VIA Festival presented by vitaminwater

Goat Helper Industries is a collective of media artists, performers, and space druids. Our mission is harnessing the glitter in your eyes to ensnare, inform and empower Goatish minds across the cosmos. With local branches in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Goat Helper is here to help.

Michael Mallis:
Michael Mallis lost the Chicago mayoral race but will always be taller than Rahm Emanuel. His work has screened and exhibited internationally at festivals and galleries including the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film and Third place in the Shorts Competition at the Three Rivers Film Festival in Pittsburgh.

Mikey McParlane:
Mikey McParlane is a video performance artist living and working in Chicago, IL. He was a F.I.N.E. Artist in Residence at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, participated in Convocatoria, La Pocha Nostrsa’s annual international workshop, and was a resident of ACRE and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. His videos have screened across the US.

Michael Pisano:
Michael Pisano is an artist and writer in Pittsburgh, PA. Early acquisition of bifocals in suburban New Jersey led to his amateur interest in the science of small things: ants, pondscum particles, fine print, and the Earth as featured in illustrations of the solar system. His work has shown internationally at gallery exhibitions, screenings, and other events, and his writing appears in a number of literary journals.