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    “<3" LNZ

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    LNZ

    “Constructed as a loosely woven spiraling death odyssey of the night, LNZ’s body moves through different forms of digital imagery until finally being uploaded to the internet to live forever. Formally, its a 60 minute selfie.

    A coming of age story in a technological communications revolution where love gets uploaded, digitally dislocated, unseen, and lost bit by bit into an asynchronous internet landscape.

    In one way its like a love text, and in another its like a technological breakup, but all compressed into a mp3 format.“
    -LNZ

     

    Airing January 1 – 31, 2018

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  • “The Republic” James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir

    “The Republic” James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir

    The Republic

    Directed by James N. Kienitz Wilkins

    Written by Robin Schavoir

    Airing January 1 – 31, 2018

    The Republic is a narrative with precedents set more by the philosophical thought experiments of Plato, More and other imagineers of Utopias than by drama or film. While there are characters and these characters have emotions and drives, and while there are funny and sad moments, the real preoccupation—the final overall image, in my opinion—is how a society is structured, and how that structure changes to accommodate new parts.

    The society in question is comprised of old men who embody the values of liberalism to an almost perverse degree. These “citizens” (as they refer to themselves), are Beings with an unyielding drive for that situation which most of us claim to want: FREEDOM. Their freedom, affected by time and nature like creases in a piece of driftwood, is reduced simply to freedom from intrusion by another body. For this tiny kernel of space, they have developed an entire system of habits, bureaucracy, and reams and reams of self-documentation.

    And it is from this basic atomic condition that the entire plot and dialogue of The Republic has been generated. It’s my hope that it will be viewed (understood) in this way. It is a piece of particulate idealist philosophy that does not need to to be enjoyed like a story, or even an experimental film for that matter. Also, it should be viewed in a pitch black room with a glass of diluted ruby red wine.

    —Robin Schavoir, writer

    A NOTE ON FORM AND EXPERIENCE

    Approaching The Republic is probably a matter of perspective. First, deciding whether it is a movie, a reading of an impossible-to-produce screenplay, an amalgam of audiovisual experiments, or whether any of this matters. It’s been designed to be as easily streamed on a mobile device as projected widescreen in a cinema. It is the closest we could conceive of an ideal form that still satisfies certain appetites.

     

    From a technical perspective, it’s been directed as a camera-less movie which equalizes perspectives. Each of the performers were recorded separately and edited together. The sound effects are electroacoustical stand-ins rather than field recordings, and the final piece has been mixed in mono using automatic mixing algorithms developed by Eugene Wasserman.

     

    When playing The Republic, it’s recommend to refer to the “playbill” (cast list and synopses), like being at an opera. Also, an illustrated screenplay is available here to supplement the experience of a movie that doesn’t quite exist.
    —James N. Kienitz Wilkins, director/editor

     

  • Outside Jokes

    Outside Jokes

    OUTSIDE JOKES

    This, here is the have to having been t/here: a series of site-gags, working lines and chasing spotlights. A bill (or, for those whose approach is more formal, a william) stuffed to its gills with genius jokesters and jesturers, as concerned with the aha! in each haha! as gaps between gasps. Comedy is serious business, like writing “shibboleth” in camouflage ink or whispering savory somethings to a street sign. We’ll check back in early 2018, but early reports are that the works here killed, that they literally destroyed the place. 

     

    Abject-oriented in its hauntology, Outside Jokes gathers together works by two dozen artists that take site-dn-ess as integral to the read of any art, any joke, any interaction, and mucks and musses it. What are the rhythms of pithy patter in a language you don’t speak? Is there any such thing as a thing about nothing, Springfeld? What is two drink minimalism? 

     

    Outside Jokes takes and makes place on the grounds around and back room of DEMO Project and on ACRETV.org. 

     

    Participating artists include Kelly Lloyd, Alberto Aguilar, Jessica Campbell, Oli Watt, Neal Vandenbergh, Joshua Albers, Selina Trepp, Lauren Anderson, Jeffrey Austin, Misael Soto, Tegan Brace, Alex Schmidt, Kyle Schlie, Allison Lacher, Alex Bradley Cohen, Julie Potratz, Eric Fleischauer, Ellen Nielsen, Jeff Robinson, Stephanie Graham, Dan Miller, Lauren Taylor, Gabe Holcombe, Maire and Mia, Thad Kellstadt, Victoria Martinez and emcee Jesse Malmed.

     

    ACRE TV Schedule

    12/8/17 – 12/15/17 — In Circulation by Eric Fleischauer

    12/16/17 – 12/23/17 — Selina Trepp

    12/24/17 – 12/31/17 — Stephanie Graham

  • Sign on / Sign off

    Sign on / Sign off

    Sign on / Sign off is a live streaming event of artist made “television” taking place at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany on June 30, 2017 and on ACRETV.org. The 24 hour “television network” will combine live performance, with remote broadcast and pre-recorded moving image content. Sign on / Sign off will re-interpret the images of our collective identities through the lens of conventional media, using the structures of a full commercial broadcasting day as a platform for creative production and exchange.

    The event will stream live from sunrise (5:22 am) on June 30 to (5:22 am) on July 1 (Central European Time). Sign on / Sign off is made possible by the Merz Akademie and with support from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). 

    Airing on ACRETV.org June 29-30, 2017, 10:22 pm-10:22 pm CDT

    Organized by Maura Jasper and David Quigley
    Directed by Maura Jasper
    Featured Artists
    David Buob (Berlin)
    Nicholas Hoffman (Frankfurt)
    Melissa Livermore (FRANCE)
    Steve Mathewson (AUSTRIA)
    Tintin Patrone (Hamburg)
    Francisca Villela (Berlin)

    Music
    Michael Paukner (Stuttgart)
    Dolphins (Leipzig)
    Mark Perretta (USA)
    Laylay (Stuttgart)
    William Stamenkovic, Marko Mrdja & Maria Rose (Stuttgart)

    Filmmakers
    Filipe Afonso (PORTUGAL)
    Sverre Aune (Berlin)
    Neno Belchev (BULGARIA)
    Michael Betancourt (USA)
    Catron Booker (USA, MEXICO)
    Ellen Broadhurst (AUSTRALIA)
    Christian Noelle Charles (UK)
    Biswajit Das (INDIA)
    Alexei Dmitriev (RUSSIA)
    Carl Elsaesser (USA)
    Tobias Elsner (Stuttgart)
    Michael Fleming (NETHERLANDS)
    Lisa Förste (Stuttgart)
    Florian Fusco (AUSTRIA)
    Diane Haefner (Berlin)
    Karissa Hahn (USA)
    Alex Hovet (USA)
    Maura Jasper (USA)
    Lana Z Kaplan (USA)
    Kent Lambert (USA)
    Sarah Lassiter (USA)
    Laylay (Stuttgart)
    Carly Mandel (USA)
    Peter Miller (AUSTRIA)
    Eden Mitsenmacher and Rebecca Tritschler (NETHERLANDS)
    Lydia Moyer (USA)
    Jason Moyes (UK)
    Lexi Musselman (USA)
    Rick Niebe (ITALY)
    Manuel Onetti (SPAIN)
    Ann Oren (USA)
    Eric Pillmayer (Stuttgart)
    Stuart Pound (UK)
    David Quigley (AUSTRIA)
    Brian Ratigan (USA)
    Joe Saphire (USA)
    Carl Spartz (USA)
    Pawel Szostak (AUSTRIA)
    Melissa Tvetan (USA)
    David Weimar (Stuttgart)
    Dina Yanni (AUSTRIA)
     Live Programs and Performances by
    Marius Alsleben (Stuttgart)
    Maj-Britt Designer, (Stuttgart)
    Lucca Donalies (Stuttgart)
    Alvaro Garcia (Stuttgart)
    Nikolaos Goutzeris (Stuttgart)
    Jonas Heinisch (Stuttgart)
    Julius Kleinbach (Stuttgart)
    Dylan Linde (Stuttgart)
    Caroline Meyer-Jürshof (Stuttgart)
    Melis Süngü (Stuttgart)
    Arian Sanati (Stuttgart)
    Janina Schindler (Stuttgart)
    Lorenz Adrian Schmider (Stuttgart)
    Delia Steinbach (Stuttgart)
    Vladislav Sycev (Stuttgart)
    Maximilian Tolksdorf (Stuttgart)

  • 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.

     

  • 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.

     


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    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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