Artist Bio
Mikey Peterson is a Chicago-based video-audio artist, singer-songwriter, and art educator. He creates experimental video art that focuses on distortion, organic abstraction, and sound. He has shown work at the Lucca Film Festival, London’s Visions in the Nunnery, the STREETVIDEOART exhibition in Paris, France, the Video Art And Experimental Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, Rome’s BNL Media Art Festival, and at the Performance Intermedia and DokumentART Festivals in Szczecin, Poland. His work has shown at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Chicago Cultural Center, the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum, Rome’s MAXXI Museum, the Armory Center For The Arts in Pasadena, California, the Northwest Film Forum inSeattle, Washington, the SIGGRAPH Conference in Los Angeles, California, and on Videoart.net. His work has been featured in magazines including Mexico City’s Blancopop, Paris’ Stigmart 10 – Videofocus, LandEscape Art Review and the online audio publication, Text Sound. Peterson develops and teaches video, audio, and animation classes for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Snow City Arts, and Alphonsus Academy & Center for the Arts.