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.
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
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