Join us in the STUDIO on Wednesday January 28th at 5:30 PM for a joint lecture by visiting video artists Sean Hallowell and Sarah Turner.

Both Sean and Sarah will be performing as part of the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Projection Portals: Live Video Machine event, Friday January 30th at 7PM in the CMOA Hall of Architecture (Free, Registration required)

Sean will outline the theoretical foundations for his audiovisual work. He will discuss how it is inspired by outmoded media technologies like analog tape and cathode-ray tube televisions. For me, these devices present unique compositional affordances while also serving as symbols of anti-consumerism and combatting overly simplistic narratives of technological progress. He will then discuss how, through them, he explores the phenomenon of “lived time” (following the French philosopher Henri Bergson) in relation to the four arts of number that Medieval Europe called the “quadrivium” — music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy.

Sarah will be discussing her practice in a talk titled “Processing the female form: co-opting nsfw online platforms with experimental video streams.” She has been exploring nsfw online distribution sites as way to by-pass censorship on traditional platforms for the last 4 years as a large part of her practice. It has inspired new works, new relationships, and a new dynamic between on-screen and off-screen content creation.

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Sean Russell Hallowell (@isorhythmics) is a composer and video artist from West Sonoma County, CA. He synthesizes experimental techniques developed from handmade circuitry with a cosmic perspective on music as a conduit for physical and metaphysical energy. His music and installations have been showcased at venues and festivals across the US as well as internationally in Mexico, Chile, South Korea, Japan, Belgium, the UK, Croatia, Poland, and Iceland. Immersive audiovisual works have been installed at galleries in San Francisco, New York City, and London. He holds a PhD in Medieval European vocal polyphony from Columbia University.

Sarah Turner is a new media and video artist who creates large scale immersive environments and performances through analog media and creative coding. She engages in ritual and contemporary mythologies to augment reality through performative psycho spiritual activations and explorations of the absurd. Her work has been shown at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Meow Wolf, Portland Art Museum, Wieden + Kennedy, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Northwest Film Center, Spaceness Festival, Marfa Open Festival, Laboratory Residency and more. Turner received an MFA at Alfred University in Electronic Integrated Art. She is a Video Designer for Meow Wolf, Inc.