NextNOW Fest: Gamer Symphony Orchestra: Mario Kart Tournament
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Calling all racers! Join the Gamer Symphony Orchestra for a Mario Kart tournament with live music accompaniment.
Sign-ups will open on Monday, August 26, 2024 and registration is required to join the tournament. Gamers will play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Nintendo Switch. Spectators are welcome! Player registration here is available here.
NextNOW Fest: DIY Poster Printing and the Archives
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Learn about DIY printing techniques and listen to classic vinyl while designing and making your own poster with archivists from UMD's Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA). Using blocks and stamps hand-carved by SCPA staff, you will have the opportunity to design your own poster with exclusive designs from the archive for this year's festival.
NextNOW Fest: Dreamer Isioma
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Dreamer Isioma brings their incredible music to NextNOW Fest 2024!
NextNOW Fest: NoSo
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NoSo brings their incredible music to NextNOW Fest 2024!
NextNOW Fest: Trace Feed: Portal #2
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Portal #2, by video artist Trace Feed, is a projection-based work that opens a rift into a distorted alternate reality through camera feedback and modified electronics.
NextNOW Fest: Photon Motion, a moving image projection by artist Alyson Denny
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Photon Motion is an ongoing series of abstract photographic video loops. To create these moving images, Alyson Denny experiments with ways to bend light and mix its colors, and then mines the resulting photonic material for captivating and beguiling imagery. These works are made to spark each person's imagination in a different way. Whether you see rainbow-infused abstract paintings, or outer-space adventures, or mysterious creatures dancing on the wall, come together to discover where these moving abstractions take you.
NextNOW Fest: These Men Are Potential Rapists: Remembering the Work of the Women’s Coalition for Change
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NextNOW Fest: A Container of Breath by Justin Randolph Thompson in collaboration with Bradly Dever Treadaway and Jason Thompson
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A Container of Breath is a film projection and participatory performance dedicated to geoscientist, jazz musician, Tuskegee Airman and advocate for Black Studies, Randolph Bromery (1926-2003). The piece engages fleeting forms of commemoration and legacy maintenance. An experimental documentary film with a live sound score is the backdrop for oversized amplified cornhole boards which transform the space into one of recreational gathering.
NextNOW Fest: Video in The Atrium (ViTA): Television Delivers People by Richard Serra with Carlota Schoolman
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Television Delivers People, produced with Carlota Schoolman, focuses on the political import of broadcasting as corporate monopoly and imperialism of the air. The content is presented ironically, for the message criticizes its medium while remaining within it. Muzak is playing while sentences that Serra has excerpted from television conferences roll down a blue background in white lettering.
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