Author: tv@acreresidency.org

“Sun Burn (Screen Saver)” Penelope Umbrico

Sun Burn (Screen Saver) is comprised of 365 images from my project Suns from Flickr complied into an animation, and then converted into a screensaver. As a screensaver, the implied danger of burning a whole into your screen is, in fact, not a real threat: the longevity of our newer screens is no longer effected by intense of light or form in one place. Current screensavers function purely for entertainment and distraction, and in fact they use more energy than if the computer were allowed to just go to sleep. – PU

www.penelopeumbrico.net

Airing as a prologue to the Were the Eye Not Sunlike program, April 1-3, 2015

April 1, 2015
WERE THE EYE NOT SUNLIKE PROGRAM SCHEDULE
We are pleased to offer a lamp that turns on and off when you clap, when you clap your eyes. A lamp that lets you see in the dark without disturbing the dark. A lamp producing natural light. A lamp that when you clap turns on and on.

– Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw

Were the Eye Not Sunlike Program

PROLOGUE, April 1-3, 2015
1. Penelope Umbrico, Sun Burn (Screensaver), 05:00, looped
SUNRISE, April 3-19, 2015
1. Dana Carter, Aurora, 00:34
2. Patrick Andrew Boivin, Stèphane Charpentier and Alyssa Moxley, Pieces of Time We Taped on the Hills, 08:14
3. Eric Watts, Sunrise Chart, 00:23
4. Eric Watts, Yukon Radio, 01:01
5. Cassandra C. Jones, Takeoff, 00:11
6. Eileen Rae Walsh,The Sky, 00:55
7. Stephanie Hough, Instant Calm, 06:08
8. Christopher Bailey and Charles Woodman, Megurs Ehd Ffleweh Bq Nsolst, 09:36
9. Laura Bouza, Eight Women, 29:00
10. Andrew Payne, Light and Shadows 6, 01:00
11. Andrew Rosinski, Beads II, 07:21
12. Karen Y. Chan, Myths, 01:00
13. Eric Watts, Studio Sunset, 30:34
14. Pablo Marín, Sin título (abril), 03:34
15. Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, 28:53
16. Kate Casanova, Rise and Fall (Beijing), 02:04
17. Blair Bogin, Galileo and Selfies, 02:01
18. Chris Rice, So This is What You Do With Your Time Off, 03:07
19. Silvana D’Mikos, Time Perception, 24:24
20. Patrick Tarrant, Brokenflo, 10:00
21. Robert Todd, Within, 05:56
22. Ilan Gutin, Íslenska, 42:51
214 min 47 sec (03:38:47), looped

HIGH NOON, April 19-May 10, 2015
1. Dana Carter, Azimuth, 00:29
2. Rachael Starbuck, Transfer of Attention (1), 02:03
3. Ben Russell, Trypps #7 (Badlands), 09:58
4. Jean-Michel Rolland, Cicadas in the Sun, 06:02
5. Max Grey, Untitled (white), 02:15
6. Robert Todd, Short, 04:43
7. Meredith Lackey, Nature Gaping, 02:49
8. Rachael Starbuck, Transfer of Attention (2), 02:32
9. Patrick Tarrant, The Take-Up, 10:54
10. Pablo Marín, film, 03:24
11. Fern Silva, Passage Upon the Plume, 06:35
12. Rachael Starbuck, Transfer of Attention (3), 01:45
13. Tommy Becker, Pulling Down the Sky to Give You the Sun, 01:57
14. Rebecca Najdowski, Untitled (Sun), 02:33
15. Karen Y. Chan, Pilgrimage, 04:30
16. Karl Lind, A Brief Portrait of the Eternal Recurrence, 00:32
17. Amy Hicks, Luminiferous Aether, 05:50
18. Elina Malkin & Jónó Mí Ló, Untitled #11 (excerpt), 04:58
19. Rachael Starbuck, Transfer of Attention (4), 02:02
20. Sarah & Joseph Belknap, Joseph Lights Sarah’s Cigarette With the Sun, 00:40
21. Tony Balko, Emotional Sundiving, 15:26
22. Thomas Dexter, Optick I: Blinded, 10:57
23. Eden Mitsenmacher, A Poem For You, 01:57
24. John Szczepaniak, A Bao A Qu, 04:22
25. Aaron Oldenburg, The End Sands, 03:28
26. Jason Judd, Into the Sun, 03:27
27. Dana Carter, ZombieBling, 00:26
137 min 52 sec (02:17:52), looped

SUNSET, May 10-31, 2015
1. Dana Carter, Arrhythmia, 00:33
2. Robert Todd, LoveSong, 05:57
3. Mike Gibisser, Day of Two Noons, 70:01
4. Laura Bouza, Naomi and Irving, 04:00
5. Laura Mackin, Dean Sunsets, All of Them (1952-2006), 01:31
6. Eric Stewart, Wake, 07:51
7. Sara Condo, Sunset Over the Wonder Valley (For Barbara), 10:50
8. Takahiro Suzuki, That Which Moves the Sun and Stars, 08:32
9. Eeva Siivonen, Star, Light, Nothing, 01:42
10. Andrew Rosinski, A Beach, 02:17
11. Eileen Rae Walsh, Paradise, 02:01
12. Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Untitled (Wishes, Lies and Dreams), 09:48
13. Jeremiah Jones, Gallows (High Noon), 11:28
14. Collin Bradford, Accelerating the Sunset (by riding a bicycle away from the sun as fast as I can), 38:13
15. Eric Watts, 9th Ave Sunset, 06:06
16. Christine Lucy Latimer, The Pool, 04:13
17. Max Grey, Untitled (together), 02:54
18. Sam Hoolihan, Sun Song, 05:01
19. Fern Silva, Windsor Roll, 03:03
20. Christine Lucy Latimer, nationtime, 01:40
21. Alexei Dmitriev, Hermeneutics, 03:15
22. Penelope Umbrico, Neverending Sunset (Second Life), 12:27
23. Ying Liu, Ham Over Rice, 03:39
24. Cassandra C. Jones, Eventide, 05:06
25. Mathew-Robin Nye and Marc Wieser, In a Flash, 13:24
26. Jae Pas, Sun of Venice, 04:59
27. Chris Rice, Tommy Sky, 02:09
28. Collin Bradford, Eclipsing the Sun, 14:00
29. Chris Little, Capt. Jack Sparrow and Ernest Miller Hemingway, 01:01
30. Robert Ladislas Derr, Sun Sunset Set, 20:19
280 mins (04:40:06), looped

For more information regarding Were the Eye Not Sunlike‘s gallery component, please visit fernwey.com.

Were the Eye Not Sunlike is curated by Third Object, a curatorial collective based in Chicago. thirdobject.net
March 31, 2015
Were the Eye Not Sunlike

Collin Bradford, Eclipsing the Sun, 2014. Video stills.

ACRE TV is pleased to present:

Were the Eye Not Sunlike

Curated by Third Object

ACRE TV
Online at ACRETV.org
April 1-May 31, 2015

Fernwey Gallery
916 N Damen Ave
April 3-April 26, 2015

Opening reception: April 3, 6-9pm, Fernwey Gallery

Inspired by the long dark winters of Chicago, this exhibition focuses on the Sun at a time when it is missed the most, moments before springtime. As an object that is both illuminating and unseeable, the experience of the Sun is dominated by metaphor and myth. Were the Eye Not Sunlike channels the mythologization of the Sun and our relationship to its immeasurable power.

Beginning on April 1, a three-part video program will unfold on the artist-made livestreaming platform ACRE TV. The program begins with Sunrise and its thematic associations of stillness, ritual and intimacy. Reflecting the course of the earth-bound day, the following program, High Noon, tracks the warmth and optical energy of a bright, full sky. Sunset, the final chapter, evokes impending darkness, melancholy, loss and reflection.

Sunrise: April 1 – April 19 | High Noon: April 19 – May 10 | Sunset: May 10 – May 31

Meanwhile, from April 3 – April 26, Fernwey Gallery presents the physical iteration of Were the Eye Not Sunlike with work in photography, sculpture and installation. Featuring Lauren Edwards, Assaf Evron and Danny Giles, the exhibition proposes its own strain of the solar metaphor, imagining the Sun as an object of theater and a distant dictator in the sky. The exhibition includes a printed publication designed by Mia Nolting with essays by Third Object and Danny Floyd.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

ACRE TV

Christopher Bailey & Charles Woodman, Tony Balko, Tommy Becker, Sarah & Joseph Belknap, Blair Bogin, Patrick Andrew Boivin & Stèphane Charpentier & Alyssa Moxley, Laura Bouza, Collin Bradford, Dana Carter, Kate Casanova, Karen Y. Chan, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Sara Condo, Silvana D’Mikos, Thomas Dexter, Alexei Dmitriev, Mike Gibisser, Max Grey, Ilan Gutin, Amy Hicks, Sam Hoolihan, Stephanie Hough, Cassandra C. Jones, Jeremiah Jones, Jason Judd, Meredith Lackey, Robert Ladislas Derr, Christine Lucy Latimer, Karl Lind, Chris Little, Ying Liu, Laura Mackin, Elina Malkin & Jónó Mí Ló, Pablo Marín, Eden Mitsenmacher, Rebecca Najdowski, Matthew-Robin Nye & Marc Wieser, Aaron Oldenburg, Jae Pas, Andrew Payne, Chris Rice, Jean-Michel Rolland, Andrew Rosinski, Ben Russell, Eeva Siivonen, Fern Silva, Rachael Starbuck, Eric Stewart, Takahiro Suzuki, John Szczepaniak, Patrick Tarrant, Robert Todd, Penelope Umbrico, Eileen Rae Walsh, Eric Watts, Yehoshua

FERNWEY GALLERY

Lauren Edwards, Assaf Evron, Danny Floyd, Danny Giles, Mia Nolting

Full ACRE TV program information HERE

March 31, 2015
Artforum: Jaime Davidovich

Jaime Davidovich, Outreach: The Changing Role of the Art Museum, 1978. Installation view.

An Artforum review by Jacob Proctor of Threewalls’ show Outreach: Jaime Davidovich 1974-1984, which features Direct Object/Direct Action streaming in the gallery, described ACRE TV’s contribution:

“Additionally on view were a re-creation of the 1970 tape installation Yellow Wall, a selection of early works on paper and television-related ephemera, and, in a nod to Davidovich’s historical role as a presenter of others’ work alongside his own, a live stream of videos from the Chicago-based artists’ television network ACRE TV.”

The review goes on to describe a particular episode of The Live! Show, which Jaime Davidovich produced from 1979-84 for Manhattan Cable Television, which we aired as a part of Direct Object/Direct Action and was a touchstone for our show:

“Broadcasting from the Qube [an early interactive cable-television system] studio in Columbus, Ohio, where the service debuted on December 1, 1877, the host asks viewers to call in and “direct” one of the show’s dual live feeds, instructing the camera operators to tilt, pan, zoom, and adjust focus. Although strikingly primitive by today’s standards and phased out after only a few years, Qube presaged many subsequent developments in the cable industry. Beyond the participatory scenario of this episode of The Live! Show—itself a distant precursor to today’s TV competitions in which viewers are invited to vote—Qube’s programming packages introduced such now-standard features as pay-per-view, on-demand viewing, and specialized channels for music, sports, children’s shows, and so on, making Davidovich’s employ of the then-relatively unknown technology all the more serendipitous, or prophetic.”

Read the full review here.

See more of Jaime Davidovich’s work streaming on ACRE TV until March 31!

March 31, 2015
Once More For The Very First Time // ACRE TV at Comfort Station

Toadstool, Joseph Herring and Amy Ruddick

Rebroadcast, rerun, replay, reflect. The repeat is a TV standard; an opportunity for viewers to catch up on a show they missed or indulge in a show they love again and again. With this in mind, and to celebrate our first anniversary, ACRE TV is revisiting some of our favorite shows from the past year with a screening at Comfort Station. Once More For The Very First Time offers a chance to return to the stream, featuring works from each season of ACRE TV presented in front of a live gallery audience.

Chris Little, Mom, What the !^#% is Spotify?, 20:06
Megan Schvaneveldt, Untitled, 04:54
Thad Kellstadt, Liquid Lunch, (Excerpt), 02:20
Cauleen Smith, Natural History Curiosity, 00:43
Dao Nguyen, Practice, Practice, Practice, 01:00
Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Notes for a Vivisection, 09:48
Josh Duensing & Eric Watts, Is This Real?, (Trailer), 00:48
Danny Volk, Made-Up with Danny Volk, (Trailer), 00:32
Jesse Malmed, Morton! Morton! Morton!/Saltnick, 03:06
Bonnie Begusch, Means and Ends, 05:01
Dao Nguyen, Practice, Practice, Practice, 01:00
Elsewhere, Alive in the Kitchen: TV Dinner, 05:44
Cameron Gibson, Standby, 01:09
Anna Ialeggio, Mark McCloughan, Ellen Nielsen, & Leslie Rogers, An Entirely Platonic Fission into Doubter’s Lace or Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!, (Edited for reality), 13:05
Daniel Bennett, Pluma, 02:47
Dao Nguyen, Practice, Practice, Practice, 01:00
Tiffany Funk, Memento Maury, (Excerpt), 01:00
Chaz Evans & Maureen Ryan, Unending Credits (Lifestyle), ∞

On the monitors:

Joseph Herring & Amy Ruddick, Toadstool
Jon Chambers, Charity Coleman, Jesse Malmed, Marianna Milhorat, & Michael Rae, Teen Agents
Chaz Evans, CA-PAN
Thad Kellstadt, Liquid Lunch
Tiffany Funk, Memento Maury

Programmed by Kate Bowen

This program is presented in conjunction with Comfort Station’s current show A Gathering.

March 25, 2015
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL

March 25, 2015
Chicago Tribune: The tape artist: Jaime Davidovich at Threewalls

Jaime Davidovich, as his alter-ego Dr. Videovich.

A Chicago Tribune review by art critic Lori Waxman of Threewalls’ show Outreach: Jaime Davidovich 1974-1984, which features Direct Object/Direct Action streaming in the gallery, described ACRE TV as:

“a terrific local arts station which digitally streams live and canned art”

Read the full review here.

See more of Jaime Davidovich’s work streaming on ACRE TV until March 31!

March 20, 2015
As Witnessed

Bryan Volta, Disembodied

Students from Deborah Stratman’s Documentary Media course at UIC and Jaxon Pallas’ Independent Study Projects course at the Associated Colleges of the Midwest created works for broadcast on ACRE TV. This program features:

Jon Gotangco, iPhone 5S Unboxing (4:17)

Bryce Jensen, power (8:44)

Bryan Volta, Disembodied (5:50)

Alex Myung, Winter Sun (4:39)

Bryce Jensen, Objectification: contact/neglect (5:17)

Amanda Cervantes, The Disney Question (5:24)

Paige Wynne, One Thing (1:37)

Abbigail Vandersnick, Re-En(act)tor: Night of the Living Dead (10:02)

Ro Zavala, Silencedwood (3:36)

Bryce Jensen, the Silken King (4:05)

Grace Galhotra, Marian Herzog, Christian Hustad, Doyi Lee, Kelly O’Toole Martin, Kate Mickelson, and Laura Myers, Elevator Man (4:14)

Airing Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 8 pm CDT

March 15, 2015
“Video Drift” Amanda Gutierrez

Video Dérive (drift), is a collective project that activates the subjective experience of a walk within an urban context, documenting several group journeys into one single time line and digital map. The Drift will be guided by a video broadcast on ACRE TV, indicating specific instructions for users to follow and document through their mobile devices. The Drift responses will be updated and shared from several locations in Chicago, Illinois and Mexico City via the artist collective Nerivela.

The videos, photos and sound captured will be edited into a single video which will air on ACRE TV as a part of Direct Object/Direct Action.

Each drift will begin at Threewalls, 119 N Peoria #2C, and will be held on:

Saturday, March 7th, 11 am CST &

Sunday, March 15th, 11 am CDT

Or, take part from anywhere by following the instructions airing simultaneously on ACRETV.org and using the videodrifts.com app to pin your documentation to the map.

The collective map can be viewed at: mitchsaid.com/drift/acre_map.html

The resulting video will air on ACRETV.org TBA

Amanda Gutiérrez
The concepts of memory, home and landscape are closely related in my current work. This exploration arises from formal strategies in documentary and oral recreation, while media techniques such as photography, video, and sound are the main tools to assembly its narrative processes. It is in migrating to the United States, and in the constant movement between two residences — Chicago and Mexico City — that two important themes arose: migration and the construction of identity through architecture. amandagutierrez.net and pilsenderive.tumblr.comMitch Said is a South African-born digital artist and designer currently residing in Chicago, with an abiding interest in mobile computing, locative art, and online mapping. He’s created interactive digital experiences for a variety of projects and partners, including MoMA and musicians OK Go. He holds a MPS from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and and MDA from the University of the Witwatersrand in Interactive Media. mitchsaid.com

Nerivela is a conceptual platform that uses alternative methods of thought and production to reflect on the surrounding world. We are a collective of artists developing practices that seek to undermine contemporary models of production, working with possibilities and methods that exist on the fringes of what we are able to see. By transmuting and re-articulating meaning in our artistic interventions, we create multiple possibilities for understanding visual and verbal languages. It’s a question of finding new syntax, dislocating old semantic meanings and creating provocative and novel forms. What emerges from this process of transliteration is a symbol that exists on a sheet of paper, which stands for a surface, a street, or an entire city: this symbol is our point of departure and also our destination. nerivela.org

March 7, 2015
“The Indian Boundary Line” Thomas Comerford

The Indian Boundary Line, 2010, 16mm/8mm/super-8mm on digital betacam, color. 41 mins.

From 2001-2010, Chicago musician and filmmaker Thomas Comerford made a series of quietly-observed films that contemplate the entwined social, political, and environmental histories of Chicago (Figures in the Landscape, 2002; Land Marked/Marquette, 2005). The Indian Boundary Line (2010) follows a road in Chicago, Rogers Avenue, that traces the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis boundary between the United States and “Indian Territory.” In doing so, it examines the collision between the vernacular landscape, with its storefronts, short-cut footpaths and picnic tables, and the symbolic one, replete with historical markers, statues, and fences. Through its observations and audio-visual juxtapositions, The Indian Boundary Line meditates on a span of land in Chicago about 12 miles long, but suggests how this land and its history are an index for the shifting inhabitants, relationships, boundaries and ideas of landscape — as well as the consequences — which have accompanied the transformation of the “New World.”

thomascomerford.net

Airing Thursdays and Fridays Mar 5 – 13th, 7 pm CST

March 5, 2015
“Dead (air)” Danny Giles

As a direct action, the die-in has appeared in public spaces to represent unrepresentable loss. In recent months, mass numbers of variously raced bodies have assembled to mimic the death of black men killed by white police. As a gesture meant to incite sympathy for the slain and empathy for their communities, die-ins deploy mimicry and silence as subversive tools to commemorate victims and to reenact the moment of encounter with death.

Popular media narratives usually focus on the biography and mannerisms of black victims. The character of the deceased is dissected, caricatured and lambasted to justify the taking of life. Dead (air) attempts to redirect our scrutiny, instead angling it back at the purveyors of violence using their own words. This piece asks, what might we stand to gain by attempting to empathize with those who lash out through a tangle of fear and slanted perceptions? Reframing this contemporary direct political action within performative artistic space, Dead (air) offers an alternative to political spectacles and popular perceptions.

Performing in person for Direct Object/Direct Action LIVE, February 27, 2015, 7 pm at Threewalls, 119 N Peoria, Chicago, with accompanying video/sound airing simultaneously on ACRE TV.

February 27, 2015