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ACRE TV is an artist-made livestreaming tele-vision network that features live and canned video, performances, durational works, and experimental broadcasts. It is run in the collaborative spirit of ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions). ACRETV.org
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Posted on Tue Aug 25, 2015

## Tele-novela

Dates:
Tue Sep 01, 2015 00:00 - Sat Oct 31, 2015

Location:
Chicago, Illinois
United States of America

Curated by Robyn Farrell
Tele-novela is a genre of limited-run drama series popular on Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television networks. The term combines tele, short for televisión or televisão (Spanish and Portuguese words for television), and novela, a Spanish and Portuguese word for “novel”. Symbolic, social, or technological, Tele-novela mimics the serial and structural nature of the pop cultural programs, but moves from linear story to abstracted narrative, and experimental play by electronic means. Arranged in three-part acts and ranging in media–video, sound, animated GIFs–and durational formats, the sequential productions on ACRE TV present a departure from their operatic tradition in favor of abstracted realities and dispersed fictions that simultaneously explore and avoid the notion of formal narrative on screen.
Tele-novela includes work by Laure Provoust, Marisa Olson, Sara Ludy, Michael Robinson, Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Brenna Murphy, Megan Rooney, Jon Cates, Martine Syms, Jodie Mack, Kevin B. Lee, Kirsten Leenaars, LJ Frezza, Nick Coriossi, Maya Mackrandilal, Rosa Menkman, Sara Condo, Paul Hertz, Martin Murphy, Kim Laughton, Jillian Mayer, Andrew Rosinski, Anna Ialeggio, Claire Jervert, Lucy Pawlak, Rob Steinberg, Samuel Fouracre, Jaime Davidovich, Tina Willgren, Kyle Schlie, Heejin Jang, Christine Lucy Latimer, Dana Dal Bo, Huong Ngo & George Monteleone, Mitch Oliver, Hannah Piper Burns, Derek G. Larson, Theo Shure, Ryan O’Hare, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Caitlin Denny & Nicole Ginelli, Jeroen Nelemans, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Bryan Zanisnik, Karthik Pandian, Ann Oren.
Image: Michael Robinson, Hold Me Now, 2008. Courtesy the artist and Carrie Secrist Gallery.

http://www.acretv.org/tele-novela/

OPPORTUNITY
Posted on Fri Jul 03, 2015

## CALL FOR WORK: Tele-novela

Deadline:
Sat Jul 25, 2015 23:59

Location:
Chicago, Illinois
United States of America

Michael Robinson, Hold Me Now, 2008. Courtesy the artist and Carrie Secrist Gallery.

Tele-novela is a genre of limited-run drama series popular on Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television networks. The term combines tele, short for televisión or televisão (Spanish and Portuguese words for television), and novela, a Spanish and Portuguese word for “novel”. Symbolic, social, or technological, Tele-novela mimics the serial and structural nature of the pop cultural programs, but moves from linear story to abstracted narrative, and experimental play by electronic means. Arranged in three-part acts and ranging in media–video, sound, animated GIFs–and durational formats, the sequential productions on ACRE TV present a departure from their operatic tradition in favor of abstracted realities and dispersed fictions that simultaneously explore and avoid the notion of formal narrative on screen.
We are also accepting submissions for artist-made commercials that will play throughout the show. If you are submitting a commercial, please write “Tele-novela Commercial” in your submission form.
Proposals due by 11:59pm July 25th, 2015.
We will notify you on the status of your proposal by August 10th, 2015.
File delivery for accepted proposals due August 24th, 2015.
Tele-novela will air from September 1st to October 31st, 2015.
Please visit our calls page to submit your proposal: http://www.acretv.org/calls/
This program is curated by Robyn Farrell.

http://www.acretv.org/

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Posted on Mon Jun 01, 2015

## ACRE TV Takeover

Dates:
Mon Jun 01, 2015 00:00 - Sun Jun 28, 2015

ACRE TV Takeover
June 2015
A month of marathons from E.S.P. TV, Chic-A-Go-Go, STROBE Network, and THE 90’s presented by Media Burn Archive.
Inspired by one of the most famous Chicago television incidents, ACRE TV‘s stream is being benevolently hijacked by four exciting media organizations for the month of June. These four groups range in project age (from 20+ years to prenatal) as well as geographic center, and have diverse methods and interests to match. Tying these projects together is a spirit of fun and experimentation in broadcast forms, on a human scale.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
E.S.P. TV: June 1 – 7, 2015
Directed by Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie, this expansive project utilizes a mobile television studio to explore the artist dialogue with broadcast transmission, analog and digital media, and televisual liveness. ACRE TV hosts a TV marathon special entitled Next week on E.S.P. TV. With over 50 live taping events and over 75 episodes to date, this televisual series showcases the full spectrum of E.S.P. TV‘s 4 years of broadcast. The episodes will be played back to back from June 1 – 7, 2015. Made for television, the E.S.P. TV archive lives on forever in a perpetual “re-run”.
E.S.P. TV’s live TV studio hybridizes technologies old and new, to realize synthetic environments for performance while exposing their process of production. Each live taping event is the realization of an artists’ collaboration with us. These events are taped live with a crew of cameramen, sound engineer, and video mixing team in front of an audience. The recorded events air on Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television weekly, as well as online, and have been exhibited internationally.
E.S.P. TV broadcasts every Tuesday night at 10PM on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) channel 67 in Manhattan, as well as online at mnn.org. All episodes are then posted online on their website, ESPTV.com, and Vimeo page, vimeo.com/esptv. E.S.P. TV now also airs on Wednesdays with Comcast Cable 66/966 or Verizon Fios 29/30 in Philadelphia at 11:30PM.
Chic-A-Go-Go: June 8 – 14, 2015
Chic-A-Go-Go, “Chicago’s Dance Show for Kids of All Ages”, is a legendary Chicago institution, an inclusive venue for musicians and dance moves since the first taping in 1996. Created by Jake Austen and Jacqueline Stewart, Chic-A-Go-Go has and continues to invite multi-generational groovers into the worlds of contemporary weirdo music and the unrehearsed freedom of public access television. Shot at CAN TV (cantv.org), Chicago’s public access television studio, a trip to a Chic-A-Go-Go taping might include encounters with world famous talking vermin Ratso and Li’l Ratso, co-host Miss Mia, and any number of traveling musicians including Lemmy, Bobby Conn, TV on the Radio, Sonic Youth, Patti Smith, Sky Ferreira, Wesley Willis, and GZA.
Chic-A-Go-Go makes unique twists on television forms inherited from shows like Soul Train, and Chicago’s own Kiddie-a-Go-Go, featuring lip syncing and an “El Train Line” segment to show off individual moves. ACRE TV is proud to host a marathon of selections from the more than 1,000 episodes logged, including some rarely seen, newly digitized, blasts from the past.
STROBE Network: June 15 – 21, 2015
STROBE Network is a temporary broadcast network that will via a digital streaming platform, featuring artworks that make use of broadcast as an artistic medium. The content has been programmed through an open call and the Flux Factory community at large, including work from 75+ artists. STROBE Network will create and distribute an alternate reality version of mass culture that is free, conscious, experimental, and uncensored.
Streaming 24/7 for nine days, STROBE Network will feature video art, performance, animation, talk shows, music, and archival materials. STROBE Network will stream from June 13 – 21 via strobenetwork.tv and as a parallel stream on ACRETV.org from June 15 – 21. In addition to the online streams, they will welcome a studio audience for live tapings on select evenings at their sound stage in the Flux Factory gallery in Long Island City. Off-site stations will host viewing parties and Strobe TV Toilet Viewing Stations at TBD locations.
STROBE Network is part of Flux Factory‘s 2015 programming. Flux Factory is a non-profit art organization that supports and promotes emerging artists through exhibitions, commissions, residencies, and collaborative opportunities. Flux Factory is guided by its passion to nurture the creative process, and knows that this process does not happen in a vacuum but rather through a network of peers and through resource-sharing. Flux Factory functions as an incubation and laboratory space for the creation of artworks that are in dialogue with the physical, social, and cultural spheres of New York City (though collaborations may start in New York and stretch far beyond).
THE 90’s: June 22 – 28, 2015
Twenty-five years ago, something completely different was broadcast on public TV. No, not Monty Python…it was THE 90’s.
“Easily the most important and innovative news show on the air, a show that does all the things that television was born to do but never does.”
— Michael Dare, Billboard, August 25, 1990.
THE 90’s was independently produced and broadcast on PBS stations in prime time nationwide, featuring the kind of videos most people didn’t know existed. This was before cell phones, before the Internet, before YouTube, the Daily Show, or “reality tv.”
The pioneering award-winning weekly series piqued curiosity and challenged ideas about the world. It built an audience of millions on more than 160 public television stations.
In total, 52 hour-long episodes aired over four years. This week-long streaming marathon coincides with the 25th anniversary of this groundbreaking show. Viewers will get their only chance to watch, or re-watch, THE 90’s as it was meant to be seen: together, with people all around the world tuning in at the same time. THE 90’s has been preserved and made digitally available by Media Burn Archive (mediaburn.org), a project of Fund for Innovative TV, independent producer of THE 90’s.

http://www.acretv.org/acre-tv-takeover/

EVENT
Posted on Wed Apr 01, 2015

## Were the Eye Not Sunlike

Dates:
Wed Apr 01, 2015 00:00 - Sun May 31, 2015

Location:
Chicago, Illinois
United States of America

Were the Eye Not Sunlike
Curated by Third Object
an exhibition in two parts
DIGITALLY
ACRE TV
acretv.org
April 1 - May 31
PHYSICALLY
FERNWEY GALLERY
916 N Damen Ave | Chicago, IL
April 3 - April 26
Opening Reception April 3, 2015, 6-9pm
Fernwey Gallery
Inspired by the long dark winters of Chicago, this exhibition focuses on the Sun at a time when it is missed the most, moments before springtime. As an object that is both illuminating and unseeable, the experience of the Sun is dominated by metaphor and myth. Were the Eye Not Sunlike channels the mythologization of the Sun and our relationship to its immeasurable power.
Beginning on April 1, a three-part video program will unfold on the artist-made livestreaming platform ACRE TV. The program begins with Sunrise and its thematic associations of stillness, repetition, ritual, crispness and intimacy. Reflecting the course of the earth-bound day, the following program, High Noon, tracks the warmth and optical energy of a bright, full sky. Sunset, the final chapter, evokes impending darkness, melancholy, loss and reflection. The ACRE TV program includes work by sixty-two artists from around the world and will run for two months.

Sunrise: April 1 - April 19 | High Noon: April 19 - May 10 | Sunset: May 10 - May 31

Meanwhile, from April 3 - April 26, Fernwey Gallery presents the physical iteration of Were the Eye Not Sunlike with work in photography, sculpture and installation. Featuring Lauren Edwards, Assaf Evron and Danny Giles, the exhibition proposes its own strain of the solar metaphor, imagining the Sun as the object of theater and a distant, all-controlling dictator in the sky. The exhibition will also be accompanied by a printed publication designed by Mia Nolting and with essay contributions by Third Object and Danny Floyd.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
ACRE TV
Prologue - April 1 to April 3
Penelope Umbrico
Sunrise - April 3 to April 19
Christopher Bailey & Charles Woodman, Blair Bogin, Patrick Andrew Boivin & Stèphane Charpentier & Alyssa Moxley, Laura Bouza, Dana Carter, Kate Casanova, Karen Y. Chan, Silvana D’Mikos, Ilan Gutin, Stephanie Hough, Cassandra C. Jones, Pablo Marín, Andrew Payne, Chris Rice, Andrew Rosinski, Ben Russell, Patrick Tarrant, Robert Todd, Eileen Rae Walsh, Eric Watts
High Noon - April 19 to May 10
Tony Balko, Tommy Becker, Sarah & Joseph Belknap, Dana Carter, Karen Y. Chan, Thomas Dexter, Max Grey, Amy Hicks, Jason Judd, Meredith Lackey, Karl Lind, Elina Malkin & Jónó Mí Ló, Pablo Marín, Eden Mitsenmacher, Rebecca Najdowski, Aaron Oldenburg, Jean-Michel Rolland, Ben Russell, Fern Silva, Rachael Starbuck, John Szczepaniak, Patrick Tarrant, Robert Todd
Sunset - May 10 to May 31
Laura Bouza, Collin Bradford, Dana Carter, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Sara Condo, Alexei Dmitriev, Mike Gibisser, Max Grey, Sam Hoolihan, Cassandra C. Jones, Jeremiah Jones, Robert Ladislas Derr, Christine Lucy Latimer, Chris Little, Ying Liu, Laura Mackin, Matthew-Robin Nye & Marc Wieser, Jae Pas, Chris Rice, Andrew Rosinski, Eeva Siivonen, Fern Silva, Eric Stewart, Takahiro Suzuki, Robert Todd, Penelope Umbrico, Eileen Rae Walsh, Eric Watts
FERNWEY GALLERY
Lauren Edwards, Assaf Evron, Danny Floyd, Danny Giles, Mia Nolting
More information can be found at:
http://www.acretv.org/were-the-eye-not-sunlike
http://www.fernwey.com
http://thirdobject.net/sun.html
Fernwey is an artist-run gallery dedicated to promoting the work of emerging and mid-career artists in Chicago. Fernwey hopes to further Chicago's contemporary art conversation by providing platforms for exposure, exchange, and collaboration. fernwey.com
Third Object is a collaborative curatorial group that comprises Ann Meisinger, Raven Munsell, Elisabeth Smith and Gan Uyeda. thirdobject.net

http://acretv.org/

EVENT
Posted on Sat Jan 17, 2015

## Direct Object/Direct Action

Dates:
Fri Jan 23, 2015 18:00 - Tue Mar 31, 2015

Location:
Chicago, Illinois
United States of America

Direct Object/Direct Action
February 1-March 31*
Threewalls and online at ACRETV.org
Opening Reception: January 23, 6-9pm
119 N. Peoria, #2C
Direct Object/Direct Action LIVE
February 27th, 7pm
Threewalls
Television creates political bodies because it happens to large groups of people simultaneously; we learn our stories gathered in bars and homes or virtually together while alone, we cast ballots for our idols all via a transmission from afar. Sharing these spectacular experiences has, for better or worse, made for large populaces more uniformly formed than any that history has seen. Meanwhile, political bodies use contemporary televisual streaming tools to broadcast their own struggles. Directed by television’s innate ability to create publics, and the common usage of livestreaming in contemporary populist movements, ACRE TV will spend February and March 2015* streaming moving image work that explores broadcast art and it’s ability to function as a catalyst for moving bodies. Direct Object/Direct Action will air live, canned, episodic, durational and experimental broadcast works that position the stream as an instrument as opposed to a stage, as well as works that address the concept and histories of political direct actions.
Leveraging the materiality of the devices and the parameters of livestreaming, Direct Object/Direct Action includes a 106-hour durational work by James N. Kienitz Wilkins; episodic shows by The Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Agnes Bolt & Nina Sarnelle), Ellen Mueller, Leslie Rogers, and Theo Shure; an audio piece by Soheila Azadi; video works by Blair Bogin & Mothergirl (Katy Albert & Sophia Hamilton), Eli Burke, Adam Castle, Thomas Comerford, Jaime Davidovich, Amanda Gutierrez, Bret Hamilton, Annetta Kapon, Adam Knight, Mike Newton, David Politzer, Sunita Prasad, Heath Schultz, and Willy Smart; and a LIVE event in which the stream will operate as a prop/instrument/soundtrack for the night of IRL performances featuring Melina Ausikaitis, Danny Giles, Leslie Rogers, and Neal Vandenbergh.
Programmed by Kera MacKenzie, Jesse Malmed, Andrew Mausert-Mooney and Nick Wylie
Poster Design: Anne Elizabeth Moore
* ACRE TV will be broadcasting a special preview week, January 23 - 31, 2015, in conjunction with the opening of Jaime Davidovich: Outreach 1974-1984 at Threewalls.

http://three-walls.org/exhibition/acre-tv-direct-objectdirect-action/

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