Past Exhibitions
“…and on this invention, they show shows, right?”
(An Overview of Baltimore Media Artists) - April 3-
14, 2009
TETC Electronic Gallery — Room 128, Wing A
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The title of this exhibition is a quote by Samuel L.
Jackson’s Pulp Fiction character referring to the invention of
television. This exhibition of Baltimore Media Artists collects
experimental explorations in artist-made media, rarely, if ever,
represented on national television. Compiled on four separate
screens (or channels: Performance, Animation, Narrative, and
Non-Narrative), “ Invention” imagines specialty TV stations of
the future, were artists given greater access to a landscape
currently propelled by commercials and sitcoms.
will give a talk on April 3 at 5 pm in TETC 153
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Kristen Anchor has worked as Director of
Creative Alliance
MovieMakers since 2001 - shortly after its inception - curating
the screenings program and producing programs and workshops to
support local filmmakers and the filmmaking community in
Baltimore. CAmm currently presents approximately 40 screenings
and 50 professional programs annually. Anchor is a frequent
panelist, moderator and presenter for film and video events and
organizations, including: Maryland Film Festival, Experimental
Television Center (Owego, NY), Morgan State University, Mix NYC,
Art Institute of Portland, Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY), and
MicroCineFest (Baltimore). She is a co-founder of the
award-winning queer cabaret Charm City Kitty Club, is a
video/installation artist, plays drums for Baltimore’s all-girl
garage band The Degenerettes, and is the creator of the out of
this world performance duo Monster Drummer Thunderupagus. She’s
toured the US with films and music three times and her video
work is featured in several DVD compilations including Films
About Nothing, Hondance , and Creative Capitalism’s Notebook.
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