bio/statement

Sara Aleyce Roma is an ATX based new media artist and animator who utilizes stop-motion, web animation, free association writing, live video mixing, photography and interactive installation. Most recently in their short film “A Problem” they explored stop-motion as endurance performance in a relationship to a single object. From learning HTML on neopets to studying motion media and experimental animation to diving into VJing, ecophilosophy, and phenomenology, they pulls inspiration from a variety of fields and subcultures. Interests include; perception, memory, time, history of media, art theory, vintage magic, absurdist comedy, Dutch vanitas, poetry, ritual, physically generative processes (decay, evaporation), kitsch and nostalgia.

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Sara Aleyce Roma
mail: sararoma.motion@gmail.com
www: www.sara-roma.com ig: @chromaglyphs

RESIDENCIES:
Welcome to My Homepage --
Museum Of Human Achievement, Austin, TX, 2022
Created the work “Scrolling Exorcism” A web art and audio piece exploring meditation and physical memory

CATS+ -- Museum Of Human Achievement, Austin, TX, 2023
Worked alongside a cohort of artists, taught a stop-motion workshop, and created the piece “Kit-bashing//input cycles” an audience generated stop-motion performance piece

EXHIBITIONS

Transcendent Reality--
Future Front ATX, Austin, TX, 2024
Featuring "A Problem"

New Suns-- Goodluckhavefun, Austin, TX, 2024
Displaying "obsolete adaptor"

The Happening --
The Orange Show, Houston, TX, 2023Performed “circlers”

Portal Fishing, Austin Studio Tours -- Austin, TX, 2023Showcased documentation of “circlers” alongside an assemblage "keep his big mouth shut once and for all" and a digital collage "goldfish scrolls"

CATS+ Showcase -- Museum Of Human Achievement, Austin, TX, 2023
Showcased “Kit-bashing//input cycles” alongside cohort

Hot Wheels -- Museum Of Human Achievement, Austin, TX, 2023
Exhibited “recall (heaven)”

Bodies of Work -- Richie’s Art Gallery, Austin, TX, 2023
Performed “enmeshment”

Welcome To My Homepage -- Online, 2022
Exhibited “Scrolling Exorcism”

Plant OS -- Austin, TX, 2022
Screened short film “A Problem” amongst  a curation of other films within a show focused on projection arts

Howdy Stranger --Perkins&Will,  Austin, TX, 2021
Exhibited  “Stream of Conch shells” along with Concept Animal’s Crit Nights artists

Video Picnic -- Martha’s Gallery, Austin, TX, 2019
Screened “An Approach” 

Digital Den -- West Side Studio Tour, Austin, TX, 2019
Exhibited  “Checked Out (a 3D Vacation Reel)” 

Countervolt -- Northdoor, Austin, TX, 2018
Exhibited “Audience of Ourselves”


FILMS + SCREENINGS

A Problem,
Short film, 3min,  2022
    
Animation Showcase -- Taos Center For the Arts, Taoz, NM 2023
    Hyperreal Film Screening -- Hotel Vegas, Austin, TX, 2022     
     Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti-- Ypsilanti, Michigan, 2022     
     Texorcism -- Cheer Up Charlies, Austin, TX, 2022
    Plant OS -- Austin, TX, 2022


COMMUNITY ORIENTED WORK
4D Thursdays -- Multiple Locations
, Austin, TX, 2022-Ongoing
Hosting and curating art theory readings for community group discussions with local organization Concept Animals

Hello Neighbor -- Dadalab, Austin, TX, 2019
Art and tech show produced alongside a curatorial team of four, featuring 26 artists and performers. My focus was on promotion, securing sponsors, and planning structural flow in the space. 

Bad Art Collective -- Temporary Arts Space, Savannah, GA, 2017
Created an art collective based around 6 months of weekly exploration and workshops around digital art, including gifs, projection mapping, animation, slime, and microcontrollers. At the end we presented an exhibition of our work including a zine, prints, film screening, sculptures, interactive exquisite corpse, and sculpture made of masks we created for a local parade.


PUBLICATIONS

Environmental Performance Agency Interview--
Published in Concept Animals, 2021
Interviewed artist Christopher Kennedy about Environmental Performance Agency

Quand Même-- Self Published, 2019 Interactive web essay on camp and women performing as Hamlet


EDUCATION
SCAD, Savannah GA
- BFA, Motion Design, 2013-17