NEWS & EVENTS:
“Junie Genius” included in “Short Circuit” an exhibition at ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL. April 2018.
http://chicago.carpediem.cd/events/6443837-short-circuit-at-acre/
http://chicago.carpediem.cd/events/6443837-short-circuit-at-acre/
“The Hiding In Plain Sight Song” included in “Corners of Thought” an exhibition by the Sweetwater Center for the Arts. March 2018.
http://www.exploresewickley.com/calendar/event/27631-corners-of-thought-artist-reception
http://www.exploresewickley.com/calendar/event/27631-corners-of-thought-artist-reception
“Junie Genius” featured on Discovery Canada’s “Daily Planet.” February 2018.
https://ca.nayi.tv/33007/meet-junie-genius-daily-planet/
https://ca.nayi.tv/33007/meet-junie-genius-daily-planet/
“Picture This” included in Early Bird Student Film Festival 2017 in Sofia Bulgaria.
http://www.earlybirdfest.org/official-selection-2017/page.html#experimental
http://www.earlybirdfest.org/official-selection-2017/page.html#experimental
Lauren Valley nominated for a 2017 BLOOOM Award by Warsteiner
“That Time I Got Detention and It Sucked” included in “Infinite Games 50/50,” in association with Rhona Hoffman Gallery, at Open House Contemporary in Chicago, IL.
http://ohc-bnb.com/events-calender/2017/9/14/infinite-games-5050-opening
http://ohc-bnb.com/events-calender/2017/9/14/infinite-games-5050-opening
Lauren Valley named an artist in residence at ACRE residency program. Summer 2017.
Junie Genius included in the Iyapo Repository’s video reference library. Part of The August Wilson Center Lab June 2017.
https://www.awclab.com/junie-genius/
https://www.awclab.com/junie-genius/
“Body Electric” named a Creative Industries Network “Top 10 Creative Arts Project of the Year”
https://createpgh.org/awardees
https://createpgh.org/awardees
“Body Electric” shown at the 2017 CREATE Festival in Pittsburgh PA.
https://createpgh.org/create-festival-highlights
Image by LUXE Creative.
https://createpgh.org/create-festival-highlights
Image by LUXE Creative.
Lauren Valley named the first recipient of The Birnbaum Award, named in honor of Dara Birnbaum, awarded to an artist whose work exemplifies art at the intersection of art and technology.
“Picture This” included in The 2017 Athens Digital Arts Festival.
http://2017.adaf.gr/events/picture-this/
http://2017.adaf.gr/events/picture-this/
"Picture This" shown in "More Delicate Things" at Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh PA.
http://www.bunkerprojects.org/moredelicatethings.html
http://www.bunkerprojects.org/moredelicatethings.html
"The Electric Witch" shown in "FOR, FORE, FOUR" at Future Tenant in Pittsburgh PA.
http://futuretenant.org/calendar-of-events/forforefour
http://futuretenant.org/calendar-of-events/forforefour
"Picture This" shown in "She Called it a Bug" at Future Tenant in Pittsburgh PA.
http://futuretenant.org/calendar-of-events/shecalleditabug
http://futuretenant.org/calendar-of-events/shecalleditabug
"Picture This" and "Bennie and the Heads" show in ACRE TV's "RE/NIGHT/LIVE/MARE" Nov. 1 - Dec. 12
"Picture This" included in the festival FEM TOUR TRUCK, an exhibition of transgressive feminist video work traveling to Bilbao, Madrid, Covilha, Lisbon, Valencia, Barcelona, Vitoria, Cuenca, Bogota, Manta, Quito, and Guayaquil starting September 15th.
https://femtourtruck.wordpress.com/
https://femtourtruck.wordpress.com/
"Picture This" included in the lineup for Nightpiece Media’s Medway Visions Film Festival.The festival launches September 2-10 at the Sun Pier House and Huguenot Museum in Rochester UK.
http://www.nightpiecemedia.co.uk/images/MV%20Schedule%20Rev3.pdf
http://www.nightpiecemedia.co.uk/images/MV%20Schedule%20Rev3.pdf
"Picture This" featured in Carnegie Museum of Art's "2 Minute Film Festival." Festival opens 7.15 at Row House Cinema and concludes 7.21 at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
http://www.cmoa.org/2mff/
http://www.cmoa.org/2mff/
"MaxMax" included in the digital display at the opening of the new Tate Modern in London, "Future Late." 6/17 - 6/19. Curated by Tate Collectives.
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/special-event/future-late
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/special-event/future-late
Lauren Valley has been named an Artist in Residence at MASS MoCA for the month of June 2016.
http://massmoca.org/
http://massmoca.org/
"Space" included in "Exposure: Black Voices in the Arts" in the Frick Fine Arts Building at the University of Pittsburgh 11/9 - 12/10.
http://www.nextpittsburgh.com/events/exposure-black-voices-in-the-arts-on-view-at-university-of-pittsburgh/
http://www.nextpittsburgh.com/events/exposure-black-voices-in-the-arts-on-view-at-university-of-pittsburgh/
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