[Frameworks] Final Day online: "True Fairy Tales" works by Anger, Hughes-Freeland, Omololu-Lange, Mekas, Nguyen, Spalter, Wu, Wube

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*More info and Watch link here:
https://microscopegallery.com/true-fairy-tales/
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*True Fairy Tales* is an online screening program of works in video, film,
stop motion animation, 3D animation, AI, and augmented reality by Kenneth
Anger, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Tomi Omololu-Lange, Jonas Mekas, Michelle
Nguyen, Anne Spalter, Ziyang Wu, and Ezra Wube centered around the topic of
fairytales.

The eight works in the program, which include and combine diaristic,
personal, narrative, collage, computer and AI-generated approaches, are
less concerned with reimagining or updating Western fairy tales, but in the
use of the fairy tale form to reveal the biases within them, to reclaim
lost or distorted history, and as a way to grapple with horrors and gross
inequities of our times.

In these works spanning 20 years since the twin towers fell — as captured
by Jonas Mekas from his Soho roof in his video work “Ein Märchen aus alten
Zeiten” (A Fairy Tale From Old Times) to Anne Spalter’s 2021 “Fantasy
Castles” featuring AI-generated images of castles at a time when the US
billionaires could give away $3,900 to every American from their gains
amassed during the pandemic alone and still have profited from it — themes
of erasure, feminism, racism, colonialism, power and greed feature
prominently.


*General admission $8 (Valid through Thursday March 11, 10:30pm PT) Member
admission $6 (Valid through Thursday March 11, 10:30pm PT)*

*WATCH HERE: https://microscopegallery.com/true-fairy-tales/
<https://microscopegallery.com/true-fairy-tales/>*


*Kenneth Anger* (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer; February 3, 1927) is an
American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. Working
exclusively in short films, he has produced almost forty works since 1937,
nine of which have been grouped together as the “Magick Lantern Cycle”, and
form the basis of Anger’s reputation as one of the most influential
independent filmmakers in cinema history. His films variously merge
surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as
containing “elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle.”

*Tessa Hughes-Freeland* works in a variety of formats and mediums, and her
films have been shown in diverse venues, ranging from internationally
prominent museums to seedy bars in gritty neighborhoods. Her work is best
described as “confrontational, transgressive, provocative and poetic”. Her
films have screened internationally in North America, Europe and Australia
and in prominent museums and galleries, including the Museum of Modern Art,
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American
Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and the KW Institute
of Contemporary Art in Berlin. In 2018 a program of her films was included
in the “No–Wave, Transgression” Film Series at MoMA. Hughes-Freeland lives
and works in New York.

*Tomi Omololu-Lange* is a visual artist, based in New York City. Her work
explores cultural identity and our understanding of the world through fairy
tales, legends, and folklore. These themes are expressed through a number
of platforms, including augmented reality, GIFs, audio, video and
cinemagraphs.

*Jonas Mekas* (1922, Semeniškiai, Lithuania – 2019, Brooklyn, NY) Mekas was
brought to the US along with his brother Adolfas in 1949 by the UN Refugee
Organization. Within weeks, Mekas borrowed money to buy his first Bolex
camera and began to record brief moments of his life. Today Mekas is
considered among the most influential makers of avant-garde film and a
master of the diaristic form.

*Michelle Nguyen* is an experimental multimedia artist based in NYC. In her
work, she explores the darker themes of what we see in films, commercials,
and childhood movies. She montages audio and imagery to manipulate their
pre-existing narratives to tell a humorous but dark subplot. Through her
video based installations, Michelle combines fantasy and play to create an
environment that is enticing yet eerie and ominous.

Digital mixed-media artist *Anne Spalter *is an academic pioneer who
founded the original digital fine arts programs at Brown University and The
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the 1990s and authored the
internationally taught textbook, “The Computer in the Visual Arts”
(Addison-Wesley, 1999). Her artistic process combines a consistent set of
personal symbols with a hybrid arsenal of traditional mark-making methods
and innovative digital tools. A new body of work, further developed at a
Winter 2019 residency at MASS MoCA, combines artificial intelligence
algorithms with oil paint and pastels. She is currently creating work for
the blockchain. Spalter is also noted for her large-scale public projects.
MTA Arts commissioned Spalter to create a 52-screen digital art
installation, New York Dreaming, which remained on view in one of its most
crowded commuter hubs (Fulton Center) for just under a year. Spalter’s 2019
large-scale projects included a 47,000 square foot LED video work on the
Hong Kong harbor. Spalter’s work is in the permanent collections of the
Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK); the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
(Buffalo, NY); the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI);
The Museum of CryptoArt, and others. Alongside her studio practice, Spalter
continues to lecture on digital art practice and theory.

*Ziyang Wu* (b.1990, Xuzhou, China) is an artist based in New York with an
MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a BFA from the Florence
Academy of Fine Arts. His animated video, AR, AI simulation and video
installation have exhibited internationally including solo exhibitions at
Annka Kultys Gallery, London; Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York; Hatch Art
Project, Singapore and CO2 Gallery, Florence, and group exhibitions at
Medici Palace, Florence; Milan Design Week, Milan; Today Art Museum,
Beijing; Times Art Museum, Beijing; Artron Art Center, Shenzhen; Powerlong
Museum, Shanghai; Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia;
Rochester Art Center, Rochester; Cohen Gallery at Brown University,
Providence; Eli Klein Gallery, New York and Microscope Gallery, New York.
His recent fellowships and residencies include MacDowell; Residency
Unlimited; Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University; Art(ists) and
on the Verge Fellowship by Northern Lights.mn. He is a current member of
NEW INC, an art & technology incubator founded by the New Museum.

*Ezra Wube* (b. 1980, Ethiopia) is a mixed media artist who lives and works
in Brooklyn, NY. His work references the notion of past and present, the
constant changing of place, and the dialogical tensions between “here” and
“there”. His exhibitions include Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, the 21st
Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, Brazil; The 2nd edition of the
Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, France; “Gwangju Biennale”, Gwangju,
South Korea; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Art in General, kim?
Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY;
“Dak’Art Biennale”, Dakar, Senegal and Time Square Arts Midnight Moment,
NY. His residencies, commissions and awards include Smack Mellon Studio
Program, Brooklyn, NY; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Work Space, LMCC
Residency Program, New York, NY; Open Sessions Program, The Drawing Center,
New York, NY; The Africa Center, NY; The Metropolitan Transportation
Authority, NY; Museum of the Moving Images, Queens, NY; Rema Hort Mann
Foundation; the Triangle Arts Association Residency, Brooklyn, NY and The
Substation Artist Residency Program, University of Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
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