KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE
Lights, Collage, Action: Collage in Motion & On Screen
Wednesday, 6 August 2025, 8PM EDT (0100 UTC) on Zoom
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During this Kolaj LIVE Online, we are celebrating short collage films and animated GIFs. Host Ric Kasini Kadour will introduce Kolaj Institute’s Collage in Motion project and a screening of films made by artists from the 2024 Collage on Screen Artist Residency. After the screening, we will be joined by some of those artists who will speak about their experience. In the second part of this event, we will visit the Dancing Pixel Exhibition, an online exhibition of animated GIFs that opened on 15 July 2025 and hear from some of the artists about how GIF making fits into their practice.
ABOUT THE COLLAGE IN MOTION PROJECT
The Collage in Motion project explores collage and the moving image, a broad, loosely defined category that includes animations, film cut-ups, collage film, stop-motion, documentaries about collage artists, and other forms of media in which collage—as medium or genre—is present. For the Collage in Motion project, Kolaj Institute sees its role as not one of defining “collage in motion” but as one of asking what “collage in motion” can be. Collage in Motion may be a stand-alone artwork, a component of a larger contemporary art project, or a strategy for documenting and diffusing artwork. We find Collage in Motion at film screenings, on social media, and projected as part of art exhibitions and at live events such as festivals and music concerts. The project manifests as articles in Kolaj Magazine, an online directory, workshops, residencies, and screenings. Artists with a practice of Collage in Motion are encouraged to submit to the online directory. Learn more HERE.
ABOUT THE DANCING PIXEL EXHIBITION
“The Dancing Pixel”, which opened 15 July 2025, presents eleven animated GIFs by an equal number of artists each of which offers a point of departure for a deeper understanding of this curious cultural output. The exhibition is intended to deepen our understanding of Animated GIFs and Collage in Motion, generally. We offer these artworks as a starting point. A place to debate and discuss both the technology and the art form and hopefully to inspire artists to consider where this medium fits into their larger practice. The Exhibition may be viewed HERE.
ABOUT THE COLLAGE ON SCREEN ARTIST RESIDENCY 2025
Final Deadline to Apply: Sunday, 10 August 2025. The Collage on Screen Artist Residency is a five-week program designed to support artists who want to develop a practice that includes motion in their artmaking. In five virtual meetings over five weeks and through ongoing, online discussion, we will explore the history of collage on screen and the various ways that collage makes its way to the screen and how collage artists operate in the space of moving images and sound. Unlike two-dimensional art, collage on screen is temporal art, meaning it moves through time. Because of this, viewers experience Collage on Screen not as a linear series of images but as an immersive experience. This residency asks, How do we, as collage artists, make artwork that speaks to that? Learn more HERE.
ABOUT KOLAJ INSTITUTE’S TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS OF CURATED FILMS
At Kolaj Fest New Orleans, an annual, multi-day festival & symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, Kolaj Institute offers a program of curated films which, after the festival, is available as a traveling screening program.
ABOUT KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE
Kolaj LIVE Online is a series of virtual programs in the form of forums, panels, workshops, artist talks, studio visits, and other activities that allow people to come together, learn and talk about collage, and connect in real time to the collage community. Our goal is to bring the community together in a spirit of mutual support and fellowship. Kolaj LIVE Online manifests Kolaj Magazine and Kolaj Institute by bringing together artists, curators, and writers to share ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. Learn more at the SERIES WEBSITE.