Sourced from images on cabinporn.com, a popular website that catalogs pictures of tiny cabins in sublime landscapes, Study for Unsettling is a frame-by-frame animation that erases the focal point of the built structures to recast the viewers’ attention on the natural environments in which the structures sit. The marks left are remnants of the disruptive energy of settlers.
Comet Song
Lydia Moyer
2014 / 2:11 min / video
A meditation on aggression and fragility. The primary audio is the sound of oscillations in the magnetic field of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko run through a frequency booster by scientists at the European Space Agency. Best listening with headphones.
Guided Meditations with Teena Geist – Become the Jello
2:35 min / video
Guided Meditations with Teena Geist – The Feeling of Flow
2:13 min / video
Guided Meditations with Teena Geist – Nico
2:53 min / video
Mark McCloughan
Guided Meditations with Teena Geist is a video series that explores sincerity and irony in New Age philosophy. Teena Geist is a 14-year-old girl whose favorite recreational drug is poetry. Sitting in front of a psychedelic background, she invites viewers to close their eyes and join her on an imagistic journey into themselves. Each video can be read as both a satire of New Age tropes and a sincere attempt to inhabit them, creating a complex and constantly shifting experience for viewers. These ideas are also explored in the artist’s live performance The Stairwell Symphony, which features Teena Geist.
POLYHEDRA IN IN THE REALM OF THE THEORETICALLY IMAGINABLE
Mark Kent 2016 / 6 min / HD video
Nature is saturated with sponge structures on every possible scale of physical-biological reality. The term was first adopted in biology: “Sponge: any member of the phylum Porifera, sessile aquatic animals, with single cavity in the body, with numerous pores. The fibrous skeleton of such an animal, remarkable for its power of sucking up water” The number of polyhedral forms which did not receive, as yet a proper name or a notation is also infinite. Infinite is also the number of potentially existing and possible imaginary periodic forms, not envisaged yet. Conspicuous are those relating to sponge-like labyrinthian, polyhedral, space dividing surfaces, which until quite recently were not even considered as a research topic.
We come to know them by various names and notations, evolving through many historical cultures up to our present times; each representing an individual figure-polyhedron, or a family, a group, a class or a domain; convex-finite, Platonic and Archimedean polyhedra; pyramids, prisms; anti-prisms; star polyhedra; deltahedra; zonohedra; saddle polyhedra, dihedral, polydigonal, toroidal, sponge like, finite and infinite polyhedra; regular, uniform, quasi-regular, and so forth; all inscribable in our 3-dimensional space.
A constellation of objects, each emerging into the soft peach-light void of an indeterminate condominium space.
“Subjecting our visual (and virtual) lexicon of luxury to a series of sculptural and kinetic interventions, the film evokes a crazed anthropologist’s observations of a bizarre cargo cult — our own. The climactic vision… is typical of Epcar’s exuberant play with meaning: the commodity pulverized, reconstituted as a new order of objet d’art, and finally relinquished to the rude flow of cinema.” – Max Goldberg
What is the origin of the Earth? Was it a Big Bang or are we sitting on top of a giant turtle shell on top of other turtle shells? Spaceship Earth is a multi media performance piece designed and filmed for ACRE TV’s Project (Jumbletron) in Pensacola, Florida. Spaceship Earth is a journey in the process not a destination.
ACRE TV Online atACRETV.org November 8 – December 31, 2018 Live Performances: November 8, 2018, 8:30-9:30 pm CST
CUBED: Luminous University of West Florida Museum Plaza Pensacola, Florida Festival Dates: November 8-11, 2018 Live Performances: November 8, 2018, 8:30-9:30 pm CST
JumbleTron is a two-part video show crafted for public, large-scale screens in Pensacola, Florida (as a part of theCUBED: Luminous Festival, November 8-11), that features a roster of some of the most dynamic artists that ACRE TV has been itching to collaborate with sinceour last big group showin December 2016. JumbleTron will also broadcast online at ACRETV.org from November 8th to December 31st.
Part one —JUMBLE— features 12 video works by Sara Condo, Zachary Epcar, Mark Kent, Mark McCloughan, Lydia Moyer, Amina Ross, Sheida Soleimani, Darryl Terrell, Lili White and Danielle Zorbas, reformatted for an 18’x12’x12’ LCD prism: A dazzling, buzzing, and spectacular program that spins, skins, and surveys themes of human/animal/environmental cohabitation. We’ve worked with the artists to re-format their pieces for the unusual aspect ratio and gargantuan scale and will stream both the original works and the reformatted versions on ACRE TV throughout November and December, during the day.
Still from Lili White, THE HOUSE OF WATER: #3 SPROUT
Part two —TRON— is four collections of video works reformatted for 8’x8’ projections: Full of human bodies and breath, this part moves slower, dances in the ways and waves, finding limits in human scale. Carl Elsaesser and Sandy Williams IV are each showing durational series that add up to more than a day and a half of video, exploring time and persistence. Danny Giles and Richard Haley have imaged the human body, or something like it, standing tall against external forces of nature and surveillance. These works will play on ACRE TV throughout November and December during nighttime hours.
Additionally, join us on November 8th from 8:30-9:30 pm (CST) for JumbleTron LIVEfrom the CUBED: Luminous stage, featuring new work by Jen Clay and Jan and Dave.
JumbleTron was curated by Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney (video artists and co-directors of ACRE TV) and Joseph Herring (House Pencil Green, video and performance artist and frequent collaborator with ACRE TV).
Still from Carl Elsaesser, Smudged Head, 2018
CUBED Luminousis a four day and night outdoor digital art festival that will take place at the University of West Florida Historic Trust Museum Plaza in downtown Pensacola, Florida on the closing weekend of Foo Foo Fest, November 8 through November 11, 2018. CUBED Luminous is a partnership with the University West Florida Historic Trust, the UWF Pensacola Museum of Art and ACRE TV.
CUBED was created by Evan Levin and Ashton Howard in 2017.
Curators of CUBED Luminous: CUBED GULF COAST, UWF Historic Trust, UWF Pensacola Museum of Art, Joseph Herring, Kera MacKenzie, and Andrew Mausert-Mooney.
Technical Designer/Director: Ryan O’Keeley (O’Keeley Media)
Still from Lydia Moyer, Comet Song, 2015
JumbleTron SCHEDULE IN PENSACOLA FLORIDA FOR CUBED LUMINOUS FESTIVAL :
