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Once More For The Very First Time // ACRE TV at Comfort Station

Toadstool, Joseph Herring and Amy Ruddick

Rebroadcast, rerun, replay, reflect. The repeat is a TV standard; an opportunity for viewers to catch up on a show they missed or indulge in a show they love again and again. With this in mind, and to celebrate our first anniversary, ACRE TV is revisiting some of our favorite shows from the past year with a screening at Comfort Station. Once More For The Very First Time offers a chance to return to the stream, featuring works from each season of ACRE TV presented in front of a live gallery audience.

Chris Little, Mom, What the !^#% is Spotify?, 20:06
Megan Schvaneveldt, Untitled, 04:54
Thad Kellstadt, Liquid Lunch, (Excerpt), 02:20
Cauleen Smith, Natural History Curiosity, 00:43
Dao Nguyen, Practice, Practice, Practice, 01:00
Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Notes for a Vivisection, 09:48
Josh Duensing & Eric Watts, Is This Real?, (Trailer), 00:48
Danny Volk, Made-Up with Danny Volk, (Trailer), 00:32
Jesse Malmed, Morton! Morton! Morton!/Saltnick, 03:06
Bonnie Begusch, Means and Ends, 05:01
Dao Nguyen, Practice, Practice, Practice, 01:00
Elsewhere, Alive in the Kitchen: TV Dinner, 05:44
Cameron Gibson, Standby, 01:09
Anna Ialeggio, Mark McCloughan, Ellen Nielsen, & Leslie Rogers, An Entirely Platonic Fission into Doubter’s Lace or Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!, (Edited for reality), 13:05
Daniel Bennett, Pluma, 02:47
Dao Nguyen, Practice, Practice, Practice, 01:00
Tiffany Funk, Memento Maury, (Excerpt), 01:00
Chaz Evans & Maureen Ryan, Unending Credits (Lifestyle), ∞

On the monitors:

Joseph Herring & Amy Ruddick, Toadstool
Jon Chambers, Charity Coleman, Jesse Malmed, Marianna Milhorat, & Michael Rae, Teen Agents
Chaz Evans, CA-PAN
Thad Kellstadt, Liquid Lunch
Tiffany Funk, Memento Maury

Programmed by Kate Bowen

This program is presented in conjunction with Comfort Station’s current show A Gathering.

March 25, 2015
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL

March 25, 2015
Chicago Tribune: The tape artist: Jaime Davidovich at Threewalls

Jaime Davidovich, as his alter-ego Dr. Videovich.

A Chicago Tribune review by art critic Lori Waxman of Threewalls’ show Outreach: Jaime Davidovich 1974-1984, which features Direct Object/Direct Action streaming in the gallery, described ACRE TV as:

“a terrific local arts station which digitally streams live and canned art”

Read the full review here.

See more of Jaime Davidovich’s work streaming on ACRE TV until March 31!

March 20, 2015
As Witnessed

Bryan Volta, Disembodied

Students from Deborah Stratman’s Documentary Media course at UIC and Jaxon Pallas’ Independent Study Projects course at the Associated Colleges of the Midwest created works for broadcast on ACRE TV. This program features:

Jon Gotangco, iPhone 5S Unboxing (4:17)

Bryce Jensen, power (8:44)

Bryan Volta, Disembodied (5:50)

Alex Myung, Winter Sun (4:39)

Bryce Jensen, Objectification: contact/neglect (5:17)

Amanda Cervantes, The Disney Question (5:24)

Paige Wynne, One Thing (1:37)

Abbigail Vandersnick, Re-En(act)tor: Night of the Living Dead (10:02)

Ro Zavala, Silencedwood (3:36)

Bryce Jensen, the Silken King (4:05)

Grace Galhotra, Marian Herzog, Christian Hustad, Doyi Lee, Kelly O’Toole Martin, Kate Mickelson, and Laura Myers, Elevator Man (4:14)

Airing Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 8 pm CDT

March 15, 2015
“Video Drift” Amanda Gutierrez

Video Dérive (drift), is a collective project that activates the subjective experience of a walk within an urban context, documenting several group journeys into one single time line and digital map. The Drift will be guided by a video broadcast on ACRE TV, indicating specific instructions for users to follow and document through their mobile devices. The Drift responses will be updated and shared from several locations in Chicago, Illinois and Mexico City via the artist collective Nerivela.

The videos, photos and sound captured will be edited into a single video which will air on ACRE TV as a part of Direct Object/Direct Action.

Each drift will begin at Threewalls, 119 N Peoria #2C, and will be held on:

Saturday, March 7th, 11 am CST &

Sunday, March 15th, 11 am CDT

Or, take part from anywhere by following the instructions airing simultaneously on ACRETV.org and using the videodrifts.com app to pin your documentation to the map.

The collective map can be viewed at: mitchsaid.com/drift/acre_map.html

The resulting video will air on ACRETV.org TBA

Amanda Gutiérrez
The concepts of memory, home and landscape are closely related in my current work. This exploration arises from formal strategies in documentary and oral recreation, while media techniques such as photography, video, and sound are the main tools to assembly its narrative processes. It is in migrating to the United States, and in the constant movement between two residences — Chicago and Mexico City — that two important themes arose: migration and the construction of identity through architecture. amandagutierrez.net and pilsenderive.tumblr.comMitch Said is a South African-born digital artist and designer currently residing in Chicago, with an abiding interest in mobile computing, locative art, and online mapping. He’s created interactive digital experiences for a variety of projects and partners, including MoMA and musicians OK Go. He holds a MPS from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and and MDA from the University of the Witwatersrand in Interactive Media. mitchsaid.com

Nerivela is a conceptual platform that uses alternative methods of thought and production to reflect on the surrounding world. We are a collective of artists developing practices that seek to undermine contemporary models of production, working with possibilities and methods that exist on the fringes of what we are able to see. By transmuting and re-articulating meaning in our artistic interventions, we create multiple possibilities for understanding visual and verbal languages. It’s a question of finding new syntax, dislocating old semantic meanings and creating provocative and novel forms. What emerges from this process of transliteration is a symbol that exists on a sheet of paper, which stands for a surface, a street, or an entire city: this symbol is our point of departure and also our destination. nerivela.org

March 7, 2015
Direct Object/Direct Action LIVE

Wesley Wodgers, Camera Cop in When to Shoot, Leslie Rogers

ACRE TV will stage a LIVE event in which the stream will operate as a prop/instrument/soundtrack for the night of IRL performances as part of Direct Object/Direct Action, a livestreamed thematic program also on view at Threewalls, featuring Melina Ausikaitis, Danny Giles, Leslie Rogers, and Neal Vandenbergh.

Programmed by Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney

Direct Object/Direct Action LIVE, February 27, 2015, 7 pm at Threewalls, 119 N Peoria, Chicago, with accompanying video/sound airing simultaneously on ACRE TV.

Full Direct Object/Direct Action LIVE program information HERE

February 27, 2015
Newcity: Jaime Davidovich/Threewalls

Jaime Davidovich. The Live! Show, 1980

A Newcity review of Threewalls’ show Outreach: Jaime Davidovich 1974-1984, which features Direct Object/Direct Action streaming in the gallery, highlights the role of ACRE TV:

“Inescapably the immediacy of Davidovich’s television programs is mediated and dated in a time-capsule presentation at Threewalls. However a screen loops Davidovich’s vintage programming with contemporary, Chicago-based artist television programming made by ACRE-TV (also available online), to demonstrate the continuing legacy of artist-run television and its expanding possibilities through online platforms.”

Read the full review written by Anastasia Karpova Tinari here.

See more of Jaime Davidovich’s work streaming on ACRE TV until March 31!

February 21, 2015
BOMB Magazine: James N. Kienitz Wilkins by Michael Guarneri

Public Hearing, 2012. Courtesy of the Artist.

“Michael Guarneri: Is it all about the desire of making something public, then? Public Hearing in Progress is not the content of the tapes, it is the broadcast of the tapes on ACRE TV.

James N. Kienitz Wilkins: Sure, this is where it gets really interesting to me. First, these tapes are originals: they have never been digitized and it is cost prohibitive to do so. Second, ACRE TV will be streaming the tapes “live,” that is, playing them for the first time in their entirety. I’ve never watched all the footage, even though I am in it. I will be tuning in to make sure I didn’t do anything embarrassing. So to me, the event is the playing of the tapes: the finger pushing the button, the broadcast. Moreover, the tapes are very particular because they obfuscate the knowledge of pre-recording through their imagery—they’re security camera footage, which we associate with live or very recent events. Unedited footage, unseen until now, and degrading as well, since VHS as an analog medium degrades over time. The next time Public Hearing in Progress happens—if ever—it will be different. This might be true of any “original,” but I feel there is an added bonus here, because Public Hearing in Progress chronicles a remake. It is a replay of a remake, getting remade. An original that is a copy of a copy through the simultaneity of broadcast. Not to get too deep, man, but it’s at once unique and insignificant, sort of what we were getting at when talking about human beings. So God created mankind in his own image. Amen.”

Read the full BOMB Magazine interview between Michael Guarneri and James N. Kienitz Wilkins here.

Public Hearing in Progress is airing as a part of Direct Object/Direct Action every Saturday and Sunday 12-8 pm CST from Feb 1 – Mar 21, 2015.

The full film is also streaming (Feb 1 – Mar 21) at: public.automaticmoving.com

February 5, 2015
Direct Object/Direct Action

ACRE TV is pleased to present:

Direct Object/Direct Action

February 1 – March 31, 2015*
Threewalls and online at ACRETV.org
Opening Reception: January 23, 2015, 6-9 pm
119 N. Peoria, #2C

Direct Object/Direct Action LIVE

February 27, 2015, 7 pm
Threewalls

Television creates political bodies because it happens to large groups of people simultaneously; we learn our stories gathered in bars and homes or virtually together while alone, we cast ballots for our idols all via a transmission from afar. Sharing these spectacular experiences has, for better or worse, made for large populaces more uniformly formed than any that history has seen. Meanwhile, political bodies use contemporary televisual streaming tools to broadcast their own struggles. Directed by television’s innate ability to create publics, and the common usage of livestreaming in contemporary populist movements, ACRE TV will spend February and March 2015* streaming moving image work that explores broadcast art and it’s ability to function as a catalyst for moving bodies. Direct Object/Direct Action will air live, canned, episodic, durational and experimental broadcast works that position the stream as an instrument as opposed to a stage, as well as works that address the concept and histories of political direct actions.

Leveraging the materiality of the devices and the parameters of livestreaming, Direct Object/Direct Action includes a 106-hour durational work by James N. Kienitz Wilkins; episodic shows by The Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Agnes Bolt & Nina Sarnelle), Ellen Mueller, Leslie Rogers, and Theo Shure; an audio piece by Soheila Azadi; video dérives by Amanda Gutiérrez; video works by Blair Bogin & Mothergirl (Katy Albert & Sophia Hamilton), Eli Burke, Adam Castle, Thomas Comerford, Jaime Davidovich, Bret Hamilton & Harrison Martin, Annetta Kapon, Adam Knight, Mike Newton, David Politzer, Sunita Prasad, Heath Schultz, and Willy Smart; and a LIVE event in which the stream will operate as a prop/instrument/soundtrack for the night of IRL performances featuring Melina Ausikaitis, Danny Giles, Leslie Rogers, and Neal Vandenbergh.

Programmed by Kera MacKenzie, Jesse Malmed, Andrew Mausert-Mooney and Nick Wylie
Poster Design: Anne Elizabeth Moore

* ACRE TV will be broadcasting a special preview week, January 23 – 31, 2015, in conjunction with the opening of Jaime Davidovich: Outreach 1974-1984 at Threewalls.

Full program information HERE

January 16, 2015
ACRE TV Performance and Video Installation at P.3+ Hammond

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!

November 7, 2014
AutomataBahn

ACRE TV is pleased to present:

AutomataBahn

November 1 – December 31, 2014

Television is a beast that never sleeps, and that takes a lot of programming! At ACRE TV, we’re looking to enrich the notion of a living, breathing, never-sleeping creature whose DNA is an endless stream of sound and image. With that in mind, tune in this November & December for TV that’s alive.

What do we mean? What are we talking about? AutomataBahn includes videos and computer programs that engage with the notion of ‘programming’ as a form of life, never repeating the same frame twice. Think cellular automata, Mandelbrot sets, Wolfram’s Rule 30, or any other generative image making process. Imagine the possibilities of a creature running wild over hours of broadcasting.

AutomataBahn includes week-long generative pieces by Joshua Albers, Jon Chambers, Tiffany Funk, Traci Hercher, Gil Park, Jon Satrom, and a collaboration from Chaz Evans and Maureen Ryan; a week-long livestream by Tom Burtonwood; a week-long collaborative project between poet Charity Coleman, filmmaker Marianna Milhorat and musician Michael Rae; and documentation from a generative dance-for-camera performance by Samuel Hertz and Maryanna Lachman.

Programmed by Nick Bacon, Jon Chambers, Kera MacKenzie, Jesse Malmed and Andrew Mausert-Mooney
Show Concept: Marina and Tony Balko
Poster Design: Matt Wizinsky

Full program information HERE

November 1, 2014