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It's our pleasure to announce our shortlist for the Light Work UVP Residential Commission! The selection process was highly competitive with many outstanding proposals. Shortlist selection was made by a jury including multimedia artist Dani ReStack, film curator and directing founder of the Prismatic Ground experimental documentary festival, Inney Prakash, and Light Work UVP program director, Anneka Herre. Selected proposals include: • Amina Ross: Agents of Perpetual Discontent •Kaya & Blank: Green Sheen: Engineered Naturalism •Alisha Wormsley: Children of NAN: A Survival Guide •Manuel Molina Martagon & LaJuné McMillian: Portal's Keeper Getting to this stage of the competition proves these artists had an extraordinarily compelling proposal and work sample. Stay tuned for more announcements!

TONIGHT!!!@lightworkorg is pleased to present Evan Starling-Davis: FRACTURE on view on the Everson Museum facade from 9-11pm.This is an INTERACTIVE piece--scan the QR code on screen, enter a username, and your phone will become a controller to explore the poetic, Afro-surreal world of FRACTURE.

AGAIN TONIGHT!!! @lightworkorg is pleased to present Evan Starling-Davis: FRACTURE on view on the Everson Museum facade from 9-11pm. Stop by the plaza and check it out! This is an INTERACTIVE piece—scan the QR code on screen, enter a username, and your phone will become a controller to explore the poetic, Afro-surreal world of FRACTURE, which features spoken word and scanned objects from the @suartmuseum collection!

LAST WEEKEND to catch LLUVIA CON NIEVE (RAIN WITH SNOW) by Sofía Gallisá Muriente projected by Light Work UVP on the Everson facade, 7:45-11pm through Saturday. Sofía will be joining Light Work UVP along with TJ Cuthand for LESSONS IN LIVING OTHERWISE on April 19 & 20 -- more info on the Light Work website: https://www.lightwork.org/archive/lessons-in-living-otherwise-screening-qa/

THIS THURSDAY! FREE screening of HAUDENOSAUNEE CANOE JOURNEY with filmmaker Roxann Whitebean in the Everson Museum of Art Hosmer Auditoirum at 6pm. Join us! Indigenous Students at Syracuse, Syracuse University Engaged Humanities Network, Syracuse University, Nish Média, Everson Museum of Art, Light Work

ON VIEW | Urban Video Project is pleased to present Sofía Gallisá Muriente: Lluvia con Nieve (Rain with Snow) at UVP’s outdoor projection site on the facade of the Everson Museum of Art, Thurs. - Sat., from dusk until 11 p.m. Sofía Gallisá Muriente (@hatoreina) is a Puerto Rican visual artist whose work resists colonial forces of erasure and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining. Find artist and exhibition details at - lightwork.org/archive/sofia-gallisa-muriente-lluvia-con-nieve-rain-with-snow/ — This exhibition and event are part of UVP’s 2022-23 programming year, The Porous Body of the Earth, featuring artists who explore issues of environmental racism and regimes of violent extraction.

CALL FOR DANCERS: ALL BACKGROUNDS & ABILITIES - The Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO) is looking for 10-20 dancers for their UVP commission project titled “Hysteria,” an ecofeminist retelling of the mysterious dancing plagues that swept Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. Movement will consist of a mix of directed/structured improvisation and choreographed unison dance sections. No audition required. Find application @queerecology form link in bio. — airtable.com/shrulEVWwuF0vfbUh 🎥🚨FILMING DATES | February 13-15 | filming times based on availability — IQECO is an ever-evolving collaborative organism that seeks to bring peripheral solutions to environmental degradation to the forefront of public consciousness. IQECO projects are interdisciplinary, but unified and grounded in the theoretical framework of Queer Ecology, an adaptive practice concerned with interconnectivity, intimacy, and multispecies relationality.

Light Work + Urban Video Project Main Entrance Open
Camera. Ready. Extensive construction along Waverly Ave on the Syracuse University campus made accessing Light Work and Urban Video Project a major challenge this summer. We are thrilled to announce renovations are finally a wrap! Thank you to our lab members and residency participants who traversed the maze of way-finding signs to access the building. Shout out to the contractors, landscaping crew, and facilities management at Syracuse University for doing a stellar job. Completing the newly renovated stairs and landscaping adjacent to Robert B. Menschel Center’s main entrance was right on time as we open our Fall exhibitions this week at UVP’s outdoor projection site on the facade of Everson Museum! We’re excited to welcome our on and off-campus community for a full 2022-23 calendar of exhibitions and events. Find more information at — lg.ht/ExhibitionsUVP

🎥🌚HAPPENING NOW — It’s not to late, join us on the Plaza!! Light Work’s @urban_video_project in partnership with @eversonmuseum bring living poets and film together outdoors with WoW: Whitman on Walls. A drive-in movie meets poetry slam! The one-hour event begins at dusk and will be projected onto the façade of the Everson. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Following each film, a local poet will stand and “talk back to Walt Whitman” in their own words, challenging or quarreling with him, thus weaving together film and live recitation. Come enjoy local food vendors and post-performance conversations with the poets, and performers.

Stop by the Everson Plaza this weekend between 8 and 11pm to see #Kite's new piece FIFTEEN MAPS at Light Work UVP! The projection runs every Th-Sat.

Alison Nguyen: My Favorite Software Is Being Here
ON VIEW THRU SATURDAY | MARCH 5 — Join Urban Video Project on the Everson Museum of Art plaza to view “My Favorite Software Is Being Here” from filmmaker Alison Nguyen. The installation runs at UVP’s outdoor projection site on the facade of Everson, Thurs. - Sat., from dusk until 11 p.m. A collaboration between #AlisonNguyen and a machine learning program created with Achim Koh, Andra8 is a simulacral subaltern created by an algorithm and raised by the Internet in isolation in a virtual void. From the apartment where she has been “placed,” Andra8 works as a digital laborer, surviving off the data from her various “freemium” jobs as virtual assistant, data janitor, life coach, aspiring influencer, and content creator. As she multitasks throughout the day, Andra8 is monitored and surveilled, finding herself overwhelmed by a web of global client demands. — ✍🏽🗒Register for ONLINE SCREENING of “No Emoji for Ennui” program, followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Lana Z Caplan, Ross Meckfessel, Alison Nguyen, Tulapop Saenjaroen and Matt Whitman, on Thursday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m. EST.