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ExTV Fall Open Meeting!

Happy fall semester! If you’re interested in ways to put your work up publicly or submitting to future events, come to our open meeting at MacLean 1401 (right next to the lounge and elevators) to meet the team that makes that happen and find out new opportunities to share your video art. You can ask us all the questions you’ve been wondering about, including how to submit and how to create your own ways to connect with the FVNMA community at SAIC. You’ll get to see the behind-the-scenes of how we plan our programs and upcoming events, including ExFEST and our 20th-anniversary screening. Though ExTV is a student-run organization and NOT a student group, we’re still looking for a new member to join us on the team! At the meeting, get to know firsthand about our Production Assistant position opening […]
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ExTV Presents: IRL to URL

In an age where our relationship with technology continues to grow and expand, we consider the ways in which digital bodies and avatars go on beyond reflecting real life and the ways in which avatars take on new forms, meanings, and build new worlds around them. In the same vein as Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto, we delve into our archive to find works to explore the digital experience, moving out of the IRL and into the URL. In our September Web Program, we highlight four videos dealing with the (digital) body and self, video game machinima, who all ask questions about identity, the consumption of technology, and the new digital experience. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: “Making of an Avatar” – Jenny Kljucaric (2017) Making of an Avatar explores the regimented process of avatar creation within gaming, […]
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Blog, Campus Monitors

September 2018 Monitor Programming

Don’t forget to set your alarm clock — or two, the new Fall semester is just getting started and those absences add up real quick! This month our monitor programming features four videos artists that incorporate text into their work with each artist exploring and approaching in wildly different ways sub-current themes about the body and politics. Trailing Eve Kalugin – 2015 TRAILING is a short experimental, darkly comedic video about surveillance and being surveilled. Highlighting the absurd reality of paranoia, the video explores the language applied to surveillance and reportage. In the black space of a cinema, words detail various suspects listed in filed reports, government reports, your accounts and official papers. Constantly shifting between watching and being watched, the viewer is transposed into a space where they become implicated in some irrational act of hiding from […]
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Blog, Interviews

PolyPlay 2018: Interview with Unyimeabasi Udoh, a Twine Text-Based Game Designer

Before summer comes to an end, check out our interview with Polyplay 2018 participant Uno Udoh! Grocery Shopping and Gamemaker were up on the first floor in the Neiman Center for Polyplay this past March. Don’t worry if you missed it because you can still find Uno’s games up on https://unyi.me/games including a new Plant Simulator game. In our interview, Uno reveals what inspires these games, how win and lose conditions are decided, and major influences.
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ExTV Presents: A Lament for Shame

Representation and storytelling are both critical tools towards pushing for change. In an growing conversation surrounding queerness and LGBTQIA+ people, we have seen numerous amounts of victories achieved both in legislative realms and social realms. Yet, there is still action to be taken and change to be made. In our August Web Program, we highlight three different queer artists delving into abjection, taught shame, false monstrosity, and heartbreak, all in search of a different representation of queer stories. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: “Faggot” – Ythan Ponio (2017) This was a response to my father’s silence towards me after finding out I was gay. I wanted to show a bodily rejection of his prayers of conversion as well as remind myself that his attitudes towards my sexuality are a product of Catholicism being used as a […]
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Blog, Campus Monitors

August 2018 Monitor Programming

August! Time flies quickly once more. Catch our monitors this month, featuring five artists’ works on intimacy, family, and upbringing. Many of these videos feature a valuable and immersive relationship of visual and written storytelling. when did I last hear the horn of the karang guni man? Ryan Goh – 2016 Interspersing recollections on personal narrative with architectural facades and obscured characters, “when did I last hear the horn of the karang guni man?” contemplates the projections of cultural loss and personal grief. How do the displaced fragments of memory that remain find refuge in spaces that resonate remembrance? Careful Jeffrey Austin – 2014 A short, slow-motion film by brothers Jeffrey and Matt Austin playing with ideas of caution and security in the context of personal intimacy. Filmed at the Burren College of […]
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Blog, Interviews

PolyPlay 2018: Interview with Sean Han Tani, All Our Asias Game Designer

Check out our interview with Polyplay 2018 participant Sean Han Tani! Sean tells us about what influenced the game and why he thinks All our Asia’s is important. If you want to download the game or buy Sean’s artbook for only 5$, visit this link https://sean-han-tani.itch.io/aoa.
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Archive

ExTV Presents: Close Your Eyes

The mind is a separate plane of existence where our subconscious comes out to play. This month is dedicated to three artists’ takes on the surreal landscapes and its connection to the world we live in. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: “Are you Real” – Kristina Tokar A guy falls asleep and his nightmare becomes reality. (0:06) “foxconn.tv” – Hsin-Yu Lin foxconn.tv is a seamless video loop that gives you a tour to Foxconn CEO, Terry Guo’s dream. The dream is made up by both utopian and dystopian fantasies, mixing science fiction imaginations of the West with the contemporary reality of Chinese electronic manufacturing industries. Exhibited at 2016 Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Budapest, Hungary and featured on Vassar Review and Creator’s Project. (@3:17) “Meanwhile, the Night” – Riley Lynch Unable to recall his dreams, […]
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ExTV Fall Open Meeting!

ExTV Presents: IRL to URL

September 2018 Monitor Programming

PolyPlay 2018: Interview with Unyimeabasi Udoh, a Twine Text-Based Game Designer

ExTV Presents: A Lament for Shame

August 2018 Monitor Programming

PolyPlay 2018: Interview with Sean Han Tani, All Our Asias Game Designer

ExTV Presents: Close Your Eyes

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