Douglas Gordon is a contemporary Scottish artist known for his ability to disrupt preconceived ideas about reality.

Through his performances, installations, photography, and video art, Gordon readjusts scenes, tinkers with time, and appropriates cultural sources. His video projection 24 Hour Psycho (1993) decelerates the Hitchcock classic, prolonging its viewing for a day.

For his sound installation, Something Between My Mouth and Your Ear (1994), Gordon played 30 songs that were popular during the months before his birth in a blue room.

The artist has said of his practice that “the drive for me has always been to just push it a little bit more.”

Born on September 20, 1966 in Glasgow, Gordon won the Turner Prize in 1996, six years after he studied at the Slade School of Art in London. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, the multimedia artist represented Britain in Venice Biennale in 1997. The following year he was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize. Gordon currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Cory Arcangel is a contemporary American multimedia artist. Best known for his post-Internet video art that conflates digital schema and contemporary culture, 

His work explores nostalgia and the shifting boundaries of online space.

Born on May 25, 1978 in Buffalo, NY, Arcangel pursued music in his youth, studying classical guitar at Oberlin Conservatory before garnering interest in the technology used in music production.

“I was a computer nerd growing up and always felt very comfortable in front of a computer and it’s still true today,” the artist has explained.

“Although my works can end up on walls, and physical, like sculptures, it often comes from me sitting where I like to be—at my computer.”

Perhaps Arcangel's most celebrated works are his modified Nintendo cartridges resulting in aesthetically shifted visual presentations of the video games, as seen in his formative Super Mario Clouds (2002).

His fame and critical acclaim have only grown over the course of his career, highlighted by exhibitions like 2011's “Pro Tools” exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and a solo show at the Migros Museum in Zurich.

Arcangel currently lives and works in New York, NY, where he has exhibited with Team Gallery.

Nam June Paik was an American-Korean artist widely credited as the founder of video art.

“I want to shape the TV screen canvas as precisely as Leonardo, as freely as Picasso, as colorfully as Renoir, as profoundly as Mondrian, as violently as Pollock, and as lyrically as Jasper Johns,” he declared in his 1969 manifesto.

Born on July 20, 1932 in Seoul, Korea, he moved with his family to Japan at an early age, going on to study classical piano at the University of Tokyo. Later moving to Germany, he met the musicians John Cage and Karl Stockhausen, as well as the artists George Maciunas and Joseph Beuys.

For his first solo show, “Exposition of Music-Electronic Television,” held at the Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, he used magnets to alter or distort multiple television screens.

It was in 1964 in New York that he first began combining his visual and musical interests together.

Collaborating with cellist Charlotte Moorman, he created one of his most influential works, TV Cello (1971), a performance piece which transformed a stack of televisions into a musical instrument.

The artist was the recipient of several awards, including the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion in 1994 and the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award in 2001.

He died on January 29, 2006 in Miami, FL. Today, Paik’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid, among others.