Exhibitions & Performances
V 25:4
NMC Presents "V 25:4 Emerging Artists 2025 + Art Fair After Party"
Undergrad, Masters, Recent Post Graduates
Cutting edge North Texas based artists working at the intersection of TECHNOLOGY + ART
Featuring artists:
McKee Frazier, Colin Stoke, Kristen Duong, Brenda Vega, Shahrzad Talebi, Alicia Parham, Conner Ewart, Julia Caswell Freund, Xia Garcia, Narong Tintamusik, Baotran Vo, Daniel Manning Pope, Linh Vu
NEW MUS:2 Sound & Visuals
Tickets Here: https://app.defytickets.com/d88fby/decqge
FEAR OF THE OBJECT
Fear of the Object is a site-specific intervention utilizing live video and sound performance to put into dialogue the architectural resonances and dissonances found within physical space, sound and light. The work is based on the inherent frequencies and resonances of Cogburn's percussive objects, Masterof Sruti´s transducer driven membranes, and Manzano's spatialized live electronics. Audio generated video projected from Bjørgeengen is fed back into sound and blurs distinctions between hearing and seeing.
Kjell Bjørgeengen Dave Jones VideoSynth and Flood Coil
Chris Cogburn percussion + electronics
Michele Sruti vibrating membrane
Juan Manzano electronics
Kjell Bjørgeengen (Norway) explores art as an investigation of reality, merging artistic and political transformation. His video work began at The Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York, where he collaborated with Dave Jones on large-scale video installations and the development of the Jones VideoSynth, which he employs in his prints, live performances, and installations. Since 2000, he has worked exclusively with audio-generated video, using the Jones VideoSynth and Jones Flood Coil. Bjørgeengen has exhibited widely in Norway, including Kunstnernes Hus, The National Museum of Art, and several major art museums, as well as internationally at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), The Ludwig Forum (Germany), Dundee Contemporary Arts (Scotland), and Pori Art Museum (Finland). He has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Jon Balke, Joëlle Léandre, Okkyung Lee, Otomo Yoshihide, Evan Parker Electro Acoustic Ensemble, Marc Ribot, Keith Rowe, and many others.
Chris Cogburn (US/Mexico) is a percussionist focused on improvised music, exploring the threshold between acoustic and electronic sounds and their sites of resonance. He has performed at major venues and festivals worldwide, including Festival Aural/elnicho (Mexico City), Issue Project Room, James Turrell's Roden Crater (Arizona), and Quiet Que (Berlin). His projects include Resonance with Iván Naranjo, the electro-acoustic trio Anáhuac with Ignaz Schick and Juan García, A Spirale with Mario Gabola and Maurizio Argenziano, and an audiovisual improvisational set with Peter Holm and guest artists like Masterof Sruti, Aimée Theriot, and Judith Hamann. His recordings appear on labels such as Astral Spirits, Another Timbre, and Balance Point Acoustics. Since 2003, he has organized the annual No Idea Festival, based in Austin, Texas, with events across the U.S. and Mexico.
Michele Sruti (Italy/Norway) is known for his research in sound production and alternative percussion techniques, developing a unique style using the Gran Cassa with transducers and objects for sound exploration. Active in contemporary music, he tours and records with Dans les arbres, Huntsville, and O3, alongside solo and collaborative projects, he also composes for ensembles such as Ensemble MusikFabrik, Quatuor Bozzini, Speak Percussion, Pinquins, and Ludus Gravis. His solo work spans film, dance, and art performances, and he holds a Ph.D. in artistic research from the Academy of Music in Oslo.
Juan Manzano (Mexico) studied at the Conservatorio de las Rosas, holds a Master’s in Experimental Music from Wesleyan University, and a PhD in Composition from Stanford. His work spans chamber music, installation, algorithmic composition, live electronics, and improvisation, with compositions performed by the LA Philharmonic, Arditti Quartet, Jack Quartet, and numerous other ensembles across America and Europe. He has studied with Germán Romero, Ron Kuivila, Erik Ulman, and Brian Ferneyhough. A member of Mice Corpus, Fear of the Object, and the duo Helicoidal, he was part of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (SNCA) and served as Coordinator of Technologies Applied to Musical Creation at CEPROMUSIC. He currently teaches analysis, composition, and algorithmic composition with SuperCollider at the Academia de Arte de Florencia in Mexico City.
RICK REED
Rick Reed is a self-taught electronic musician who has been creating his own sound since 1981. He has released seven solo recordings, including The Symmetry of Telemetry (2023), and collaborated in groups such as The Voltage Spooks, Shifting Currents, Frequency Curtain, and Abrasion Ensemble. Performing across the U.S. and internationally in England, the Netherlands, Scotland, Mexico, India, and Switzerland, Reed has also composed soundtracks for filmmaker Ken Jacobs, including Capitalism Child Labor (2006), which is in MoMA’s permanent collection. In addition to music, he is also a painter and creates short video sketches of his work.
MONTE ESPINA + LOUISE FRISTENSKY + KRISTINA SMITH
Monte Espina is an electroacoustic free improvisation duo formed by Venezuelan-born, North Texas-based musicians Ernesto Montiel and Miguel Espinel, who met in 2016. Through amplified sounds and signal processing, they create sinuous sonic environments with a fully improvised approach. Collaboration is central to their practice, having worked with artists such as Liz Tonne, Louise Fristensky, Alan F. Jones, Jason Kahn, Rebecca Novak, Justin Lemons, Dan Clucas, among many others. Their discography includes y culebra (2019), pa (2021), pueblo glortha (2021), cuatro estaciones (2022), and alquimia criolla (2024), released on labels like Marginal Frequency, Elevator Bath, and Full Spectrum Recordings.
Louise Fristensky is a composer, sound sculptor, and systems artist whose work explores the micro-refractions of reality and the unreality of shared experiences. Their projects include to swim in air, an evolving modular system of intermedial works, and False Landscapes, an experimental video and audio piece on internal spaces. They have collaborated on installations like Singing Bones of Piano Fall with Christopher Poovey and compositions such as Grrrowl for percussion trio. A frequent performer with Monte Espina, they have also worked with Aaron Gonzalez and Vic Rawlings. Their work has been featured at festivals like As If Radio (Glasgow), Audio Art Festival (Krakow), Soundlings Festival (London), and nief-norf Summer Festival, where they were the inaugural Composition TA in 2017.
Kristina Smith is a multimedia artist, writer, and maker of things. They hold an MFA with distinction, and are part of the ritual noise duo, “Ruptured Implant.” They are interested in memory, radical vulnerability, and channeling and pouring out the aches of the heart and world. They are mostly just trying to not die.
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V 25:3
V 25:3
Featured Artists: Tra Bouscaren, John Pomara, Liz Trosper
In collaboration with Dallas Contemporary and UTD Lecture Series ‘The New Painter’
Reception: Friday, March 7, 2025 at 7pm till midnight
Exhibition: March 7 - 28, 2025
Open Doors on Tuesdays from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Appointment based viewings of the gallery available. Make appointments via email at newmediacontemporary@gmail.com
NEW MUS
New Media Contemporary Presents: -NEWMUS- a concert of New Music
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, electronics + Colin Stokes, cello
Performing: TRACES OF THE IMAGINARY.
& David Dove with a surround performance on Trombone/Electronics.
Saturday February 8 2025. Doors @ 7P.
Tickets Start at 20$, or pay what you can!
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli is a composer, computational physicist and media artist at the University of North Texas, a member of iARTA, the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts and of CEMI, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, and a Parma Recordings artist.
Colin Stokes
Cellist Colin Stokes is one of the most highly regarded young musicians of his generation and has shared the stage with many esteemed artists beginning with his debut at age 15 with Yo-Yo Ma, Yuri Temirkanov and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Colin holds degrees from The Juilliard School in New York and Eastman School of Music, and he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Music Media.
He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a USArtists International Grant as a member of Zohn Collective, as well as M. & E. Cohen, Stonzek Memorial and Howard Hansen scholarships as well as a dozen other prizes and awards recognizing his work.
Colin’s discography spans 14 albums with a broad range of collaborators, spanning the genres of classical music, jazz, world music and pop. The current season will see the release of a new album of contemporary chamber music from Zohn Collective, as well as the release of his first solo album featuring his own music.
David Dove
Trombone player, composer, improviser, and educator from Houston, Texas.
Dove plays improvisational/experimental jazz music and previously was a member of funk/ska/rock band Sprawl (4). In 2001, Dove founded non-profit organization Nameless Sound to present contemporary music concerts.
V 25:2
New Media Contemporary + HOMMAGE Present: V 25:2 - Deconstructing the Magazine
Feb 7 - 28, 2025
Featuring:
Brennon Holbrook | _d_x_g (Don Gordon) | Dylan Rocamontes | Harrison Boyland | Ida Judith Dombrowski | Lo Kuehmeier | Michelle Taylor | Victoria J. Brill | AJ Bolin | Cody McPhail | Cody Wright | Demetri Sheffield | Holden Foster | Jonathan Kilcullen | Lucas Steinbusch | Stu Conry | Tyler Woodruff | Wolfpat Ascherl | Derek Bishop | Nathanael Zabala | Abby C Mueller | Cailee Grabowski | Campbell Morin | Cornelia Pierce | Daisy Avalos | Janina Lewicka | Qiu Yangzi | Rachel Lewis | Xiaofu Wang | Yukiko Yamazaki | Jesse Jackson IV | Tre Logan | Denys Crespo
V 25:1
Diana Rojas
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Diana Rojas is an interdisciplinary artist whose research explores human attempts and desires to engage with the invisible through installation, video, sound, and sculpture. Informed by her interests in philosophy, history, physics, and material science, she approaches the role of technology in art making as the catalyst for larger conversations of existence, consciousness, and metaphysics. Her work, which exists physically and virtually, has been exhibited, screened, and published nationally and internationally in spaces such as: Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, Fiesp Cultural Center, Dallas Contemporary, Chapel of Santa Maria dei Carcarati, Canyon Flats Video Wall, Rockport Center for the Arts, Texas Theater, the Yale Theater, and more. She is the recipient of several OER Grants from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, the 2023 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award, 2022 Judson-Morrisey Excellence in New Media Award and the Arrowmont Windgate University Fellowship. Diana was born in Mexico, received her MFA from the University of North Texas, and is an Assistant Professor of Sound Art at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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MAIN SCREEN:
Title:Query v2
Statement: Query v2 is a single channel audiovisual work adapted from its planetarium counterpart. This piece utilizes abstracted imagery of the cosmos, specifically rings of light which form as a result of gravitational lensing an occurrence observed when a massive body existing in spacetime, such as galaxy clusters or black holes, cause a curvature in spacetime resulting in the light around the mass to bend. Drawing its title from Isaac Newton’s Opticks, in which Newton wrote about gravity, light and God, Query serves as a reminder of the distance between humanity, the invisible, and the immense.
UPPER SCREEN
Title: Messenger (1)
Statement: Messenger (1) is part of a triptych video work featuring asteroid and spacecraft 3D scans/models and text. This work features “messenger” figures, composed of visual elements found in angelic beings, biological, and technological forms. By combining the mythological and scientific, Messenger (1) creates a virtual space where these ideological lines are blurred.
Ricardo Paniagua
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Dallas-based artist Ricardo Paniagua's sculptures, paintings, murals, and mixed media works range from painstakingly precise and geometric to loose and psychedelic, displaying his incredible diversity. The scrupulous details of his tondos, wall sculptures, and canvases, referencing his background as the descendent of generations of master tile artisans, speak to the artist's meticulous consideration. One strength of Ricardo’s paintings is that they offer visual forms that don’t appear to be directed by a catalogue of art historical references. Ricardo speaks of painting as something that comes from the ground, through you and out you, somewhat like a dream. His works appear to emerge from an internal place where form and rhythm coalesce. Paniagua has participated in exhibitions across the United States, including a 2015 show at the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin.
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TITLE: PLAZZMOID (2024)
Shawn Saumell
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Shawn Saumell is an ALAANA artist born in New York and currently lives and works in Dallas. He received an MFA from Lesley University College of Arts and Design fka The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, BFA from Texas Woman’s University, magna cum laude, and an AA from Collin College, cum laude.
Saumell's work has been featured in over 230 exhibitions worldwide and has won many international awards including, but not limited to:"First Place," "Director's Choice," "Photographer of the Year," "Best of Biennial," "100 Best International," "Top 50 MFA Painters in America," "Top 25 International Fine Artists," and "Best of Show."
He has had a recent solo exhibition at the Mesquite Arts Center, Mesquite, TX [2024]; and recent juried exhibitions at the Bill J. Priest Center, Dallas, TX [2023] and Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX [2023]; as well as recent group exhibitions at Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX [2024] and Adolphus Tower, Dallas, TX [2024]. -
Titles: GLITCH; "I", “II”, “III”, “IV”, “V”, “VI”, “VII”, “VIII”, “IX”, “X”
Medium: archival pigment print
Size: 8.5"x11"
Date: 2024
Edition: 5 + 1 AP -
This work continues common themes of pareidolia, perception of reality, and the human experience from previous projects. Ever since the Information Age, the Internet, and recent rapid development of A.I., humans have been busy hacking and deconstructing our reality faster than ever, while simultaneously being manipulated by it.
Scientists find that the building blocks of our physical reality are molecules or quarks. In technology, we see the blocks coded in binary code bits of ones and zeros. Every now and again some unexplainable phenomena occur, a glitch in the matrix, if you will.
These pieces peel back some of the virtual façade of our relationship with technology. This is how we interface, absorb information, and develop much of our understandings of life and this world. These pieces are still frames from a video piece.
During the viral peer-to-peer BitTorrent craze of sharing of files, I downloaded a movie, which happened to be coded. It would appear differently depending on the video viewer that I chose to open the file with. With one of the software applications, it produced a beautiful matrix of EBU (European Broadcasting Union) color blocks. These scrambled blocks were composed of the primary colors of paint (red, yellow, blue), the primary colors of light (red, green, blue), and the primary colors of pigment inks (cyan, magenta, yellow, black). Although I wasn’t able to watch the movie, I was mesmerized by the array of colors, shapes, and patterns that would emerge.
At first, it seemed curious, then meditative, and then cognitive. I began thinking about what I was seeing and experiencing. As I peer into the pixel anatomy of this film. I thought about how people see differently and have different experiences of the same event. We have different minds, as well as different eyes. Our minds develop through nature and nurture metaphysically, but our eyes can have a very physical impact on how we empirically see. As I sat watching different images emerge from the patterns, I wondered what other people would see in the same moment and image. Furthermore, I continued thinking about how many humans have different perceptions of color. It is widely scientifically agreed that about 1 in 200 women are color blind, as compared to 1 in 12 men. Climbing further down this rabbit hole, beyond just the patterns, I began to wonder how these pieces may look differently to various people depending on their retinal deficiency. I then began to connect the idea of certain colors/hues being completely colorless or seemingly invisible to some.
This then triggered a connection to how we see the physical world around us. Our eyes are only capable of viewing or perceiving about 0.00355% of the entire visible electromagnetic spectrum. This means that more than 99% of the world around us is invisible. What do you see that I don’t? If we saw things the same way, would we have less conflict? How can I see the world like you? How can we see all the seemingly invisibleness around us? How does that invisible realm interact with us, unbeknownst to us?
Sound Sculptors Union
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The Sound Sculptors Union was established in the Spring of 2020 as an online salon and vehicle for collaboration for experimental sound artists and musicians. Originally formed in response to the pandemic, when artists were especially isolated, both from their artistic practices – largely reliant on access to physical spaces and in-person audiences – and from each other.
The collective remains a means of connection between artists working in various media across the US who seek community through their artistic practices. The group’s structure has shape shifted over time, through multiple iterations since its inception. The goal is to provide feedback to members of the group on their individual works and as well as a platform for collaboration between artists in the group.
The 2 videos included were created in 2023 by Paige Naylor, urks io, J$Fur, Em Ritchie, Henna Chou, and Alison Wilder in a 'Telephone' style file exchange process. https://soundsculptorsunion.org/
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Untitled 1 (2020)
Untitled 2 (2020)
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Ash Hunn is an autodidact New Media & VJ artist whose work explores the intersection of technology, interactivity, and glitch aesthetics. Based in Dallas, Texas, Ash creates immersive and dynamic visual experiences that blur the boundaries between digital creation and analog manipulation. Using the powerful visual programming environment TouchDesigner, they craft intricate generative visuals that pulse with life, offering a dynamic flow of form, color, and, on occasion, sound.
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Title: Fuck Around & Find Out (2024)
Description / How-To:
This sculpture is aimed to give the viewer a feeling of nostalgia, while simutanioulsy bridging them over to the digital realm through the visuals being displayed on the CRT televisions. I invite you to toggle the switches and twist the knobs via the glitch box machine to become a part of the ever-changing result.
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Statement:
My work revolves around the interplay of digital technology and analog systems, exploring how these two realms can collide, coexist, and ultimately blur the boundaries of visual art. Using TouchDesigner to create intricate, generative visuals that explore the potential of real-time, algorithmic design, only to then feed the visuals through CRT televisions, a medium steeped in nostalgia, yet simultaneously an imperfect vessel for today's sharp digital precision. The inherent distortions of the CRT screen - the soft glow, the flickers, the glitches - introduce a layer of unpredictability and raw texture, offering an organic counterpart to the meticulous digital patterns I create.
I employ a glitch box machine, a custom-built analog interface that allows me to manipulate the visuals in real-time. The machine distorts, fragments, and reconfigures the imagery in chaotic, unpredictable ways, creating a tension between control and chance. This physical, tactile manipulation of the visuals invites the viewer to engage directly with the work. As they interact with the glitch box, they too become part of the creative process, actively altering the flow of the artwork. In my work, I seek to embrace the tension between precision and chaos, control and spontaneity, technology and human interaction.
The work is then fed through CRT televisions, and further transformed via a custom-built glitch box machine-an analog interface that allows for real-time, hands-on manipulation providing a deliberate distortion that introduces unpredictability and raw texture into the digital imagery. They have VJ'd these visuals at various live music events, venues, and clubs, and have featured their work in gallery spaces throughout DFW.
New Media Contemporary Presents: YEAR ONE.
It’s our birthday/anniversary! Come celebrate this amazing past year with us! December 13. 7PM. Expo Park. Dallas. Black and white attire. We will have special one night only performances and installations from some of our closest friends!
As always, donation based refreshments provided.
JOHNNY BELL | TONGUE DEPRESSOR | AMERICAN CRUELTY
New Media Contemporary Presents:
JOHNNY BELL | TONGUE DEPRESSOR | AMERICAN CRUELTY
Tickets: https://app.defytickets.com/kdmfro/xuhlre
JOHNNY BELL:
Johnny Bell is a Northern New Mexico-based instrumental musician exploring the banjo as a progressive instrument desiring to evolve beyond its traditional roots. From within the lineage of American Primitive music Johnny’s current work juxtaposes traditional clawhammer banjo techniques
with acoustic drone, ambient field recordings, radio broadcast, tape loops and other found sounds to create recursive sonic textures that are trance-inducing and cathartic.
TONGUE DEPRESSOR:
Tongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Henry Birdsey (fiddle, lap steel) and Zach Rowden (fiddle, upright bass). They write, improvise, and perform music that draws from the fields of drone, harsh noise, and church music, often using microtonal tunings.
AMERICAN CRUELTY:
American Cruelty is an experimental ambient project by Texas-based DJ/producer Vanden. Started in 2021, he has quickly gained a reputation for his deafening blend of ambient textures and harsh noise performed through DJ gear many would considering more suitable for nightclubs. His latest album “Devotion” was released on Memory Terminal Records in 2023.
MODULAR ON THE SPOT
NEW MEDIA CONTEMPORARY AND MOTS.DFW PRESENT: MODULAR ON THE SPOT
AN OPEN MIC MEETUP FOR SYNTHESIZER ENTHUSIASTS
OBSCURESS | BITCHES SET TRAPS | SUZANNE TERRY + STEPHEN LUCAS + RACHEL WEAVER
New Media Contemporary Presents: Live Sound and Visuals Series
OBSCURESS | BITCHES SET TRAPS | SUZANNE TERRY + STEPHEN LUCAS + RACHEL WEAVER
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OBSCURESS
Obscuress, the duo of Christina Carter and Spencer Dobbs, is a daedal blend of veiled minimalism, auditory portière, and vested text. Having long supported each other’s individual work, Obscuress brings Carter and Dobbs together for the first time, working through their distinct voices, electric guitars, lap steel, mouth organ, keys, and sampled noise to compound original songs for this dedicated project.
Christina Carter, a founding member of Charalambides, is known for her improvisational vocals and guitar work, which have been central to her solo career and numerous collaborations. Her music often explores themes of solitude, spirituality, and emotional sonority, incorporating elements of poetry and visual art. Carter’s discography includes both solo projects and collaborative works that push the boundaries of conventional song structures. Her latest release is For Want of Walls (Unifactor 2024), a book of watercolor paintings and writing.
Spencer Dobbs' eremitic work in song has been described as "beautiful, deep, desperate, drunken late-in-the-night folk music." His releases are collected under the Texas Archives imprint.
Obscuress is recording their first album and will tour the US East Coast, Midwest and South in August of 2024.
BITCHES SET TRAPS
The virtuoso musicians of Bitches Set Traps push the boundaries of improvisation by exploring current events, feminism, misogyny, and performance taboos, in theatrical and comedic performances. Using instruments, voices, and common household items, BST recycles and questions everyday tropes of American culture, from tampon commercials to heavy metal power ballads, Eminem to Supreme Court briefs, Joan Didion to Frank Sinatra.
The Bitches crossover venues and genres bringing together ideas between subcultures; they set traps in concert halls, nightclubs, theaters, and galleries with equal intensity. As an improvising group they sometimes collaborate with additional guest musicians. BST formed in 2018 as the North Texas Feminist Improvising Group, inspired by the original Feminist Improvising Group of the late 1970’s.
SUZANNE TERRY + STEPHEN LUCAS + RACHEL WEAVER
Suzanne Terry:
Writer, pianist, singer, dancer, noisemaker, but not always in that order.
Stephen Lucas:
Stephen Lucas is a musician, intermedia artist, and programmer based in Denton, TX. As a keyboardist, he specializes in contemporary music with both piano and electronics performance. His primary solo project, Stephen Lucas: Live at Brussels explores technical synth playing and Dogmus arrangement — he also performs in the prog/zeuhl band Vaults of Zin and the Sounds Modern concert series, among other projects in North Texas. His multimedia compositions are known for combining starkly cartoonish and abstract elements with computer generated audio and video via custom-created software. His other major interests include cybernetics, metaphysics, and baking.
Rachel Weaver:
Rachel Weaver (blendways, Python Potions) uses electronics, field recordings, samples, sound art, radio, collage, and other found media to create. Weaver has participated in Mixed Media Performance Art showcases around Denton-Dallas-Ft. Worth galleries and venues since 2016, including the dallas contemporary museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Interference Fest, Sonic Murals, KUZU Community Radio, Denton Zine & Art Party, Thin Line Festival, Speedbump lil d, University of North Texas, Texas Woman’s University and in virtual/online spaces.
New Media Contemporary Presents: constructed realities
New Media Contemporary presents: constructed realities
“constructed realities” focuses on location, spatialization, and digital environments.
Featuring the work of:
Luke Rizzoto
Trey Burns
Victoria Gonzales
Lucia Riffel
opening: 8.10.24 7pm - 12am
coffee and artist talk: TBD
open hours tuesdays 12-4
also by appointment or event
BOTANY | OTHERWORLDERS | PAUL UNGER
New Media Contemporary Presents: Live Sound and Visuals Series
BOTANY | OTHERWORLDERS | PAUL UNGER
Tickets available here: https://app.defytickets.com/kdmfro/w1rx2h
BOTANY
Austin-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Spencer Stephenson’s first proper solo LP in nearly four years End the Summertime F(or)ever is sample-studded mood board of bass-heavy abstract hip hop, spiraling psychedelia, and disco-house, that evaluates deep time, aging, societal upheaval, the afterlife, and the cosmic perspective as they appear through the distorting, relentless Texas heat. Though the album was titled long before the tumult of 2020, it serves as a premonitory fever dream of what has transpired in the months between its completion and release.
OTHERWORLDERS
An idea long held by Daniel Huffman (New Fumes), Otherworlders was launched as a recording project in 2022 after reuniting with friend and former band mate Karl Poetschke over Sunday tacos and recording sessions at the Dome Home in Dallas, Tx.
Under the direction of Huffman, OW is a cohort of “otherworlder” musicians who lend their talent performing live, improvised live performances and recording tracks that act as a palette for Huffman's aural paintings that are the albums. Debut album, Hidden Energy/ Positive Light release on 07/23/2024 digitally on bandcamp and on cassette via Aural Canyon.
PAUL UNGER
Paul Unger is currently the Assistant Principal Bass of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Double Bass at TCU. Mr. Unger is an integral member of the critically acclaimed jazz
group, “Flipside”. A group referred to in Cadence magazine as “contemporary jazz at its best”, “exhilarating and challenging music making that is rarely dull. A band not to be missed”. David Lewis at Cadence said, “not only is Unger a first rate rhythm player, there is no question of his ability to extend his technique well beyond mainstream expectations.”
Scott Tixier | Buffi Jacobs | Leoncarlo
New Media Contemporary Presents: Live Sound and Visuals Series
SCOTT TIXIER | BUFFI JACOBS | LEONCARLO
An intimate experience with world renown composer instrumentalists.
Tickets available for two sets:
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SCOTT TIXIER
Scott Tixier is a 5-time GRAMMY award-winning French jazz violinist and
2018 DownBeat Critic Poll Winner. He has performed, recorded, and toured with jazz legends and music icons such as Stevie Wonder, Kenny Barron, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Chaka Khan, Earth Wind & Fire, Ed Sheeran, Cassandra Wilson, Coldplay, Chris Potter, John Legend, Christina Aguilera, Natalie Cole, Anthony Braxton, Ariana Grande, Adele and many others.
In addition to performing in and out of the jazz world, Tixier is known for his work on motion picture scores such as The Lion King, John Wick, Charlie’s Angels and TV shows including "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" on NBC, "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" as well as the previous format with David Letterman, "Late Night with Seth Meyers," "America's Got Talent" and most recently with Netflix for Spike Lee's new film in collaboration with composer Terence Blanchard (released in 2020).
In 2022, he was the featured soloist for Jon Batiste's American Symphony premiere at Carnegie Hall.
Tixier studied classical violin at the conservatory in Paris. Following that, he studied improvisation as a self-educated jazz musician. He was based in New York for over a decade where he performed in all the major venues across the United States including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Blue Note Jazz Club, Apollo Theater, Smalls Jazz Club, The Stone, and U.S. Capitol.
Grammy Award-winning bassist Marcus Miller says that Tixier "made an international name for himself. I heard him in France and was immediately struck by his individuality and his sound. “Guitarist Pat Metheny says, "[Scott] has found a place for himself within the elite community of New York jazz musicians, no small feat." And Jean-Luc Ponty said, "I have heard Scott's recordings, seen his live performances and I think that he stands above the crowd of current jazz violinists around the world."
Buffi Jacobs, a renowned modernistic cellist and composer, has made her home in the bustling metropolis of New York City. Renowned for her enthralling and innovative performances and compositions, Jacobs has enjoyed a prolific career that spans over three decades. Throughout her career, she has consistently pushed the boundaries of her musical expression, exploring new territories and crafting unique performances that captivate audiences.
Her latest project, "Solitary Contemplations," is a compelling collection of compositions that Jacobs developed during the isolation of the pandemic, enhanced with the immersive visuals of Joel Olivas. This artistic journey began when Jacobs left the national tour of "Hamilton" to embark on a new chapter in New York City. Shortly after her move, the city was thrust into lockdown, leaving her isolated in an environment that was still new and unfamiliar to her. The compositions in this collection are reflective of her experiences during this challenging period, capturing the wide array of emotions and thoughts she faced while alone in a city that was yet to feel like home. This collection, featuring both original pieces and reimagined works, offers a deep and introspective look into her solitary experiences during the pandemic.
Leoncarlo Canlas is a musician, violinist, and educator based in North Texas. His career took shape while attending the University of North Texas for violin, as Leoncarlo would begin to travel nationwide, performing and speaking at reputable events such as SXSW Festival in Texas, Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado, TEDx Conference in Fargo, and more. Leoncarlo specializes in various audio production work, as well as music lessons at Soundbox MusicWorks (formerly known as Bonduris School of Music) in Denton, TX.
New Media Contemporary presents: DIGIT.AL TEXT.URE
New Media Contemporary presents: DIGIT.AL TEXT.URE
“Digit.al Text.ure” considers reality, the authentic, original, metaphysical, and the fluidity that exists between them.
Featuring the work of:
Melanie Clemmons
Zak Loyd
KT Duffy
Virginia L. Montgomery
Chris Meerdo
opening: 7.6.24 6pm - 12am
coffee and artist talk: TBD
open hours tuesdays 12-4
also by appointment or event
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Melanie Clemmons is a new media artist working in video and installation, net art, and live visual performances. She critically explores internet culture, speculative futures, and digital ethics. Melanie collaborated with renowned activist-artists Pussy Riot on music videos and live performance visuals, and her work has been showcased nationally and internationally in exhibitions, tours, and artist residencies. She is an Associate Professor at SMU in Dallas, TX, and, along with long-time collaborator Zak Loyd, is represented by Liliana Bloch Gallery.
melanieclemmons.com
https://www.instagram.com/auraquartzbutane-enriched naphtha product
55 inch 4K Smart LED Roku TV, Lace TV Dust Cover, Shells (Bolivar Beach), Beads, SLA 3D print, Treble Hooks
2024
Home > Government > Departments > Emergency Services > Emergency Management > Emergency Notifications > ITC Fire
Sunday 17 March 2019 11:21AM
Deer Park Office of Emergency Management issuing a shelter in place for Deer Park. Seek shelter immediately.Close all doors, windows and other sources of outside air. Turn off air conditioning or heating systems and close the fireplace damper to keep chemical vapors from entering. Ceiling fans or rotary fans inside the building can be safely used to keep cool.
Cover any gaps, holes or cracks with wet towels or sheets to prevent vapors from entering your home. If you have trouble breathing, contact 9-1-1 and cover your nose and mouth with a damp washcloth, then take slow, shallow breaths and try to stay calm.
ITC Fire Updates | Deer Park, TX - Official Website.” Deerparktx.gov, deerparktx.gov/1778/ITC-Fire.
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Zak Loyd (he/him) is a media artist and educator interested in the mystical implications of video
art histories, machine learning technologies, internet culture, and post-truth politics. His
intermodal work includes video, installation, performance, crypto-art, and prose. He has shown
at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Rhizome; The Dallas Museum of Art; Remote
Control Gallery, Prague; and Mock Jungle; Bologna, among others. He received his MFA in
Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices from the University of Colorado. He is currently a Visual
Art Technician and Adjunct Faculty in New Media Art at the University of North Texas. He is
represented by Liliana Bloch Gallery.^-prompts__'
"I formulated the real recipe for writing a computer-made bestseller:First of all you need a computer, obviously, which is an intelligent machine that thinks for you. This would be a definite advantage for many people. All you need is a program of a few lines; even a child could do it. Then one feeds into the computer the content of a hundred or so novels, scientific works, the Bible, the Koran, and a bunch of telephone directories (very useful for characters’ names). Say, something like 120,000 pages. After this, using another program, you randomize; in other words, you mix all those texts together, making some adjustments – for instance, eliminating all the e’s – in order to have not only a novel but a Perec-like lipogram. At this point, you click on “Print,” and, since you have eliminated all the e’s, what comes out is something less than 120,000 pages.
After you have read them carefully several times, underlining the most significant passages, you take them to an incinerator.
Then you simply sit under a tree, with a piece of charcoal and good-quality drawing paper in hand, and, allowing your mind to wander, you write down two lines – for instance: “The moon is high in the sky /The wood rustles.” Maybe what emerges initially is not a novel, but rather a Japanese haiku.
Nevertheless, the important thing is to get started."
- CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG NOVELIST, Umberto Eco -
Bio - KT Duffy is a new media artist, designer/developer, and curator from Chicago’s southwest side and is currently an Assistant Professor in Art, Technology, and Culture at the University of Oklahoma. They received their MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art. They live between Chicago, IL, and Norman, OK, with their partners and dogs.
Duffy has held residencies at Vermont Studio Center, ChaNorth, Acre, and Arteles (Haukijärvi, Finland).. They have received several grants, including the Mount Royal Graduating Fellowship, Bromo Seltzer Studio Fellowship, Alumni Award for Student Leadership, CoLab(oration) Grant, Forum Public Fellowship, Carceral Studies Consortium Micro-Grant, Summer Research Grant from NEIU, and The Contemporary Baltimore’s Grit Fund. Their work has been exhibited and screened at Factory Obscura, OK, Florida State University, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX, Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, South Bend Museum of Art, IN, Elmhurst Museum of Art, IL, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, Donnelly Foundation, Chicago, IL Mono8 Gallery, Manila, Philippines, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, Pa, and the Lightworks Film Festival in Albert, NY and Quito, Ecuador.
Titles - Oblivion (chapter one and chapter two)
Statement -
I conjure entities into existence via technology and collaboration. Regardless of form, my goal is to spawn moments of interaction and genesis within a series of speculative microcosms to propose a future modality where no entity is bound to a singular reality, expression, or substance. The visual elements in my work reference chaos, catastrophe, and creation to produce media that illustrate a dismantling of a presented world and a warping of a new one into existence. This duality and tension in collapse/creation highlight how creativity emerges in, through, and with destruction.
I create video installations and interactive environments where the micro and macro coexist, creating immersive experiences that engage bodies actively adapting to a shifting modality of human experience, which is not the stuff of fiction but one that activates the human animal's inherent fluidity and malleability.
Inspired by biomimicry, the simulation of natural systems via artificial intelligence, and logic breakdowns between humans & machines, my work is not about what is possible but about making the impossible a reality.
My visualizations often manifest in a peppy version of body horror. Through the intertwining of code snippets, experimental video, 3d forms, and animations, the individual entities of my work evolve and inherit attributes from each other, resulting in carnal and colorful transmedia mashups that protrude outside of easy definition. These protrusions, my hypercolor palette, and lumpy-squiggly forms create a sense of play and experimentation. Further intertwined in this multimedia chaos are the aesthetics of '90s and early '00s music visualizers. As a young person, these hypnotic and generative programs offered me moments of transcendence which heavily influenced my work's material and spatial evolution.
In my video sculpture works, I disrupt the boundaries in the devices I collaborate with. Here, I utilize the limitations of automated systems as an opportunity to break out of normative media ratios, leading to cleverly manufactured facets whose material transforms from constraint to bridge. I employ a sly cinema, embedding video modules into organic but undefinable formations. As the video modules slash through the forms, I offer an insight into what is bubbling beneath the surface. In my VR video works, I draw from an expansive and obsessively created library of forms CAD/CAM forms that allow the individual entities in my work to evolve from one another.
As a Neurodivergent Nonbinary person, the normative modalities of learning and making were not designed for me. I had to glitch and hack through these structures, resulting in visual outputs and curatorial presentations full of possibilities—ones that examine the impending demise of binary systems.
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Virginia L. Montgomery (VLM) is an award-winning experimental filmmaker and multimedia artist working across video, performance, sound design, and sculpture. She is known for her surrealist, synthesia-esque, metaphysical, ecofeminist artworks which unite elements from mysticism, science, and her own neurodivergent dreamworlds. Her artwork is sensorial and symbolic. Her artistic efforts are characterized by material experimentation, somatic sensitivity, and her unusual studio practice of hand-raising the moths and butterflies appearing in her videos. VLM’s diverse artistic movements interrogate the complex relationship between physical and psychic structures via narratives of destruction, metamorphosis, and rebirth. VLM has had solo presentations with The Tate Modern (UK), New Museum (NY), Times Square Arts (NY), Museum Folkwang (Germany), Wright Lab at Yale University (CT), The Lawndale Art Center (TX), Women & Their Work (TX), False Flag (NY), and Hesse Flatow (NY). She has also exhibited in group exhibitions at institutions including SculptureCenter (NY), La Panacée-MoCo (France), The Hessel Museum at Bard College (NY), The Banff Centre (Canada), The Blanton (TX), Cantor Arts Center (CA) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark), among others.
"Dream Metamorphosis: A collection of 4 surreal sequences by Virginia L. Montgomery", Virginia L. Montgomery (VLM), 2024, 4K digital video, 21 minutes and 30 seconds."Dream Metamorphosis: A collection of 4 surreal sequences" features 4 unique filmic dreamworlds (Butterfly Birth Bed, O Luna, Moon Moth Bed, Honey Moon) by award-winning, multi-media artist, sound-designer, and experimental filmmaker Virginia L. Montgomery (VLM). VLM's artistic efforts intertwine elements from mysticism, science, and her own lived experience as a neurodivergent individual. Her films are characterized by material experimentation, somatic sensitivity, and her unusual studio practice of hand-raising the moths and butterflies appearing in her films. Sensorial, symbolic, playful, and uncanny, VLM's diverse artistic movements interrogate themes of destruction, metamorphosis, and rebirth with a 21st-century, ecofeminist, and surrealist sensibility.
website: www.helloVLM.com
email: VLM @ helloVLM.com
instagram: @skinnyaliens -
Christopher Meerdo is an artist who grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Šiauliai, Lithuania. Meerdo received his MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago and taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2012-2019. Recent exhibitions include Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, The National Gallery of Kosovo, and The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh. He was an artist in residence at SIM Reykjavik and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Meerdo was most recently a fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands. He is represented by DOCUMENT Gallery.
For Autopoiesis, Christopher Meerdo trained a custom Low-Rank
Adaptation (LoRA) AI model on every artwork he ever created. This
new generative model has the ability to produce new artworks in the
artist's style by aggregating his complete œuvre. This raises questions
of originality and authenticity, as the LoRA model is proposed as a
living extension of the artist's legacy. Furthermore, Meerdo envisions
this model as a perpetuating tool for his artistic practice, capable of
generating new artworks posthumously, thereby continuing his
creative output beyond his lifetime.Autopoiesis 89, 2024
20” x 30”
Framed Archival Pigment Print
New Media Contemporary and Dallas Ambient Music Nights presents: OPEN CANVAS : IMMERSIVE DIGITAL GRAFFITI
New Media Contemporary and Dallas Ambient Music Nights presents: OPEN CANVAS : IMMERSIVE DIGITAL GRAFFITI BYOB - Bring Your Own Beamer!
Bring your own projector, computer, media player, modular video synth, or thumb drive of video and project anywhere, on any surface, or just come and watch
extra projectors be available provided by: Lightware Labs and PX.LaB
Featuring Projections by:
ET3D
Brian Tomerlin
Jim Branstetter
ash
Genlok
& more
Music by:
ATOP
wonderosso
Nèón fREQ
More info @ NewMediaContemporary.com
Trio Glossia | El Mantis
New Media Contemporary Presents: New Music Series
Trio Glossia:
Trio Glossia is a Dallas/Denton based jazz project consisting of Matthew Frerck on stand up bass, Joshua Miller on drums, percussion, and tenor saxophone, and Stefan Gonzalez on vibraphone and drums. Originally starting as an improvisational unit in 2022, they have since started incorporating their own original compositions with improvisational explorations. All three musicians share a mutual love of all things pertaining to the history and development of free jazz and the avant garde. Trio Glossia covers a lot of ground from heart wrenching ballads to angular swing to textural meditations, with a healthy emphasis on the harmolodic history of the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex.
El Mantis:
Formed in 2021 in Houston Texas by Drummer and Vocalist Angel Garcia ,Saxophonist Danny Kamins and Multi Instrumentalist Andrew Martinez, El Mantis is a trio that takes Jazz and mixes it with genres like Flamenco, Latin Jazz, Progressive Rock, and the Avant Garde, with Influences like John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Magma(France) and Enrique Morente. El Mantis does music with intensity and passion. Their self titled cd was released in 2022(now sold out but available on digital platforms) and in 2024 they released their second album through CIA Records (Houston) on vinyl.
JAMES TALAMBAS + KORY REEDER | SARAH RUTH ALEXANDER | MONTE ESPINA
New Media Contemporary + Molten Plains Present: Live Sound and Visuals Series
JAMES TALAMBAS + KORY REEDER
In a groundbreaking collaboration, James Talambas and Kory Reeder come together to merge their unique artistic backgrounds into a singular, immersive performance experience. This collaboration represents a convergence of experimental soundscapes, where technology meets tradition, and improvisation intersects with intricate composition.
Drawing from Talambas's profound engagement with site-specific, multi-sensory sculptures and performances, and Reeder's introspective compositions that weave through the realms of the visual arts and political theory, their collaboration is an exploration of the uncharted territories of music and art. Together, they navigate the complexities of creating soundscapes that are both deeply personal and expansively universal, inviting audiences into a shared space of discovery and emotional resonance.
Their combined expertise facilitates a dialogue between technology and tradition, improvisation and composition, where the tactile and the ephemeral blend seamlessly. Through this collaborative venture, Talambas and Reeder not only challenge the conventional boundaries of their disciplines but also offer a profound commentary on the role of music and art in fostering connection and understanding.
As audiences step into the immersive world crafted by Talambas and Reeder, they are not merely observers but participants in a sensory journey that transcends the auditory to become a fully embodied experience. This partnership marks a compelling intersection of their respective domains, where the boundary-pushing explorations of sound, space, and sensory experience converge to create a uniquely evocative auditory and visual landscape.
JAMES TALAMBAS
Talambas is a multi-disciplinary new media artist, composer, producer, and activist who creates site-specific, multi-dimensional, multi-sensory sculptures, murals, and performances. Drawing from technology, collaboration, visceral improvisation, and the architectural space of each individual work, he creates art that is personal, emotive, and immersive.
Ellen Fullman has been developing her installation, the Long String Instrument, for over 30 years exploring the acoustics of large resonant spaces with her compositions and collaborative improvisations. Since 2016, Talambas has studied under Fullman, delving into the complexities and nuances of the Long String Instrument. Through the Long String Instrument, Talambas has expanded his exploratory range, contributing to the evolution of experimental music with his unique insights and interpretations.
Kory Reeder is an American composer and performer whose music, drawing inspiration from the visual arts and political theory, is often introspective and atmospheric, investigating ideas of objectivity and immediacy, while exploring the social implications of musical interaction with pieces ranging from symphonic and chamber works to field recording, text scores and computer-assisted improvisations.
Described as “one of the most captivating composers in modern classical music” (Dallas Observer), Kory’s music is performed frequently around the world. A dedicated collaborator, he has frequently worked with opera, theater, and dance programs, as well as noise, free-improv, and new media artists on projects ranging from video collaborations to 3-hour performance art works.
As a performer, Kory is a bassist, sometimes pianist, and sometimes noisemaker. Performing as a section and substitute bassist in regional orchestras as well as contemporary and traditional chamber ensembles, Kory also tours frequently as an independent artist or as an ensemble member performing his chamber music and works of others as well as in creative music and improvised musical contexts.
Kory Reeder will be leading a Deep Listening Workshop at 6:30, prior to the performances.
Sarah Ruth is a diverse musician and artist – a multi-instrumentalist, she employs hammered dulcimer, harmonium, electroacoustic sound art, and extended vocal techniques. She performs frequently both solo and with multiple bands and improvisational ensembles in the North Texas area. She is a University of North Texas graduate where she focused on vocal studies and electroacoustic composition. She has also studied with Meredith Monk and members of her vocal ensemble. She enjoys varied collaborations and has worked as a sound artist for art and photography installations and an accompanist for modern dance. She has performed with Damon Smith, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jaap Blonk, Liz Tonne, Sarah Gamblin, Rosemary Candelario, Susan kae Grant, Lisa Cameron, Tom Carter, and Aaron Gonzalez, to list a few. She tours nationally and her recent albums have been released on Sawyer Spaces, Obsolete Media Objects, Balance Point Acoustics, Pour le Corps Music, and Linda Hand. Sarah co-curates the Molten Plains series and festival with Ernesto Montiel in Denton. She also hosts a radio program called Tiger D on KUZU LP broadcasting in Denton at 92.9 FM and streaming online at kuzu.fm, playing music and often featuring guest musicians to curate and discuss their playlists. She recently had a chapter titled “Community Building Through Collaboration,” published in Routledge‘s Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change.
Monte Espina is the electroacoustic free improvisation duo of Ernesto Montiel and Miguel Espinel, both Venezuelan-born and North Texas-based, where they met in 2016. They explore the possibilities of sinuous sonic environments amid amplified sounds and signal processing, through an absolutely improvised approach.
Collaboration is at the core of their practice, being Liz Tonne, Louise Fristensky, Sarah Ruth Alexander, Alan F. Jones, Jason Kahn, Tom Carter, Dan Clucas, Rebecca Novak, Chris Cogburn, Aaron Gonzalez, Aquiles Hadjis, Steve Jansen, Justin Lemons, Chase Gardner, Kory Reeder, Conner Simmons, Andrew Jordan Miller, Ray Henninger, Derek Rogers, Erika Orgosdotti, Elaine Di Falco, Kevin Butler and Heberto Añez among the long list of artists they have played with.
After some self-released cdrs, “y culebra” was published by Marginal Frequency in 2019, “pa” by Elevator Bath in 2021, a collaboration with Liz Tonne and Louise Fristensky, “pueblo glortha”, by Round Bale Recordings in 2021 as well. A year-long/site-specific project in collaboration with Sarah Ruth Alexander, “cuatro estaciones”, was released by Full Spectrum Recordings in 2022. “alquimia criolla” was released in January 2024 on presses précaires, a Montreal based label.
Emerging Artist Series + Art Fair After Party
New Media Contemporary in Dallas, TX, is proud to host an exhibition showcasing North Texas’s emerging new media artists. Experience a diverse array of installations and digital works that push the boundaries of art and technology.
Featuring:
Chanlyr Jordan @schmanlyr
Maryam Takallou @mary_takallou
Archit Karkare @_architarts
Christina Vasquez @christina._.vasquez
Zahra Jafarpour @zahrajafarpour_artworks
Jules Jung @digitaljulepods
Taylor Cleveland @taaaylor4really
Célia Hay @celiahay_
Jiatong Yao @yxxjixtxng
Zack Nguyen @itszacknguyen
Jarrett Crepeau @jarrett089i
Nathan Harper @nathan_harper_art
Shannon Gaudard @gaudsart
Weyni Kahsay @neo_ism
New Media Contemporary Presents: Art Fair Weekend
New Media Contemporary Presents:
an Unforgettable art fair weekend!
April 4-7: New Media Contemporary is thrilled to invite you to an immersive experience showcasing the most cutting edge new media artists and performers from North Texas.
Thursday, April 4:
VIP & Members Daytime Preview
Kick off the weekend w/ an exclusive preview of our Emerging Artists Exhibition. This is your chance to get a first look at the groundbreaking work of artists who are pushing the boundaries between art and technology. Not a member yet? Don't miss out on future exclusives - become a member today on our Patreon at newmediacontemporary.com.
Friday, April 5:
Emerging Artists Opening Night + Art Fair After Party
Experience the forefront of the new media art scene on our Opening Night. Featuring a diverse array of installations and digital works, this evening is a celebration of innovation and creativity.
Featuring Artists:
Chanlyr Jordan, Maryam Takallou, Archit Karkare, Christina Vasquez, Zahra Jafarpour, Jules Jung, Taylor Cleveland, Célia Hay, Jiatong Yao, Zack Nguyen, Jarrett Crepeau, Nathan Harper, Shannon Gaudard, Weyni Kahsay
Saturday, April 6:
Live Sound and Visuals Series
In collaboration w/ Molten Plains, immerse yourself in a night of live sound and visuals.
w/ performances by:
James Talambas & Kory Reeder -
An ethereal blend of electronics, double bass, and long string instrument.
Sarah Ruth Alexander -
A mesmerizing mix of voice, electronics, and field recordings.
Monte Espina -
Masters of electroacoustic free improvisation.
Deep Listening Workshop w/ Kory Reeder at 6:30 PM - A unique opportunity to engage w/ music and sound on a profound level.
Sunday, April 7:
Coffee Shop Pop-Up
Enjoy brews, teas, and small bites on the last day of the Emerging Artists Exhibition. Network, spend more time w/ the art, or simply relax, this is your space to reflect on the weekend’s experiences.
New Media Contemporary is where art meets the future. This weekend is a journey into the heart of creativity, innovation, and community. Join us to celebrate the artists and performers who are shaping the future of new media art.
DEREK ROGERS | SEAN O'NEILL | ANDREW ANDERSON & COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD
New Media Contemporary Presents: Live Sound and Visuals Series
DEREK ROGERS | SEAN O'NEILL | ANDREW ANDERSON & COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD
Derek Rogers (b. 4 September 1980) is a Dallas-based musician active in electronic composition, drone, free-improv, ambient, and noise textures. He utilizes computer processes as well as traditional instrumentation and field recordings to create emotionally resonant work, tending toward long forms and soundscapes. Rogers works predominantly as a solo artist, with some 50+ albums released since 2007. Recent collaborations include projects with musicians such as Dennis Gonzalez, A.F. Jones, and Lee Noble.
"...electronic musician Derek Rogers is a genius when it comes to balancing minimalism with dense, abstract ideas. His expert sense of patience, mood and timbre was stunningly exemplified in his Circuit Rider UK collaboration with Lee Noble out on Jehu & Chinaman earlier this year, garnering much praise." -ˇ-ˇ Diego Aguilar (Decoder Magazine)
Sean O’Neill is an Austin based artist working with sound, light, and electronic media. His projects often take form within the context of spatialized audio as it relates to perceptions of dynamic environments, acoustics of structural spaces and natural ambience. O’Neill experiments with electroacoustic materials, multi-speaker configurations, and constraints of medium, infrastructure, and format error. He is interested in the use of DIY electronics / software and responsive systems, often incorporating found objects and barely functional AV equipment into his performances and installations. His work has been presented at various venues and festivals including No Idea Festival, Re-New Festival Copenhagen, New Media Art and Sound Summit, Amsterdam Light Festival, and DATA CITY Enghien-les-Bains. O’Neill’s most recent recordings are in collaboration with Alex Keller, and available on Elevator Bath, Mimeomeme, and Loma Editions.
ANDREW ANDERSON & COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD
Andrew Anderson, based in Portland OR, creates sound pieces out of carefully curated field recordings, hidden samples, destroyed tape, and various instruments, both electronic and analog, with a focus on quiet repetition, drone, and patient change. The formative rhythms of summertime lawn mowers, passing airplanes, and cawing crows from the backyard of his childhood in the Pacific Northwest inform his unique ear and subtle sensibilities. He explores global themes of changing climates, political upheaval, human and animal rights, and all the liminal spaces in between, as well as more personal topics such as self-growth and social anxiety, with several self-releases, on both cassette and digital formats, as well as the project THAA with Thor Harris (Swans, Thor & Friends, Shearwater, Angels of Light, etc.) In 2022 he joined the label Elevator Bath for his latest solo release, "Vagrancies:" a ghostly meditation on the chaos of the last several years.
Colin Andrew Sheffield was born in El Paso, Texas and now lives in Austin. He is the founder of the Elevator Bath record label (founded in 1998) and has released a number of solo recordings on labels such as Auf Abwegen, Glistening Examples, Mystery Sea, and more, in addition to several collaborative releases and performances with turntablist, James Eck Rippie as well as with David Reed (as The Palladists) and with Andrew Anderson (their duo cassette release is forthcoming from the Grisaille label). Since the mid-’90s, Colin Andrew Sheffield’s audio collage work has consistently focused on the use of samples: deconstructed loops of hidden textures and timbres found in his collection of physical media. Sheffield’s most recent solo LP, “Images” (Elevator Bath, 2023), was entirely crafted from samples from jazz records; it has been critically acclaimed/championed by Soundohm, Bandcamp, and Brainwashed, among others.
L' INFERNO: LIVE SCORE BY MONTOPOLIS | KENT EVANS | CURATORIAL
New Media Contemporary Presents: Live Film Score Series
L' INFERNO: LIVE SCORE BY MONTOPOLIS
Montopolis is an indie chamber music group from Austin, Texas that performs the works of composer Justin Sherburn. Their genre-busting music uses inventive instrumentation to create "stunning and transcendent" (Austin Chronicle) concerts. Their programs are audience-engaging, multi-media events that combine live music with film and interactive storytelling. The Montopolis musicians include members of the Austin Symphony, Okkervil River, Tosca String Quartet, and the Polyphonic Spree.
L’Inferno (1911) is the first feature length horror film ever released. An adaptation of Dante’s classic journey through hell, this masterpiece of silent film employs elaborate costumes, special effects, and set design to create an awe-inspiring and ethereal world. The original Montopolis score brings new life to this horror classic with a mix of psych rock, dark wave and terrifying sound effects performed live. Based in Austin, Texas, Montopolis is following up their critically acclaimed national tour of Man with a Movie Camera.
View the trailer for this performance and screening HERE.
Kent Evans is a Dallas based ambient musician who uses layers of synths and samples to create dense worlds of sound. Sometimes drifting into noise but always aiming to be cathartic, his songs usually have many peaks and valleys within.
Preston Light, aka Curatorial, is a Fort Worth, TX, ambient musician and composer. His music serves as paintings you can hear, sit in, and be soothed by. Through the process of song, he hopes that listeners will find a space to dream about a peaceful life and find a piece of that for themselves. This concept stems from his painting practice in which the works are intended to be healing totems in the places they hang. Wanting to extend that positive message, Curatorial was born. His second album, Other Realms, was recorded at the neofeminist creative residency Centre Pompadour in Ercourt, France, during the summer of 2023 and was released in January 2024.
DEEP LISTENING: THE STORY OF PAULINE OLIVEROS
DEEP LISTENING: THE STORY OF PAULINE OLIVEROS
A FILM BY DANIEL WEINTRAUB
Screening and conversation with Director Daniel Weintraub
Performance by Dave Dove
JAKE MUIR | COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD | ADAM PACIONE
New Media Contemporary Presents: Live Sound and Visuals Series
Hailing from Los Angeles, and now based in Berlin, Muir is a producer/sampler/field-recordist/alchemist whose highly acclaimed ambient work melds soft-focus, sensual electro-concréte with a psychedelic map of ASMR rattles, drones, and tones. Celebrating the release of his latest LP, "Bathhouse Blues" for the influential UK label, Sferic, Jake is making his Dallas debut.
COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD ~
Austin's Colin Andrew Sheffield is the founder of the long-running Elevator Bath recording label. His work focuses on the re-contextualization of pre-existing recordings. The resultant music is an atmospheric soundscape, gradually shifting and unfolding, offering subtle juxtaposition and nuances. His work has been published by labels such as Auf Abwegen, Glistening Examples, and Mystery Sea, among others.
Adam Pacione is a composer from Fort Worth. Pacione’s music contains elements of ambient textures, drones, field recordings, processed radio transmissions and modular synthesis. His works have been released by Elevator Bath, Infraction Records, Kesh, Bee Eater Recordings, and 23five, among other labels. He has provided remixes for the likes of Simon Scott (Slowdive) and Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt).
Great Interview with Colin Andrew Sheffield and Adam Pacione