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  • Staging the Film Essay

    Staging the Film Essay

    Jillian Musielak, a mindfulness guide to the care of our Earth

    Students from Amanda Gutiérrez‘s Staging the Film Essay course at SAIC created works for broadcast on ACRE TV after Kera MacKenzie visited class and did a workshop titled Space-Time On and Off the Screen.

    This program features:

    Ava Threlkel, Breaking an Image, 10:21 min

    At 15 years old, Tiffany, American pop idol, visited 16 U.S. cities during her tour “The Beautiful You: Celebrating the Good Life of Shopping Mall Tour ‘87.” As an adult, she attempted radical shifts to move her public image away from a teeny-bopper past that could not be shaken.

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    Malu Ayers, Get Lost, 5:07 min

    A portrait; navigation (exterior to interior) of the effects of memory and forgetfulness.

    Joey Scher, Asian Alpha Female/White Omega Male, 11:07 min

    A video about the dynamics of a biracial home.

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    Claire Wong, ☞ ☞ ☞ ✰ THE MOST SATISFYING VIDEO IN THE WORLD ✰ ☁ ☁ ☁ ☁ ✓ ✓ , 9 min

    99% CANNOT COMPLETE THIS CHALLENGE WITHOUT GETTING SATISFIED! THE MOST SATISFYING VIDEO IN THE WORLD is mindless, sensational, random, relaxing, ASMR, squishy, kinetic sand, knife videos, slime, compilations, oddly satisfying.

    Iza Benedetti, My Favorite Room, My Teenaged Room, The Room I Return to, 9 min

    3 videos about 3 different moments in my life and how I visualize them through found footage.

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    Elise Schierbeek, New Earth, 9:16 min

    An autobiographical video essay on long-distance Skype, image quality, simulacrum, salvation, deletion, outright iconoclasm, and the becoming-image of the online lover.

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    Móni Salazar, Into the Echo Chamber, 2:56 min

    “The important thing, is not to be cured, but to live with one’s ailments.” – Albert Camus

    Jillian Musielak, a mindfulness guide to the care of our Earth, 7:55 min

    A trippy visit to the recycling bin…

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    Christian Blauch, KiNK Boiler Room flashback, 7:19 min

    Young and Restless and Boiler Room remix to comment on club cultures current ethical notions and technological ways of working around them.

    TRT = 1 hr 12 min

     

    Airing Tuesdays, May 23, 30, & June 6, 2017 at 7 pm CDT

  • “Future Tense” Mary Helena Clark

    “Future Tense” Mary Helena Clark

    "Future & Tense" Mary Helena Clark

    Future Tense

    Mary Helena Clark

    April 18 – June 29, 2017

  • “The Butlers Did It” Latham Zearfoss

    “The Butlers Did It” Latham Zearfoss

    "Intents & Purposes" Latham ZearfossThe Butlers Did It

    Latham Zearfoss

    January 21- March 4, 2017

    This new video series features two central characters modeled after science fiction author Octavia Butler and philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler. Built from stock footage of a black woman and a white woman, the video contains a series of vignettes in a hospital setting, with the two figures activating a discourse through their written texts across divergent scenarios of healing. Their quotes, pulled from each authors’ oeuvres, are presented through voice over via two Chicago-based artists (Meida McNeal and Matt Morris) playing the respective roles.

    The Butlers Did It plays concurrently with Zearfoss’ solo exhibition INTENTS & PURPOSES at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, which includes sculptural and time-based works that aim to playfully converse between tropes of market culture and political interventions, each with their own method of display.
     
    Artist reception on Saturday, January 21 from 4–7pm
    The exhibition continues through Saturday, March 4, 2017
     
    Please visit www.andrewrafacz.com for more information about the exhibition
  • “By Way of Today: On The Rocks” Cameron Gibson and Kyle Schlie

    “By Way of Today: On The Rocks” Cameron Gibson and Kyle Schlie

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    By Way of Today

    Yesterday’s Recap: On the Rocks

     

    Airing January 1-21, 2017

    At Loredo Inn, Hope tells Aiden he’s trying to rape her. Aiden claims that’s not true. Hope reminds him he forced her to put on that dress and dine with him. “Are you going to force me to have sex with you?” Aiden’s shocked. He’d never do that. He just wanted her to see that they were good together once. Hope says she’s only there because he threatened her. “You’re putting a gun to my head,” she yells. Aiden clutches his stomach and blows out the candles. He calls this wrong and stupid. He tears up and apologizes for all the pain he caused. Hope says it’s over. He realizes it already was. That sick and twisted man isn’t him. He’s going to leave her alone. He deletes Hope’s confession, handing over the only other copy. He has one more thing to do. Will she come with him?
     
    Back at LPD, the Deputy Mayor arrives and Rafe’s about to confess when Aiden and Hope arrive. Aiden resigns. He’ll be available from Los Angeles to make the transition easier. Everyone’s shocked. In private, Hope shares what happened at the Inn and Rafe’s relieved. They kiss and Aiden tells them he’ll have divorce papers drawn up.
     
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    By Way of Today is an expanded soap opera produced by Cameron Gibson and Kyle Schlie. Equal parts genre study, fan fiction and mundane sci-fi, it is a series like many and unlike none. Episodes “air” irregularly and in various forms such as video, script, rehearsal, live broadcast, commercial, installation and animation.

     

    By Way of Today aired LIVE on ACRE TV from March 21-31, 2016 as a part of The Set Speaks.

     

  • “Let’s Be Friends” Jen Clay

    “Let’s Be Friends” Jen Clay

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    Let’s Be Friends

    Jen Clay

    Airing LIVE on December 13, 2016 at 7:30-8 pm CT

    Using a variety of media including video, installation,and performance, Jen Clay constructs narratives that investigate fear and anxiety through recreations of common horror entertainment tropes. Her work is inspired by the playful aesthetic of educational children’s TV shows which can be seen in her use of stop motion animation, overly embellished costumes and puppets that speak directly to the audience. Her work references supernatural and fantastic phenomena juxtaposed with mundane urban and natural surroundings to represent disfunction such as trauma and abuse in familiar places, people and things.

    Let’s Be Friends is a performance where The Void, an untrustworthy character that is the manifestation of being afraid of the dark, speaks directly to the audience so that they may become “friends”.

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    "Lets Be Friends" Jen Clay

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  • “Transmit 2.0” Alejandro T Acierto

    “Transmit 2.0” Alejandro T Acierto

    Transmit 2.0 Alejandro Acierto

    Transmit 2.0

    Alejandro T Acierto

    Airing LIVE on Dec 13, 2016 at 6:30 CT

    Transmit 2.0 is an audio/visual broadcast work that highlights the complex relationship we have with communication technologies.

    alejandroacierto.com

  • “Rehearsals of what I presume will be my favorite post-breath positions and variables” Richard Haley

    “Rehearsals of what I presume will be my favorite post-breath positions and variables” Richard Haley

    "Rehearsals of what I presume will be my favorite post-breath positions and variables" Richard Haley

    Rehearsals of what I presume will  be my favorite post-breath positions and variables

     Richard Haley

    Airing LIVE on December 13, 2016 at 2-2:30 pm CT

    This live broadcast will take the form of lecture discussing various possibilities of using my future corpse to create sculpture. This will be an attempt to locate the state between being and becoming a thing. Weight, mass, heat, and warm fluids will be tracked from their origins as building blocks of personhood and mapped to their dissension/ascension into purely spatial attributes disavowed from the body.

    richardhaley.com

  • “Zombie Tom Petty and the Mystery of My Dead Little Pony” Jan and Dave

    "Zombie Tom Petty and the Mystery of My Dead Little Pony" Jan and Dave

    Zombie Tom Petty and the Mystery of My Dead Little Pony

    Jan and Dave

    Airing LIVE on December 13, 2016 at 8-8:30 pm CT

    Zombie Tom Petty and the Mystery of My Dead Little Pony gives us what we all need, a fighting chance to save the world from the Apocalypse; and that chance is none other than Zombie Tom Petty. With the assistance of friends like My Little Pony, an inflatable kangaroo, a bubble wand and the Devil himself, Zombie Tom Petty sets off on an adventure with potentially dire consequences for each and every one of us.

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  • RE/NIGHT/LIVE/MARE LIVE Shows

    RE/NIGHT/LIVE/MARE LIVE Shows

    Four LIVE Performances for RE/NIGHT/LIVE/MARE
    December 13th, 2016

     

    "Rehearsals of what I presume will be my favorite post-breath positions and variables" Richard HaleyRehearsals of what I presume will  be my favorite post-breath positions and variables
    Richard Haley
    Airing LIVE from Detroit
    2-2:30 pm CT

    This live broadcast will take the form of lecture discussing various possibilities of using my future corpse to create sculpture. This will be an attempt to locate the state between being and becoming a thing. Weight, mass, heat, and warm fluids will be tracked from their origins as building blocks of personhood and mapped to their dissension/ascension into purely spatial attributes disavowed from the body.

     


    Transmit 2.0 Alejandro AciertoTransmit 2.0
    Alejandro T Acierto
    Airing LIVE from Chicago
    6:30 pm CT

    Transmit 2.0 is an audio/visual broadcast work that highlights the complex relationship we have with communication technologies.
     

     


    gifvoidLet’s Be Friends
    Jen Clay
    Airing LIVE from Miami
    7:30-8 pm CT

    Let’s Be Friends is a performance where The Void, an untrustworthy character that is the manifestation of being afraid of the dark, speaks directly to the audience so that they may become “friends”.

     

     

    "Zombie Tom Petty and the Mystery of My Dead Little Pony" Jan and DaveZombie Tom Petty and the Mystery of My Dead Little Pony
    Jan and Dave
    Airing LIVE from Miami
    8-8:30 pm CT

    Zombie Tom Petty and the Mystery of My Dead Little Pony gives us what we all need, a fighting chance to save the world from the Apocalypse; and that chance is none other than Zombie Tom Petty. With the assistance of friends like My Little Pony, an inflatable kangaroo, a bubble wand and the Devil himself, Zombie Tom Petty sets off on an adventure with potentially dire consequences for each and every one of us.

  • Past Lives at UnionDocs

    Past Lives at UnionDocs

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    PAST LIVES: LIVESTREAM ON ACRETV.ORG

    Sunday, November 13th, 7:30p. $9.
    With Kera MacKenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney, and Christy LeMaster.
    Organized by James N. Kienitz Wilkins

    UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art
    322 Union Ave. Williamsburg
    Brooklyn, NY 11211

    A live broadcast from the UnionDocs screening room with Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney (video artists and co-directors of ACRE TV, an artist-made livestreaming tele-vision network) and Christy LeMaster (director of The Nightingale, Chicago’s stellar long-running microcinema).  The evening will include selections from MacKenzie and Mausert-Mooney’s collaborative practice as well as tele-visual works previously played on ACRE TV, intercut by conversations and readings selected by the participants. The broadcast can be viewed live, simultaneously, on ACRETV.org.

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    SCREENING LIST 

    1. Natural History Curiosity, Cauleen Smith, US, 2013, 1:00
    2. CA-PAN [Excerpt], Chaz Evans, US, 2014, 8:00
    3. Abductive Object #4, Kera MacKenzie, US, 2012, 2:45
    4. MUCK MUCK \/ MONICA PANZARINO [Excerpt], Kera MacKenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Daniel Giles and Monica Panzarino, US, 2012, 9:45
    5. Eke Name [Excerpt], Kera MacKenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney and Jesse Malmed, US, 2016, 5:00
    6. In a Perfect Fever, Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, US, 2015, 8:29
    7. havoc and tumbled, Kera MacKenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney, and Nate Whelden, US, 2015, 14:00
    8. A Thunderstorm in Real Time, Though Not Necessarily ‘Live’ [Excerpt], Paul Dickinson, US, 2012, 2:00
    9. Toadstool, Joseph Herring and Amy Ruddick, US, 2014, 16:00
    10. Weather Patterns, Andrew Mausert-Mooney, US, 2013, 8:22
    11. Local Ads from Faraway Places, Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, US, 2014, 4:57
    12. Teen Agents [Excerpt], Jon Chambers, Charity Coleman, Jesse Malmed, Marianna Milhorat, and Michael Rae, US, 2014, 10:00
    13. Please Standby, Andrew Mausert-Mooney, US, 2014, 1:00

    Total Runtime:  1:31:17

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