Sara Aleyce Roma (they/she) is a multimedia artist, animator and curator. Raised by the internet in Nebraska they learned HTML on neopets and animation from youtube before studying Motion Media at SCAD.
They have continuously interacted with community through various collectives as a contributor or organizer. Most recently organizing shows through Favored Channels and coordinating art theory discussions (4D Theory Thursdays) with Concept Animals.
Their short film “A Problem” has been screened at festivals in NM, MI, TX, and NY. They have been a resident of the Museum of Human Achievement twice, first with Welcome to my Homepage and next with CATS+.
Each day we move through a world much vaster and much more minuscule then we could hope to perceive or understand. Information swarms our senses and rarely do we slow down to question what we’re receiving and what we miss. The truth of single object, like a lemon, is inexhaustible. It’s both it’s taste, it’s seeds, it’s color, it’s rind, it’s genetic information and everything one could classify about a lemon or poetically wax. Analyzing the way our perception is both true, false and shifting, is an continuous process of sense-making and acceptance of unknowing. In that way I see art as analogous to an intentional life that interrogates our place in the world and synthesizes experience and research in to communication.
To explore concepts of scale, perception, ecology, and media theory as an artist I choose to engage a variety of mediums. Animation, time-based media, and video takes the forefront in my work. But I equally write poetry, design web art, make sculpture, create performance pieces (often resulting in video), research and curate.
Two of my recent pieces include, the short film “A Problem” made under the material constraint of LEMON and an interactive drone stop-motion performance titled “circlers”. Both pieces utilize stop-motion and deal with issues around perception. For instance how do you identify objects/problems/the other and how does the tool or vantage point change the process?
Sara Aleyce Roma
mail: sararoma.motion@gmail.com
www: chromaglyphs.xyz 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