CA Weaving by Sabrina Gschwandtner considers how nature and the built environment interact with each other, reflecting on California’s promises and failures in the environmental and housing crises it faces. The artist drove between Los Angeles and San Francisco over the last six months and shot 4k and 6k video as she drove in, out, and between the two cities on the I-5, the longest interstate in California. Her editing weaves together this footage into a tapestry for the 150 Media Stream.

Experience the wonders of the universe through interpretive dance. Cosmic Rhythms connects the motion of celestial bodies with the motion of human bodies—the relationships that echo throughout the universe. Featuring Adler astronomer’s expertise, breathtaking imagery, and bold choreography by Joffrey Ballet dancer Xavier Nuñez, Cosmic Rhythms takes audiences on a mesmerizing journey through the cosmos.

Panel discussion on April 10th, 2024 at 150 N Riverside Plaza

Panelists:
Mike Smail, Senior Director of Theaters & Visualization at Alder Planetarium
Dylan Gutierrez, Producer for Action Lines Media & Lead dancer for The Joffrey Ballet
Xavier Nunez, Director at Action Lines & Dancer for The Joffrey Ballet
Moderated by Yuge Zhou, Curator at 150 Media Stream & Video artist

The hand-drawn animation, installed on 150 Media Stream’s giant media wall, features sixty of the most inventive building designs entered in the famed 1922 Chicago Tribune Tower architectural competition, as well as flying machines, elevated walkways, monorail tramways, and other fantastical details dreamed up by the artist.

Panel discussion on October 8, 2024 at 150 North Riverside Plaza

Panelists:
Klaus, Architectural Cartoonist
Iker Gil, Founder of MAS Context
Moderated by Yuge Zhou, Curator at 150 Media Stream & Video Artist 

Every autumn, a miracle happens. A monarch butterfly born in Canada flies more than 3,000 miles across North America. It does so over land it has never seen, in the reverse direction of the streams of humans traveling steadily north. Its destination: the rainforest of Mexico. It is a journey filled with peril. Not every monarch will make it, and those that do will never return. No butterfly among them has ever made the journey before, and none will again. In the hands of artist, writer, and filmmaker Leopoldo Goût, the tale of the monarch butterfly’s migration from North America to the Mexican town of Contepec gets an immersive treatment. All of the 900+ monarch butterflies were hand-painted by Goût and then scanned and brought into 3D space in collaboration with multimedia artist Matt Bruinooge. SWARM is part of an ongoing series of sustainability projects organized by Leopoldo Goût in Mexico.

Overheard in the Underworld is a collaborative animated installation of a subterranean world of metamorphosis, grief, and reflection. Created as a poetic response to The Descent of Alette, a book-length feminist poem by Alice Notley. With the poem as their starting point, Laura Harrison and Lilli Carré created a series of interlaced, hand-drawn animated scenes, responding to specific imagery and scenarios found in Notley’s words, improvising on these moments in their own hand. Beginning with a subway ride into surreal and unfamiliar depths, the piece takes a circular journey through tunnels of the flesh and the mind. A shape-shifting woman protagonist confronts shadow selves and power structures in pursuit of healing and transformation, moving from despair to revolt and renewal.

Conversation and reading on November 14, 2024, at 150 North Riverside Plaza

Artists Laura Harrison and Lilli Carré discuss their work and read from Alice Notley’s The Descent of Alette in a panel moderated by Chris Harrison.