Multidisciplinary artists and IMA thesis students Tara and Indranil Choudhury are having a two-person exhibition at UnionDocs on May 3rd! The opening of the show titled: Feeble Transmitters starts at 7pm and it features paintings, ceramic sculptures, and hybrid objects punctuated with speakers, screens, and projections. “The artists invite the viewer into a world filled with feeble transmitters – devices studded with diminutive portals, gently dispatching sounds and images from other places.” The week-long show will also feature two live events, programmed around the themes explored in the show. RESONANT CHAMBERS will present an evening of live sound performances on a quadraphonic sound system, featuring artists Jenn Grossman, Shelley Hirsch and IMA Professor Hans Tammen, they’ll investigate the materiality of sound as central to their practice. LIGHT FROM THE OTHER SIDE features a screening of two films exploring the origins of cinema by Zoe Beloff that are shot on 3D B/W 16mm film. All info and to RSVP: https://uniondocs.org/event/feeble-transmitters-2024-05-03/ And more about their work: https://indranilchoudhury.com https://taraaliyakesavan.com UnionDocs 352 Onderdonk Ave Ridgewood, NY #exhibition #multimedia #sound #ceramics #painting #mixedmedia #installation #audio #performance #quadraphonic #16mm @uniondocs @indranil.c @tarakesavan

Filmmaker and IMA professor (and department chair) Kelly Anderson’s new film, EMERGENT CITY, is selected to screen at TRIBECA! IMA alumni Betty Yu, Sean Hanley, Alex Mallis, Fivel Rothberg, Lindsey Cordero, Amanda Katz, Samantha Farinella, Kalim Armstrong also helped with this film. “In the wake of deindustrialization and on the cusp of climate catastrophe, a Brooklyn community grapples with the future of New York City’s last working waterfront. Over a decade, Emergent City explores power and process in a working class neighborhood facing gentrification, development and the need for jobs that will allow people to stay in the place they call home. The film is a 360° observational portrait that leans into the complexity of issues often framed in black and white. Emergent City asks viewers to consider how change might emerge from dialogue and collective action in a world where too many outcomes are constrained by money, politics and business as usual.” More info about the film: https://tribecafilm.com/films/emergent-city-2024 https://www.redfordcenter.org/films/emergent-city/ https://itvs.org/films/emergent-city/ Tribeca Film festival 2024 is June 5-16 #TribecaFilmFestival #film #documentary #EmergentCityFilm #collaboation #community

IMA Student Camilo Salas @zamilo is included in an exhibition and conversation this Sunday 4/14 as part of Proyecto Prismas @proyectoprismas residency at Selva in Bushwick Brooklyn. On Sunday there will be a talk about latin american art, documentation and archives between the artists Renata del Riego (MX), Camilo Salas (CL - NY), and Hector Llanquin (CL - NY), which will be mediated by artist and curator Juan Pablo Mapeto (CL - BR) and interlocutor Camilo Salas. After the conversation, there will be time to experience two video installations made for Prismas’s Finissage by artists Camilo Salas and Hector Llanquin. Sunday April 14th 7 pm - 10 pm @ Selva 1329 Willoughby Ave, BK #exhibition #conversation #artisttalk #video #installation #multimedia proyectoprismas.com

IMA alum MX Oops has a multimedia installation and immersive performance work at NY Live Arts tomorrow! April 11th 5:30-7pm and also on April 25-27 https://newyorklivearts.org/event/unfinished-animal-gallery-installation/ MX Oops [NONFATAL_ERROR] OPENING RECEPTION APRIL 11, 5:30-7PM FREE W/ RSVP 219 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011 Join us for the opening of a visual exhibition in the lobby of New York Live Arts featuring custom neon signs, as well as films, portraits and augmented reality video shot during the creation period for UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL. Research and collaboration in Ghana, Trinidad, Hawaii, and the Dominican Republic, are audio-visual meditations on how positive deviance can support personal and collective liberation. NEW YORK LIVE ARTS APRIL 25 – APRIL 27 TICKETS START AT $15/$25 APRIL 25, 7:30PM; 26 – 27, 9PM UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL is a party and multimedia performance that uses the vibrant aesthetics of queer nightlife culture to reveal how cognitive bias connects us all. The Live Arts theater will be transformed into a club, immersing the audience in an audio-visual-dance featuring live electronic music by Tr!ggered, vocal artistry by stefa marin alarcón, and dance by Jason A. Rodriguez. This is a journey toward wholeness, through bass, bars, and ecstatic bodies in motion. An interdisciplinary approach invites the audience to meditate on what might be unfinished about human cognition and how these biases keep us from building a better world together. Reserve Tickets + more info: https://newyorklivearts.org/event/unfinished-animal/ #multimedia #performance #dance #sound #installation @mx_oops @nylivearts

IMA alum Marisa Holmes and IMA alum + professor Betty Yu are included in an exciting conference at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (25 W 43rd Street, NYC) Wednesday April 10, 6:30-8:30pm, Marisa Holmes (author of Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This Is Just Practice) is participating in an event called, Legacies of Organizing at CUNY: The Power of Collective Action Link to RSVP and more info: https://slucuny.swoogo.com/10april2024/ ///// Friday April 12, 11:00am-4:30pm, Betty Yu is participating in an event called, Social Movement Histories in Practice: Oral History, Political Education, & Art Link to RSVP and more info: https://slucuny.swoogo.com/12april2024/ #conference #talk #discussion #conversation #paneltalk @cunyslu @marisa_holmes @bettyyu21

Multimedia artist and Art and IMA Professor Christina Freeman is included in Bronx Calling Bronx Museum Biennial https://bronxmuseum.org/exhibition/6aim-biennial2/ On View: April 12 – June 16, 2024 Exhibition Opening Party: Friday, April 12 from 7 to 9PM Free! RSVP: https://bronxmuseum.org/exhibition/6aim-biennial2/ Christina is exhibiting a project called Pleasures and Terrors of Pollination About the series “In response to stressful conditions like extreme heat or drought, a plant will switch into survival mode, going to seed, often before a gardener has a chance to harvest. Focusing all of its energy on the continuation of its species, my buttercrunch lettuce went from producing delicious, edible leaves to extending a spire of flowers. I became obsessed with observing bolting plants in my garden. Collecting specimens of arugula, cilantro, and buttercrunch lettuce, I set out to document their forms. With the same sunshine and water that nurtures the plants, I exposed and washed this series of cyanotypes. I am interested in the tension between the aesthetic pleasure of the flower and the plant’s expression of self preservation in the face of imminent death. The title comes from Aaron Siskind’s series Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation, where he documented divers suspended mid air, devoid of context, such that it is unclear whether they are floating or falling– or where they might land. The bolting buttercrunch lettuce feels akin to our current human condition; confronting the uncertainty of our fragile ecosystem. The last effort to survive can be beautiful and terrifying.” More about Christina’s work: https://christinafreeman.net/ #cyanotype #prints #installation #triptych #plants #preservation #collection #photograph @freeman_christina @bronxmuseum