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upcoming screening:
”Sprockets, Scratches, Splotches: Nine Short Films
Curated by Yasmina Price, sponsored by Triple Canopy

(part of the film series: Triple Canopy Presents: In the Hole)

Friday April 18, 7pm, BAM Rose Cinemas, Brooklyn, NY

A selection of shorts magnify on screen what was meant to be hidden in the machine.
for more info

Film Screening at BAM

April 09, 2025 in screenings, news

Im excited to present work in the fourth edition of this one-night event which will turn the exterior space of the AT&T Discovery District into a immersive outdoor exhibition with video artworks created by leading regional and national artists.

Friday, April 11, 2025, 7-10PM.

AT&T Discovery District
308 S Akard St
Dallas, TX 75202

https://dallasaurora.com/Video-Art-Night-2025

Dallas Aurora, Night of Video 2025

March 21, 2025 in screenings, news, events

Digital Flux

February 11, 2025 in events, new work, screenings

Digital Flux, curated by Tere Garcia
part of the
IMMERSE Festival, Downtown Orlando, FL
Feb 21-22, 2025

My new collaborative project with Meg Cook, U-SCOPIC, will be featured in this citywide festival.


Tags: public art, video, collaboration

Downtown Houston Public Art Project

December 20, 2024 in events, new work, screenings, special projects

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).


2024 Swedenborg Film Festival, Whitechapel Gallery, London

December 03, 2024 in screenings

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/


Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues

December 03, 2024 in screenings

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 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.


Solo Screening with Aurora Picture Show and 2024 Texas Biennial

September 09, 2024 in new work, events, screenings

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


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

2024 ISEA Conference Creative Program

June 16, 2024 in exhibitions, new work, screenings, special projects

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!


Big City Lights Festival

June 16, 2024 in special projects, screenings

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.


Very honored to be a recipient of the 2024 Jones Artist Award, which includes participation in the group exhibition “Nature’s Imprints”, curated by The Weingarten Group and sponsored by The Houston Endowment, HTX.
Other awardees include:

Tiffany Lee (Nature’s Imprints Group Exhibition)
Christopher Blay (Nature’s Imprints Group Exhibition)
Venessa Monokian (Nature’s Imprints Group Exhibition)
Guadalupe Herandez (Solo Exhibition Award)
Kim Le (Traces of Being Group Exhibition)
Kaima Akarue (Traces of Being Group Exhibition)
Jean Shon (Traces of Being Group Exhibition)
Stanley Bermudez (Traces of Being Group Exhibition)

Jones Artist Award

April 26, 2024 in awards, exhibitions

SEISMA MAGAZINE

January 11, 2024 in publications

SEISMA MAGAZINE: 03 Edition: Entomology (print and online)
artwork feature in publication dedicated to bi-directional sciarts interchange, Oxford, UK
https://seismamag.com/03-edition-entomology


2023 Engauge Film Festival

October 22, 2023 in screenings, events

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/


film still from “Time Scraps: Film Threads and Sprocket Holes”, 2023

Festival of (In) appropriation

September 18, 2023 in new work, screenings

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.


Wild Media: Wired Wilderness Exhibition

August 19, 2023 in exhibitions, news, special projects

Honored to be included in this special international online exhibition hosted by iDMAa (International Digital Media and Arts Association). Show is live through Dec. Check out my video "Lifeline", a collaboration with Sherman Finch, along with other work revolving around art, technology, and the environment. https://lnkd.in/en9jqjRk


Admit One: Analog Film Showcase, sponsored by Houston Cinema Arts Society and Flats Presents
DeLUXE Theater, Houston, TX, 7pm July 21, 2023

Admit One: Anlalog Film Showcase

July 18, 2023 in events, screenings

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/


FMFF ‘23

My film “Lifeline” is an Official Selection of this year’s festival.
Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL
May 18-20, 2023
Organized by Julie Dickover, Patrick Moser and Kevin Mahoney

Finger Mullet Film Festival

May 08, 2023

Paperbark Magazine: Issue 04

February 12, 2023 in publications

Paperbark Magazine: Issue 04
School of Earth and Sustainability, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, and UMass Library
University of Massachusetts Amherst
artist feature in interdisciplinary print & digital magazine


Featured New Media Artist

January 21, 2023 in special projects, screenings, exhibitions

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


Source: https://www.apsu.edu/art-design/exhibitions-speakers/terminal/terminal.php

2 Post Cinema Presents Tethered


Outdoor Public Film Screening, Houston, TX
curated by Britt Thomas and Prince Varughese Thomas
featuring my film “Sun Notations”

2Post Cinema

January 20, 2023

Superpresent Art and Literary Magazine

January 05, 2023 in publications

Selections from my series “Letting the Days Go By” featured in Superpresent Vol 3 No 1, Winter 2024
https://superpresentmag.com/current-issue/


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