James Connolly

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  • September, 2025: Cathode Ray Algorithms screens at the Chicago Underground Film Festival
  • June 15, 2025: Cathode Ray Algorithms screened at the London Experimental Film Festival
  • April 16, 2025: Sandin Image Processor live demonstration and performance for "Radical Art of the Sandin Image Processor" program of SAIC's Conversations at the Edge series
  • April 13, 2025: Cathode Ray Algorithms screened at the San Diego Underground Film Festival
  • April 8, 2025: Eight-Minute Romp Through SAIC's Sandin Image Processor screened at the Athens International Film and Video Festival

  • December 12, 2024: Eight-Minute Romp Through SAIC's Sandin Image Processor screened at Videodome, Brooklyn, NY
  • October 10 - November 11, 2024: Cathode Ray Algorithms and Eight-Minute Romp Through SAIC's Sandin Image Processor exhibited at VIDEOSYNTEZY 3, Galleria Ring, Legnica, Poland
  • September, 2024: Eight-Minute Romp Through SAIC's Sandin Image Processor screened at Signal To Noise, Wavefield, Brooklyn, NY
  • February 2, 2024: RGB.VGA.VOLT performance at "Radical Signals," Tritriangle, Chicago
  • January 20, 2024: quadraphonic RGB.VGA.VOLT performance, dadaLab, Austin, TX

  • September - October, 2023: RGB.VGA.VOLT installation at "Patch Work Glitch," imnotart, Chicago
  • September, 2023: "Patch Work Glitch" digital gallery auction, objkt marketplace
  • April 22, 2023: RGB.VGA.VOLT performance at Dads Rap II at DADS Chicago
  • January 21, 2023: RGB.VGA.VOLT performance at Vision Collider, dadaLab, Austin, TX

  • September 10, 2022: CRT Flux Phaser/RGB.VGA.VOLT performance at The Latent Space for the "Control Signals" exhibition performance series, Chicago, IL
  • August 13, 2022: CRT Flux Phaser/RGB.VGA.VOLT and Cracked Ray Tube performance at The Latent Space for the "Control Signals" exhibition performance series, Chicago, IL
  • August 6, 2022: opening for "Control Signals" solo exhibition at The Latent Space, Chicago, IL
  • August 6 - September 10, 2022 "Control Signals" solo exhibition at The Latent Space, Chicago, IL

  • October 13, 2020: Phasing the electromagnetic flux of another shit moment, February 4, 2020 screened at BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
  • August 15 - September 26, 2020 installation at "New Media 10101" at the Peninsula School of Art

  • April 27, 2019: worked screened in "Video Worship" guest curator film and video series curated by Sky Goodman at the Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
  • April 2019: essay on Rolling Ryot's Rainforest Reverb published in exhibition catalog for 2019 Fusebox Festival, Austin, TX
  • February 28, 2019: RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for the Performing Media Festival at Indiana University South Bend
  • February 18 - March 9, 2019 2019 Romp Through the Sandin Image Processor exhibited in the Performing Media Exhibition at Indiana University South Bend
  • January 25, 2019: Aesthetic Catharsis in the Era of American Fascists screens at Collective Misnomer's "the way things are. the way they are going to be." at the Dikeou Pop-Up, Denver, CO

  • November 29, 2018: Light/Transmission/Protocol interactive outoor installation for CounterVolt Version.002 at The North Door, Austin, TX
  • November 29, 2018: RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for CounterVolt Version.002 at The North Door, Austin, TX
  • August 11, 2018: RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for ARIADNE/CONNOLLY/CATES/KOLAR at Digital Art Demo Space, Chicago, IL
  • April 10, 2018: Aesthetic Catharsis in the Era of American Fascists premieres at the Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH.
  • April 8, 2018: short video screened at ACRE TV's Nightingale Tele-thon fundraiser, Chicago, IL.
  • March 24, 2018: RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for the Ann Arbor Film Festival "Off the Screen" expanded cinema program

  • April 2017: Universal Codec Error Aborting Video and Ball Skills/Waveforms/White Bro Riots screened at "VIGOROUS—a series of shorts" at Mini Microcinema, Cincinnati, OH.

  • October 2016: RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for "Ariadne, James Connolly, Jon Cates" at Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL
  • September 2016: Light.Transmission.Protocol interactive sound and video installation at the Paseo Festival, Taos, NM.
  • June 2016: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM.
  • June 2016: Cracked Ray Tube hardware hacking and DIY video synthesis workshops at the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM.
  • June 2016: Cracked Ray Tube hardware hacking and DIY video synthesis workshops Austin, TX.
  • January 9, 2016: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX.
  • January 6, 2016-1.11.2016: Residency at the Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX.

  • August 1, 2014 - September 28, 2014: Cracked Ray Tube installation for glitChicago at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL.
  • September 19, 2014: Cracked Ray Tube performance for glitChicago at the Ukrainian institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL.
  • May 2, 2014: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for Frequency Fridays, Columbus, OH.
  • Feburary 14, 2014: Cracked Ray Tube performance for Discarded: The Afterlife of Everyday Electronics at Columbia College's Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL.
  • January 23, 2014 - March 7, 2014: Cracked Ray Tube installation in Discarded: The Afterlife of Everyday Electronics at Columbia College's Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL.

  • November 23, 2013: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for DINCA VISION QUEST at Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
  • September 30, 2013: Jon Cates and James Connolly at Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL.
  • June 21, 2013: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for mACREs & brACREs at Landscape, Chicago, IL.
  • May 30, 2013: Articular Facet collaborative performance at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL.
  • April 30, 2013: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance with Dither Doom at the Empty Bottle, Chicago.
  • April 28, 2013: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for Expanded Cinematic at Tritriangle, Chicago, IL
  • February 15, 2013: Universal Codec Error Aborting Video screened for the Floating World Animation Festival at the Synchronicity Space, Los Angeles, CA.
  • January 12, 2013: Collaborative John Cage-influenced performance with Julia Miller and Enid Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

  • December 8, 2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the GLI.TC/H DeFunct/ReFunct thread, Chicago, IL.
  • December 7, 012: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance at GLI.TC/H Open Robin at Tritriangle, Chicago, IL
  • December 5, 2012: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance of John Cage's Variations VI, organized by Julia Miller at the Leroy Neiman Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • October 19, 2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Vancouver New Music Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • October 14, 2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at Bernadette's, Austin, TX.
  • September 14, 2012: Essay on Spectralina published, the catalog for the exhibition Afterimage at the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL.
  • April 14, 2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance of Jon Cage's Variations V score organized by Julia Miller at Room 300, Chicago, IL.
  • March 6, 2012: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance at the Burlington bar, Chicago, IL.
  • Febryary 19, 2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN.
  • February 16, 2012: Cracked Ray Tube wins 2nd place at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
  • February 16, 2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.

  • November 21, 2011: Universal Codec Error Aborting Video screened for the Floating World Animation Festival at the Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR.
  • November 5, 2011: Hardware hacking workshop with Kyle Evans at the Nightingale for GLI.TC/H festival, Chicago, IL.
  • November 4, 2011: Cracked Ray Tube performance at ENEMY for the GLI.TC/H festival, Chicago, IL.
  • March 6, 2011: Cracked Ray Tube performance at ENEMY for Strange Electronics 2, Chicago, IL.
  • February 18, 2011: Cracked Ray Tube performance for Strange Electronics at Transistor, Chicago, IL.

  • October 2, 2010: Die Computer performance at the Nightingale for the GLI.TC/H festival, Chicago, IL.
  • April 12, 2010: Die Computer performance for Critical Glitch Artware Category at Notacon, Cleveland, OH.