For three Decembers, from 2015 to 2017, the Day for Night festival in Houston set a programme of computational art, immersive light, projection, kinetic sculpture, interactive installation, audiovisual performance and spatial sound on equal terms with a major music bill. The visual programme was curated by Alex Czetwertynski for the festival founded by Omar Afra and Kiffer Keegan; it opened in the warehouses of Silver Street Studios and moved for its second and third editions into the decommissioned Barbara Jordan Post Office downtown.
This exhibition gathers what the archive can show and verify of that programme: 52 works and artists across the three editions, of which 48 are documented in their own records, with the festival's own films, the contemporary press and the Free Press Houston articles that covered each year. Nothing is reconstructed. Where a work's formal title is not established from a public or held source, it is listed in its edition index under a descriptive label, marked as such, and given no page of its own.
The programme read, and still reads, as a cross-section of new-media practice at a particular moment: the founding generation of creative coding beside artists then in their twenties, museum-circuit audiovisual work beside first commissions at architectural scale, and a festival crowd standing in for the art audience.
