Final Fantasy Jacolby Satterwhite
(Film 3 of 3) Whether voguing through the streets of NYC or riding a pegasus in cyberspace, artist Jacolby Satterwhite searches for ways to make dreams, visions, and hopes a reality. Through a practice that encompasses performance, video, sculpture, installation, and more, Satterwhite transitions seamlessly between physical and digital realms, creating spaces for memorialization, freedom, and exploration that bridge the two worlds. The artist says, “I’m living in the landscape of cyberspace and trying to make it tactile and poetic, and to have fun with it, like a kid.” Across three documentary shorts, Satterwhite explores the infinite possibilities found in the fluid movement between screens and streets.
Credits
Executive Producer: Tina Kukielski. Series Producer: Ian Forster. Director of Development: Lolita Fierro. Associate Director of Communications: Hannah DeGarmo. Associate Curator: Jurrell Lewis. Curatorial Assistant: Noor Tamari.
Production Company: Rava Films. Producers: Ava Wiland & Rafael Salazar Moreno. Managing Producer: Danielle Davis.
Director: Rafael Salazar Moreno. Producer/Co-Director: Ava Wiland. Archival Footage Directors: Lorena Alvarado, Wesley Miller, Rafael Salazar Moreno, Nick Ravich, and Ava Wiland. Editor: Russell Yaffe. Colorist: Russell Yaffe. Sound Mix: Russell Yaffe. Assistant Editor: Sam Klein. Music: Jacolby Satterwhite, Patricia Satterwhite, & Nick Weiss. Title Design: Alina Rancier.
Artwork Courtesy: Jacolby Satterwhite, Lundgren Gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, and Moran Moran. Archival Footage: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston & San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Jacolby Satterwhite was born in 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina, and currently lives and works in New York City. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008 and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. Working across performance, animation, drawing, virtual reality, and installation, Satterwhite creates immersive digital landscapes and cinematic universes. He populates them with avatars of himself and his community alongside everyday household objects drawn from his mother’s archives. Referencing the aesthetics of video games, modernism, and contemporary visual culture, the artist creates a personal and public mythology of joy, freedom, and celebration.
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“I’m living in the landscape of cyberspace and trying to make it tactile and poetic, and to have fun with it, like a kid.”
Jacolby Satterwhite