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Friday, April 10, 2026, 7:00 pm, classic-editor
EYEWASH 10: Wonderful World, an evening with Osbert Parker
Osbert Parker is a three time BAFTA nominated director who is best known for creating stories that use experimental animation & innovative film techniques. His films combine photo cut-out animation with objects and live action to create one-of-a-kind imaginary landscapes in mixed media short films, commercials, TV entertainment & online content.
His award winning commercial credits include such clients as Coca-Cola, Nike, Budweiser, Orange, The World Wildlife Fund and Gatorade and TV clients including the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and MTV. In 2022 Parker was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Main Title Design on Lisey’s Story. He is currently an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
Osbert Parker will be in conversation with Meg and Christoph after the screening.
Eyewash is a series of animated screenings and conversations organized by Meghana Bisineer and Christoph Steger. The series is supported by CCA Animation.
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 8:00 pm, classic-editor
OC: ELECTRONICA: GHOST IN THE MACHINE JOSH ELLINGSON: AGE 13/PEPPER’s GHOST + ASTROGOLEM + TELLURIAN DRAMA +
Fine-tuning through the ultra-rich ether, we have discovered some, uh, “special” frequencies that ‘charm’, and re-animate concepts of contemporary A/V installation/performance, with jolts of juice both natural and ‘super’. Mission whiz Josh Ellingson marvels all with demos of his current works – thee eye-popping Pepper’s Ghost, as well as his re-wiring of cult director Sid Davis‘ Age 13. Anchoring the second half is a co-hit that threatens to crack through the ‘Quantum Consensus’: the US premiere of Riar Rizaldi‘s Tellurian Drama, a 20-min anomaly that asks way more that it answers, on the uses and possible abuses of an obscure Malabar Radio Antenna, on the island of Java in the Indonesian archipelago during the Dutch colonial period. Berlin skeptic Thorsten Fleisch contributes Astrogolem, his digital hypothesis on a time-traveling Nikolai Tesla, while Craig Baldwin shares his own revelations from his speculative history Spectres of the Spectrum (exc). PLUS Piercing the Unknown, Hippies High on Alpha, Clara Rockmore’s Theremin, and other inquiries into novel pop-music forms flowing from those magickal waves of electricity! $13
Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 7:00 pm, classic-editor
An evening with Copper Giloth
Skippy Peanut Butter Jars (1980)
AS I SAID (1980)
Alphabet Song of A Young Girl (1986)
The Red Table Italian (1986)
A Survey of Computer Generated Women, 1980-1993 (1994)
Copper Giloth’s Feminist Computer Art explores a formative decade in the work of artist Copper Giloth, tracing her pioneering contributions to early computer art. After encountering computers while working as a welder in Massachusetts, Giloth pursued graduate study at the University of Illinois Chicago’s groundbreaking Electronic Visualization Lab, becoming part of the first generation of Chicago new media artists. During this period, she also embraced feminist liberation politics, which became central to her emerging artistic approach.
Focusing on the late 1970s through the 1980s, the exhibition – originally curated by Dr. Helena Shaskevich – highlights Giloth’s experimental integration of video and computer graphics, emphasizing her innovative use of programming as a creative medium. Her works investigate the expressive potential of code, foregrounding elements such as the glitch, repetition, and the generative possibilities of early programming. Through these strategies, Giloth transforms digital systems into sites of visual and conceptual exploration.
Crucially, Giloth’s engagement with emerging technologies constitutes a feminist practice. Working within a field historically dominated by men, she asserts authorship over computational tools while challenging assumptions about gender and technical expertise. Her use of code as an open, generative system resists fixed hierarchies and embraces multiplicity, aligning with feminist commitments to collaboration, process, and the destabilization of authority.
By revisiting this pivotal era, Copper Giloth’s Feminist Computer Art underscores Giloth’s influential role in shaping the language of early computer art and affirms the lasting impact of feminist perspectives within technological practice.
In August 2025, Helena Shaskevich published an interview with Giloth in the Women’s Art Journal, and in September 2025, Peter Bauman published an interview with Giloth in the online journal Le Random. In November 2024, her work and an interview were included in the exhibition: Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
In February 2020, she launched “Labyrinth-of-Fables VR,” an app that lets users experience the now-destroyed 17th-century Labyrinth of Versailles. Much of her early work was among the pioneering efforts in the then-early field of computer art and computer graphics, and she is a featured contributor to *New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts* (2018), published by the University of Illinois Press. She organized the first two international ACM Siggraph Art Show competitions in 1982 and 1983. Giloth is a Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her
work has been screened and exhibited in numerous group and solo shows across the USA, Europe, and Japan.
Friday, April 17, 2026, 8:00 pm, classic-editor
Olga Niekrasova: Recent Works
Ball of Yarn = Trust, Shadows, and Valise weave a cinematic tapestry of fragile threads — of trust, memory, and love tested by forces beyond control. Through delicate animation, haunting imagery, and childlike perspectives, these films trace what is carried, what is lost, and what endures when home, family, and certainty are torn apart. They move between abstraction and narrative, creating intimate, poetic spaces where vulnerability, resilience, and the human instinct to hold on are rendered with quiet, piercing intensity. Together, they offer a meditation on connection, memory, and the fragile beauty of endurance.
Artist bio:
Olga Niekrasova, an award-winning Ukrainian director, screenwriter, and visual artist, works across film, photography, poetry, and mixed media, merging cinema, installation, and performance into boundary-defying experimental projects. Her practice blends visual and auditory elements with lyrical, socially resonant themes, exploring trauma, resilience, and human connection through immersive, sensory experiences. Across international cinemas, galleries, and cultural forums, her projects transform personal and collective memory into layered, non-linear narratives, where image, sound, and emotion intertwine to create haunting, poetic worlds that linger long after the screen fades to black.
Saturday, April 18, 2026, 8:00 pm, classic-editor
OC: WORLD-BUILDING LAURA ALBERT + AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY +
This Other Cinema special event brings together Laura Albert, the author of the best-selling JT LeRoy books Sarah, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and Harold’s End and the subject of Jeff Feuerzeig’s acclaimed 2016 feature-length documentary AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY, with Lucas Celler, award-winning documentary film editor, director, photographer, and motion designer of SHIRKERS and CLAYDREAM, who served as assistant editor and associate producer of AUTHOR. To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the release of AUTHOR, Laura and Lucas will screen the first half-hour of this film and discuss its genesis, making, and reception as well as its impact on their lives and careers. Laura will also read from her soon-to-be-published memoir, and she and Lucas will take questions from the audience.
Saturday, April 25, 2026, 8:00 pm, classic-editor
OC INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC 1 99 HOOKER’s MASH-UP, MELT-DOWN. MEDIA RE-MODEL
About Artists' Television Access
Artists' Television Access is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) artist-run
screening venue and gallery located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission
District. ATA is supported in part by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel
Tax Fund, The Christensen Fund, individuals members, donors and volunteers.
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA: Join ATA as a member and receive exciting gifts, including the 2008 DVD compilation, T-shirts, and free admission to screenings and more! Artists on the 2008 DVD compilation include: Yin-Ju Chen, Mike Rollo, Marthaxiv, Sam Manera, Wago Kreider, Federico Campanale, Paul Clipson and Carl Diehl. http://www.atasite.org/membership/
How to Reach Us:
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 824-3890
ata@atasite.org
Gallery is open before and after screenings for viewing.
Screenings start at 8pm unless otherwise noted.
Directions: Take Bart to 24th Street Mission. Walk 1 block east to Valencia and 3 blocks north. ATA is located between 21st and 20th Streets.