Downtown Houston Public Art Project

Snow Globe on the Bayou, sponsored by Downtown Houston
Dec 20-29, 2024

Excited to announce a public art event in downtown Houston. This immersive experience features digital artworks projected onto a 50-foot water screen in Buffalo Bayou Park. I recently collaborated with my TAMU colleague, Meg Cook, on a new experimental animation titled "HOU-SCOPIC". Our piece is one of three works that will be featured at the top and bottom of the hour.

For more information: https://downtownhouston.org/do/snow-glow-on-the-bayou

*After the 29th, the project will be moved to a different downtown location for a longer screening period (TBA).

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2024 Swedenborg Film Festival, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2024 Swedenborg Film Festival (*Special Mention Award)
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
December 7, 2024, 1-4pm

I am thrilled to share my new film “A Tiny Red Dot (and other hidden messages) at the 2024 Swedenborg Film Festival and receive a Special Mention Award. This year’s film festival was curated by Xiaolu Guo.

Established in 2010 the SFF supports all genres that draw upon the diverse and radical traditions influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). Artists, writers and filmmakers influenced by Swedenborg include William Blake, Charles Baudelaire, Hilma af Klint, Jorge Luis Borges, Ingmar Bergman and many others. Films featured in the SFF explore ideas of transcendence and symbolism, and themes have ranged from social reform to psychogeography.

https://www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/swedenborg-film-festival-2024/

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Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues

Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues
Shapeshifter Cinema, Oakland, CA
Program 4 - Metaphysics & Magic
Friday, October 25, 2024, 7pm

Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues is a curated series dedicated to exploring the visions, voices, concerns and lineage of women, non-binary, genderqueer and trans filmmakers through public film screenings, workshops, conversations and presentations. Curated by Amy Reid and Kathleen Kathleen Quillian.

Using both poetic and critical lenses, the films in this program examine the different ways we use symbolism, ritual and mythology as tools for engaging with the unknown in the attempt to understand the mysteries that surround us.

https://shapeshifterscinema.com/gravlens/

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Solo Screening with Aurora Picture Show and 2024 Texas Biennial

I am thrilled to announce a solo screening of my experimental film work, “Particles in a Light Beam”, sponsored by The Aurora Picture Show and the 2024 Texas Biennial. For the event, I will be showing a few older projects created for past APS events, dating back to 2014, along with three new works in-progress.

Basket Books & Art, October 5th, 7:30pm, Houston, Texas
https://www.aurorapictureshow.org/programs/krista-leigh-steinke-particles-in-a-light-beam

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2024 ISEA Conference Creative Program

Excited to announce that "Sun Mapping" will be featured at this year's ISEA conference in Brisbane. Australia, June 21-30. (International Symposium on Electronic Art) https://isea2024.isea-international.org/welcome/

The 10-minute video, an animation of over 25 still images of the Gulf Coast landscape, was created using pinhole cameras and other experimental techniques. The project was originally created for The Corpus Cristi Port Authority Building in TX. Audio was recently added in collaboration with Sherman Finch. We are looking forward to sharing this work with an international audience!

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Big City Lights Festival

My work “Sun Mapping” will be featured in the 2024 Big City Lights Festival, as part of the ISEA Festival in Brisbane, Australia.
June 21-July 7, 2024

https://bigcitylightsfestival.com.au/whats-on/

With over more than 40 different locations across Southport CBD, the BIG CITY LIGHTS features large-scale projections that re-interpret building facades, surround sound audio works that envelope the CBD in sonic waves, and interactive installations, films from across the country.

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2023 Engauge Film Festival

The 2023 Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, Nov 1-4, 2023
My film “Time Scraps: Film Threads and Sprocket Holes” screens Nov. 3 at 6:30pm, during the Grain, Cloud, Atmosphere event.
for more info: https://nwfilmforum.org/festivals/engauge-experimental-film-festival-2023-in-person-only/

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Festival of (In) appropriation

My new film “Time Scraps: Film Threads and Sprocket Holes” will be featured in the 2023 Festival of (In) appropriation, at The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Oct 11, 7pm.
For more info: https://bampfa.org/event/festival-inappropriation-2023

Curated by Jaimie Baron, Jennifer Proctor, and Adam Sekuler. Sponsored by Filmforum.

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Admit One: Anlalog Film Showcase

Join us at the historic DeLUXE Theater as we pay tribute to celluloid, featuring the exceptional works of talented Texas filmmakers, all masterfully captured through the captivating lens of Super8mm, 35mm, 16mm, and VHS.
https://cinemahtx2023.eventive.org/schedule/649f7d22fafd150040d04619

Noted in Glasstire Top Five Art Events in Texas
https://glasstire.com/2023/07/20/top-five-july-20-2023/

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Featured New Media Artist

Three-week featured New Media artist for <terminal> a media screen space at Austin Peay State University, Art and Design Department. Curated by by Professor Barry Jones and Professor McLean Fahnestock.
https://www.apsu.edu/art-design/galleries/terminal/terminal.php

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STUFF Film Festival 2022

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CALM CENTERED AWAKE: Public Screening

Lately, themes related to mental health and our relationship to the natural world have been surfacing in my work. My video "Life Line" (with sound by Sherman Finch) will be included in the "CALM" projection room for this event. Check out the stellar lineup of moving-image artists included this show: https://meetsanctuary.com/belltown-art-walk

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Engauge Experimental Film Festival

https://nwfilmforum.org/festivals/engauge-experimental-film-festival-2022-in-person-only/

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ISEA 2022

My experimental film "Life Line" was chosen to be featured during the 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art in Barcelona, Spain, ISEA2022. The theme of this year's conference is "Possibilities" and my work was part of the "Natures and Worlds" sub-theme and featured in the online proceedings.

https://isea2022.isea-international.org/event/screening-life-line-single-channel-video/

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Extremely Short Film Festival

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International Poetry Film Festival

https://poetryfilmfestival.org/

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Moving-Image-Arts International Short Film Festival

My short short experimental animation: 01.timescrap: 10.13.2020 will be featured in this year’s Moving-Image-Arts International Shorts Film Festival. Hosted by Ryerson University, School of Image Arts, April 7, 2022, Toronto, ON.

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Poetry+Film Collaboration

http://aurorapictureshow.org/calendar.asp?pageid=83&calid=1175

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Sustainable Stories Film Festival Official Selection

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2021 Flatland Film Festival Official Selection

Flatland Film Festival
LHUCA, Lubbock, TX
Sept. 23-25, 2021
http://lhuca.org/flatlandfilmfestival

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