Schedule
Thursday, April 18
Morgantown Art Party
218 Walnut St, Morgantown, WV 26505
6:00 PM
Esoteric Oasis:
A Selection of Works by WVU Digital Art & Animation Students
Participating artists:
Elyssa Allen, Sun Aroonwechkul, Colwyn Bordeaux, Timothy Butcher, Miguel Caraza Cueto, Adrian Carroll, Evan Clough, Aiden Crawford, Michela Dorsett, Ariella Hobday, Belle Irwin, Kaden Lee, Paul Lilyea, Bridget Mcauliffe, Olivia Panicucci, Ana Phillips, Noah Pocius, Riley Reid, Peyton Root, Maddy Shaffer, Maddie Teel, Kyle West & Olivia Williams.
FRIDAY, April 19
Canady Creative Arts Center
1436 Evansdale Dr, Morgantown, WV 26506
(Maker Space / Media Innovation Center)
Interested in making your first film? Join host Seth Nardo in this workshop where you'll learn the steps needed to create an independent film from start to finish, including: idea creation, script writing, recording, directing, editing and more. This workshop is offered in conjunction with the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival and will be presented by Seth Nardo a recent graduate of the Digital Art and Animation area who is currently working on his second film.
(Foundations Studio, 5th floor of the Creative Arts Center)
Join us for friendly conversation and easy icebreaking in our groovy filmmaker's relaxation lounge (aka converted foundations art studio). Refreshments will be available including soft drinks, fresh brewed coffee, cookies and – of course – recently baked pepperoni rolls!
8:00 pm
Opening Film Showcase
(Bloch Learning and Performance Hall)
In C, Too Dean Winkler and John Sanborn
The Deer Baran Sedighian
Deer Heaven David Malone, Melaniia Kaliian
Save a Buck Andrew Broadhurst
Bird Drone Radheya Jang Jegatheva
I Wet My Plants Caroline Collins
High Beam Brunno Bimbati
Throwaway Living Laura Malatos & Helen RY Sun
Hello Goodbye Brent Malin
Epicycle Deb Ethier
Index Stacey Sproule
Yolks Jesse Womack
Dream Machine Ballet Pierre Ajavon
The Tipping Force Katie Morris
Glide Jason Zumpano
8:00 - 11:00 pm
Looped Projections
(Slab Practice Room)
Permadeath green Elijah Valter
The day the world went away Mélissa Faivre
9:30 - 10:45 pm
student works ! round 1
(Bloch Learning and Performance Hall)
I Have No Spoon and I Must Eat Emma Fleming
Don't Take Off Your Glasses MINGLUN WEI
T-130 Samuel Felinton
Redfoot Jonathan Pitts
Le Chef Shaun Wilson
Feung Schwey: The Act of Being a Hero! Jonah Manibusan
Order of the Army of the Arts Kamila Abdygapparova
Bruised Callie Thacker
The Stool With Pants And Shoes On Marco Falcucci
Echo Tatyana Reynolds
The innumerable things that exist YOON KYEONG YANG
Return to Sender Olivia Williams
Mogley: Our Jungle Book Story Kristin Elizabeth Fiorvanti
Man with a Movie Camera Seth Nardo
Intermission
11:00 pm - Midnight
student works! Round 2
(Bloch Learning and Performance Hall)
A Noiseless, Patient Spider Trinity Rollins
Mask Alice Malone
THEY'RE COMING Nick Johnson
Human Evolution Kajwan Alavi
Artificial Medley Helena Harman
JUST DANCIN' Jingyi Zhu
Lines Logan Minett
Little Green Everything Jennifer Corona
Fall Katherine Skillings
Panty Rave Belle Irwin
Bright As a Feather Lake Terre McLeod
Metamorphose Yoshihisa Kitamura
Untitled Paul Lilyea
Kim's Rebirth Adrian Carroll
X in the Twilight Jessica Harris
Deep In the Mirror Jingyi Zhu & Katherine Skillings
Escaping Room YOON KYEONG YANG
Sat. April 20
Canady Creative Arts Center
1436 Evansdale Dr, Morgantown, WV 26506
10:00 am
AI: Dreams, Fantasies & Bodies
(Bloch Learning and Performance Hall)
The Inn of the Flying Virus (2023) Jiayang Huang
Close Circuit Marius Packbier, Aïlien Reyns
AI Artist Jessey James Nelson, Dani Barker
Imagine Therapy. The enchanted princess philosophy
Evi Jägle, Noemi Call, Christoph Müller, Jan Barner
The Last Film on Earth Andrés Isaza
Testimony Usama Alshaibi
Wind Mike Hoolboom
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Looped Projections
(Slab Practice Room)
Parades Alan Lake
here and there, now and then Cheryl Pagurek
11:00 am
audiovisual performance
(Antoinette E. Falbo Theatre)
Le bleu ne reviendra jamais bleu
Guillaume Vallée & Hazy Montagne Mystique
(Bloch Learning and Performance Hall)
Making Art is Speculative Labor Michael Betancourt
Sarah Palin Forever Eryk Salvaggio
Games People Play Jim Hall
bleu passé Tracy Miller-Robbins
spot healing Ryan Woodring
LOS Martin Del Carpio
Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Queer Bodies
Benjamin Rosenthal & Eric Souther
2:00 pm
audiovisual performance
(Antoinette E. Falbo Theatre)
Speculative Speciation
Jacklyn Brickman & Sharon Gill
3:00 pm
panel discussion
(Bloch Learning and Performance Hall)
Art & Artificial Intelligence
Panelists: Magdalena Bermudez, Karl Erickson & Eric Millikin
Moderator: Gerald Habarth
3:00 - 7:00 pm
Looped Projections
(Slab Practice Room)
The Silken City Thomas Pickarski
CarpeLucem: France in SuperBlue - seeing France in a different light
Gary Schubert
5:00 pm
just animation !
(Bloch Learning and Performance Hall)
FEUX Mohammad Babakoohi
Yaar Nahid Malayeri
Itsy Bitsy Problems Kenneth Cassidy Tyner
Over Inking Molly Mignano
Swamp Creatures David and Tara Gladden
Little Dan Yingdan Lai
(Bloch Learning and Performance Hall)
Love is Found in Unexpected Places Jason Richard Boyer
Bella Stefan Stojanovic
Trapped Samuel Tony
Last Word Diek Grobler
Holy Moly Meteorite! V. Leigh
Blue Hour J.D Shields
A Ranger's Way Scott Danzig
Deer Heaven David Malone & Melaniia Kaliian
Late Fee Richard Sperry, Quinn Robertson & JJ Handley
daisy chain Tina Kakadelis
7:30 pm
awards ceremony
8:00 pm
audiovisual performance
(Antoinette E. Falbo Theatre)
Deep Time of Latent Spaces
Eric R. Souther
8:00 - 11:00 pm
Looped Projections
(Slab Practice Room)
THE LABYRINTH: Solastalgia Sylvia Toy St. Louis
The Passion of Hercules Daniel Brody
(Bloch Learning and Performance Hall)
The Tenth Door Michael Lies & Catherine Tuttle
Dolls in Quarantine Dave Shelton
The Out Of Bodies Experience Jarrod Joos
Prick's Funeral Bryce O'Loughlin
Bigfoot Unleashed, Part VII Don Swanson
Anti Tourism Manifesto Steve Kirk
The Seer Conrad Faraj
CHRIST DANCE Taylor Nice
Lasagna Joe DeMarchi
(Bloch Learning and Performance Hall)
Placenta MJ Golzari
Ana Mendieta might Jaewook Lee
Half Life Laura Iancu
Parallel Botany Magdalena Bermudez
Expansion Amanda VanValkenburg
Ablation Jacklyn Brickman
Liminal Scott Turri
ywnhx Nate Dorr
Chicago Loop: Wabash to State to Clark Jeffrey Moser
Incantations Amanda Besl
Selected Findings Carey Lin & Gabriel Gilder
I'm sorry I'm late Sharon Mooney
Sunday, April 21
WVU mountainlair
1550 University Ave, Morgantown, WV 26505
11:00 Am
Experimental Works: Ruminations
(Gluck Theater)
ARK Kent Tate
Moth Print Sarah Bliss
A Body Appeared at the Lake Today Brian Ratigan
Questioning the Existence of Alec Roger Horn
On the Other Side Of Mia Felić
Man is in the Forest Anthony Peskine
Nature Freak Nathaniel Hendrickson
Direction of the Road Janelle VanderKelen
12:00 pm
Short Stories from All Around
(Gluck Theater)
Rise Early Annick Odom
THE BORDERS NEVER DIE HAMIDREZA ARJOMANDI
Cricket Natalia Ryss
Spider-Zan Maryam Khodabakhsh
ÉCHALE GANITAS MIRIAM N DELGADO LÓPEZ
Animated Diaries of War: COFFEE Sophia Kornienko
Phool Dei Kartik Mahajan
LUNCH HOUR WITH THE PRESIDENT Pamela Perrine
1:30 pm
Documentaries
(Gluck Theater)
ZANE Jillian Carney Howell
Sweet Press Laura Iancu
Haunting Tianming Zhou
Watermarks Rishi Sethi
The Nature of Art Beth Davison
Who Has Seen the Wind? Johansson Panu
Three colours Lana Gredelj
(Gluck Theater)
AbstrArt 27 Luis Carlos Rodríguez García
Electronic Insects Keum-Taek Jung
Black Sun Zuzanna Michalska
A Chair Can Be Electrified Aaron Whitney Björk
14th Street Union Square Station Michael W Zodorozny
Riding Day Michael Alexander Morris
Another Rapid Event Daniel Murphy
Act III Dean Winkler & John Sanborn
A WVU Electronic Media / School of Art and Design Event
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