SCREENING PRESENTED BY SEEN & CACTUS CLUB:

SEEN is a queer coalition of moving image makers, researchers, and curators who aim to disrupt the system of pay to show festivals and censored queer spaces. Through collaboration with other community driven and alternative art spaces, SEEN highlights self defined and nonconformist works to build a foundation for the rise of the Cinematic Gaze/Gayz. Started in Milwaukee in 2018, SEEN has now put on events in Austin, Chicago, Sheboygan, and New York.

TAKE BACK THE INTERNET
Join us for this multi-media event that focuses on our relationship to Screens, seeking Queerness in online spaces, connecting the Internet to REAL LIFE, and moving through multiple Modes of Vision. All of which ask us to reconsider our relationships to screens and make The Internet fun again.

5-6:30 Cruising the Web (FREE Community hang)

Surf the Web together for Queer Media. Learn how to explore online archives or take the cursor and journey us into your own corner of the World Wide Web
Visiting sites like

Otherness Archive

Queering the Map

QZAP

7:30-11 Screening and Performances ($10-$30 NOTAFLOF)

CYBERSLIME: a touring short film anthology curated, produced, and distributed by Full Spectrum Features and Henry Hanson.

2195CE: Tune in to your compound’s public access channel for a 90-min collection of short films & video art. Feels like candy and whippets at the end of the world. Tastes bloody and tender. Smells like hot fax machine, mouse pad, mac carcass, and tattered wire.*

Content Warnings:
Violence, gore, suicide, nudity, sex, substance abuse

A/V Performance by Taylor Dye and Deirdre Fromberg

Taylor Dye is a plunderoptics video collage artist. They use a Roland V-4EX alongside a custom Jitter patch to bathe the room in psycheprojection moving images.

Deirdre Fromberg is an improviser and electroacoustic musician working amongst experimental, free, and dance music traditions. She is an active performer in the Chicago underground as a solo artist and member of the ensemble Anti-Soul Organization

FREE COUNTRY
Gnat Bowden is a conceptual researcher living in Milwaukee WI. On the STING performance cycle.
“I want the power of my identities to be accessible to everyone and in this space encourage others to live, learn, and actively choose humanity over social programming or defeating dependence on the state.

There is a passive programming that dehumanizes us with each death, each harm we witness and accept as earned. We accept the state and expect them to control the danger. While we construct a useful alibi and narrative that justifies our own survival.

There is no safety within silence. Only a repositioning of the scope. It becomes our duty, our instinct, our programming to surrender.

As they eventually work their way through the people you think deserve it. Sooner or later. You’ll realize what you’ve done.”

iH8ithere
Harsh Dance Music
Sasscore girl band from Mke/Chi