During her Aug 21-31, residency Anna Scime generated an impressive (2.81 TB) of moving image content by reprocessing her nature footage and camera footage from her personal and production archives.

Scime used IEA’s electronic media-art studio and investigated integrated video-processing across the multiple systems available at the IEA including the Sandin IP video synthesizer, the Jones MViP, VIZZable for Ableton Max for Live, GRM Tools audio signal processing software, and the ATEM video mixer.

With these tools she was able to manipulate and draw out the material properties of the videos as they played and looped in real-time. Scime plans on using the captures generated during her residency to create a series of short meditations on archival permanence.

The envisioned body of work will focus on the material properties of the videos and their subjects through cycles of creation/destruction, and by removing natural entities and processes from their sources and ecological constraints and ties. During the image-processing, video-signals are singled out, crossed, disrupted and distorted to highlight the instabilities intrinsic to our interactions with the natural world.

Anna Scime is an internationally exhibited media artist, whose recent solo and group screenings and exhibitions include: Burchfield Penney Art Center (Buffalo), Berlin International Directors Lounge (Berlin), Centro Cultural Borges (Buenos Aires), Detroit Independent Film Festival (Detroit), FLORA ars+natura (Bogotá), Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival (Kuala Lumpur) and PS1 MoMA (NYC). Her documentary work has been broadcast nationally and published throughout the web on Free Speech TV, PhillyCAM and ArtGrease. She was Squeaky Wheel’s (Buffalo, NY) interim Executive Director from late 2015 through 2016, and continues to contribute to the cultural ecosystem in Buffalo through her work with community arts nonprofits, like the Buffalo International Film Festival. She is also Lumiflux Media’s Executive Director, and since 2013 has worked to ensure that the organization sustainably stewards a dynamic roster of media productions.