Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo are multidisciplinary artists working with single channel video, installation, sound and performance. They met in New York City in December 1998 and have been working together ever since. Michele and Jorge have shown their work nationally and internationally at venues including: The ICA in London, The Blaffer Gallery at The Art Museum at the University of Texas Museum, Galerie Chez Valentin in Paris, The Bronx Museum, The Queens Museum, PS122, San Francisco Cameraworks, Sound Art Museum in Rome, Elizabeth Foundation, Gallery Korea, Recontre Internationales, Paris, Inport Video-Performance Festival in Estonia, LA Freewaves and the Kassler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest in Kasel, Germany. They are recipients of grants from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Beck and Calvo's work de-constructs the human psyche to some of its most primitive components and presents broken down forms of language, archaic sounds, emotional experiences, thoughts and psychological processes. The single channel videos, installations and performances function much like poems, choosing the minimum of materials in order to articulate internal spaces where the unconscious has free rein, and where primitive trauma is worked through, re-created and mastered. The result is an artistic work that is frightening, disconcerting, disorienting and a truly visceral eye-opening experience to behold.

Michele completed her Bachelors in Art History at New York University and Masters of Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design. She teaches video production and new media classes at the New School University and the International Center for Photography.

Jorge pursued his studies in experimental theatre in Sydney, Australia. After finishing his training, he performed with the alternative theatre companies G.R.O.U.P and Dangerous Visions Theatre, both of which received funding from the Australian Arts Council. He works as a sound designer for film and video.