Ellie screened one of her videos last night at Running Rebel Studios, a video production space next door to Microscope Gallery. Here are a few of the videos from the program:

• 14 x 14 by Alberto Cabrera Bernal and Albert Alcoz
• God Bless De-territorialized America (endo-colonization in the age of techno-fetishism) by Josh Bricker
• Increase the Joy by Denise Iris
• Movements by James G. Mattise
• Fate-calculating: Get Yale Interview Prepared by Kit Yi Wong
• Manifest Destiny III by Ellen Mueller
• Phytoplastic by Ellie Irons
• 21 by Erin Grant

This one has been fun to watch come together:

Combining found natural materials (dead wood, foliage) with electrical wiring and living plants like moss and lichen, the sculptural installation took the form of a networked branch riddled with wires that seem to be either drawing power from or conveying power too the surrounding built environment. I filmed the sculpture as I built it, combining footage shot in the studio with details from the surprisingly vibrant forest outside my studio. The result is a piece that slowly reveals an ecosystem in which the lines between technological and biological evolution appear increasingly blurred.

It’s also worth relinking the Bruce Sterling talk which is also amazing.

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