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Laugh Like a Thunderbird
A birthing story commissioned by Brink Literary Magazine Issue No. 9: Access. Available now at https://www.brinkliterary.com/
I’ve spent most of the past year developing The Art of Filmmaking: Composition and the Moving Image. There is a free version available through Coursera with an option to purchase a certificate. A more high touch version where I will do weekly critiques of student work will run a few times a year directly through CalArts Extended Studies.
Digital Daydreams: In Medias Res Online and Beyond
In Medias Res: Expanded
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA October 12 - December 7, 2024
FEMMEBIT x Supercollider Gallery present In Medias Res: Expanded, an exhibition of artworks by Los Angeles-adjacent, feminist and post-cyberfeminist artists who reimagine celluloid-based media for the decentralized realm of Life 3.0.
FEMMEBIT is proud to present works by Anna Luisa Petrisko, Brian Dario, Casey Kauffmann, Eli Joteva, Ellie Pritts, Eve Lauryn LaFountain, Janna Avner, Jennifer West, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Jody Zellen, Huntrezz Janos, Katia M Stewart, Matt Nespor, Petra Cortright, Richelle Ellis, Sarah Zucker, Tuna Bora
LA’s sun drenched, palm-dappled Hollywood aesthetic is reimagined as a diffuse and dis-related chaparral cityscape via video gifs, XR, and sculpture: In Medias Res reflects today’s digital uprootedness from time-based narratives of the silver screen to invoke liminal spaces of belonging. These artworks challenge conventional definitions of cities in relation to mainstream media, geography and land ownership to explore new perspectives on urban environments existing in the imagination as much as in real life.
This exhibition is curated by digital artists Kate Parsons and Janna Avner.
Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellows Cohort I
Boston, MA 2023-2025
The Mandel Institute is pleased to announce the inaugural cohort (2023-2025) of the Cultural Leadership Program, a two-year fellowship for artists and cultural producers who aim to reimagine Jewish life and mobilize social change through their creative work. During the program, fellows will engage in collaborative learning to deepen their creative wellsprings, cultivate leadership capacities, advance new work, and foster peer networks.
In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now
Minneapolis Institute of ArtOctober 22, 2023 - January 14, 2024
Artnet: The Essentials: How a New Show on Native Photography Centers Its Enduring Resonance Through 4 Key Works
Threads and Trails: Contemplations of Our Herstories
Great Plains Art Museum in Lincoln, NebraskaOctober 6, 2023 - February 17, 2024
Erica Larsen-Dockray, Cybele Moon, Steph Coley, Eve LaFountain, and Marissa Magdalena Sykes will discuss the historical women that inspired their work, their personal experiences as female artists, and the creative process behind the collaborative exhibition “Threads & Trails: Contemplations of Our Herstories.” This exhibition and panel were made possible by the generous support of the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, Kimmel Charitable Foundation, Lincoln Community Foundation, Union Bank & Trust, UNL Research Council, and UNL Faculty Senate Convocations Committee.
THE HIGHEST FORM OF WISDOM IS KINDNESS
W HotelBoston, Massachusetts
September - October, 2023
In Medias Res
August 17 - 24 on FeralFile.comCurated by FEMMEBIT
Laugh Like a Thunderbird
A birthing story commissioned by Brink Literary Magazine Issue No. 9: Access. Available now at https://www.brinkliterary.com/
Love is Mortar - Boston, MA September - November 2023
Billboard commissioned by For Freedoms
Digital billboard at the W Hotel at the Boston Common September - November 2023
Commissioned by For Freedoms as part of “The Highest Form of Wisdom is Kindess” campaign in partnership with Orange Barrel Media
Featured in Where Do We Go From Here? Monograph available for purchase here.
Press:The Art Newspaper September 11, 2023 US public art project seeks to combat rising antisemitism Phaidon Press For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here?
IN MEDIAS RES: EXPANDED
OCTOBER 12 - DECEMBER 07, 2024
FEMMEBIT and Supercollider are proud to present In Medias Res: Expanded!Featuring: Petra Cortright, Jennifer West, Sarah Zucker, Brian Dario, Janna Avner, Katia M Stewart, Casey Kauffmann, Anna Luisa Petrisko, Richelle Ellis, Jody Zellen, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Eve-Lauryn LaFountain, Huntrezz Janos, Tuna Bora, Ellie Pritts, Eli Joteva, Matt Nespor and curated by Kate Parsons and Janna Avner.
In Medias Res: Expanded celebrates the contributions of feminist and post-cyberfeminist artists who live in the vibrant city of Los Angeles. The artworks in this exhibition reflect today’s digital uprootedness from time-based narratives of the silver screen to invoke liminal spaces of belonging. They challenge the conventional definitions of cities and urban identities in relation to mainstream media, geography and land ownership.
Originally curated as a part of the Feral File Web3 exhibition platform, In Medias Res: Expanded brings the virtual exhibit into a physical gallery space.The artists’ interventions in ceramics, video installation, expanded cinema, sculpture, painting and projection bring the myriad digital explorations into the physical, transcending the boundaries of artifice towards material reality.
In Medias Res: Expanded is open October 12 - December 7 at the Torrance Art Museum. Opening reception will be held October 12th from 6-9pm with more programming to follow during the run of the show.
More information can be found at: https://www.supercollider.la/exhibitions/in-medias-res-expanded/
To purchase the original 2023 In Medias Res Web 3.0 works, please contact the artist or Feral File’s Lauren Jones at lauren@feralfile.com. You may read more about the 2023 exhibit at FLAUNT and Right Click Save. View the full exhibition here.
This exhibition is curated by digital artists Kate Parsons and Janna Avner.
FEMMEBIT is proud to present In Medias Res, a collaboration with the platform Feral File!
Opened August 17, 2023 on FeralFile.com.
Featuring work by Petra Cortright, Ellie Pritts, Anna Luisa Petrisko, Tuna Bora, JJ Stratford, Casey Kauffmann, Wednesday Kim, Huntress Janos, and Eve-Lauryn LaFountain. Curated by Kate Parsons and Janna Avner.
33 NFT videos available on FeralFile.com
AUGUST 15 - AUGUST 24
IN MEDIAS RES PROGRAMMING:
INAGURAL EVENT:
Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Time: 7pm PST
Place: Artist Talks at NFTuesdays @ ElCid, Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles CA
VIEWING OPENS:
Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023
Time: 14:00 UTC/7am PST
Place: Feralfile.com
Discussion: Join us at 11am PST on Twitter Spaces
Exhibition Walk-through: 8/23 at 11am PST on Zoom. Visit Feralfile.com to register
COLLECTING STARTS:
Date: Thursday, August 24, 2023
Time: 16:00 UTC/9am PST
Place: Feralfile.com
COLLECTING ENDS:
Date: Friday, August 25, 2023
Time: 16:00 UTC/9am PST
Place: Feralfile.com
IN MEDIAS RES - The exhibition In Medias Res celebrates the contributions of feminist and post-cyberfeminist artists who live in the vibrant city of Los Angeles. The artworks in this exhibition reflect today’s digital uprootedness from time-based narratives of the silver screen to invoke liminal spaces of belonging. They challenge conventional definitions of cities and urban identities in relation to mainstream media, geography and land ownership.
The artists selected for this exhibition are LA-based and LA-adjacent, with rigorous art practices in film, digital art and internet culture. These artists reinterpret the visual mainstays of Los Angeles from personal, multicultural, dreamlike, queer, decentralized, and other alternative histories to explain Los Angeles far better than Hollywood’s palm-dappled, hegemonic and heteronormative “Barbie”-esque ideations.
The artists of In Media Res have collectively chosen to create 33 pieces of art. As an “angel number” in numerology (the study of the occult significance of numbers), 33 is associated with artistic expression and creativity. This number is also linked to collaboration and the importance of community. As the City of Angels, LA comprises thriving artistic scenes fed by the TV and film industry, video game industry, art world and cult of celebrity. The wide range of mediums, tools and narrative expressions in this exhibition — including analog video, film, animation, AI, game engines and XR — reflect the artists’ navigation of LA’s various creative industries. Despite its competitive nature, LA is home to an extraordinary collaborative spirit, without which FEMMEBIT would not exist.
While FEMMEBIT has and will continue to provide in-person events, the pandemic recalibrated support for artists. In this sense, we see on-chain work as a way to not only financially support art created by womxn, femmes and non-binaries, but also to aid in a general understanding of how to buy, display and properly represent digital art. NFTs remain a contentious sticking point for various art industry factions — and indeed, some of our own artists are outspoken critics, and provide us with insight we understand and respect. Nevertheless, NFTs have also created an intersection of digital spaces, of which ours has a place and is worthy of exploration. The work within In Medias Res can be collected with fiat and cryptocurrency.
FEMMEBIT is also excited to announce its fiscal sponsorship by Fractured Atlas and our donors will continue to receive non-profit deductions for their donations. These proceeds will help support this digital exhibition, as well as FEMMEBIT’s day-to-day operations. The deadline to reach our goal of $20,000 is August 30th, 2023! Visit femmebit.art/donate to learn more.
PRESS
FAD Magazine: IN MEDIAS RES, AN EXHIBITION OF NFT ARTWORKS BY FEMINIST AND POST-CYBERFEMINIST ARTISTS WHO REIMAGINE CELLULOID-BASED MEDIA FOR THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
October 2023 - February 2024 at the Great Plains Art Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The 2,057 square foot gallery will be activated with three dimensional, two dimensional, immersive, performative, and sound based creations. These new works are informed by historical documents specific to Black, Indigenous, Latinx, or White women of the 19th century.More information: https://www.eekart.com/threadsntrails
You Are On Native Land - Postcards, Billboard, NFT
Billboard in Macarthur Park in Los Angeles, February 2022
Part of The Billboard Creative in collaboration with Obscura
NFT available now on Foundation
Upcoming exhibition opening in October 2023 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art as part of In Hour Hands: Native Photography, 1890-now
You Are On Native Land for Black Hills Legal Defense Fund
A Collaboration with Cody Edison and Christine Wood
This set of images was created as a collaboration between Eve-Lauryn LaFountain (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) and Cody Edison to support the Black Hills Legal Defense Fund. LaFountain wove together strips of found film and scratched the words "You Are on Native Land" into the emulsion. The titles are in Ojibwe, her tribal language, which she learns word by word through her art practice. She sent the three original weavings to Edison in the mail, he contact printed them in the darkroom, and will send them out to those who purchase them.
These postcards act not as souvenirs of places from the sender, but rather as a reminder to the receiver that America was founded on the genocide and stolen lands of the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island, the people who have continued to survive and protect their lands for 528 years and counting. The postcards are physical acknowledgments of the Indigenous peoples who are the ancestral and continual caretakers of this land. As we send these Indigenous land acknowledgments in the mail, we invite you to learn more about the history and current state of continued colonial occupation of Indigneous lands. This series supports the land defenders on the front lines who were arrested on July 3rd protecting the sacred Black Hills against further desecration by white supremecists.
Purchase limited edition postcards at codyedisonmedia.com
One of the postcard images was selected by The Billboard Creative in collaboration with Obscura to become a billboard. It was installed in Macarthur Park in Los Angeles in February of 2022.
All three postcards were featured in the exhibition In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890-now at the Minneapolis Institute of Art October, 2023 - January, 2024. The special piece created for the show featured Indigenous land acknowledgments and histories of Los Angeles, where the postcards were printed, Santa Fe, where the writing was created and cards were mounted, and Minneapolis, where the work was exhibited. The MIA is in the process of aquiring the site specific work for their permanent collection.
Featured Work
On View at KARST in Plymouth, UK
Metigoshe Jiibayag (Clearwater Ghosts) (2022)
3 loops of varying duration. Sound: Jon Almaraz
Metigoshe Jiibayag (Clearwater Ghosts) is a new multimedia video and sound installation commissioned by Directions. It consists of two floating rear projection screens, allowing the viewer to walk between and around the screens and become part of the video as their shadows move across the images. Sound by Jon Almaraz echoes throughout the gallery space, creating an otherworldly experience. The first part of the title is Ojibwe, the traditional language of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa people, and the second part is a rough translation into English. The video was shot at Lake Metigoshe at Turtle Mountain in North Dakota. This is part of the artist’s ancestral tribal lands which were severed by the US/Canadian border. The lake itself is cut by the border, but the water runs freely. The people can no longer travel freely across the waters, border control agents regularly patrol the park areas, a reminder that this land has been divided. The video was shot on the 4th of July, the United States Independence Day. Fireworks explode on an island in the center of the lake, the lights in the distance are in Canada, the spectators in the front are in America. Many are distant relatives whose lives, families, traditions, and cultures have been divided by settler colonial nations. The fire rains down from the middle, reflections of violence and wonder dancing off the clear water. The sound washes over the viewers as they stand between two screens, on a border surrounded by ghosts and trails of light, memories of time expanded and collapsed.
On View at KARST in Plymouth, UK
14 JAN - 12 FEB 2022
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Metigoshe Jiibayag (Clearwater Ghosts) (2022)
3 loops of varying duration. Sound: Jon Almaraz
Metigoshe Jiibayag (Clearwater Ghosts) is a new multimedia video and sound installation commissioned by Directions. It consists of two floating rear projection screens, allowing the viewer to walk between and around the screens and become part of the video as their shadows move across the images. Sound by Jon Almaraz echoes throughout the gallery space, creating an otherworldly experience. The first part of the title is Ojibwe, the traditional language of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa people, and the second part is a rough translation into English. The video was shot at Lake Metigoshe at Turtle Mountain in North Dakota. This is part of the artist’s ancestral tribal lands which were severed by the US/Canadian border. The lake itself is cut by the border, but the water runs freely. The people can no longer travel freely across the waters, border control agents regularly patrol the park areas, a reminder that this land has been divided. The video was shot on the 4th of July, the United States Independence Day. Fireworks explode on an island in the center of the lake, the lights in the distance are in Canada, the spectators in the front are in America. Many are distant relatives whose lives, families, traditions, and cultures have been divided by settler colonial nations. The fire rains down from the middle, reflections of violence and wonder dancing off the clear water. The sound washes over the viewers as they stand between two screens, on a border surrounded by ghosts and trails of light, memories of time expanded and collapsed.