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Artist Experience Sabine Gruffat is co-founder/co-director of the Cosmic Rays Film <br />Festiv al. Her past curatorial work in collaboration with Bill Brown <br />included The Media Embassy, an occasional exhibition space in <br />Madison, W isconsin, as well as a pop- up microcinema in Paris, <br />France called La Vidéoshop. As Associate Professor of Digital Art in <br />the Art Department at UNC-Chapel Hill, she was the past chair of the <br />Hanes Visiting Artist Program and ov ersaw the selection and campus <br />v isit of ov er a dozen internationally recognized studio and media <br />artists. As a media artist, Gruffat works with experimental v ideo and <br />animation, media-enhanced performance, participatory public art, <br />and immersiv e installation. In this work, machines, interfaces, and <br />systems constitute the language by which she codes the world. The <br />creation of new ideas means inv enting new tools, crossing analog, <br />and digital signals, or repurposing old machines to patch into new <br />ones. <br />Bill Brown is co-founder/co-director of the Cosmic Rays Film Festiv al, <br />and an Associate Professor of Media Production in the Department of <br />Communication at UNC. As a media artist, his work includes <br />experimental and essay filmmaking; locativ e media projects; and <br />liv e-cinema performance. In addition to his work with Cosmic Rays, <br />he is a co-founder of The Zine Machine: Durham Printed Matter <br />Festiv al. Zine Machine is an annual celebration of autonomous, anti- <br />corporate, alternativ e printed media and zines that presents nearly 60 <br />printed matter artists and draws ov er a thousand v isitors each year. <br />How do you plan to <br />market your project? <br />Marketing and promotion of the festiv al takes place year round <br />through our online festiv al platform (Filmfreeway), v arious social <br />media channels (Instagram, Facebook), email list, and direct <br />outreach to filmmakers and audiences. Thanks to a partnership with <br />Duke Univ ersity, we are working with a summer intern to curate a <br />touring program that will bring Cosmic Rays to a wide v ariety of <br />v enues, including community centers, high schools, colleges, art <br />museums, and galleries in NC and beyond. <br />PROJECT/PROGRAM <br />BUDGET <br />Please fill out the charts below with your project's expenses and <br />income. Use the "Explanation" box to offer details for each category. <br />NOTE: The Total Cash Expense must equal the Total Cash Income. <br />Budgeted Expense <br />Expenses-english-rev ised.xlsx <br />Budgeted Income <br />Income-english-rev ised.xlsx <br />Resumes of artists/administrators <br />Brown_CV2022.pdf <br />Gruffat_CV2022.pdf <br />Publicity Samples <br />Cosmic_Rays_2018_Program.pdf <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: C2B0CB1A-DEDF-4677-9369-F9B0BF35007B