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Scenes from last week's Queer Games event in the VSW Salon:
Sign that reads Queer Games 4/13

ALT Sign that reads Queer Games 4/13

Audience watches an abstract projected image

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Crowd of people look at television monitors

ALT Crowd of people look at television monitors

Four people crowd around a computer monitor

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Preparing a VHS tape for splicing with the Kinyo Splicer Kit in the VSW Media Transfer Lab.
A VHS cassette with tape coming out of both sides. One side of the tape is positioned on a tape splicer.

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Online Workshops at VSW: Coding for Artists and Poets - create your own website from scratch and learn how to tell digital hypertext stories that you can share online. Four Tuesday Evenings (April 11, April 18, April 25, May 2) - 6:00-8:00pm, $300, $255 for VSW members
Circular image of glitch textures with hidden text on the edges

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Filmmaker Yi Cui and VSW Curator Tara Nelson talk in the microcinema (3/23/23)
Filmmaker Yi Cui and VSW Curator Tara Nelson talk in the microcinema

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Ethan Swan@EthanandorJABS15 Mar 2023
Hi friends please consider applying to this I will bring you lunch EVERY DAY
Visual Studies Workshop@VSWnews15 Mar 2023
[Please RT] The Project Space Residency applications are open for Fall 2023/Spring 2024 until April 2! This is a studio workspace residency at VSW for artists working primarily but not exclusively in photography, book art, film, and media art. vsw.org/exhibitions/projects…
Work by Joel Dow in the VSW Project Space

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[Please RT] The Project Space Residency applications are open for Fall 2023/Spring 2024 until April 2! This is a studio workspace residency at VSW for artists working primarily but not exclusively in photography, book art, film, and media art. vsw.org/exhibitions/projects…
Work by Joel Dow in the VSW Project Space

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CITY@roccitymag13 Mar 2023
Photographer & professor @joshua_rashaad, honored in the latest In This Moment chapbook by @frannypadilla / curated by @blk_amanda, will speak at this week's @VSWnews salon. More about Thursday's events and other arts news here: roccitynews.com/arts-enterta…

VSW spotlights Joshua Rashaad McFadden

Visual Studies Workshop checks in with photographer Joshua Rashaad McFadden and other artists this spring as part of its VSW Salon series.

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VSW is hosting a hands-on Small Gauge Film Projection workshop this Saturday (March 4), 1-4pm. Seats still available but limited. Interested in how projectors work? Sign up here: vsw.org/education/workshops/
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Stop by VSW this Thursday, 6-7pm, for Open Studios with Project Space resident Martin Krafft! He has spent his residency immersed in the creation of his first first feature-length documentary, "Ain't Got Time to Die," that follows the life and death of his friend, Rachel Heisham.
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Very interesting conversation between Project Space resident Margaret LeJeune and VSW Assistant Curator Hernease Davis last night! The talk will be streaming via twitch for folks who missed it: twitch.tv/visualstudiesworks…
Margaret LeJeune and Hernease Davis talk in the Project Space studio.

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Workshops at the Workshop: Intro to Virtual Reality starts Feb. 7 and runs Tuesdays thru February! This course is for artists + poets interested in VR with little or no experience. VSW wants to continue to make this technology as accessible as possible. vsw.org/education/workshops/
Abstract shapes with unclear text in a digital 3D environment. Still from work by nilson carroll.

ALT Abstract shapes with unclear text in a digital 3D environment. Still from work by nilson carroll.

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There are still seats available for the Handmade Film workshop! Learn how to make a "cameraless" film and use a 16mm projector. Starts next Weds, January 25. Sign up now at: vsw.org/education/workshops/
The Circles of Tokyattle, Handmade 35mm Slide by Anna Wisbey

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Open call, please share! The Project Space Residency applications are now open for Fall 2023/Spring 2024. This is a studio workspace residency at VSW for artists working primarily but not exclusively in photography, book art, film, and media art. vsw.org/exhibitions/projects…
Joel Dow in the Project Space, Spring 2018.

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BOMB Magazine@BOMBmagazine9 Jan 2023
"To live a feral domestic life is an aspiration, a refusal to be domesticated by capitalism." Dani and Sheilah ReStack, a married couple and artistic collaborators, share how they create work that reexamines gender and sexuality. Interview by @deezdogg. bombmagazine.org/articles/fe…
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Our first workshop of Spring 2023, HANDMADE FILM, starts Jan. 25! Experience rare, creative hands on time with film materials in this five-week workshop. Seats are limited! vsw.org/education/workshops/
Several strands of handmade 16mm film

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Erica@meowburger19 Dec 2022
Got my latest chapbooks from @VSWnews today! So excited to see the series continuing to highlight community members and their great work
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Join us as we move toward the winter solstice for 'Spirit of the Archive,' this Thursday, 7-9pm, at VSW. Part holiday-party, part open archive, we will conjure the spirit of the lantern slide collection and show holiday 16mm films!
Lantern Slide depicting reindeer in the snow.

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Visit VSW tomorrow (Thurs) 6-7pm for open studios with current AIR Raymond Thompson. Thompson is an artist, educator and visual journalist based in Austin, TX. He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Photojournalism at University of Texas at Austin.
Artist in Residence Raymond Thompson stands in his studio looking at a table and wall full of photo prints.

ALT Artist in Residence Raymond Thompson stands in his studio looking at a table and wall full of photo prints.

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Check out the next episode of the Project Space Podcast! ‘Episode #2: Savannah Wood and Aaron Turner’ is now on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/429WV
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