Internationally recognized multi-media artist Natasha Beste is best known for her innovative video and audio experimentation. She uses narrative and documentary styles to create complex mixed media video art and her installations are symbolic environments that often incorporate hand-drawn animated video. Her works focus on the ideas revolving around the body, mind, and trauma. Her goal is for audiences to experience something that is emotionally charging and provocative, evoking ideas relating to themselves, hoping this will spark dialogue about these personal topics.
Professional Experience
Natasha Beste is a video director, installation artist, animator, performer, and educator whose work has been showcased at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, MOCAD, Detroit Institute of Arts, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Since 2006, Beste has taught media arts at Wayne State University, Marygrove College, Y-Arts at the Boll Family YMCA, and Ladybug Studios. Since 2010, she鈥檚 been co-director of Gold House Media and has been commissioned by Kresge Arts in Detroit and Cranbrook Art Museum. She currently teaches at the 黑料专区 in the Film and Entertainment Arts departments and at Living Arts teaching youth stop-motion and hand-drawn animation. She is a 2022 Gilda Award winner for her interdisciplinary art, produces music and sings under the title Odd Hours, co-owns a 3D-printed jewelry and apparel brand called Hell Money Warriors, and has one book published.
Significant Publications, Presentations and Exhibitions
Select Video Art Screenings and Exhibitions:
2024
BINGO, 鈥淚ndependent Film Festival Ypsilanti,鈥� Ypsilanti, MI
KAID Artist Videos, 鈥淪potlight Detroit,鈥� Detroit PBS
KAID Artist Videos, 鈥淔reep Film Festival,鈥� Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2023
Sentient, 鈥淏erlin International Art Film Festival,鈥� Berlin, DE
Sentient, 鈥淰enice Shorts,鈥� Los Angeles, CA
Sentient, Noir Leather, Royal Oak, MI
Times a God Zillion, 鈥淒IFFUSION 2023,鈥� Toronto, Canada
2022
KAID Artist Videos, 鈥淪potlight Detroit,鈥� Detroit PBS
Times a God Zillion, 鈥淔ilm Diary NYC 2.0,鈥� Brooklyn, NY
Times a God Zillion, 鈥淢edia City Film Festival,鈥� Windsor, ON
Making A Universe, 鈥淢AU: Tunde Olaniran Exhibit,鈥� Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
BINGO, 鈥淏ingo Premiere,鈥� Play House, Detroit, MI
2021
Times a God Zillion, 鈥淎rizona Underground Film Festival,鈥� Tucson, AZ
Times a God Zillion, 鈥淎nn Arbor Film Festival,鈥� Ann Arbor, MI
2019
Never Silent. Never Still., 鈥淔reep Film Festival,鈥� Detroit, MI
Business is Pleasure, Haute to Death Boss & Secretary Night, Detroit, MI
Mom鈥檚 House: Free, Studio 8700, Oak Park, MI
Alter Mom Altar, Studio 8700, Oak Park, MI
Anti-Shrine, 鈥淒AMNED Exhibition,鈥� The Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI
Anti-Shrine, 鈥淔aculty Now!鈥� Valade Family Gallery, Detroit MI
2017
Anti-Shrine, 鈥淭he No Show,鈥� The Schvitz, Detroit, MI
KYBM, 鈥淎nn Arbor Film Festival,鈥� Ann Arbor, MI
Tambululu, 鈥淔undraiser for Freedom House,鈥� Light Box, Detroit, MI
2016
Search History, 鈥淪pectral Slumber,鈥� Assemble Sound, Detroit, MI
Sun Goes Rising, Our/Detroit, Detroit, MI
2015
Blueprint for a Weekend Binge, North End Studios, Detroit, MI
Full Moon Parasites, 鈥淢edia City Film Festival,鈥� Windsor, ON
Cyclicity, 鈥淒welling Lightheartedly In The Futility Of Everything
Multimedia Performance,鈥� MOCAD, Detroit, MI
Burning Desire, Doug Podell鈥檚 Rock900 w/ The Ghoul, Comcast channel 900
Healing Crystal, Front Store Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2014
Full Moon Parasites, 鈥淚nfrared Ultrasound,鈥� Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Mom鈥檚 House, 鈥淭he Deep End,鈥� Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI
2013
Maybe You Can Feel Even Better, 鈥淭rinity,鈥� work 鈥� detroit, Detroit, MI
Neural Projections, 鈥淏ring Your Own Beamer,鈥� North End Studios, Detroit, MI
Maybe You Can Feel Even Better, 鈥淎xis Mundi,鈥欌�漀orth End Studios, Detroit, MI
Voyeur Portals, Corktown Studies, Detroit, MI
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