in Lithuania during the summer 2009. In Tallinn Error Collective produced the Matching Project, jewelry in the form of silver matches fabricated at Gram Studio, which are distributed within the context of live performance in matchboxes with original labels printed in Polymer’s Silk Screen Studio.

At Polymer, he also created a performative, interactive installation called Three-See-Saw. A three layer teeter-totter that can accommodate six people and can be used through cooperation and communication of each participant. The Three-See-Saw’s site feels appropriate in the context of Soviet era Estonian architecture, Polymer’s previous use as a toy factory and in relation to other installation work surrounding the factory. He also created installation and performance art for “Global Container VIII”.

Tom Russotti examines the relationship between sport and art, as well as their functions as representatives of larger social systems.  In 2006 Tom founded the Institute for Aesthletics, an organization that promotes socially engaged and performative athletic activity. Aesthletics is the practice of sport as art; by playing with the aesthetic variables of sport- rules, dress, location, and performance, aesthletics emphasizes the cultural, ritual, and social qualities of sports over its competitive element, a small part of sport that has been over-prioritized in contemporary society.

Tom has organized events, exhibited, and performed throughout the United States and abroad, including the Tate Modern Museum, The Phillips Collection, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and the Brooklyn Historical Society. Tom’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Lithuanian National Television, CBC Canada, Wired.com, and the Brooklyn Rail. Tom studied History at Stanford University and received an M.F.A in Visual Arts from Rutgers University.

Artist in Residence August 14-31. While in residence at Polymer Culture Factory Tom invented a new sport, Break a Leg which he organized for Diletantide Avangard (August 21 2009). Tom teamed up with Ernest Truely (also known as Eero) to announce Global Container VIII. Tom and Eero employed the sport narrative to the documentation of the Global Container festival, presenting performers as competitors in what turned out to be a very heated international event.

Monika Malinauskaite is a Lithuanian artist working on miniatures, pottery, theatre and human being. Now a student at Vilnius Gedimino Technikos University, Creative Industries.

Artist in residence August 13-25 2009. Monika Malinauskaite came to Polymer to visit the Polymer Festival and complement her creativity bucket. Participated in Pikk Street Design Market, made jewelry masterpiece in Gram Studio, visited Õhu silk screening studio and took part in human branding performance in festival opening evening. Hoping to come back soon.

Simon B. Haefele was born in 1977 and lives in Vienna, Austria. He is an Artist and Curator, IT Trainer and Technician. He studied Media Art and Performance in Vienna at the University of Applied Arts and in Tallinn with, among others, Peter Weibel, Brigitte Kowanz and Jaan Toomik.  Since October 2008 he  has been writing his PhD thesis about the “the effect of art on disputed boundaries” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies where he is  Faculty of Philosophical and Historic Anthropology of Arts.

During his stay as Artist-In-Residence at the Polymer Culture Factory form (27 July – 1 October, 2009) he interviewed artists, curators, art historians, journalists, collectors, gallerists, diplomats, academics and directors of museums. His research compares artistic strategies on the Estonian-Russian border to those in Israel and Palestine and those on the US-Mexico border. By the end of 2009 the first results and parts of interviews will be published on the web-page. http://disputedboundaries.blogs.sonance.net/about/

Simon installed a mobile Closed-Circuit-Installation called "Your-Self-Research Station" which recorded the audience answering the question "How Do You Use Art?" at his Public-Art-Research Booth, Performance-Art-Festival Seahank (31 July, 2009) . During the Polymer Festival (27 August, 2009) as part of  "Global Container", he invited participants in Estonian, Russian and English, to his "Open Brunch and Discussion Series" where he publically asked the crucial question "What Is the Power of the Artist?".  As a member and founder of sonance.artistic.network he presented the re.sonance.007.dvd "Manic.Fiction" at the Plektrum VJ Festival (27 September, 2009)

Asta Vekki is a visual artist living and working in Helsinki. She mainly works with objects and installations using recycled materials. Besides her individual work she's a part of two artist groups. In their exhibitons the groups work with themes like religion and gender.

Jaana Maijala is a Finnish artist who lives and works in Helsinki. Her maininterests lay on fields of conceptual art and photography. Lately, though, she has developped a need for being a ”praktiline perenaine”.

During their residency (June-August 2009) Jaana Maijala and Asta Vekki established a new artist group Missionaires. The fundamental idea of the group is to make only religious art. The group made site specific art pieces in different places at Polymer. The installations can be regarded as two different series. The boxes remind people of the presence of paradise and hell. The Passage is a conceptual piece that leads the audience walk through pink doors named after Finnish popsongs. A three minute song is a modern confession of one's deepest feelings.

In the Global Container VII Missionairies made a performance called "Ponyride=An International Delight". Ponies! Wedding Dresses! Confettis! Accordion Player! Saaremaa valss! Blindfolds! Letters! Statements! Ilus!! Missionaires have also preached about Finnish culture, it's traditions, food and modern folk music for the people of Polymer. There has been a midsummer night's fest and a pre-Christmas party. The group has offered a rare chance to enjoy these typical elements of Finnish culture.

In her art, Kendall Nordin focuses on the qualities of life that make us distinctly human—the accidents, the messes, the drive to symbolize and the quest for relationship. Though she draws on many materials and processes for her work, for the most part the result is contemplative and minimal.

She completed her MFA in Contemporary Art Practice at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia in 2005 and has since been living in Washington DC, working as a studio teacher for small children. She received a DCCAH small projects grant in 2008, exhibited a solo show with Astroturf DC in 2007 and has shown work in group exhibitions throughout the Southeastern US. In 2005 she co-founded the 24-hour drawing project and has since performed it 2 more times. In past public lives, she has been, amongst other things, a poet, a musician, and an associate producer for documentary film.

While in residence at Polymer (June-July 2009), Kendall worked on a site-specific installation on a ceiling using detritus-- scraps from other artists' practices, found materials around the factory, field recordings of Tallinn, and tangents from conversations. An installation of her most recent musical output, "Tshuvah", opened on July 7 in the gallery. "Tshuvah" is a collaboration between Kendall and Hugh McElroy. Also she will led a workshop for small children that explores a variety of materials, encouraging them to become more excited about making things and developing their small motor skills. The workshop took place at Uue Maailma Selts on July 18th & 19th.

Meghan E. Van Alstyne is a graduate of the BFA program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University. She works as a visual artist in Boston and New York. Her work includes sculpture, installation and performance. Much of the work is executed through Casting and Mold Making in plastics, rubbers and traditional materials.

The work references anatomy and its locality to sociological and psychological relationships. Love, mortality and the human condition are current threads of interest. She often writes short stories about her sense of loss because of the absence of her imaginary conjoined twin Delilah, joined to her at the breastbone. Her work has been exhibited in Boston, New York and Art Basel, Miami (2007.)

Artist in residence: June –July 2009. While an artist in residence at Polymer, Meghan conducted a tutorial workshop on the methods of casting and mold making. She created a set of helium inflated human hearts. These floating hearts demonstrated their own life cycle as they floated and then deflated over time falling to the ground.  She also created a wedding dress to her mortal body, hand sewn from bed sheets, which she hand embroidered with an image of the human pulmonary system.

Simon Whetham is a sound artist who composes new sound environments through phonography: the evocative art of using field recordings of natural sounds. Hearing and then capturing the music in everyday noises, Simon draws the listener's attention to the subtle details and sound layers which are commonly disregarded.

Simon has performed extensively and had his work presented in many galleries in the UK and in Europe. His sound compositions have been released through a number of specialist record labels, such as Trente Oiseaux, Entr'acte and Gruenrekorder, with forthcoming releases from 1000fussler, And/OAR, Con-V and Lens Records.

Artist in Residence at the Art Container in Polymer Culture Factory May 10-29 2009. While in Estonia Simon engaged in collecting field recordings in Tallinn, Mooste and Tartu. He also traveled to Riga to make an exhibition and collect recordings. At Art Container in Polymer Simon instructed field recording workshops on the 26th and 27th May 2009. After a presentation of Simon’s Tallinn sounds captured during his current residency, participants were blindfolded and led around Tallinn for a short walk, where, without visual distractions, they experienced the sound of the city and realized the complexity of the sound environment. www.activecrossover.blogspot.com On the evening of the 27th May as part of a Global Container event, Simon and John Grzinich from Moks presented a sound performance in Polymer’s Red Hall.

Enhkbaatar Tudev graduated from a four year diploma program from the Fine Arts School of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. Although being trained in the ways of visual arts as a young man, he did not paint for many years until he arrived to Polymer Kultuuritehas to participate in our International Artist Residency Program.

Enhkbaatar Tudev lived at Polymer as artist in residence from April-July 2009, coming here primarily to improve his painting and English language skills. He chose as his subject for painting to depict Tallinn Old Town only during sunny and windless weather, and to paint only on location. Besides obvious pragmatic goals, this way of painting also had backing from Tudev’s wish to flee his everyday life in Mongolia. As part of his project, "Painting Tour Around the World," he exhibited oil paintings in Kultuuritehas’ grand hall.

Orion Maxted is London based performance artist who has been making solo and group transdisciplinary performance work internationally since 2004, and as co-director of protoPLAY he initiated the Co-LAB’08 project to further protoPLAY’s ongoing research and establish relationships with new artists outside of mainstream meeting places. He is also an international member of Non Grata’s conceptual art and performance department.

(Artist in residence October 5-16 2008) Maxted's work is simply about the relationship between the world and ideas: that the way we see the world is determined by the way we see the world. He seeks to develop original ways to express ideas such clearly, creatively and non-didactically. Often informed by kinks and short-cuts in the structure of Language and in the structure of the spectacle, he questions the roots of understanding and of our ‘selves’ through circuitous inquiry, action, and inconsistencies logical. To put it another way, If by taking things apart, and putting them back together again, in a new order, we may gain understanding - then by taking apart and putting back ‘taking apart and putting back’, may we not discover some understanding of understanding?

A joint project between Non Grata, Art Container and protoPLAY, and brings a new group of UK based artists to work in Estonia alongside Estonian artists, at Non Grata’s Tallinn gallery and residency space, the Art Container.

Co-LAB’08 focused on a series of open-ended collaborative projects, and a rapid turnover or creation and public presentation. Questioning the notions of individual authorship, cultural-recycling and the taboo of plagiarism, the project took individual works as a starting point for collaboration then building, from scratch, a collective identity – or at least, a shared creative space. Both the premise and the context aim to facilitate artistic risk, as well as time for reflection and conversation.

Co-LAB’08 is artist-led collaborative and hence open-ended. Its starting point is DECONSTRUCTION/ RECONSTRUCTION, which looks to mutate artist’s individual works into a group exploration. Deconstruction/ Reconstruction looks and feels like a cross between an exhibition, a durational live art event, and a residency which is in a constant process of evolution as new pieces are made collaboratively in the space throughout the duration of the event, in response to the solo pieces of the individual artists. http://www.artcontainer.ee/index.php?id=16

Yoko Ishiguro is a performance maker, performer and actress. She studied psycholinguistics in University of Tsukuba and participated in the theater company Su-punk Dan, YUBIWA Hotel, and the techno performance unit Grinder Man in Japan.

In 2005, Yoko Ishiguro started to create her own/collaboration pieces in/outside of Japan. Mostly, her works are sight-specific and time-specific and have been performed to look at “co-existence”, “time and distance” and “individual memories and collective memory” by distorting the meanings of the venues and relationships between the performances the audience and bringing some theatrical techniques including her physical existence and some daily items and daily technologies such as the internet and video.

In August 2008, Yoko moved to London and started to study at Queen Mary, University of London. After she finished her course, she is participating in some residency programs and performance events around Europe based in London. Now she is in Tokyo and looking for ways to “perform” remotely with high/low-tech-communication tools to challenge the distance.

October 5th - 11th, 2008, I was taking part in a residency program Co-LAB'08 DECONSTRUCTION/RECONSTRUCTION by protoPLAY (UK) and Non Grata Art Container. Everyday we, artists from UK (at that time, I was in London) made performances based on the performances on the previous days. I thought we were successful to "deconstruct" performances, things, structures of the event, moods, relationships and so on but I'm not sure we really "reconstruct"ed them. Maybe we did. Maybe not. Or maybe, even they hadn't been constructed before we "destruct"ed?

I live and work in London. My current work mirrors the phenomena of new age practice and the search for liberation from the self in our increasingly alienating society. In my video performances, a literal approach to demonstrating yoga, meditation and body work practices are subverted into something more perverse and destroys their associations with wholesomeness and spirituality.

In my audio pieces I work collaboratively with British artist Natasha Rees to create conversations between a fictitious, manipulative guru-healer who uses persuasive language to rip off his client. The conversations are recorded on to a mobile phone and then transferred to vinyl records. The pieces are presented at live events in Scotland and London by simply playing the record on stereo in front of the audience.

Polymer AIR (October 5th - 11th, 2008) I made daily performance action with the collective protoPLAY (UK) for a project called Co-LAB'08 DECONSTRUCTION/RECONSTRUCTION in the NG Art Container Gallery. Following the week of performances we presented an exhibition of documentary photographs and art installation created by the collective in the Art Container Gallery.

Cizzy Gonzales is a flute player and performance artist, born in Austria and resident in Dresden. In the centre of her performances are social, political and philosophical themes which are expressed artistically through the connection of improvised and composed flute music, text, electronics and movement.

Artist in Residence May 2008 and October 2-7 2008. Cizzy Gonzalas first came to Polymer with the Gogo Trash Collective in May 2008 for Diverse Universe Performance Art Festival. Cizzy returned to Polymer to be a part of the Virtual Body Film Festival in October 2008. During the film festival Cizzy instructed students from Academia Non Grata and the Estonian Academy of Arts about DIY and recycled material in art. She worked with students to build installation and costumes for the Virtual Body Dada Ball. Cizzy made a performance exhibition featuring her unique flute music dance and original costumes (October 3 2008.) Cizzy was a panelist in the Virtual Body Conference, (October 4 2008.)

Andrew Hicks, artist, teacher, curator, programmer, filmmaker, writer and musician, living and working in Chicago, U.S.A.. He is an instructor of New Media Art at Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Artist in residence October 2-7 2008. Andrew Hicks came to Polymer to participate in the Virtual Body Film Festival where he presented a media installation “Not Doing Anything.” He also curated and screened a program of videos by 15 artists from Chicago titled “ChicagoWorks.” (http://www.andrewhicks.net/chicagoworks/) Andrew was the moderator of Virtual Body Conference (October 4-5 2008.)

Travis McCoy Fuller is a visual, sonic and performance artist originally from Massachusetts, USA. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University. Three years ago he moved to Roma, Italy which he now calls home. He was one of the founders and organizers of the late TEST performance art initiative and is a member of the Los Angeles based artist collective Obscurities. He has exhibited his work widely throughout the US, Europe and South America. His practice includes, live sound performance, live action performance, drawing, murals, printmaking and experimental instrument building.

Artist in residence at the Tallinn Culture Factory Polymer May 19 - 29 2008. Travis participated in the Diverse Universe festival, producing six individual performances as well as a group action with Non Grata. The festival, based out of the Polymer also took place at the Parnu Artist House, Cable Factory in Helsinki, Finland, Tallinn Art Hall, and the Estonian Art Museum KUMU. In addition, Travis was invited as a guest artist to assist Ernest Truely in his site specific performance class for students from the Estonian Academy of Arts.

My name is Russell Ellington Langston Butler. I was born in Bermuda, a small British Dependent Colony in the Atlantic Ocean. My grandmother, a painter and art educator, helped me develop a unique sense of form and design from a young age. My parents provided me with lessons from the age of four, in violin, saxophone, and guitar. I attended public and private schools in Bermuda until the age of seventeen, when I graduated from Warwick Academy with honors. I then attended George School, a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania, where I was engaged in the art program. I earned a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Performance and New Media and a Master’s of Arts in Teaching from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. I established myself in the music, performance art, and new media communities of Boston as an n artist and curator by running a domestic art space, traveling to show my art, and starting my own music label. My art is motivated by the cultural exports of the United States, primarily that of music. Specifically, I address how Heavy Metal music influences daily routines, moments of introspection, and domestic spaces. As a Bermudian; my work focuses on cultural exchanges with American Heavy Metal music.

(Polymer resident May 19-29 2008) In May of 2008 I was invited to perform in the Diverse Universe Performance Art Festival in Estonia. On May 25 at the Polymer Culture Factory I did a performance in which I played the first 20 seconds of Disposable Heroes by Metallica on a CD player and “moshed” up and down the space, first in a straight line, and then I pushed and bumped into people. After the first 20 seconds of the song I ran back to the CD player and restarted the song.. By singling out the most intense part of the song, the epic and aggressive introduction, I brought attention to a moment of cathartic release. As I repeated the action many times, I became more aggressive. The audience responded by screaming, head-banging, and fist-pumping but remained separate from the action, as if they were watching me go through an action in my daily routine.

I use diverse media in my work. The taboos of sensuality, my experiences in life (and as a frequenter of hospitals because of illness), and this inevitable delusion forced upon us called "time" are my inspiration. I work with these themes in performance, sound, and installation art. I often find profound gratification using minimal elements and materials. In sound art, for example I use analog electronics, reel to reel tape machines and similar instruments to explore what lengths I can achieve from a near minimum of materials.

What is taken can be firm and influential. What is taken can be timid and derisible.

Artist in Residence May 19-29. I was invited to participate in the Diverse Universe Festival organized by Non Grata. On May 23, 2008, at Polymer Culture Factory, I presented a “sound piece” in collaboration with Fred Pinault (France/NYC) I spoke through a megaphone and created sounds with a large, broken, metal, electrical housing cabinet. I dragged the cabinet around and dropped it. I yelled into the cabinet with the megaphone and produced feedback. I also spoke into a exhaust pipe in the ceiling. Fred was live sampling and remixing the sounds, reiterating with the distortion of time.

This piece was influenced by our opinions of working in an office or factory, as time goes by all sound eventually drones out and becomes a blur.

I’m a musician and performer. I spent most of my life in France before stopping everything and go live in New York City. After three years of wandering around developing my practice of music and discovering performance art, I came back to France to follow a graduation program in Arts and enjoy the last days of a free school system.

My vision of music and its practice has been largely influenced by performance art through the past years. The rich music scene in New York City has been also of great inspiration. As a performer, I’m interested in the existential paradoxes that arise from our relation to the screen/mirror, screen/skin, screen/vision and that grow as divine myth in the collective unconscious. I like to use minimal symbolism and religious-like scenery.

Artist in residence June 2007, May 2008, October 2008. Fred Pinault has come to work and live in Polymer on several occaisions. He was invited in October 2008 to participate in Virtual Body Film festival. Fred made an exhibition of his sound art. Fred also helped to organize and produce the Virtual Body Dada Ball. He prepared a delicious meal for festival participants. He was a participant in the Virtual Body Conference.

Jay Stern's first feature film "The Changeling" opened in NYC in May, 2007.  He has directed and produced over 30 short films and directed over 20 theater productions, including several New York premieres.  He is a founder of the award-winning internationally-syndicated Quicksilver Radio Theater Company, and a founder of the First Sundays short comedy film festival, which has been screening monthly in NYC since April, 2002.  His next feature, a ghost story titled "Archive Fever," will be produced in 2009.

Artist in Residence October 2-7 2008. Jay Stern was invited to Polymer to participate in the Virtual Body Film Festival. Jay along with Victor Varnado presented a film screening of First Sundays Comedy Festival on October 4 2008. Jay and Victor also instructed a workshop on low budget filmmaking in the NG Art Container. On October 5 2008 Jay was a panelist in the Virtual Body conference. While in residency in Polymer Jay and Victor worked together to write, direct and produce two short films which can be viewed on you tube.)

Moira Tierney was born in Dublin, where she graduated with an honours BA from University College Dublin. She went on to study fine art at l’Ecole Nationale d’Arts de Cergy-Paris, graduating in 1997 with an honours Diplome Nationale Superieure d’Expression Plastique. She was granted an Arts Council film award and a Fulbright Scholarship (to Anthology Film Archives in New York) in 1998 as well as a grant from the Taoiseach’s Department for her film project ‘Matilda Tone’. Since moving to New York Moira has completed 10 short films as well as the half-hour documentary ‘Matilda Tone’; her films have screened internationally at venues such as the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the Rio Film Festival, the London and Edinburgh Film Festivals, the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, as well as participating in numerous touring programmes and gallery shows. Anthology Film Archives in New York and L’Alternativa Film Festival have screened retrospective programmes of her work. She has recently received a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council for her film ‘Portrait of a Pan Yard’ as well as residencies at the prestigious Yaddo colony at Saratoga Springs, New York and at the Rotunda Gallery/Brooklyn Community Television in New York City. Her films are distributed by Third World Newsreel and the Film-Makers Co-operative in New York and the Collectif Jeune Cinema in Paris.

Artist in Residence October 2-7 2008. Moira Tierney came to Estonia in October 2008 to participate in the Virtual body Film Festival. While Moira stayed in Polymer she went out to film different locations in Tallinn. She participated in the Virtual Body conference. Moira curated and screened a program of short films by artists from Irelands in Parnu Artists House October 10 2008. Moira instructed a workshop on Super 8 film production at the Non Grata School House in Parnu on Ocober 11 2008.

Jay Van Buren is an artist and designer living and working out of Brooklyn New York. He has been an artist, curator, teacher and writer working in the New York art scene since 1997. He was the founder and director of the legendary Videoland gallery on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and his artworks have been exhibited in Kansas City, New York, Washington DC, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. His recent artworks and events have veered into the realm of Relational Aesthetics creating encounters between people from radically different subcultures. 

His latest project, Brooklyn is Watching was realized by bringing together the world famous fine art gallery, Jack The Pelican Presents and the virtual worlds pioneer Popcha! to create an attention-economy wormhole from the Brooklyn art scene to the Second Life art scene. It is simultaneously an artwork, a marketing vehicle and an entertainment product. He holds a BFA in painting from the University of Kansas, and an MFA in painting from Parsons, the New School for Design. He also teaches at both the City University of New York, and at Parsons.

Artist in Residence October 3-7 2008. Jay Van Buren curated and presented the media installation “Estonia is Watching” at the Virtual Body Film Festival in NG Art Container on Ocober 4 2008. Jay was a panelist in the Virtual Body Conference in the NG Art Container Gallery where he recorded and later posted a podcast of the event which took place October 5 2008.

Victor Varnado is a comedian / actor / writer / director who has been seen on Comedy Central's "Premium Blend," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," and "Jimmy Kimmel Live."  He has appeared in films with Arnold Schwarzenegger ("End of Days,") Eddie Murphy ("The Adventures of Pluto Nash"), Julia Stiles ("A Guy Thing") and Werner Herzog ("Julien Donkey Boy.")  "Twisted Fortune," Victor's first feature as a director, starring Charlie Murphy and produced by Warner Brothers, will be released in 2009.      Victor is a founder of the First Sunday short comedy film festival, which has been screening monthly in NYC since April, 2002.

Artist in Residence October 2-7 2008. Victor Varnado was invited to Polymer to participate in the Virtual Body Film Festival. Victor along with Jay Stern presented a film screening of First Sundays Comedy Festival on October 4 2008. Victor and Jay also instructed a workshop on low budget filmmaking in the NG Art Container on October 5 While in residency in Polymer Victor and Jay worked together to write, direct and produce two short films which can be viewed on you tube.

Peter Puype is an artist and musician living and working in Gent. He's a visual artist who works with different mediums from photography and printmaking to installations. Always going in depth with conceptual analysing he tries to discover hidden structures of his subjects.

Artist in Residence July 24 - August 22 2006. Peter Puype worked extensively in Polymer traditional print shop with making conceptual prints on found industrial blueprints. Throughout his stay he was working with the "post soviet condition" looking for evidence of it in the Polymer factory building, in the behaviour of the local people and big block house district of Lasnamäe.