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OMSKfamily :

Steven Eastwood - Filmmaker and lecturer. OMSK coordinator and film/performance programmer to date. Person now passing on systems -(fliers, press releases, mailing list etc). Has conceptual involvement, over seeing all projects.

Dan Powell - musician and video maker. OMSK production manager. Organiser of regular events.

Jamie Bargeman - DJ OMSK, record distributor and special needs teacher. OMSK sound coordinator. Contributes to small and large events.

Hannah Metcalf - DJ Hannahmissinthemix, mural painter and performer. OMSK volunteer coordinator; also involved in design, fly posting, form filling.

Cleo Williams - Has worked at the Video Place and dance on Screen. OMSK administrator and all round overseer, along with Steven.

Jo Cripps - Mphil in performance (Brunel). OMSK compere, performance, personal assistant, admin assistant, and performer.

Annis Joslin - video artist currently doing an MA at Chelsea who assists in programming and assisting on the night.

Chris Hammond - curator of Shock Corridor gallery and technician at Middlesex. Involved in OMSK conceptually and curatorialy, primarily on larger events.

Melissa Barker - video artists; works on publicity, posters, fliers.

Sharon Smith - currently doing an mphil at Nottingham. One half of the Max Factory performance outfit. OMSK art college outreach officer, spokesperson to students and potential funders.

Felicity Croyden - Other half of the Max Factory. Within OMSK -addressing practicalities of each event, assistant production manager.

Jane Rogers - a film writer working in book production. OMSK's literary officer - working on spoken word events, bookworks and tours.

OMSKextended family
Many students and aspiring makers volunteer at OMSK alongside guest MCs, video & sound technicians and other unsung heroes. They include: Robert Dighton, Louise Stevens, Kelly Warman, Akiko Fukuzaki, Steve Teers, Grace Surman, Gabriel, ED 209...

OMSKcommunity
OMSK exists as a collective of artists working collaboratively in different media. As an event its founding principle is to introduce innovative ways of presenting emerging artists, often in unlikely spaces. Therefore: DJs have worked with film, live arts acts have performed in clubs, and video works have been screened in a disused bank vault. Interdisciplinary work is central to OMSK because it stimulates discovery and exchange amongst traditionally territorial audiences. OMSK has noted the changing sensibilities of audiences and believe that fixed perspective events are largely being usurped by the demand for live and direct encounters with art and performance. OMSK continues to play an instrumental part in this shift and live art is central to the way in which we affect change. The development of live art projects represents to us the possibility of interchange amongst practitioners whose work may otherwise remain bracketed in fixed disciplines. OMSK is keen to be a positive presence in the intended Live Arts Debate Group. It is hoped that from the formation of the group, some sort of publication or definitive text will arise and OMSK is eager to contribute to this publication.