Visual Studies Workshop

Scenes from last week's Queer Games event in the VSW Salon:

Preparing a VHS tape for splicing with the Kinyo Splicer Kit in the VSW Media Transfer Lab.

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

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

Hi friends please consider applying to this I will bring you lunch EVERY DAY

[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/pr…

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-entertain…

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/work…

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.

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/visualstudiesw…

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/work…

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/work…

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/pr…

@BOMBmagazine @deezdogg VSW recently published the ReStacks' book FERAL DOMESTIC - drawings, writings, and images in dialogue with the artists’ trilogy of videos 'Strangely Ordinary This Devotion; Come Coyote, and Future From Inside'. Check it out! bookstore.vsw.org/product/feral-…

"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/feral…

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/work…

Got my latest chapbooks from @VSWnews today! So excited to see the series continuing to highlight community members and their great work

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!

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.