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Sharifa Lafon (she/her) is a curator and artist working in time-based experimental media. She creates and presents moving-image projects, installations, and public programs that explore perception, embodiment, and interconnection, often through collaborative, community-rooted production. Her work spans exhibitions, screenings, and large-scale projection projects.

Colorado-based music artists L'Astra Cosmo present their new audiovisual live show, "Lightphorms" – an electrified exploration into the secret world of phosphorescent visual forms generated using sound and voltage-controlled analog signals captured from vintage oscillographic CRT displays and modified vector game displays from the early 1980's.

Incorporating vector and video synthesis, audiences experience early analog computer animation techniques in a new context: hyper-chromatic visual form. "Lightphorms" explores the direct relationship between sound and light combined with artificial depth perception, created by exploiting a visual illusion known as chromostereopsis that can be enhanced and observed through ChromaDepth™ 3D glasses, taking audiences to new heights of synesthesia.

Important note: Portions of the performance will exhibit moments of stroboscopic light, therefore audience members who are sensitive to flashing light should take this into consideration.

For 20 years, Jahnavi Stenflo and Nathan Jantz have been working together creatively in different capacities, from curating to performing live. First appearing at 2016’s clandestine annual outdoor event, Lunar Lodge, their live performance of “Frequencies Unseen” was staged at the Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival later that year. While continuing to evolve their AV live performances, they were invited in 2023 to participate in a residency at Signal Culture, resulting in a piece currently in the group exhibit, “The Experimental Frontier” at the Loveland Museum, in Colorado.

L’Astra Cosmo’s work is rooted in a future-retro aesthetic: Seeking a hybrid visual language that lives unexplored between the past and the future, science and mysticism, technology and organic matter. Utilizing oscilloscopic displays, they approach “obsolete” video technologies not as relics, but as re-activated mediums and interlocutors. Treating these elements as catalysts in an explorative dialogue, their work directly addresses perception, entropy, and the aesthetics of signal decay. This methodology allows for critical reclaiming and renewal, moving the axis of experimental video forward by reaffirming its utility as a current process for discovery and examination in signal aesthetics through committed technical practice.