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

Maggie Murphy

Greensboro, NC
website

@m_ggi_m_rphy


Maggie Murphy creates mixed-media sculptures, videos, and installations that bend and loop time, reanimating glitchy toys, defunct electronics, and reconstructed childhood interiors as portals for memory and dream. Her current work layers digitized home video, hand-drawn apparitions, vintage textiles, and sentimental decorative materials to produce shifting realities that hover between the familiar and the uncanny. She is a librarian and an MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.


Screen Memory


00:03:45
Animation, Experimental, Short, Student
Music: Chris Smith

The Freudian concept of a screen memory is a mundane, palatable childhood memory that stands in front of and conceals our actual, more complicated experiences of childhood. In this short film, I have used the tools of children (colored pencils, crayons, markers, stickers, and glitter) to materially-intervene into my own childhood memories as preserved on printed-out frames of VHS home video, surrounding my child-self with protective apparitions and granting her magical powers.