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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.

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.

In conjunction with ATA’s current gallery exhibition, Copper Giloth’s Feminist Computer Art, we invite you to a screening of Copper Giloth’s video work, followed by a conversation between the artist and alex cruse. The films will be on display through May 31, 2026.

Screening room:
Ballyoid – Cardioids (1979)
Skippy Peanut Butter Jars (1980)
AS I SAID (1980)
Alphabet Song of A Young Girl (1986)
The Red Table (1986)

Window Gallery:
Childhood Logic (1980)
Modeling the Female Body: A Survey of Computer-Generated Women 1978-1993 (1994)

still: Modeling the Female Body: A Survey of Computer-Generated Women 1978-1993 (1994).
All videos courtesy of Microscope Gallery.

About the exhibition: 

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.

About the Artist:

Copper Giloth lives and works between Amherst, MA, and Aix-en-Provence, France. She had a solo exhibition of her animations and drawings at the Microscope Gallery in New York City from June 5 to July 11, 2025. In the fall of 2025, her work was included in the exhibition TOMORROWS – FOLDING, FLEXING, AND EXPANDING at the Palazzo del Capitano in Verona, Italy. In October 2025, she participated in a panel titled “Generating Bodies: The Art of Modeling Venus,” a FEMGEN event at Artverse Gallery during the 2025 Art Basel Paris week. In December, one of her animations was included in the 2025 Eyeworks Experimental Animation Series at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC.

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.