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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville, 1320 Hampton Avenue, Hampton Station #601, Greenville, SC (2026)

05/29/2026

MEDIA SWAMP Closing Weekend + Special Event

The closing weekend of our Media SWAMP exhibition culminates with a special event next week on First Friday, June 5 from 8:30 -10 PM.

Open Air Media Festival, a traveling outdoor media art program, will present a screening of experimental film/video work on the patio outside of Monaghan Mill. Participating artists were selected from a national open call by organizers and TSA GVL members, Zen Cohen and Dana Potter.

Participating artists:
Israel Lucius Barnes, Karl Erickson, Tyson Gentry, Laura Iancu, Sarah Lasley, Dwayne LeBlanc, Song Lu, Maggie Murphy, Emily Sasmor, clay scofield, Eric Souther, Jenelle Stafford, Courtney Taniguchi, Roy Taylor, Michelle Trujillo, Masha Vlasova

This screening event is generously supported by the Metropolitan Arts Council (MAC) in partnership with Tiger Strikes Asteroid - Greenville and Thornback Gallery.

We hope to see you there!

MEDIA SWAMP On view: May 1 - June 6, 2026
Gallery hours: Saturdays 11am-5pm and by appointment

Open Air Media Festival - Friday June, 5 8:30-10pm
201 Smythe St, Greenville, SC

05/28/2026

Media Swamp Artist Highlight ⚡️ Chalet Comellas

AI assisted healing visualizations: Lightning Hands

made in collaboration with sound artist Mark Baker
Installation, single channel video projection, meditation pillow, brass singing bowls, and electronics
Dimensions variable
2026

If at first you can’t imagine
Poem on canvas with LED electronics, metal folding chair, and brass signing bowl
2026

Automatic Paintings for Future Friends, Untitled #8
Poem on canvas with LED electronics, with two polaroids
2025

Encryption
Programmable LED sign with text excerpt from, “Mourning and Melancholia”
Written by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok
2023

Chalet Comellas’ new media works blend gestural abstraction with digital applications, reflecting philosophical ideas on collective consciousness, mediation, and “human-in-the-loop” systems. Her interdisciplinary works are often exhibited as installations and evoke conversations about our current entanglement with algorithms, online platforms, and the ever-growing presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives.

Bio in comments.

Media Swamp on view: May 1 - June 6, 2026
Gallery hours: Saturdays 11am-5pm and by appt

Exhibition documentation: Michael Webster

05/27/2026

Media Swamp Artist Highlight ⚡️ Clint Sleeper

All Power
video
*Images, sounds, and text in the film are generated by Stable Diffusion, WAN, and Qwen models.

In the time it takes light to reach earth from the sun, “All Power” provokes viewers to wonder about a near-future civilization of digital natives taught by artificial intelligence to worship the sun. Co-written and crafted with image libraries informed by artificial intelligence running on solar energy, the film merges process and production in a frenzy of human and machine hallucinations, imploring us to question our own histories, rituals, technologies, logic, judgements, and responsibilities.

Sleeper is an artist, educator, and aspiring technologist whose work weaves through various topics concerning recent technologies, overt activist positions, popular philosophy, and dark comedy. He investigates the ways that these topics overlap for us as we navigate, with limited success, complex political crises through clumsy interfaces, problematic devices, and faulty systems. These investigations arrive for the viewer in the form of inherently interdisciplinary artworks and curatorial experiments, which provoke questions about how we work toward a more desirable collective future, among the machines, atop a planet in crisis.

Media Swamp on view: May 1 - June 6, 2026
Gallery hours: Saturdays 11am-5pm and by appt

Exhibition documentation: Michael Webster

05/26/2026

Media Swamp Artist Highlight ⚡️ yétúndé ọlágbajú

that’s alright
2020
Video, 7:21

yétúndé ọlágbajú is a Nigerian/Gullah-Geeche research-based artist, adorner, and cultural worker living on Kashia Pomo & Tataviam lands. Their work roots in a single question: What must we reckon with as we build a future, together?

With no set answers or expectations, ọlágbajú unravels intricate connections as a means of highlighting our interdependence. They are interested in how our familial, platonic, romantic, and ecological bonds are transformed by what we confront in the reckoning. Inspired by the unnameable and the everyday within Black diaspora, they use the sonic, the sculptural, and the collaborative in order to untangle threads of possibilities, in the wake of said reckonings.  
Through their social practice they have co-founded and are a member of numerous artist and practitioner-led collectives, each with liberatory values and visions.

They are galvanized by what becomes possible when communities are given time, space, and resources to envision, strategize, and action towards the futures we desperately need. Holding an MFA from Mills College, they are the recipient of multiple awards including a Headlands Center for the Arts fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts award and LACE Lightening Fund award.

Currently, they are the Founder + Director of àjìjà space, the Education and Public Programs Manager at Mendocino Art Center and consult as a cultural organizing strategist and facilitator.

Media Swamp on view: May 1 - June 6, 2026
Gallery hours: Saturdays 11am-5pm and by appt

Exhibition documentation: Michael Webster

05/25/2026

Media Swamp Artist Highlight ⚡️ Eric D. Charlton & Adam Wagerman

Galveston
2019
Animation, audio
00:02:52

Galveston is an exploration of the obsessive repetition of an innocuous admission of vulnerability in Glen Campbell’s 1969 pop-country song of the same name. The simple phrase, “I am so afraid of dying,” defies traditional masculine expectations of stoicism and admits a common human feeling of existential dread couched in a love song. Working collaboratively, Charlton models and animates Wagerman’s automatic drawings, bringing to life the intuitive expressions that align with Campbell’s lyrics. Wagerman further manipulated and edited Charlton’s initial sound sample to create a break in the repetition to provide a moment of reflection. The artists work symbiotically, handing visual elements and audio back and forth to reach the final form. In the animation, the lonesome singer stands on the stage and lays their soul bare, while a herd of crowned, disco-ball-skinned quadropedes stampede through a desert at sunset. The characters and creatures that populate this world echo the existential reality, humor, and anxiety of the fixation on a simple repeated lyric.

Artist bios in comments

Media Swamp on view: May 1 - June 6, 2026
Gallery hours: Saturdays 11am-5pm and by appt

Exhibition documentation: Michael Webster

05/24/2026

Media Swamp Artist Highlight ⚡️Fabiola Larios

Portable Surveillance Angel (2026)

Mixed media: LCD screen, lace, surveillance camera, 3d printed wings, glitter, resin

This work is miniaturized and an omnipresent surveillance device.

A live camera feed is embedded within a decorative, jewel-encrusted frame with wings, inviting viewers to see themselves while simultaneously being seen. The screen functions both as mirror and monitor, collapsing the boundary between self-image and observation.
The work reflects on how systems of control no longer require monumental infrastructure. Surveillance now exists in intimate, domestic scales—small, mobile, (offline) and seamlessly integrated into everyday life.

Fabiola Larios (b. 1986) is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist based in Miami currently in residence at Bakehouse Art Complex. Her work explores the aesthetics and politics of surveillance, self-representation, and obsolescence in the digital age. Through installations that fuse e-waste, piñatas. glitter, electronics, and bedazzled surveillance cameras, Larios critiques how identity is shaped by algorithmic systems and economies of visibility. Blending hyper-feminine visual languages with sharp commentary on internet culture, data commodification, and the environmental costs of technological excess, her installations often position viewers as both subject and observer—immersing them in environments of playful, uncanny scrutiny. (bio cont. in comments)

Media Swamp on view: May 1 - June 6, 2026
Gallery hours: Saturdays 11am-5pm and by appt

Exhibition documentation: Michael Webster

05/22/2026

Media Swamp Artist Highlight ⚡️ Masha Vlasova

Un-Tidal

16mm > digital scan
Ink-jet printed direct on film animation
2K video, color, black & white, sound
TRT: 10 min.
2022.

To produce Un-Tidal, I employed an inkjet direct-on-film technique where the digital frame is printed onto recycled 16mm celluloid. The result is an image that is neither analog nor purely digital but something in-between. Un-Tidal is about water’s destructive power, its ability to reshape the landscape in juxtaposition to a woman’s fascination with a found (or stolen) digital scan of an archival photographic print, and film’s ability to animate and re-animate still, dead, and inanimate beings, images, and objects. The inkjet direct-on-film technique foregrounds mediation of digital images and archives. The painterly, inky, watery quality of the images express the themes of Un-Tidal.

Un-Tidal has been selected for seventeen gallery screenings and festivals, including two of the longest-running festivals of avant-garde film in the U.S.: Ann Arbor Film Festival and Chicago Underground Film Festival. It was honored with two awards at the Experimental Film Festival of East Anglia in 2022: Best Celluloid Film and Award for Original Concept.

Masha Vlasova is an award-winning experimental and non-fiction filmmaker. She has exhibited and screened her films at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Smack Mellon, Anthology Archives, Abrons Arts Center, the Border Project Gallery in New York City, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, among others. (Bio cont in comments)

Media Swamp on view: May 1 - June 6, 2026
Gallery hours: Saturdays 11am-5pm and by appt

Exhibition documentation: Michael Webster

05/21/2026

Media Swamp Artist Highlight ⚡️ Sam Blanchard

Apprehension in Ascension centers on the uneasy allure of escape. A rotating projection of Earth emanates from a multi-axis contraption drawing on the visual language of astronaut training equipment and lunar landers, sending the planet along a random trajectory before it settles back into place. The work reflects a culture increasingly captivated by fantasies of leaving—of transcending crisis rather than confronting it. In this cycle of ascent, disorientation, and return, Earth becomes both destination and burden, suspended within a system that rehearses departure but cannot fully sever its ties to the world it leaves behind.

Sam Blanchard is an Ohio born artist living and working in Virginia. He has an active international exhibition record, with solo exhibitions at such venues as the Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center, The Delaware Contemporary, The Indianapolis Art Center, The Munson Museum (Utica, NY) and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, OH). In 2025, he received a Professional Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, was presented the SECAC Award for Artistic Excellence, and was also selected as a finalist for the Trawick Prize for Contemporary Art. He earned his BFA in Sculpture from Ohio University and MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Blanchard is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, VA.

Media Swamp on view: May 1 - June 6, 2026
Gallery hours: Saturdays 11am-5pm and by appt

Exhibition documentation: Michael Webster

05/19/2026

Media Swamp Artist Highlight ⚡️ Tesora Garcia

Ecstatic Visions from Outer Space
00:05:16
Single-channel video
2024

Shot across Washington, D.C.’s imperial monuments, the film follows Tesora Garcia as she engages in somatic, insect-kin rituals—placing tropical roaches into a glass cranium, walking in rain, hanging upside down. A bilingual voiceover threads dream logic with geopolitical grief: “Pocahontas came to me in a dream and told me I had been immunized… How many children have died in Gaza?” This work marks the transition into art as prophecy and the transfeminine body as embodied sigil.

Tesora Garcia (she/her) is a Salvadoran-American media artist, writer, and educator whose work investigates how structural violence patterns bodies, dreams, and belief systems. Drawing from migration politics, q***r theory, and non-Western esoterica, her projects prototype alternative ways of sensing, belonging, and being.

Garcia has worked with lens-based media for more than a decade, spanning analog film, digital cinema, performance, and experimental video. Her recent projects, including Pocahontas Revised and Collagen Cult, have been exhibited nationally across the U.S. Her work often merges performance and moving image with ritual poetics, situating marginalized bodies as conduits of resilience and prophecy. As an HIV-positive Indigenous trans woman, Garcia approaches artmaking as a practice of invocation and revelation.

She is currently Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Futures at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Media Swamp on view: May 1 - June 6, 2026
Gallery hours: Saturdays 11am-5pm and by appt

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05/15/2026

Media Swamp Artist Highlight ⚡️ Cristina Molina

The Memory of Miss River
video installation, 2023

The Memory of Miss River is a moving image portrait of the Mississippi River. Here the River is imagined as an untamed mythical dual-spirit who holds the endless memory of the most important waterway in the American South. Prompted by the River's wildness and now engineered constraints, a series of gestures informed by the Mississippi River's movements (carrying, holding, diverting, flooding, draining) were choreographed and performed for the camera along the River in New Orleans. Drawing parallels between water bodies, spiritual bodies, and physical bodies, these corporal river dances serve to symbolically incarnate the contested and celebratory aspects of the River's history and memory.

Cristina Molina is a visual artist who hails from the subtropics of Miami and currently lives and works in New Orleans—two environmentally precarious cities that have influenced her research on identity, loss, and disappearing landscapes. Spanning video installation, photography, and performance, Molina’s artwork is set amidst vulnerable terrains both real and imagined. Using the language of magical realism, her works centralize little-known narratives to upend dominant histories.

Molina is a Professor of New Media + Animation and Gallery Director at Southeastern Louisiana University where she received the 2018 and 2025 President’s Award for Excellence in Artistic Activity and was the recipient of the Viola Brown Endowed Professorship in Visual and Dramatic Arts from 2020-22.

She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Fulbright Scholar Award, Artist in Residence in Everglades Fellowship (2019), Joan Mitchell Center Residency (2021). (Bio cont in comments)

Media Swamp on view: May 1 - June 6, 2026
Gallery hours: Saturdays 11am-5pm and by appt

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