{"id":86297,"date":"2021-08-09T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/?p=86297"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:15:12","slug":"kameron-neal-august-9-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/2021\/08\/09\/kameron-neal-august-9-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Kameron Neal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]Kameron Neal is a video artist, performance-maker, and multidisciplinary designer. Forbes described Kameron\u2019s exhibition at Detroit Art Week as \u201can absurd escape that simultaneously provokes and entertains.\u201d Kameron is currently an NYSCA\/NYFA Fellow and has been in residence at CultureHub, The Public Theater, Ars Nova, and Digital Graffiti. His video art has been featured in music videos and performances by Rufus Wainwright and Billy Porter. Kameron\u2019s work has also been seen in The New York Times, HYPEBEAST, National Geographic and at BAM, DNC 2020, NOFF, SIFF, and the Williams College Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BOX BRAID is a multi-channel video installation that depicts an infinite braid of Black hair slowly scrolling across 8 projection surfaces that surround the viewer. Each surface provides a surreal and intricately detailed peek into a world of it\u2019s own. The piece is about time and tension. The longer you stay the more the braid reveals about where it\u2019s been, where we are now and what\u2019s to come. While I\u2019ve been thinking about this piece for sometime, my residency at iea was my first opportunity to start playing out these concepts in 3-dimensions. This residency provided me with space to write, to do a number of visual studies and think through the logistical hurdles of executing the piece. I built a DIY dolly that allowed me to suspend the braid horizontally and shoot photo and video of the braid in motion. I then composited that footage into a landscape of found photography and projected my progress on the walls of the Immersive Gallery along the way.&#8221; &#8211; Neal<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 840px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video data-keepplaying class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-86297-1\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/08\/06-Kameron-Neal-01.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/08\/06-Kameron-Neal-01.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/08\/06-Kameron-Neal-01.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Neal&#8217;s work installed in Immersive Gallery &#8211; I<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-86327\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/07\/Kameron_Blog7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 840px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video data-keepplaying class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-86297-2\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/08\/06-Kameron-Neal-02.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/08\/06-Kameron-Neal-02.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/08\/06-Kameron-Neal-02.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Neal&#8217;s work installed in Immersive Gallery &#8211; II<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-86328\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/07\/Kameron_Blog6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1001\" height=\"563\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-86335\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/07\/Kameron_Blog8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1003\" height=\"564\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86329\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/07\/Kameron_Blog5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1382\" height=\"1037\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86330\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/07\/Kameron_Blog4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1382\" height=\"1037\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86331\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/07\/Kameron_Blog3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1382\" height=\"1037\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86332\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/07\/Kameron_Blog2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1382\" height=\"1037\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86333\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/07\/Kameron_Blog1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1382\" height=\"1037\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]Kameron Neal is a video artist, performance-maker, and multidisciplinary designer. 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