Furen Dai, Still from Chautauqua, 2025 (top) | Jeff Weber, Sine Waves (Variations on OneSecond), 2024, 35mm, 1125 frames, Courtesy of the artists
Monday February 17, 2025, 7pm
We are delighted to announce New York-based artists Furen Dai and Jeff Weber special film screenings at Microscope Gallery New York in their emerging artist series program : YES
All films will be projected in their original 16mm and 35mm formats.
Both Dai and Weber will be in attendance and available for a Q&A following the screening.
Jeff Weber’s short films — which are all shot in b&w 35mm film and frequently less than one minute in length — occupy two distinct realms. In lyrical documents, such as those of a university picket line or a flock of pigeons competing for seeds outside his window, Weber is concerned with the personal and diaristic as he seeks to use 35mm film as others use their phones to share moments of their daily lives on social media. While in a series of flicker films, he adopts physics, machine learning, and algorithms to create frame-by-frame sequences of black, white, and grey tones corresponding to scores generated by artificial neural networks, sine wave frequencies, and even by the brain waves of Dai as she was watching one of such films.
In her works, Furen Dai addresses, often satirically and in performative ways, architecture, sociological enigmas, language, and cultural tropes, among other subjects. A newly completed piece — which begins as a 16mm film and ends on video — focuses on the small community of Chautauqua, NY, in which the artist attended a residency. The work combines imagery of buildings, streets, and the nearby lake shot by the artist on 16mm film, as well as notions of reality and utopia as voiced by AI, with short movie clips appropriated from the online movie database 0xDB. Two earlier single-channel video works by Dai conclude the program.
We are delighted to announce New York-based artists Furen Dai and Jeff Weber special film screenings at Microscope Gallery New York in their emerging artist series program : YES
All films will be projected in their original 16mm and 35mm formats.
Both Dai and Weber will be in attendance and available for a Q&A following the screening.
Jeff Weber’s short films — which are all shot in b&w 35mm film and frequently less than one minute in length — occupy two distinct realms. In lyrical documents, such as those of a university picket line or a flock of pigeons competing for seeds outside his window, Weber is concerned with the personal and diaristic as he seeks to use 35mm film as others use their phones to share moments of their daily lives on social media. While in a series of flicker films, he adopts physics, machine learning, and algorithms to create frame-by-frame sequences of black, white, and grey tones corresponding to scores generated by artificial neural networks, sine wave frequencies, and even by the brain waves of Dai as she was watching one of such films.
In her works, Furen Dai addresses, often satirically and in performative ways, architecture, sociological enigmas, language, and cultural tropes, among other subjects. A newly completed piece — which begins as a 16mm film and ends on video — focuses on the small community of Chautauqua, NY, in which the artist attended a residency. The work combines imagery of buildings, streets, and the nearby lake shot by the artist on 16mm film, as well as notions of reality and utopia as voiced by AI, with short movie clips appropriated from the online movie database 0xDB. Two earlier single-channel video works by Dai conclude the program.
With special thanks to Film Fund, Luxembourg
February 17, 2025
