“Swarm Raid” is featured in the exhibition Completely Familiar, Entirely Free at Artspace New Haven from July 16 to September 10. Curated by Saskia Globig and Michael Ipsen of the new media collective Lino Kino, the exhibit will be installed across five street-facing video projection scrims. More information here.
“Swarm Raid” is part of the “Dance is Like a Fine Wine” program produced by the Sans Souci Film Festival of Dance Cinema. The program features a screening of dance films, discussion with a local artist, and a low-mobility-friendly dance class free to the public age 60 and better. The program is offered July 11, 2022 at 12pm MT at the West Age Well Center in Boulder, Colorado and August 15, 2022 at 1pm MT at Hover Community in Longmont, Colorado. More information here.
Anna Lindemann is part of a team that was awarded a $1,350,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant: “Developing and Testing Innovations [DTI]: Engaging Underrepresented Populations in Environmental Action through Mentoring, Geospatial Technology and Digital Media Storytelling.” The four-year grant will run from August 2022 to July 2026 and will support the development of an Eco-Digital Storyteller Program, an informal education program designed to promote E-STEAM (Environment, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) identity formation and career interest within students from historically minoritized groups. The core project team includes Laura Cisneros (PI), Todd Campbell (Co-PI), Cary Chadwick (co-PI), Heather Elliott-Famularo (co-PI), Anna Lindemann (co-PI), David Dickson (Senior Personnel), Nicole Freidenfelds (Senior Personnel).
“Swarm Raid” is one of 21 artworks selected for the ISEA 2022 conference screening program. The International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) is “one of the most important annual events worldwide dedicated to the crossroads where art, design, science, technology and society meet.” ISEA 2022 will take place in Barcelona, Spain. More info here.
Anna Lindemann will present on her work as an Evo Devo Artist as part of the BioArt Talks @CBIS, a virtual series of one hour lunchtime presentations given by five internationally recognized bioartists: Orkan Telhan, Heidi Boisvert, Aisen Caro Chacin, Anna Lindemann, and Mary Maggic. The speaker series is presented in conjunction with RPI’s Center for Biotechnology, the ARTS department & the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and the Sanctuary’s NATURE Lab. Talks are free and open to the public and take place Fridays at 12:30pm EDT. For more information and to register visit: https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/evo-devo-art/
The Colony will be featured in the Guerilla Underground 2022 Season, a virtual speakeasy experience and performance series produced by Guerilla Opera. The series includes broadcasts of groundbreaking live productions, guest artists, and new works interpreted through cinematic mediums of film and animation. Join Friday March 11, 2022 at 7:30pm EDT for the live stream event. Extended on-demand viewing available with subscription packages and Zoom After Party available to VIP Package ticket holders. Purchase tickets here.
“Swarm Raid” is part of the 18th Annual Sans Souci Film Festival of Dance Cinema’s “The World is Our Stage” program at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities in Arvada Colorado. The program features documentaries, music videos, and short dance films from the US, Brazil, India, Ireland, France, Netherlands, and the UK. For tickets and program information: https://sanssoucifestival.org/ssf-arvada-center-2021/
Anna Lindemann presents at “Bio-Art Mixer #13” at Syracuse University, a series that brings together presenters from the arts and life sciences for talks and informal discussion. Anna will present alongside Dr. Kelly M. Schmid of Cornell University. The hybrid event takes places Friday, November 12 at 6pm ET in the Lundgren Room of the Life Sciences Building at Syracuse University and online. More info here.
“Swarm Raid” from The Colony is featured in the digital and print publication becoming-Feral, a curated collection of over 80 international contributors that offers a “prismatic and multifaceted perspective on our understandings of other-animals and their ‘wildness’ through the re-imagined form of a bestiarum vocabulum (book of beasts).” More details here.
Anna Lindemann will present on Gene Network Music as part of the “Algorithmic Arts & Humanities at UConn” event produced by the UConn Humanities Institute Digital Humanities and Media Studies Initiative. The event will feature talks by four faculty members from various disciplines at UConn—Kyle Booten, Sue Huang, Stefan Kaufmann and Anna Lindemann — sharing artworks, research, and scholarship that draw on computational methods ranging from natural language processing and machine learning to generative musical composition. The hybrid event takes place at the Homer Babbidge Library and online. More info here.
Anna Lindemann was an Official Visitor at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Mesa Laboratory headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. Her visit was hosted by NCAR scientist Dr. Alice DuVivier and was dedicated to conducting background research for an animation they are developing about complex changes in ecosystems and physical landscapes occurring in the Arctic, the region of our planet most affected by climate change.
The film version of THE COLONY is part of the online programming at the 2021 Istanbul Fringe Festival. The hybrid festival features a lineup of international artists presenting 9 live performances at various venues in Istanbul and 21 online shows accessible to audiences anywhere. You can find more details about the festival here and get tickets for the shows here.
The September 2021 Labocine Issue entitled “Colonies” features the film version of The Colony. Labocine is a hybrid streaming platform that showcases cinema from the Science New Wave through curated monthly issues of science films, live streaming events, spotlight articles, and a subscription database of more than 3,000 films. Check out the issue here.
“Ant Sisters” will be featured as part of the “Earth Explained” program of the 2021 Bristol Science Film Festival. Screenings will be free and online! The “Earth Explained” program will screen at 19:30 UK time on Friday July 16. The “Technology and Us” program will screen at 19:30 UK time on Saturday July 17. Both programs will then be available on the festival’s YouTube channel from July 18th – 27th. More details here.
Three songs from The Colony are featured in the concert programming for the 2021 SEAMUS Virtual Conference. The conferences of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) are “among the most prestigious electronic, electroacoustic, and computer music events in the world.”
The animated short “Ant Sisters” is featured in “Precision: Illustrative Technique in Art and Science,” an exhibition at The Art Gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University that highlights the work of 27 artists. The exhibition features a wide range of work that transforms scientific facts into evocative visual language. A virtual discussion with many of the exhibiting artists, moderated by the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Dr. Carmen Cid, takes place on Wednesday April 7, 2021 from 3-4pm EDT. Exhibition statement here.
The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) presents an online screening of The Colony accompanied by behind-the-scenes insights and discussion with The Colony composer, co-writer, animator, and performer Anna Lindemann and soprano and performer Lucy Fitz Gibbon. They will be joined by KLI fellow and myrmecologist (ant scientist) Alice Laciny. The KLI is an independent center of advanced studies in the life and sustainability sciences based in Klosterneuburg, Austria.
The event will be held via Zoom on Thursday 28 January 2021 at 9am New York, NY / 3pm Vienna, Austria. Free and open to the public. Registration required. More details and registration link available here.
“Swarm Raid” from The Colony is an official selection of Xsection 2020, a dance and science film festival. The music and dance video “Swarm Raid” is a surreal trip to the grocery store inspired by an army ant swarm raid. Xsection 2020 features 10 short films sparked by interdisciplinary collaboration between dance, science, and film.
Festival kickoff begins Friday 30 October 2020 at 7pm EST. Online screenings and audience choice awards are open through Sunday 1 November at 9pm EST. Program details and links to watch available here and @xsectionfilmfest.
The Colony received a Science New Wave Honorable Mention at the 13th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival. The Science New Wave Award recognizes feature films that propose bold, singular and oftentimes hybrid ways to communicate science. These films are considered to be visionary and outside of the (science) box. A complete announcement of the ISFF winners and special mentions is available here.
A film version of The Colony will be featured as part of the 13th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival. The Colony will screen online at 1pm ET on Sunday, October 18. Attendance is free, but reservations are required. To reserve tickets visit: http://imaginesciencefilms.org/ny13/schedule
Anna Lindemann talked with Imagine Science Films Programming Consultant Nate Dorr about The Colony. Their conversation is available here.
Imagine Science Film Festival is dedicated to pushing science narrative boundaries and embracing the Science New Wave. This year’s festival explores the theme “MIGRATION” and takes place online from October 16-23, featuring over 80 films from over 25 countries. The Imagine Science REPLAY pass allows you to watch films and conversations after the live events through October 25.
The short film “Swarm Raid” and the projected animation “Migration” are featured in the “2020 Studio Art + Digital Media & Design Faculty Exhibition at the William Benton Museum of Art. “Swarm Raid” is also featured as part of the affiliated online exhibition available here.
An online screening of a film version of The Colony will be presented as part of Science in the Virtual Pub, a bi-weekly program of friendly science sponsored by the Paleontological Research Institution affiliated with Cornell and the Museum of the Earth. A discussion with Anna Lindemann and Lucy Fitz Gibbon will follow the online screening. The screening is Thursday August 27 at 7:30pm. You can register here to attend the event.
The contemporary art exhibition Con(tacto) presented at Cultivamos Cultura in São Luis, Portugal, features new ways of thinking and looking at the lockdown, the virus, the bacteria, or even the impact we have on each other as a result of both subtle and more pronounced contact. Anna Lindemann contributed to “Antibodies,” a collection of videos by “FEMeeting: WEB” reflecting personal responses to this pandemic, which was featured in the exhibition.
Anna Lindemann was the Ellie Warburg Class of 1945 Visiting Artist at the Foote School, an independent K-9 school in New Haven, CT. She presented school assemblies about her creative work integrating art and science and led a total of twelve workshops for 5th and 6th graders in which they created stop motion animations on a science theme. The Visiting Artist residency ended with a presentation entitled “Animating Biodiversity: An evening of animation and performance celebrating the diversity of our planet,” featuring the premiere of the student stop motion animations. You can see pictures of the young animators at work here.
