3 short multimedia sets beginning at 8pm

Alexander Mouton, MFA, has a background in film, literature, photography, book arts, and digital media. He lived four years in Berlin directly following the fall of the Berlin Wall, during which time he was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship. Alexander explores the potential that new technology has for bringing visual and sound arts together for interactive and immersive works both online and in physical spaces. His processes include net art, interactive video installations, multimedia performances, and artists' books, many of which are in collections internationally including MoMA, NYC, the Getty Research Institute, LA, and the Kunst Bibliothek, Berlin. Alexander's time-based media is included in Rhizome.org's ArtBase and has been exhibited at SFcamerawork, the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, the Walker Art Center, Flash & Thunder 2010, chico.art.net, and the Electro-Fringe Festival, among other international venues.

Passing Through explores the memory of place and the experience of time as shaped by the heightened sense of perception that accompanies travel. The audience is invited into a space that involves the unique combination of historical and contemporary texts, from fictional and theoretical writings, which are brought together with soundscapes, images, and video from diverse eras (1990-2012) and geographic locations (Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the USA). Alexander imparts in his audience a sense of place and a particular state of mind, with the ensuing shifts in perspective causing reflection on one’s sense of perception and traditional notions of a fixed reality. Tony Hiss writes, “the present is more porous than it may appear, and there are outposts of the future in our midst, and passageways that lead back and forth”. Passing Through employs its diverse media in varying tempos and states of clarity to emulate real-time, dream-time, and hyper-time, simultaneously reflecting on the media being used and the global climate of our contemporary times.