ACRE TV

Category: LIVE Shows

  • ACRE TV Performance and Video Installation at P.3+ Hammond

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    ACRE TV LIVE!: January 10, 2015, 4pm
    ACRE TV Video Installation: November 7-January 25, 2015, 24/7

    Hammond Regional Arts Center
    217 E Thomas St., Hammond, Louisiana

    Prospect.3: Notes for Now (P.3) is an international contemporary art biennial based in New Orleans. As part of its mission to support the neighboring communities, Prospect New Orleans has implemented a satellite program, P.3+ Regional, and will be offering a bus trip to Hammond, Louisiana on January 10, 2015 for the P.3+ Hammond Excursion Weekend. In conjunction with the bus trip, Hammond Regional Arts Center has organized a train trip, bringing artists from Chicago, Memphis, and Jackson for the January 9th – 11th weekend.

    ACRE TV currently has a video installation on view 24/7 at the Hammond Regional Arts Center, featuring a selection of ACRE TV’s best videos by Joseph Herring, Amanda Bowles, Bonnie Begusch, Chaz Evans, Dan Olsen, Dao Nguyen, Sara Condo, Alpha Girls (Alma Alloro & Jennifer Chan), Ben Popp, Ben Russell, Blair Bogin, Hani Moustafa, Peter Burr, The I, Daughter of Kong Center For Research, Jerstin Crosby, Leslie Rogers, Tara Nelson, Danny Volk, and Thad Kellstadt.

    We have also been invited to host a screening and live editing performance on the afternoon of January 10th. To join ACRE TV on the train or in Hammond go here for more details!

  • “Painting Generator” Jon Chambers

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    For Painting Generator, Chambers created marks using his computer input as an interface and exported the results as digital files. Using three arrays in the Processing language, one image from each array is grabbed then displayed randomly on the screen every 1-2 seconds. This randomness also extends to color. What follows is an almost infinite display of composition, using the algorithms to do the heavy work.

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    Airing November 1 – 7, 2014

  • “Toadstool” Joseph Herring and Amy Ruddick

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    Amy Ruddick and Joseph Herring intercut performance video with motion graphics in a series of vignettes in which fungi communicate their emotional states and contemplate their existence through the undulation of gills and the sharing of spores.

    Starring Eliza Espy, Christian Steffanini, and Colleen Jennings 

    Airing LIVE 7:30-8PM CDT October 29/30th, 2014 

    two episode mini-series!

     

  • “An Entirely Platonic Fission into Doubter’s Lace or Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!” Anna Ialeggio, Mark McCloughan, Ellen Nielsen, and Leslie Rogers

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    A psychological thriller of astrological distortions, like Friends in an attic.

    JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! : Challenge #3- Animal Husbandry from Ellen Nielsen.

    Watch as a carnivorous flower, a naked guy, a cactus, and a crying man named “Candace” compete for employment in this brave, new economy. 

    Airing LIVE October 20th 8pm CDT

    Re-airing October 23rd 6:30pm CDT

  • “Liquid Lunch” Thad Kellstadt

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    Liquid Lunch is a live video and audio broadcast that serves the phantasmagoria live into your homes and straight into your bloodstream. Utilizing both trailing and cutting edge technology to render a realtime psychedelic experience.

     

     

    Airing LIVE every other Thursday (September 11, 25, October 9, 23) 7-7:30pm CDT

  • “Sapphire and Steel” Nightmare City

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    20 YouTube Videos & 1 set of seventeen 12-minute BetaMax Video Cassettes

    SAPPHIRE & STEEL is NIGHTMARE CITY’s remake of an episode of the late 70s/early 80s British sci-fi/fantasy cult show Sapphire and Steel. Looking backwards and forwards through time, the remake layers a range of video technologies and means of reproduction from an analogue 1960s-era broadcast tv camera to the currently ubiquitous YouTube UI to obsolete BetaMax cassettes. The narrative is re-enacted by a group amateur actors who interchangeably represent the titular characters: two inter-dimensional time detectives. NIGHTMARE CITY portrays the remaining two characters simultaneously through a composite identity created in post-production. Layering footage of each of the Nightmares, ill-formed chimeric characters depict quixotic notions and misuse of time, space, technology, spiritualism and the supernatural  — all while the re-made footage stutters, struggling to remain in-sync with the original audio track from the show.

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    Airing:

    August 23rd, 12pm-4pm

  • “Runnel” Joseph Herring

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    Runnel is a live-stream broadcast from a network of tunnels built in the artist’s studio. Set in the post-human future, the tunneling system for (highly evolved) small mammals provides underground links to above ground nurseries for telekinetic yucca plants. The mammals are tasked with caring for the plants as they build out a culture from pre-apocalyptic human detritus. Factions of mustelids organize based not on species but on material relationships (freegans [made from cardboard] vs. furries) will create and resolve conflict. The video will slip among perspectives towards narrative, exploring tropes from the history of cinema and television including task oriented documentation resembling sports coverage; POV pans and tracks over and around the set; explorations of the relationship between architectural form and the screen; and experimentation with the illusory nature of the traditional form. Task will include the constant flow of mustelids and of detritus through the space, costuming the actors for participation, covering a costumed weasels in comic books and magazine pages in the weasel tattoo parlor, wallpapering weasel apartments, and other daily activities in the life of evolved mustelids. Runnel slips between an examination of the space of the action, the document of the making of the narrative/proscenium television program, and the narrative program itself.

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    Airing LIVE:

    July 19, 26, 7-7:30pm

    August 2, 9, 7-7:30pm

  • “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)

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    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.

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    Airing:

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

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

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