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
Tiffany Carbonneau
New Albany, Indiana
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Tiffany Carbonneau’s artistic practice combines digital media and historical research to create animations, installations, and site-specific architectural video projections that interrogate systems of influence, such as the built environment, quantitative data, visual culture and time, to examine how we now navigate a world that is simultaneously highly planned and deeply unstable, physically tangible yet increasingly artificial.
Tiffany has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Head of the Digital Art concentration at Indiana University Southeast.
Glass Highways Series: Billboards
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Animation, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
Growing up in suburban Chicago, I spent much of my childhood in cars, moving between homes and navigating spaces defined by passage rather than belonging. Highways became symbols of both mobility and disconnection, shaping my understanding of memory and identity. This duality informs my work, which examines how infrastructure shapes personal and collective histories.
Through digital 3D modeling and animation, I construct time-based environments that reveal the artificiality of suburban space and its consequences, including the loss of my brother in a 2020 highway accident just days before the birth of my child. These works trace fragile thresholds between presence and absence, past and present.
In this animation, a glass-like highway interchange reflects the instability beneath suburban ideals. The audio, drawn from a 1975 recording on I-75 near Tifton, Georgia—associated with the “screaming bridge” legend—is slowed and layered, evoking the tension between material conditions, myth, and memory.