**Closing Reception 3.27.26**

Audiovisual Performance
**Debora Bernagozzi & Jason Bernagozzi, Abdul Hamid Sherzai**
Artist **Debora Bernagozzi** works primarily with the mediums of video, photography, and fiber. She received her BFA in Video from the Atlanta College of Art in 1999 and her MFA in Electronic Integrated Art from Alfred University in 2002. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally, including at the Denver Art Museum, Burchfield Penney Museum, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival. She was awarded artist residencies at the Experimental Television Center, Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center, and in Kuala Lumpur.
Inspired by residency experiences that were transformational for them both personally and artistically, Debora and Jason Bernagozzi, along with Hank Rudolph co-founded Signal Culture, a nonprofit organization that provides residencies, resources, and exhibition opportunities for artists, researchers, and innovators working in experimental media art. She serves as Executive Director while continuing to make and exhibit her own work.

**Jason Bernagozzi** is an artist and technologist living and working in New York. Their work seeks to deconstruct and remix the cultural codes embedded within the psyche of an increasingly mediated world. To achieve this, a central feature of their practice is the creation of video software and hardware used as a real time instrument for improvisational exploration. In particular, they are interested in the emergent properties of image processing as a vehicle for a critical examination of the power structures embedded within information technologies.
Bernagozzi’s work has been supported through numerous grants and awards from organizations such as the New York State Council for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and has been exhibited nationally and internationally at exhibitions such as the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruk, Germany; the Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques in Marsaille, France; the Ilman Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea and the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jason is an Assistant Professor of Cinema Production at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

**Abdul Hamid Sherzai** creates sound and art in Worcester, Massachusetts. He's made bedroom noise under various monikers since 2006. "Not for the faint of heart, but for the hard of hearing."

Influx/Outbound • RPM in Motion Exhibition

Cinema and the railway were born as twins of modernity. In 1897, two years after the Lumière brothers’ public screening, the first underground streetcar station in the United States opened beneath Tremont Street. Both transformed human perception: the window of the moving train was a proto-cinema, framing landscape in continuous motion.
Early cinema confronted the problem of how to synchronize image and sound. The solution was deceptively simple. A beam of light passes through the optical soundtrack, a photocell translates light into electrical signals, and an amplifier releases sound back into the world. Image and sound, once separate, learned to meet in time. Green Street Station on the Orange Line, a result of 1970s community resistance to highway construction, becomes our screening room.

The gallery is a transit node where past and future temporarily align. Here, image, sound, and vibration travel together. Separately recorded tracks of absence converge in the presence. Experimental cinema loops alongside perpetual rhythm, and the city itself becomes a moving image.

Curated by Ariel Hou

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WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION
L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat - Auguste and Louis Lumière
50 sec loop, 16mm to digital, B&W, 1896

Tokyo-Ebisu - Tomonari Nishikawa
5 min loop, 16mm to digital, Color, 2010

Last Train - Dianna Barrie & Richard Tuohy
12 min loop, 16mm to Digital, Color, silent, 2016

Shibuya-Tokyo - Tomonari Nishikawa
10 min loop, 16mm to digital, color, 2010

Incantation - Kalpana Subramanian
8 min 40 sec loop, Digital, Color, 2022

Capitol Limited - Ahmed Ragheb & Lily Ekimian Ragheb
2 min loop, Digital, Color, 2024

In Transit - Azin Feizabadi
24 min loop, Digital, Color, 2022

The Iron Ministry - J.P. Sniadecki
84 min loop, Digital, Color, 2014

The Call - Kelly Sears
7 min 6 sec loop, Digital, Color, 2024

XCTRY - Bill Brown
6 min 18 sec loop, Digital, Color, 2019

Meridian Plain - Laura Kraning
18 min loop, Digital, B& W, 2019

Untitled- Yue Hua
Interactive, 8 min loop, Digital, B& W, 2025

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