ACRE TV

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  • “45 Minutes of Nothing” Stacy Asher

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    Repeat airing of 45 Minutes of Nothing at a certain hour for 32 days consecutively, totaling 24 hours of nothing.

    The collapse of the dot-com bubble that took place during 1999–2001 left many billboards in San Francisco blank with only a, bright, white rectangle present. I documented blank billboards throughout the city to celebrate the absence of commercial messaging.

    Documenting the world going on happily around the billboard’s blank message captured nothing of particular interest but allowed me to enjoy a pause, a focused meditative state. This blank billboard was documented in an increment of 45 minutes, the duration of a television episode without com- mercial messaging.

    Today, San Francisco is thriving and experiencing another boom in the tech industry. The value
    of real estate and space is at an all time high and it is unique to see a blank billboard. Tune into “45 minutes of nothing”, and find a wonderful time to pause for reflection and a break from visual form and an opportunity to focus on nothing.

    Stacy Asher Web Site

    Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

    Daily July 17-August 17, 7-10pm

  • “Alien Hour” Adrian Pijoan

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    Dr. Howard Lafayette, paranormal researcher, has a PhD in veterinary medicine as well as PhD level astrophysics coursework at Walden University. Through his extensive travels across the American Southwest as well as attendance at Bigfoot and UFO research conferences, Howard has gained knowledge and exclusive information about UFO research and the Bigfoot paranormal connection. He brings his own spiritual beliefs trained by his study of judo to his research and hopes to lead you gently into worlds seen by few as we approach the moment of full disclosure.

    adrianpijoan.com

    Airing:

    Saturdays at 3am (July 13, 27, August 10, 24, 2014)

  • “Phytovision – Live!” Lindsey French

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    Phytovision – Live! is a live series of television for plants. Reversing the logic of EagleCams, Phytovision – Live! broadcasts the dramatic growth of a small cast into planthood. Plants across the land can tune in as a small cast of native onions and herbs emerge as seedlings into the sunlit studios at the ACRE TV station, growing into complex organisms sharing soil and sunspace, negotiating the trials of tearful pruning, and the tender moments and difficult decisions of flowering and fruiting. Broadcasts will be tailored specifically for plant perception.*

    *Scientific studies indicate that plants can sense light and shadow, and the colors red and blue. (Chamovitz, 2013)

    lindseyfrench.com

    Airing LIVE:

    July 6, 13, 20, 27, 4-7pm

    August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 4-7pm

  • “You’re watching: The Walking Dead” Brendan Meara

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    You’re watching: The Walking Dead is a dystopian drama that unfolds within the confines of a broadcast monitor, that is connected to a broadcasting computer, and streaming live to your device. Within this world within worlds, a band of survivors pull together to find safety in a vacuum and decapitate boredom.

    brendanmeara.com

    Airing:

    Episode 1: Premiere, July 5, 1:00pm – 5:08pm (4hrs 50min)

    Episode 2: Date TBA, (9hrs 35min)

    Episode 3: Date TBA, (11hrs 28min)

  • “practice, practice, practice” Dao Nguyen

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    1 min iPhone videos

    “You and I watch me in a process of improvising hand movements/dances. A series of meditations performed on lunch break and captured with the front-facing camera of an iPhone in the bathroom at my office.” -DN

    Airing:

    Fridays at 12:30pm 

    July 4, 11, 18, 25, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

    New episode each week

  • “Made-Up with Danny Volk: Season 1”

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    Made-Up with Danny Volk:
    Artists in their studios talk about life and art while doing the host’s makeup. Season One looks at artists affiliated with the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts.

    Airing Thursdays at 6:30pm 

    Episode 1: July 3, 2014

    Danny catches up with the ever-amazing Dado as she talks about her life on the stage, sculptural epiphanies, and her upcoming MFA thesis show.

    http://dadosite.com/
    https://dova.uchicago.edu/
    http://arts.uchicago.edu/logan/gallery

    “Funeral for Ortolan”
    Logan Center Gallery and Grey Center Lab
    Exhibition Dates: April 11 — May 9, 2014
    Reception — Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 6pm
    Performance by Dado – TBD

    Artists:
    Dado, Danny Volk, Tucker Rae Grant, Jinn Bronwen Lee, Ramyar Vala
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    Created and hosted by: Danny Volk
    Produced by: Danny Volk, Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor
    Cameras: Bryce Peppers, Valia O’Donnell
    Technical consultant: Ben Chandler
    MUwDV theme music:
    “Comic Strip” by Serge Gainsbourg remixed by DJ Flashcookie
    http://www.loveismylene.com/
    https://soundcloud.com/flashcookie

    Episode 2: July 10, 2014

    Richard sits down and shares with Danny his fear of commitment, secret love of make-up, and a bit of whisky.

    http://culturehall.com/richard_williamson
    http://ttttterminal.biz/
    https://dova.uchicago.edu/
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    Created and hosted by: Danny Volk
    Produced by: Danny Volk, Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor
    Cameras: Bryce Peppers, Valia O’Donnell
    Technical consultant: Ben Chandler
    MUwDV theme music:
    “Comic Strip” by Serge Gainsbourg remixed by DJ Flashcookie
    http://www.loveismylene.com/
    https://soundcloud.com/flashcookie

    Episode 3: July 17, 2014

    Zachary Harvey has a lot to teach us: fur-sonas, duck-face peace-signs, poking at paintings? What’s THIS guy?!

    Check out the inaugural exhibition, Open Relationship, curated by Danny Volk at Zachary’s new space, The Honey Hole.

    https://www.facebook.com/events/1433093003600940/

    http://spectiveretro.com/
    http://instagram.com/duckfacepeacesign
    https://www.facebook.com/TheHoneyHoleChicago
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    Created and hosted by: Danny Volk
    Produced by: Danny Volk, Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor
    Cameras: Bryce Peppers, Valia O’Donnell
    Technical consultant: Ben Chandler

    MUwDV theme music:
    “Comic Strip” by Serge Gainsbourg remixed by DJ Flashcookie
    http://www.loveismylene.com/
    https://soundcloud.com/flashcookie

    Episode 4: July 24, 2014

    Scott Wolniak talks with Danny about his process, turning garage galleries into studios, and fruit murder.

    See his show at Valerie Carberry now through May 31st and be sure to check out the newly available archive from his 1999-2004 alternative exhibition space, Suitable Gallery.

    http://scottwolniak.com
    http://suitablearchive.com/
    http://vimeo.com/scottwolniak/videos
    http://valeriecarberry.com/wolniak-fields.php

    Scott Wolniak is a multidisciplinary artist who’s work in drawing, painting, sculpture and video  explores ontological questions rooted in everyday life. Labor intensive craft and humble materials are utilized, along with a combination of manual and automated techniques, to create hybrid forms that blur distinctions between found and made.  Recent projects have explored the relationship of damage and beauty, with on-going themes such as humor and the sublime, nature, geology, phenomenology, metaphysics, the apocalypse and relentless positivity.

    Wolniak has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago;  the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center;  Hyde Park Art Center, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Peres Projects, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, 65Grand, and Judith Racht Gallery, among others.  His work has been reviewed in ArtForum, Art in America and Art News, and featured in New American Paintings.

    Wolniak received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995, and MFA from the School of Art and Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago in 2002. He recently received the Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy.
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    Created and hosted by: Danny Volk
    Produced by: Danny Volk, Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor
    Cameras: Bryce Peppers, Valia O’Donnell
    Audio: Bryce Peppers

    MUwDV theme music:
    “Comic Strip” by Serge Gainsbourg remixed by DJ Flashcookie
    http://www.loveismylene.com/
    https://soundcloud.com/flashcookie

    Episode 5: July 31, 2014

    An American Flag is used as a drop-cloth to catch the blood oozing off Danny’s face, Anais assigns her students manual labor, and whiskey.

    http://www.johallaprojects.com/if-i-had-my-life
    https://dova.uchicago.edu/
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    Created and hosted by: Danny Volk
    Produced by: Danny Volk, Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor
    Cameras: Zoe Petticord and Nicole Cherry
    Technical consultant: Ben Chandler

    MUwDV theme music:
    “Comic Strip” by Serge Gainsbourg remixed by DJ Flashcookie
    http://www.loveismylene.com/
    https://soundcloud.com/flashcookie

  • “Oral Tradition Tele-Vision” Jamie Lee Mohr

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    The producer of Coma Club presents: Oral Tradition Tele-Vision episode one “The Initiation” starring Jason Martin.
    Oral Tradition Tele-Vision is a public access program that explores narrative, perception and internal mythologies and psychic manifestations.

    Guests on the show retell an episode of something they have seen on television, the emerging details and thematic focuses or omissions serve to illuminate the individual’s unique filter, the narrator’s perception of external reality, and how their idea of self operates within that construct. Some of the selves or facets of self that reflect, filter and manipulate this material are shown as psychic manifestations or actualized internal characters and personal archetypes.

    Oral Tradition Tele-Vision seeks to activate deep levels of interpersonal connection and self-exploration through the act of sharing stories while utilizing a broadcast medium that contains this potential but is often more equated with consumerist escapism and alienation.

    Submissions Encouraged!

    Send to: Jamie.Mohr at mail.sit.edu

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    Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

    Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm

    New episode each month

  • “Natural History Curiosity” Cauleen Smith

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    Natural History Curiosity. iPhone video. 2014.

    Los Angeles Natural History Museum collection: one of the largest natural crystal balls in the world…whatever that means. I appreciate it’s strategic placement before a threshold – it suggests that the exhibition designers anticipated compulsive iPhone videos.

    www.cauleensmith.com

    Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

    Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm

  • “Control” Sara Condo

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    Control is a video shot through the lens with the idea that society is moving deeper into a digital age. I collected footage of various urban landscapes in major U.S. cities and processed them through a visual programming language. The light in the video is generated through a filter which reduces the light into color pixels. The light pixels are then filtered through a program which generates the sound. Therefore, you hear what you see. Control aims to make the viewer present in the moment yet also hopes to hypnotize them under mass media’s spell.

    www.saracondo.com
    saracondo at gmail dot com

    Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

    Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm

  • “DSSSSSS” Amanda Bowles

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    Traverse through familiar terrain with pop-up clowns and boats, with hot dogs, fans and grids. Duration makes space. Call it breathing room.
    Here time collects like aggregate data and is metered by the sound of my feet. Jumping jacks discharge excess adrenaline.
    Daniel told me this video points to what is missing and that he teared up around the four-minute marker. Nothing is really happening then.

    http://work.amandaelisebowles.com/

    Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:

    Daily July 1-August 31, 7-10pm