Millwork Commons Video Wall
Public Artwork
by Various Artists
Image: Erin Giannangelo
The Video Wall at Millwork Commons is a state-of-the-art, 9’x16’ display screen projecting art and neighborhood announcements via a variety of images, videos, and content in the historic Ashton building located at 1229 Millwork Avenue in Omaha.
The Video Wall brings Millwork Commons’ vision of tech and arts together for the district in a tangible way. It exists to be an ever-changing element that propels the work of creatives and technologists into the world. It serves as a platform for artists and creates connection and collaboration with community organizations.
Millwork Commons and Amplify partner to open calls for video work by artists in the region, which is programmed and exhibited in this high-traffic, publicly accessible space.
awe is an artist collaborative with individual members working in poetry, filmmaking, animation, and beyond. Their work blends living poems with analog film processes, archival family film reels, animation, and live action. Bringing analog and digital practices, they question how isolation and connection shape and transform us and influence our sense of home across memory and time.
Alex Cole is an animator and illustrator known for her dark and whimsical characters. Market Stroll is a looping animation of a girl strolling through a market. The animation is meant to be played in the background to help add to the atmosphere of whatever space it's in. As you watch the video, you will notice small details and objects incorporated into the scene waiting for you to find them.
Kim Hager is an Omaha artist with a background in media arts and motion graphics, whose personal work is inspired by the natural world and her Native American heritage (Ute/Navajo(Diné)). Her work, The Fourth World, is inspired by the considerable Navajo (Diné) creation story in which the four planes of existence are explained, the world we now inhabit being the fourth.
Joi Katskee is a Midwest painter, fashion designer, jewelry designer, video artist, writer, and radio host. Her work fuses visuals of the city and music in a punk rock collage.
Joe Pankowski is an artist involved with drawing, animation, teaching, telling stories, diy, computer graphics, video, and dreams. Sequential Paintings is an animation showcasing the collection of animated paintings created by the artist over the past couple of years.
Sener & Fu are two artists who met in Omaha and are collaborating on this visual art piece called Aztlan. Sener is originally from Mexico and resides in Omaha, while Fu grew up in China, moved to Omaha, and now resides in Chicago. Their work centers on the use of digital technology to transmit new landscapes and immersive experiences through visuals and sound. Aztlán, a visual exploration, merges post-digital art with Aztec history; the work serves as a nexus for engagement on the cultural implications of "Aztlán." Displayed on The Ashton's Video Wall in Millwork Commons, it questions historical notions, inspiring shared contemplation of our roots and fostering unity. Aztlán is an ode to the elusive homeland, sparking discussions on the evolving nature of historical narratives, migration, and artistic expression.
MJ Strasburger is an emerging filmmaker whose work expresses the physical, emotional, and psychological relationships between the body and the natural world. Violent Textures of Nature and Flesh is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between film, sound, and movement artists, using dance and haptic cinema to render the body's evolving relationship to the natural world.
Ian Tredway, an artist and motion designer based in Omaha, explores materiality, speculative futures, and imaginary worlds through a blend of traditional and emerging media. Entropical is an augmented experimental video that attempts an alternative storytelling process through the interweaving of previously disparate photographs, digitally altered images, and videos.