Mikey Peterson is a Chicago-based video-audio artist and singer-songwriter. He creates experimental video art that focuses on rhythm, sound, and organic abstraction having shown work nationally and internationally at festivals such as the Video Art And Experimental Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, at the Performance Intermedia and DokumentART Festivals in Szczecin, Poland, at the From Chicago to Lahore: Connecting Edge exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Zero Filme in Lisbon and Braga, Portugal and at the Short Sighted film exhibition at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum. His video work has also been exhibited on the European-based satellite television channel, Art Television and the New York-based website, Videoart.net. Peterson also records and performs as a solo musician, crafting sparse yet melodic songs with his band The Trust, composes electronic-based experimental pop music under the moniker EM Danger, and as The Duende Bros has partnered with poet Eric Elshtain to develop an inimitable form of musical dance poetry.
