PORTALS: Termite TV’s 31st Anniversary Exhibition
2023-04-01 00:00 - 2023-04-23 23:59 (America/New_York) | Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
The PORTALS media extravaganza includes work from over 25 artists, including current and past members of the Termite TV Collective. Celebrating their 31st year of cooperative and groundbreaking artmaking, this Philly-based group of artists is exploring the concept of this moment in time, our emergence through the pandemic, as a portal to our future existence. The exhibition includes video sculptures, life story stations, and installations. Opening reception is First Friday, April 7th, from 4-9 pm. On Friday, April 21st, 2023, at 7 pm, the show culminates in a premiere screening of the video collection, Portals, a collaboration with PhillyCAM.

The Gary Smalls Gallery Project presents: Places of Power
2023-11-08 00:00 - 2023-12-29 23:59 | Scribe Video Center, 3908 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
The Gary Smalls Gallery Project presents: Places of Power
On view from November 8, 2023 – December 29, 2023
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Free and Open to the Public

A project of Termite TV Collective
Places of Power Installation – Villa Africana Colobó Garden and Penny Candy Store
Lead artists: Anula Shetty and Michael Kuetemeyer
Curator: John Abner
Join for a gallery exhibition using Augmented Reality to document community histories in the Hartranft/Fairhill neighborhoods of North Philadelphia and the Villa Africána Colobó in the West Kensington/Norris Square neighborhood.
After the gallery opening at 7 pm Michael Kuetemeyer and Anula Shetty of Termite TV Collective will lead the first of a two-session Augmented Reality (AR) workshop where participants will learn how to use AR as a tool for community storytelling. Wednesday, November 8 and 15 at 7:00 PM.

March Open House at Cherry Street Pier
2024-03-01 17:30 - 20:00 | Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Please join us for our first Open House of the year at Cherry Street Pier where we’ll have live webam video activities, vhs tapes installation, and audio-midi station fun! Bring the family, excited to see you!

First Friday: Getting to Green Exhibit, Colobó Exhibition & Website Launch
2024-04-05 17:00 - 20:00

First Friday: May 3rd - Live Projections
2024-05-03 17:00 - 20:00

Fungus Garden: Poetry Workshop with Julia Lopez
2024-05-11 15:00 - 17:00
Join us for a poetry workshop where participants will explore themes of the undergrowth-understory and generate poems for our upcoming exhibition at Termite Tv Collective
Register at our Linktr.ee/termitetvcollective
Julia Lopez is a Theater Artist and Poet. She Graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Attended the Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute, her last year of undergrad was spent in Madrid, Spain. She was a member of Las Gallas-Latina Woman’s Artist Collective for 14 years, performing & facilitating workshops throughout the USA, Cuba, Spain, & Mexico.

Digital Music Workshop with Lorne Peart
2024-05-22 18:30 - 2024-06-19 20:30
Join us in collaboration with Philly Cam for a Digital Music Workshop series on Wednesdays 6-8pm from May 22nd to June 19th using field recordings to make and mix music together.
You can register at the Philly Cam Website.

The Flat Imagination Workshop: Permacomputing & p5js
2024-07-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Join us for a workshop into how p5js can be used to create digital poetry works and performances featuring Warren C. Longmire with Betty’s Eyes and William Hazard
Participants are invited to bring their own laptops or to come enjoy, interact and absorb, as we dive into an accessible introduction to permacomputing and practice with existing low and no cost software tools to create your own new media works –
The Flat Imagination Workshop is a new media technology workshop and performance series exploring the intersection of programming, electronic music, digital visualization and the written word. Each edition features two artists performers and two workshop sessions diving into the craft behind their work.
The Flat Imagination Workshop is a community space, built with the intent of having participants learn, engage and perform their craft together. If you are interested in performing and skill sharing at a future workshop, contact us at @mixlitphilly@gmail.com.
Register at linktr.ee/termitetvcollective

ScreenPrint with Termite: August First Fridays
2024-08-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Termite TV Collective is hosting a screen-printing activity on our August First Friday. We’ve been hosting a myriad of workshops with folks in our community all related to themes of the Understory, the ecosystems that are unknown or unseen to the eye yet still alive.

In April, we hosted a poetry workshop and from there, haikus were generated. This upcoming First Friday, we will be screenprinting some of those haikus with imagery. There will be over 8 designs with various color paper.

We hope you can bring your friends, community and family over ~ see you there!

Plant Imprints Workshop with People's Kitchen Philly, Nicole Duprée and Gabrielle Patterson
2024-08-31 13:00 - 16:00
Register Here
In collaboration with Nicole Duprée (Indigo in Green/Ampersand Textile,) Gabrielle Patterson (People’s Kitchen Philly) and (Gabe Castro) Termite TV Collective, join us for a two-part workshop and celebration around plant-printing and relationship-building.
On Saturday, August 31st:
Share plant stories and create two kinds of botanical prints: sunprints using turmeric and rubbings using color blocks made from turmeric, beeswax, and finely ground yellow rock.
Together, we will create a larger collective piece with samples of all the selected plants from the garden. Sun tea will be served.
On October 4th:
Mark your calendars for the People’s Kitchen’s Harvest dinner event at Reinhard Street Community Farm on October 4th!
On Friday, November 1st:
A zine compiling the workshop’s prints, relationships, and plants will be available for purchase as fundraising for People’s Kitchen Philly at Termite TV Collective’s studio at Cherry Street Pier.
Join us for a nourishing plant connection practice over a cup of tea from The Random Tea Room, and then make and take your own nature rubbings & plant prints

About the Facilitators:

Nicole Duprée is a teaching artist and founder of Indigo in Green–a Philadelphia-based creative workshop producing artisanal, natural art supplies and educational resources. For nature art tutorials, field trips to Philly green spaces, and projects featuring local artists watch Indigo in Green on Philly CAM and YouTube.

Gabrielle Patterson is a multidisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. With work spanning animation, film, illustration, and installation, she creates immersive mixed-media worlds through light, color, texture, and sound. Gabrielle is also a member of Bonfire Media Collective, a worker-owned video production cooperative telling human stories that catalyze social change. In collaboration with the Human Rights Coalition, Gabrielle co-directed and produced Bonfire’s 2023 documentary film, I Can’t Breathe: The Toxic Prisons Campaign’s Fight for Environmental Justice. This powerful documentary exposes the connections between environmental injustice and the carceral system, amplifying the voices of those fighting for the rights of incarcerated individuals from both inside and outside prison walls.
This year, Gabrielle is collaborating with The People’s Kitchen and their community farm in Southwest Philly as a Leeway Foundation Media Artist + Activist Resident. Throughout 2024, Gabrielle has worked closely with Ben Miller of PKP to grow awareness of the farm within the Southwest Philadelphia community, deepen relationships with neighbors, and provide engaging activities for all ages. As Artist-in-Resident, Gabrielle has facilitated art workshops, created videos and illustrations for social media, and begun production on a mixed-media short film showcasing the farm as a place of connection for community members through the personal stories of dedicated stewards and volunteers.

Exhibit Opening Immersive Lens: Places of Power & Community Storytelling
2024-09-06 17:00 - 2024-09-30 17:00
In honor of the 20/20 Photo Festival our collective is hosting an exhibit of photography from our members Anula Shetty, Michael Kuetemeyer and Alan Powell.
In the Immersive Lens: Places of Power & Community Storytelling series, artists Anula Shetty and Michael Kuetemeyer present selected works co-created with community groups. “Villa Africana Colobó Garden” in collaboration with Norris Square Neighborhood Project and “Echoes from the Conch Shell” in collaboration with Reichhold Center/University of the Virgin Islands.

Alan Powell is presenting photography and print works featuring processes of image distortion, image overlay with image manipulation and poetry developed from our Fungus Gardens and previous First Friday workshops.

With a Special Activity for all ages: we will be painting wooden cutouts of monarch butterflies which will then be installed in Las Parcelas garden in West Kensington/Norris Square.

Augmented Reality Workshop with 20/20 Photo Festival
2024-09-07 16:00 - 17:00
We are thrilled to be participating in the 20/20 Photo Festival! Learn how to design Augmented Reality artwork with Termite Tv Collective. We will demonstrate how to expand the storytelling power of photography through our Places of Power project from 4-5pm.

This year’s 20/20 Photo Festival explores this evolution and influence of technology on contemporary photography by featuring artists and partnerships that reflect the creative collaborations happening throughout Philadelphia.

First Friday: Gallery Opening with Lisa Marie and Deb Rudman
2024-10-04 17:00 - 20:00
Join us October 4, 5pm – 8pm for the First Friday opening reception at Cherry Street Pier’s Studio 101.
In honor of American Archives Month, Termite TV Collective will showcase work by Deb Rudman and Lisa Marie Patzer at Cherry Street Pier, October 4-31.
The show features reflections on an archive of 35mm slides by photographer Ben Kabakow. The images Kabakow captured during the mid-1950’s reflect life in New York City and travels to popular tourist locations. Sample Portrait, a video by Kabakow’s granddaughter Deb Rudman, is an intimate portrait of Kabakow’s life, relationships, and love of photography. In Chromatographic Landscapes, a series of prints and reverse-lit art panels, Lisa Marie Patzer utilizes various digital chroma-based processes to sort, separate out, and reconfigure images from a collection of over a thousand 35mm slides.
Her treatment of this large archive of analog imagery emphasizes the role nostalgia and personal association play when interpreting another’s visual anthology.

Direct Animation on 16mm Workshop with Craig Scheihing
2024-10-05 12:00 - 16:00
Join us in this one-day workshop at Cherry Street Pier – Termite TV Collective’s studio 101 – where participants will use additive and subtractive methods of directly effecting and animating on the 16mm film surface.
We will use paints, markers, stickers, scratching, and other methods to explore the potentials of film as a physical medium rather than (or in addition to) a photographic container. After a discussion of the process and its place within the context of experimental filmmaking and a collective demonstration of techniques, each participant will have time and materials to create their own compositions and sequences.
This workshop is open to anyone, regardless of any prior experience with film or photography.
About the artist:
Craig Scheihing is an artist based in New York City. His work has been screened, performed, and exhibited around the world in film festivals, museums, basements, bars, beneath bridges, in cinemas, vacant lots, galleries, garages, universities, yards, and in-between.

Phytography Workshop with Craig Scheihing
2024-10-06 12:00 - 16:00
Craig Scheihing, artist in residence at the Dunu On The Road, instructed a series of 16mm filmmaking workshops exploring direct and photographic approaches to the medium, alternative non-toxic development, and various botanical interventions.
As a part two, Craig led participants in a one-day workshop using plant materials harvested from the garden and the sun to create direct 16mm films at the Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden.

About the Artist:
Craig Scheihing is an artist based in New York City. His work has been screened, performed, and exhibited around the world in film festivals, museums, basements, bars, beneath bridges, in cinemas, vacant lots, galleries, garages, universities, yards, and in-between.

Artist Talk: Archival Stories - How Contemporary Design Can Illuminate the Past
2024-10-10 18:00 - 20:00
In honor of American Archives Month and DesignPhiladelphia, Lisa Marie Patzer and Deb Rudman share about their creative work incorporating archival material in contemporary design and multimedia storytelling. The conversation, moderated by Chase Dougherty, The Delaware Contemporary, Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art, will touch on themes of storytelling, memory, technology, and preservation of domestic archives through design. The event includes prints and illuminated art panels from Chromatographic Landscapes by Lisa Marie Patzer as well as the video Sample Portrait by Deb Rudman and a 35mm slide show of Ben Kabakow’s photographic archives.
Location: Cherry Street Pier 121 N. Columbus Boulevard, Studio 1, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Register: Space and tickets are limited. The program will be recorded and shared with folks on the waitlist after the event.
Event Program

6:00 PM – Screening of Sample Portrait (video by Deb Rudman)
6:30 PM – Conversation moderated by Chase Dougherty, The Delaware Contemporary, Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art
7:30 PM – Slide show and Q&A

About The Artists
Lisa Marie Patzer is a digital media artist, designer, and entrepreneur whose work integrates light, pattern, historic imagery, and color to evoke site-specific stories for a contemporary audience. Trained in film and media arts, Patzer is interested in the power of storytelling as a way to connect with place. Based in the Greater Philadelphia region, Lisa Marie Patzer works out of a studio in the Delaware Contemporary Art Museum and a wood shop in Media, Pennsylvania.
Deb Rudman is a media arts curator and maker, with active engagement in social justice issues and a passion for creativity, integrity, equity and sustainability. Based in Philadelphia, Rudman is the TV Programming Director at Philly CAM, the non-profit designated by the City of Philadelphia to operate its public access television network. Rudman is also a member of Termite TV Collective.

Places of Power: El Bembé Celebration
2024-10-19 14:00 - 18:00
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Watch our celebration of El Bembé! A gathering of friends to celebrate “Places of Power: Villa Africana Colobó Garden”

A project of Termite TV Collective & Norris Square Neighborhood Project
Presented by the 2024 Philadelphia Latino Arts and Film Festival, Leeway Foundation Media Artist + Activist Residency and Mural Arts Philadelphia

El Bembé is a celebration of the community-based Augmented and Virtual Reality project, “Places of Power: Villa Africana Colobó Garden.” Come and experience AR/VR installations in a community garden celebrating African heritage and the West African diaspora in Puerto Rican culture. Project directors Iris Brown of Grupo Motivos / Norris Square Neighborhood Project and Anula Shetty and Michael Kuetemeyer of Termite TV Collective have been facilitating workshops with long-term residents to share the memories and stories of this Latinx neighborhood in Norris Square.

We will also be celebrating the new Grupo Motivos mural by artist Celso Gonzales. There will be musical performances by Youba Cissokho and El Junte.

“Places of Power: Villa Africana Colobó Garden” is funded in part by Independence Public Media Foundation, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund and Temple University

First Friday: Plant Imprint & Tea Ritual
2024-11-01 17:00 - 20:00
The Plant Imprints workshop continued with turmeric plant rubbings, a collective anthotype and tea meditation.
The collective anthotypes were on display alongside a plant rubbings for the public to make. A tea ritual and meditation guided folks to create a collective anthotype together.

Inciting the Body Workshop
2024-12-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Continuing our Understories Workshop series, this workshop will focus on awakening, enlivening, and thanking the body for the many ways it supports and moves us. The goal is for everyone to be in a deep state of observing their bodies and how they are always in dialogue with others, and the environment around them.
**This workshop is open to individuals of any and all movement experience, notebooks or writing materials are highly encouraged.
The class will focus on gently reconnecting with our bodies through a sensory meditation, exploring how our senses engage with ourselves and the environment. Participants will be guided through a meditation that encourages self-inquiry: How is our body feeling? How does it want to move, or remain still? We will explore sensations such as scent, or how our eyes feel when we deeply direct our attention to how they move.
Led by Chloe Marie – RSVP Here

Termite TV Toolkit Release Party
2024-12-06 18:00 - 20:30
Termite TV Collective is excited to announce the print version of our Termite TV Toolkit: How to Make a Termite Show.
The Toolkit is meant for teachers and creative facilitators interested in integrating the Termite model of making thematic 30-minute, multivocal shows in which multiple creators uniquely interpret one central theme. into their curriculum.
Termite shows in the past have reflected on themes as malleable as water, consumerism, habits, the war on terror, and others. Show themes are designed to be spacious enough for artists to interpret them uniquely as a means of fostering creative dialogue around pressing social issues. Through individual expression radiating out from common themes, Termite contributors co-create space for idea sharing and collective world-building.
We are interested in hosting this toolkit at your local library, independent bookstores, classrooms, media institutions, community organizing spaces and creative projects who could benefit from an outlined documented process of video and exhibit making that we like to call ‘video jazz.’
We invite you to join us for the release of our Termite TV Toolkit on Friday, December 6th from 6-8:00p : we’ll have copies available for sale and a communal packing station where we’ll pack, stamp, and sort copies to send out to the community.
To Order:
If you’re interested in a hard copy, fill out our pre-order form for a copy for $10 and $5 shipping. Inquire for bulk order discount.
For a preview of the toolkit visit: https://termite.org/mound/termite-tv-toolkit/

Amplifying the Undercurrent: Poetry & Essence Making
2024-12-11 18:00 - 20:00
This workshop was a guided experimentation on the process of essence-making utilizing flowers and the natural environment — and poetry led by Dominique Matti.
A flower essence is an energetic medicine intended to replicate a portion of the essential nature of a plant in a clear bowl of water.
What is the essence of a fire pit? What is the essence of a view of the bridge or the breeze over the water?
The result were physical essences that participants both kept & shared, and poetry on the various experiences participants have with what populates the immediate environment with inspiration from Black women poets.

Multiscreen Film Installations Opening: Unity Island (2023) and Last House (2010) by Carl Lee
2025-01-18 17:00 - 19:30
Please join Termite TV at [location] on Sunday, January 13, 2025 from 5-7:30p for the opening of Carl Lee’s multiscreen film installations Unity Island (2023) and Last House (2010). Both of these three-screen installations take a personal, intimate approach to interpreting the built environment and how it changes over time.
RSVP HERE
Unity Island (2023, 3-channel 16mm film to digital projection, 13:30 loop, stereo sound)
Unity Island is a landscape study of a ¼ mile stretch of land between Niagara River and Black Rock Canal at the border of Buffalo, NY and Fort Erie, Ontario. A railroad crosses the island from Canada to the US passing by a park visited by picnickers, bicyclists, and fishermen. Freight trains cross the canal lock via a swing bridge which rotates open for boats and the occasional freight ship. The 19th century infrastructure of railroad and swing bridge and the placid public park belie the island’s past as a garbage dump for the city of Buffalo. A hill, from which you can get a 360° view of the island, the city, the river, and the highway, is located on the former site of the incineration plant. I’ve been taking my dog, Augie, for walks there for years. Time frames overlap and his in-the-moment wanderings act as a guide.
Last House (2010, 16:30 loop, 3-channel projection, stereo audio)
When I first moved to Buffalo I was struck by the everyday beauty of the many single-family homes that make up a large part of the city. The iconic image of the house seemed to have endless variation, each a unique instance with their own histories. If houses are containers for our memories, the structures within which so many minor and major domestic events take place, then each week in this city a collective amnesia grows block by block: a city disappears before our eyes. The demolition of these structures – by design or accident – and the speed, indifference, and violence with which it takes place; the transmutations of scale, space, and time – is breathtaking, tragic, and full of contradictions. Last House is an inquiry, part document, part memorial, to this changing built environment.
Carl Lee, an early member of Termite TV, is a media artist living in Buffalo, NY. More information can be found at carljlee.com.

First Friday: Carl Lee Multi Installation Exhibit
2025-02-07 17:00 - 20:00
Join us for Cherry Street Pier’s February First Friday for Carl Lee’s multi installation video exhibit. The work Unity Island (2023) and Last House (2010). Both of these three-screen installations take a personal, intimate approach to interpreting the built environment and how it changes over time.
Unity Island (2023, 3-channel 16mm film to digital projection, 13:30 loop, stereo sound)
Unity Island is a landscape study of a ¼ mile stretch of land between Niagara River and Black Rock Canal at the border of Buffalo, NY and Fort Erie, Ontario. A railroad crosses the island from Canada to the US passing by a park visited by picnickers, bicyclists, and fishermen. Freight trains cross the canal lock via a swing bridge which rotates open for boats and the occasional freight ship. The 19th century infrastructure of railroad and swing bridge and the placid public park belie the island’s past as a garbage dump for the city of Buffalo. A hill, from which you can get a 360° view of the island, the city, the river, and the highway, is located on the former site of the incineration plant. I’ve been taking my dog, Augie, for walks there for years. Time frames overlap and his in-the-moment wanderings act as a guide.
Last House (2010, 16:30 loop, 3-channel projection, stereo audio)
When I first moved to Buffalo I was struck by the everyday beauty of the many single-family homes that make up a large part of the city. The iconic image of the house seemed to have endless variation, each a unique instance with their own histories. If houses are containers for our memories, the structures within which so many minor and major domestic events take place, then each week in this city a collective amnesia grows block by block: a city disappears before our eyes. The demolition of these structures – by design or accident – and the speed, indifference, and violence with which it takes place; the transmutations of scale, space, and time – is breathtaking, tragic, and full of contradictions. Last House is an inquiry, part document, part memorial, to this changing built environment.
Carl Lee, an early member of Termite TV, is a media artist living in Buffalo, NY. More information can be found at carljlee.com.

Mapping Our Interconnectedness with Cara Judea Alhadeff
2025-03-30 13:00 - 15:00
Join Cara for a dynamic workshop that will combine visual and oral storytelling, interactive activities and discussion.
She’ll highlight her work with her eco-art installation repurposed performance-based school bus tiny home and her book, Zazu Dreams, a cross-cultural, climate-justice book and animation.
RSVP
You can find out more about her work:
Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD

First Fridays: Slow Scan
2025-04-04 17:00 - 20:00
Join us for First Fridays at Cherry Street Pier for an open-to-the-public Slow Scan activity at our Termite Studio.
RSVP Here

Understories Video Program
2025-04-19 19:00 - 20:30
As Termite TV embarks on its 4th decade, having created dozens of collaborative programs, working across multiple media platforms, this is the first show to be produced through a year-long studio residency at Cherry Street Pier.
We started with an experimental sound exploration, continued with a poetry workshop, then printed silkscreens and gathered outdoors to project video at night and then create plant imprints under the sun – all under the theme of Understories: we are growing and evolving through our network.

Deb Rudman and gabe castro introducing the program

Participants gathering for a picture

PCAM Participants:
Hope and ANTS by Natalie Thomas
The Fire Inside by Tamara Jackson
Stand Tall With Coping Skills: Ava’s Giraffe Journey by Dr. Jenine Lowery, LPC Featuring: Ava Brown and Shelby-Animal Care Specialist at Longneck Manor
Welcome to the Understory by Gabrielle Patterson
The Susurrus between Light and Shadow by Nicole Dupree
Rewild by Joy Elisabeth Waldinger (J. Eliza Wall)
Mariposas by Frances Almodovar
Incubator of Life by Gabrielle Patterson

Termite TV Collective Participants:
Oyster Spells by Ingrid Raphaël – A Meditation on Oysters
The Food of the Yard by Michael O’Reilly – Explores the understory of the maker, his family and their backyard.
Tunnel Under World by Anula Shetty – A subway journey exploring underground abandoned tunnels
Lava Tubes by Michael Kuetemeyer – Cooling from the top forms an insulating skin. The heat, now contained, allows the inside to stay molten, flowing forward.
The Moray Dance by Francesca Lally – A rotoscoped underwater ballet, a sinuous manifesto.The eels have been watching us and this is what they have to say.
Shrooms by the Ghouls Next Door – Two friends conduct a ritual in hopes of making a meaningful connection with the spirit realm.
Tiny Worlds by Karen Lefkovitz – Utilizes macro photography to reveal hidden worlds, which are a gateway to larger questions about human perception.
What is Mycelium by Alan Powell – Mushroom Talk/Dance
Alda and the Fungi by María Teresa Rodríguez and Lily Xie – For over two decades, Dr. Alda Rodríguez has harnessed the power of soil fungi to combat pests and diseases in plants and livestock. These microscopic allies are at the heart of her mission to eliminate agrotoxins from our food and to regenerate our soil and ecosystems.
Ice Cocoon by Kathleen Sweeney – Explores winter wandering in open sensory symbiosis with nature, a rewilding search for refuge within breathing cycles of bird song, coyote calls, snow, ice and melt. “Ice Cocoon” seeks, scans and discovers, traversing woodland transitions, a metaphoric metamorphosis in cycles of seasonal transformation.

First Fridays: Signal Culture Demo
2025-05-02 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for a workshop and demo learning how to use Signal Culture: a program that lets you manipulate video inputs live with distorting, delay, mirroring, fisheye, color manipulation and more. Play with projections, videos, and learn the accessible program that you can use in your video projections, installations, mapping and experimentations.
Free and open to the public with special interests to filmmakers, media enthusiasts, video experimentalists who want to learn a new skill!
RSVP at our eventbrite

First Friday with Test Patterns: Video Synth & Vintage Gear
2025-06-06 17:00 - 20:00
Join Artists-in-Residence, Test Patterns, at the Termite TV Collective Studio at Cherry Street Pier on Friday, June 6 for public offerings of workshops learning basic techniques of video synthesis & play with vintage and circuit-bend gear.
About Test Patterns Named after the geometric shapes transmitted by early television stations to test their broadcast quality, Test Patterns is an experiment in form. The project pairs video art with live performances representing a range of artistic mediums, building on the lineage of experimental video art and bringing it to new audiences.
Bios:
Nia Benjamin is a Black, queer, multidisciplinary artist, a projection/installation/video designer, a director of experimental theater, and the co-artistic director/co-founder of Ninth Planet. Well known on the experimental electronic music scene, Chaka Benson uses modular and video synthesis to capture his aesthetic as informed by Philadelphia’s streets, raw soul, and DIY spirit. Blush Something is a musician, performer, video artist, and organizer living in West Philly. Her work centers on education, collaboration, and connection across communities. Gralin Hughes, Jr. (aka Television Sky) is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound and visuals, merging these forms through projection mapping, audio/visual live performance, and installation art. Sarah Milinksi is a queer/non-binary multidisciplinary artist, educator, and designer based in West Philadelphia, With over a decade of experience in community media education. These five artists are the core collaborators and organizers of Test Patterns, an experimental video art television show and educational project aimed at preserving, expanding, and challenging the uses and possibilities of video art and synthesis.

Places of Power: North Philadelphia History Festival
2025-07-26 11:00 - 18:00
Join us from 12-2pm with a reception with foods, Puerto Rican sewing demonstrations and our Augmented Reality garden installation at the Africana Colobo Garden as part of the very first North Philadelphia History Festival!
The North Philadelphia History Festival (NPHF) is a cultural celebration of the African-American and Puerto Rican communities in North Philadelphia. Across four days, historic sites along Ridge Avenue, North Broad Street and other locales will be transformed into living exhibits created by artists, historians, curators and other cultural workers.
These multimedia projects and events will explore the emergence and impact of these communities in the 19th and 20th century. All events will be free and open to the public.
Places of Power is an immersive AR/VR documentary, public art, and community media project that celebrates the West African diaspora in Puerto Rican culture and the legacy of Grupo Motivos, a group of Puerto Rican women who transformed vacant city lots into vibrant community gardens. Project Directors Anula Shetty, Iris Brown, and Michael Kuetemeyer facilitated workshops with long-term residents to share the oral histories and memories of the Latine community in North Philadelphia. Come and explore the augmented reality artwork and stories embedded in this special garden. The project is a collaboration of Termite TV Collective and the Norris Square Neighborhood Project. Visit the interactive virtual tour at https://termite.org/colobo

Understories Exhibit at Cherry Street Pier
2025-08-01 12:00 - 2025-08-31 18:00
Over the past year at our studio residency at Cherry Street Pier, we invited local artists, herbalists, poets, dancers, media-makers, and collaborators to guide us through our theme ‘Understories,’ what lives underneath the surface unseen to the eye yet still exists; the networks of connection that we make rooted back to the surface, the poetic synapses of mycellium activating their communication channels, and the invisible tunnels that Termites create within rings of tree trunks.

This multimedia exhibit presented by Termite TV will feature a stellar slate of artists for a month at Cherry Street Pier from August 1-31.

Featuring artworks, sculpture, videos, sounds, and installations from our collaborators over the past year:
Nicole Duprée, Emily Fisher, William Hazard, Sadie Hicks, Michael Kuetemeyer, Karen Lefkovitz, Warren C. Longmire, Julia Lopez, Chloe Marie, Dominique Matti, Gabrielle Patterson, Alan Powell, Ingrid Raphaël, Craig Scheihing, Anula Shetty, Kathleen Sweeney. Frances Almodovar, the Ghouls Next Door, Tamara R. Jackson, Dr. Jenine Lowery, Michael O’Reilly, Francesca Lally, María Teres Rodriguez, Natalie Thomas, Joy Waldinger. Lee Clawson, Adam Cooper-Terán, Betty’s Eyes, Laura Deutch, Jamie Goetz, Lorne Peart, Deborah Rudman, Jake Smith & Workshop Participants.
Special events:
First Friday Opening: Aug 1st at Cherry Street Pier from 6-8pm
Film Screening of Understories Projects: Aug 15th from 6:30-8:30p at Cherry Street Pier

We’d like to thank our collaborators and funders who made this work possible:
Cherry Street Pier
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Pennsylvania Council of the Arts
Independence Media
Philadelphia Cultural Fund
PhillyCAM TV
