FMX Faculty Show Exhibits Multi-Media Works

Written by: Madeline McMahon M.A. '24 | Feb. 12, 2026

FMX Faculty Show Exhibits Multi-Media Works

A total of nine faculty artists from the Department of Film, Animation and New Media contributed to the exhibition, some with multiple pieces.

Professor Santiago Echeverry created Magical Fairy as a backdrop for Tampa City Ballet’s production of Cinderella last November. Echeverry, who has been using AI to discover new possibilities in his artistic vision, generated the image on Firefly and animated it with higgsfield.ai. “(With AI), I can deliver products that allow me to explore new aesthetics, take a lot of risks, and in the process push the boundaries of video making,” he said. Photo by Madeline McMahon M.A. ’24

The Scarfone/Hartley Gallery’s new Film, Animation and New Media (FMX) Faculty Exhibition is not a traditional fine arts showcase.

Through Feb. 24, the exhibit is presenting digital photographic works; experimental narrative short films and animations; and works in a 2D, 3D and 4D digital, time-based, virtual and multi-media installation, all created by faculty in the FMX department.

“It is a great opportunity to showcase new and digital time-based media,” said Jocelyn Boigenzahn, gallery director. “Our FMX faculty are some of the artists working on the forefront of this art form and often show in galleries nationally.”

A total of nine faculty artists contributed to the exhibition, some with multiple pieces. Below is a preview of some of the works on display.

Photos by Madeline McMahon M.A. '24.

A copper heart, a bubblegum pink foam skull, a bright orange wooden ear, a neon green knitted brain, and a pair of black leather lungs greet visitors to the exhibit. The 3D-printed body parts, collectively titled “Bio-Mechanicals,” by part-time faculty Ty Stude, represent the concept of human bodies being constructed by man-made materials.

The trailer for Assistant Professor Dana Corrigan’s original animated series, *Chorus to Dero,* loops on a monitor while another plays the pilot episode, which is about a gifted barmaid in a small town who meets a cavalryman far from home, sparking a magical adventure across the fictional continent of Anherta. An accompanying merch table is complete with t-shirts, keychains, enamel pins and stickers.

This double screen installation from FMX Chair and Professor Gregg Perkins stages an encounter between mythic time, cosmic space, and the relentless tick of computational measurement — three ways humans have tried to locate themselves in existence. "The Heron" on the left illustrates the wading bird as a figure that appears across all human mythologies, marking thresholds between worlds. To complement the heron's journey through time, "Unix Time," on the right, displays the number of seconds elapsed since Jan. 1, 1970 — the origin point from which all digital systems measure time.

Professor Dana Plays is a regular on the international film festival curcuit, and her latest go-round included these three interconnected feature documentaries. *Charlotte Salomon’s Letter* stars the late Austrian actress Birgit Doll reading an infamous letter that WWII-era artist Charlotte Salomon wrote confessing to the murder of her grandfather. Salomon created the autobiographical series of paintings called *Life? or Theater?,* which is the largest known artwork of a Jewish person who died in the Holocaust. While Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis, she was housed by Ottilie Moore, who is the subject of the second Plays documentary (as well as Plays’ great aunt). *Ottilie Moore — Heiress in the Resistance* won Best Historical Documentary at the Berlin Documentary Film Festival in December and will screen at Cannes International Film Week this May. The third film is *Charlotte Salomon — Portrait of the Artist,* which details Salomon’s life and work while in exile.

The Scarfone/Hartley Gallery is located on campus at the R.K. Bailey Art Studios, 310 N. Boulevard, and is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday, with no charge for admission.

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