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 in Kate Alboreo’s acrylic on canvas, Heavy Toward Each Other.

In PLANTASIA VOL. 2, Overton asks how far we can extend ourselves into the digital world, and what would it look like if we could see where each piece of us goes. Installed as floating in the air, Janelle Krone’s MidJourney Collab #15 and #4 severed head paintings envision an answer. While Alanna Rebbeck’s short film, an Earthly Expedition, captures Google Street View’s camera as a sentient being along the Colorado River, Jessica Scott’s Snapshots from Terra Nullius viewfinders on pedestals reveal a close-up of mold landscapes at various moments in their life cycle… So is the internet a digital mycelium?

Program:

GOD BLESS I CLOUD, Anna Doyle, 2023, 16mm to digital, 08:46

Internet Symbiosis, Chris Bray, 2024, digital, 02:55

Space Baby, A L Miller, 2024, super8 to digital, 03:00

an Earthly expedition, Alanna Rebbeck, 2016, digital video, 05:52

The______World, Peixuan Ouyang, 2021, HD VIDEO, TRT,  17:55

TRT approx 39 mins, and on view on monitors in the gallery

Gallery:

Heavy Toward Each Other, Kate Alboreo, 24x24, acrylic on unprimed canvas, 2022

MidJourney Collab #15, Janelle Krone, 9x12, chalk pastel and acrylic on canvas paper, 2023

MidJourney Collab #4, Janelle Krone, 9x12, acrylic and pencil on Bristol, 2024

I Will Miss You, Celeste Morton, 11x14, oil on canvas, 2023

Grid, Sarah Rozell, 10’ 9” x 4’ 10”, digital image printed on vinyl, 2021

Snapshots from Terra Nullius, Jessica Scott, 12x12x8, viewfinders, aspergillus, penicillium, gelatin, wax, 2022