Anat Pollack

Anat Pollack is a convergent media artist exploring the perception and pliability of time. Just as the entire river can be seen from a satellite, humanity can be seen as a whole system with the past, present and future existing simultaneously. Her work specifically addresses the urgent matters related to our dependence on an earth that is rapidly changing.  She is embedded in the Tampa Bay area where she is Associate Professor of Art at The University of South Florida. 

“My work is about time. Time on a global scale. Earth time and human time, ecology and humanity. Being rooted in the body bound to the earth by gravity, I have the ineffable sense that living exists outside of time. Lives may be bound by it, but human time exists outside of linear time where life is experienced temporally: stretching and compressing through living. My sculptural and video installations take a bird’s eye view of the earth and humanity: outside of time, existing simultaneously at the confluence of the past, present, and future, bound in its own context. 

Scientific, cultural, and polemic, my works insist that nothing happens within any system without impacting its requisite parts, and the systems under which they exists.  Connection with the future is dependent on the past. Mirroring linked systems of ecology and humanity within a global human-whole, I aim to draw spectators into interactive artworks that promote awareness of socio-ecological stories and environments, while emphasizing human responsibility inside them.”

Recent exhibitions include Skyway 2024 at the Museum of Fine Art in St. Petersburg, Skyway 2020/21 at the Tampa Museum of Art, ARC gallery, Chicago; Momentum: Women Art and Technology, ASU; Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College; Wintermoot, Augmented Reality Festival, Alaska; Lights on Tampa Satellite Projects, Tampa; Dorsch Gallery, Miami; Art Chicago, Chicago, IL;  SIGGRAPH; Miami Art Basel: More Funner Projects; apexart Gallery, NY;  S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, Asheville; O.K. Video Festival in Jakarta; NeMe, The Mirror Stage: International Video Art Exhibition, Cyprus; FMOPA, Tampa. Her video “The North Wind and The Sun” recently won  Best Dance Film Short at theKiez Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2023, and is currently traveling at Film Festivals around the world including Cornwall Film Festival, Falmouth, England, Fresh Stream, Art Experimental Screenings Film Festival Fresh Stream 4th Edition, live and streaming, in T’bilisis, Georgia, Bomba Video Club, Bomba Gallery, Moscow, Russia, BINTERFACCIA DIGITALE, Film Festival, Pesaro, PU, Italy, éphémère ~ London experimental film London, England, Almaty Underground Screening Series in Almaty, Kazakhastan, Future Contingents Film Festival in Lynchburg, Virginia Cuadro por Danza Festival in Curacas, Venezuela,  Nur Box Experimental Film Festival, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2023,Dance Camera Istanbul 2023 Improdance Fest Edition: Dance  Camera Istanbul 2023 in collaboration with Istanbul Improvisation Dance 2023Festival, Istanbul, Turkey 2023 and the Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art #5  2023