PLANTASIA Vol. 2: WORLD WIDE WEB TAKEOVER Opening Night Screening

PLANTASIA VOL. 2: WORLD WIDE WEB TAKEOVER

Opening: Sat, Aug 10, 7PM Doors, 8:30PM screening

On view through Aug 24

Visual Poetry workshop by featured filmmaker Anna Doyle on Sunday August 18

Millennium Film Workshop presents the second annual screening and gallery exhibition, PLANTASIA, curated by Brooklyn artist Holly Overton. Whereas the first installment focused on works by artists who use the outdoors as a tool, PLANTASIA VOL 2: WORLD WIDE WEB TAKEOVER visualizes an internet landscape, from the expansive cloud to the world wide web and all of the bugs caught in it.

The films, paintings and sculpture in this show feature many interpretations of interconnectivity, whether viewed as omnipresent and vast or felt as isolating and distorted. Consider the dialogue between a woman’s search for digital and physical belonging in Anna Doyle’s 16mm to digital short film, GOD BLESS I CLOUD, and the countlessly layered abstracted, organic forms…