"CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS" ART TALKS is a forum/lecture series hosted by curators during gallery exhibitions. The Phantom Gallery will look at how the city influences art, and how the artist transforms the city by contributing to civic dialogue and quality of life. These installations will produce "Creative Conversations" presenting artist speaking about their art.

I play guitar, (badly). I am a Socialist.  I like reading, and writing stories and poems. Musical taste is 60’s rock, Queen, and Bebop jazz, (Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie,John Coltrane).

New record "SUMMER TO FALL" available now:
https://linktr.ee/jeffdesira
Jeff Desira delivers hope and heartbreak with natural grace. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he has had a diverse musical career before coming into his own as a singer-songwriter, crafting honest and endearing pop songs and ballads.

Mirosław Rogala (born 1954, in Poland) is a Polish-born American video artist and interactive artist.

He is known for performances and installations that challenge the audience/user's perceptual control and that lead into a dialogue about the nature of art and existence. Dr. Miroslaw Rogala works in a broad range of media of an experimental and transformative nature. Primarily his work has been interactive installations consisting of multi-layered, multi-channeled video displays that invite the viewer to transform the space themselves. Through several transformative systems that entail grids of sound, space, movement, light, and image, he creates a new conception of environment. He considers the closing gap between nature and urban life through the advent of new technologies, and finds a harmony in which the two interact and evolve into a cohesive new system that reflects our changing world.

His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) at Karlsruhe, Germany, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, and the Goodman Theatre, Chicago. He has collaborated frequently with the (art)n Laboratory in Chicago.

Rogala has taught at several art universities, including the Pratt Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Columbia College, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a PhD in CAiiA-STAR Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales, Newport in 2000 (now known as the Planetary Collegium). He is currently a Professor and Director at Knowledge Systems Institute in Skokie, Illinois.

The HOD are a young power trio from London ready to let you jump on your feet with their alt-rock music.
The band formed in 2014 when singer/songwriter/guitarist Francis met the drummer Simon and Mark the bassplayer/pianist. Fueled by a mutual interest in alt-rock, the three
began playing original material in their small town back to Italy and after 2 years the band moved to London, where’s the sound became more recognisable, a mix between 80’s vibes and modern rock with a spray of grunge.
Excited as they were with the new sounds they were laying down, the band released his first EP -5490- and start to busking in the streets of London to play and sell directly the copies of the Ep. “Young but with an impressive sound, with songs with lots of potential. A mix of The Cure and the energy of Biffy Clyro” , “A band full of energy and passion for the crowd” or “A mix of uplifting, awesome and energetic sound” as said the host of Best of British Unsigned Artist. Busking every day in the streets helped the band to reach more fans and get them the chanche to play during the LONDON PRIDE 2016 or at ALEXANDER PALACE Festival 2016 and Trafalgar Square during the INTERNATIONAL BUSKIN DAY.  After a year of gig around the capital, the band will start to record the second EP with the help of the people met everyday in the streets and planning a UkTour for the 2017.

“We left everything to follow our dream and no matter what, we want to share our music with the world. Trying to become an example for all the young band out there who are too scared to try and fail without the help from anyone.”

Francis/Simon/Mark
T   H   E      H   O   D

Mario Di Sandro is a singer-songwriter originally from Chicago, who is now back living in LA after a quick stint in Seattle (2024-2025) after leaving Los Angeles in mid-2024 (2020-2024), and had previously lived in the Bay Area from 2011-2020.

Mario has been writing lyrics ever since he stopped paying attention during class in high school. In 2000 he started putting those lyrics to music and in 2001 he formed his first band Bad Frequency. Various hiatuses and 7 drummers later, they reformed in 2005 and again in 2008 as On The Lam. He has since played solo and formed bands for live shows to perform his vast catalog of songs.

Amassing several hundred original songs in his personal repertoire and hundreds of covers. He has since recorded and released 12 solo studio albums, 2 live albums, 1 covers album in a short 13 year period; Lessons (Learned) [2011], Give and Take [2013], Loneliness [2014], Things Since You [2015], You Are a Stranger Here, But Once… [2015], Forsaken and Forlorn [2015], World Gone Mad [2016], Under the Cover (covers album) [2016], Walk a Mile [2017], Watch It All Burn Down [2018]. Break Free [2020] was released just as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world. Busy with a lot of extra free time that year, he released another album Pándēmos [2020]. Currently working on the 12th album tentatively titled Quandary [2025]’.

"21st Century Druid Music..."

Band Website: http://whitewolfsonicprincess.com

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