- When
- Fri., Jan. 30, 2026, 7–10 p.m.
- Where
- Hall of Architecture
- Tickets
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Free, registration recommended
Register 🎟
Join us for Projection Portals: Live Video Machine in the Hall of Architecture, a night of immersive live visuals by leading artists in the field of real-time video performance. Using everything from analog synthesizers to generative code, they’ll illuminate the museum’s monumental plaster casts in a vibrant dialogue between past and future.
Featuring
- Sarah Sarah Turner Turner (@sarahsarahturnerturner2)
- Sean Russell Hallowell (@isorhythmics)
- Nica Ross (@slimeslam)
- extreme girlhood (@broken.transmission)
- PXLXPXL (Jaybee Jackson) (@pxlxpxl)
- Jules Malice (@jmal_malzof)
- prof quad (@profquad)
- projectile objects (@projectileobjects)
- Friendly Spinach (@friendlyspinach)
- Nasty Taxi (@nasty.taxi)
About the Artists
Sarah Sarah Turner Turner is a new media and video artist who creates large scale immersive environments and performances through analog media and creative coding. She engages in ritual and contemporary mythologies to augment reality through performative psycho spiritual activations and explorations of the absurd. Her work has been shown at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Meow Wolf, Portland Art Museum, Wieden + Kennedy, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Northwest Film Center, Spaceness Festival, Marfa Open Festival, Laboratory Residency and more. Turner received an MFA at Alfred University in Electronic Integrated Art. She is a Video Designer for Meow Wolf, Inc.
Sean Russell Hallowell is a composer and video artist from West Sonoma County, CA. He synthesizes experimental techniques developed from handmade circuitry with a cosmic perspective on music as a conduit for physical and metaphysical energy. His music and installations have been showcased at venues and festivals across the US as well as internationally in Mexico, Chile, South Korea, Japan, Belgium, the UK, Croatia, Poland, and Iceland. Immersive audiovisual works have been installed at galleries in San Francisco, New York City, and London. He holds a PhD in Medieval European vocal polyphony from Columbia University.
Nica Ross is an artist, educator and cultural producer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA. Their creative research centers on social machines that use technology, performance and play to generate participatory phenomena. Built from structured mechanics informed by game design and theatrical practice, these systems draw on Nica’s expertise in video and media, from celluloid to computer vision. Through them, audiences gain a negotiable position that challenges hegemonic common sense. Nica works across video installation, performance, gayming and other hybrid forms, and serves as Associate Professor of Video and Media Design at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.
Jules Mallis is an intermedia artist, DJ and community leader based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Over the past 15 years in Pittsburgh, Mallis has been organizing creative endeavors and community programs. They perform live as a VJ and DJ under the Malzof moniker. They utilize digital media, paint, installation, performance, sound and audience interaction to create unique creative and enriching experiences. Their artistic production focuses on building community, audio-visual experiences and speaking truth. They utilize playfulness, maximalism, and imagined environments as critical elements in their work.
