sandy  peña

cutting video & fabric
  in brooklyn, NY

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Flash Frame

exhibition, 2023
the holland project

curator & participating artist












Flash Frame explores the blurred lines between the digital and the real. Digital spaces we inhabit effectively remove us and transport us to a different realm. They are ephemeral places where the location is not as relevant as your intention and attention. When in a digital space, our terrestrial self goes into an autopilot and our motivated actions exist solely within the screen.

To inhabit space is to belong. When our sense of belonging is stripped, where can we go? Priced out of physicality, we seek refuge in digital landscapes. Video games, films, music – digital media obscures perceptions of the physical and non-physical with the creation of alternate realities to play and exist within. The new Wild West.

We attempt to take viewers into a digital expanse. Open maps of procedurally generated space. Nothing stays forever on a motherboard or SSD, the media is available to be perceived only on its proprietary technology with connection to electricity. It leaves no mark on the landscape but the empty screen that once held it. An expanse of space given only for the emptiness remains.

Our aesthetic choices have been influenced by the early days of digital media, and the few years where the true transition took place from physical media to online only, the 1990s to 2010s. This includes the VHS aesthetic and chunky electronics. The time when “digitality” seemed to be only a novelty, as opposed to now when it has morphed our whole world into just a cradle for the screen.































Far Beyond the Walls

ARTEFFECTS on PBS, 2024

producer, videographer & editor

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Silver Telly Award
Telly Awards 2025

Award of Distinction
Communicator Awards 2025




Take a look inside the decommissioned Nevada State Prison and enter "Far Beyond the Walls," an immerisve art exhibition creating awareness around incarceration in the U.S.

ARTEFFECTS delves into the local arts scene while encompassing art features from across the nation. A play on the word "artifact" that emphasizes, not only the positive intended and unintended "effects" the arts have in our daily environments, region, and world - but also the long-term and lasting impact the arts have in helping define and describe our culture, community, nation, and world.









Thali

FoodNotes* on PBS, 2023

videographer

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Silver Telly Award
Telly Awards 2024

Gold International Award
2024 Communicator Awards

Award of Excellence (Series)
2024 Communicator Awards




The FoodNotes* team visits Thali North Indian Cuisine in Downtown Reno, Nevada, a restaurant known for their puffed up roti, spiced tea and mouth-watering vegetarian dishes.

FoodNotes* is a multiplatform food series highlighting the rich diversity of culinary expression and identity that exists in northern Nevada. Support provided by Nevada Humanities.