Siddhartha Joag has recently developed an alarming case of social anxiety. His newly acquired condition is the result of both emotional strain in his personal life and a growing distaste for humanity, and the futility of its general betterment. His inability to function normally in society is predominantly the impetus for his most recent work. Prolonged interaction with people induces nausea, violent spasms and compulsive vomitting.

His last installation was titled "Sickness unto Death," at Yale University, where he was the guest artist for the annual Asian American Art Show. He didn't enjoy himself. Sidd lives and works in New York City and on occasion attends NYU. He's a scorpio and used to be able to do a handstand, but now he can't run a half mile without wheezing like an old man. Sidd will be spending the month of August in Nepal and India, painting everything in sight and installing things randomly. He is very excited.

Tomie Arai is a public artist who lives and works in New York City. She has been exhibited nationally, and her prints are in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Avon Corporate Collection, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Japanese American National Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. She has also been the recipient of numerous awards including a Joan Mitchell Visual Arts Grant (1995) and the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship for Works on Paper (1994) and an Anonymous was a Woman Award in 1997. Ms. Arai has recently completed a 60' mosaic mural commissioned by the Percent for Art Program in New York City. In the fall of 2003 she will begin work on a memorial for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., commissioned by the Riverside Church.

Toasted Pixel, Incorporated is Chris Nojima and Tod Emko. Asian CineVision, The 25th Annual Asian American Film Festival (2002), Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program & Institute at New York University, The Institute for African-American Affairs, New York University, and Namaste Films, LLC are among its many clients.