OAMF - 2026
Open Air Media Festival
Open Air Media Festival (OAMF) is excited to announce the 2026 program; a traveling film/video art screening presented in three cities in late May and early June. The program will travel across the Midwest and Southeast bringing artists from across the country to outdoor, public locations.
The 2026 OAMF screening schedule:
Iowa City, IA
Friday May 29th, 8:30pm,
FilmScene in the Park
Greenville, SC
Friday June 5th, 8:30pm,
Monaghan Mill
Louisville, KY
Saturday, June 13th, 9:00pm,
Big Four Bridge
OAMF is co-organized by Zen Cohen, Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Clemson University, Clemson, SC and Dana Potter, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the Hite Institute of Art + Design, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY with production assistance from Caleb Payne.
Participating artists were curated from a national open call, from 12 U.S. states, and spanning ages 25 to 72. Selected works exhibit a vast spectrum of video art including non-traditional documentary, 3D animation, narrative, and non-narrative, expanding public access to contemporary media art.
Open Air Media Festival is generously supported by:
City of Iowa City Public Art Program
FILM & VIDEO SCREENING
Emily Sasmor
Brooklyn, NY
website
@emilysasmor
Emily Sasmor is a new media artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Their projects have appeared in various venues around the world including; Museum of Moving Image (Queens, NY), Curyatid in Hudson Yards (New York, NY), Animate Projects’ touring program “All That is Solid” (Derby, UK), Squeaky Wheel Animation Festival (Syracuse, NY), and Digerati Emergent Media Festival (Denver, CO). Recent awards include a Cultural Counsel Video Grant, a Crazy Peach Micro-Grant, and being shortlisted for a Creative Capital Grant. They’ve received residencies from EAXO (Stavros, GR) and from the School of Poetic Computation (Online). They’re starting NIGHT EYE TV, a release platform for downloadable new media artwork that uses a profit-sharing system to pay contributors fairly. They hold an MFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BFA in sculpture from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University.
FLORE
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Animation, Experimental, Web / New Media
FLORE is a video where two lovers fall in love over the phone during an endless night that they can only escape through each other. The video is made to be watched on a cellphone.