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 SCREENING6
Lex Leto
Iowa City, IA
website
@lexleto
Self-taught printmaker and electronics hobbyist Lex Leto (they/them) is a classically-trained musician turned DIY dabbler. Their work centers experimentation and investigation in pursuit of learning new skills and teaching those skills to others. As a musician, Lex performs solo and with a band as an experimental & electronic musician, and on bass and vocals with their band KL!NG. Their most recent curiosities have been letterpress, risograph, and learning how to create and bend circuits. Their work as an artist and musician extends from the studio into the classroom, where they have the incredible privilege of teaching creativity and project-making at a local middle school.
BEND THE CIRCUIT (a manifesto)
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Short, Other
Cinematographer: Liv Heath
Bend the Circuit is a manifesto and analog glitch video work. The manifesto compares political & societal infrastructure to infrastructure of an electrical circuit, declaring the urgency of bending the circuit–bending the infrastructure. The manifesto voiceover is accompanied by sound that I composed and live visuals of me manipulating the video feed with the Dirty Video Mixer (schematic by Karl Klomp) that I created for the video.