Scott N Andrew

Video & Animation

Scott Andrew’s video and animation practice functions as a central site for exploring queer futurity, the mythology of divas, and the cosmic connections between pop culture and post-humanist identity. These works frequently employ a maximalist aesthetic, integrating VFX, found footage, and traditional animation with experimental media techniques, including generative AI.

The projects in this section explore the possibilities of visual fantasy and critical theory:

  • Queer Speculation & Transformation: Works like Bird of Paradise, Hide, and Neráides craft cinematic narratives that transport the viewer to alternate realms where gender and identity are fluid, excessive, and mythic. These videos often serve as source material or expansions of his live performance collaborations.
  • AI, Digital Embodiment, and Consciousness: Recent works, such as AI Dreams of Electric Bodies, merge AI generative animation with digital synthesis to visualize complex concepts around bodily pleasure, technology, and post-human existence. Earlier works, like Arise, explore similar themes through video feedback and analog distortions.
  • Collaborative Icons & Satire: Andrew’s video editing and production skills are showcased in collaborations like the video iteration of Show Queen and the work contributed to Narcissister's exhibition Narcissister is You. This section also includes his role as a co-producer of the Dadaist variety show, Trans-Q Television / TQ Live!.
  • The Vortex & The Void: Projects like Phantoms and Sploshing The Void III immerse viewers in psychedelic, hyper-detailed visual journeys that metaphorically explore entrapment and the metaphysical space-time of the queer universe.

Collectively, these videos function as vibrant portals, inviting audiences to confront reality through the lens of excess, fantasy, and digital spectacle.

A glowing blue "reflecting pool" art installation on a concrete floor, surrounded by dark stones.

Reflecting Pool

2024
Scott Andrew’s 2024 installation, Reflecting Pool, merges AI generative animation, sound, and sculpture to explore queer fantasy, post-humanism, and the Narcissus myth.
Silhouetted figures stand before a projected backdrop of blue and white architectural elements with dark accents. The backdrop features abstract shapes and geometric patterns.

Salle Cinq

2024
Scott Andrew's animation for the performance of the song, 'Salle Cinq', a multimedia work presented by Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble at the Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival at the University of Pittsburgh.
Three black silhouettes of figures in hats dancing against a vibrant red background.

Show Queen

2023
Show Queen is a multimedia dance piece by Scott Andrew and Jesse Factor, blending movement and otherworldly video to critique and celebrate the Broadway diva and queer fandom.
Five dancers in white skirts and painted torsos pose in a dark space, illuminated by spotlights.

Relic

2021
Digital video work (2021) by Scott Andrew and Jesse Factor, exploring performance, movement, and media. Screened at Harvest Chicago and Pérez Art Museum.
Interior view through teal curtains to a rainy park scene. Two figures stand on a fountain, one with glowing blue antlers. A black and white cat sleeps on the patterned carpet.

Portals

2020
A 2020 video created for the Miller ICA's 'Looking Out' series. Scott Andrew and Jesse Factor blend dance and media to open chaotic, sublime portals of queer fantasy and celebrity.
Outdoor video installation: metal scaffolding supports a screen displaying vibrant red, purple, and yellow abstract patterns.

Streaming Space

2019
Scott Andrew's video work is featured in "Streaming Space," a 24-foot Afrofuturist media installation by Alisha B. Wormsley and Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson that promotes healing and spiritual reflection in Market Square.
Person in vibrant pink costume with red face paint, fangs, elaborate wig, and a pink teddy bear.

Valentine Vampire

2017
A 2017 video by Scott Andrew exploring queer fetish, occult rituals, and camp aesthetics. Features performance, hybrid monsters, and samples of Dolly Parton and Penny Dreadful.
A woman in a light blue bikini bottom and top from behind, pole dancing in a club with pink and purple lights in the background.

RPM

2017
RPM by the Institute for New Feeling and The Drift used performative actions to create five public "energy vortexes" across Pittsburgh (rivers, strip clubs, Laundromats). A collaborative urban intervention for Open Engagement 2015.
Collage of industrial scenes: pipes, machinery, a person in a yellow suit, square objects, and a dark, textured surface.

This is Presence

2016
A 17-min video installation by the Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) exploring digital identity and web critique through a fabricated SEO marketing campaign and interconnected sites.
Various objects, including an avocado, nail polish, a "Blackwater" sun visor, and a "The Universe" Blu-ray, against a warehouse backdrop.

Ditherer

2016
Ditherer is an immersive VR project by the Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) exploring the complex, hidden histories and corporate fantasies of consumer products through surreal digital worlds.
Two people lie face down in grey, rocky alcoves. One is pale with bare legs, the other has tattoos and is covered by a white sheet.

Furthering Cream

2016
Furthering Cream is an Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) product—an accelerant aging cream grown and packaged in Southern California. The work critiques the digital wellness industry.
Three white, organic-shaped air fresheners plugged into outlets, floating amidst white clouds. Text reads "Institute for New Feeling" and "100% Odorless Oxytocin.

Air Freshener

2015
Watch the advertisement for "Air Freshener," a conceptual art project by the Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Nina Sarnelle, Agnes Bolt). It features a ceramic diffuser releasing odorless Oxytocin.
A severed foot with dark red nail polish floats above a colorful foot reflexology chart on a gray background.

Insole

2015
Discover Insole, a hybrid art installation and product by the Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Nina Sarnelle, Agnes Bolt). Explores walking as pressure-point therapy through invisible/felt corporate branding.
Monochromatic image of a curved neck pillow and two feet against a textured background, with text "Institute for New Feeling".

Pillow

2015
Pillow is a conceptual product by the Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Nina Sarnelle, Agnes Bolt). This weighted cement neck pillow satirizes the wellness industry.
Close-up of a blue eye with "see me thru me see thru me" in a circle around the pupil, which is a dark sphere.

Lens

2015
Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) presents "Lens," a subversive product line of custom contact lenses designed to render the wearer blind by modifying both appearance and perception.
Digital collage: email interface, a woman riding a horse, and a "Free Apple iPod!" ad.

Re: long overdue payment

2015
An audio/visual fantasy project by the Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Nina Sarnelle, and Agnes Bolt) that blends speculative mythology, product language, and internet scam aesthetics.
Collage of overlapping internet browser windows displaying diverse content: a cat, a shirtless man, news articles, and social media.

The Redirectory

2015
The Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Nina Sarnelle, Agnes Bolt) project examining the internet as a narcissistic mirror, exploring corporate SEO, surveillance, and digital identity management.
Drag queen Veronica Bleaus with blonde hair, dramatic makeup, and colorful outfit, reading a book on a blue sofa.

Veronica Bleaus

2015
Explore the creative collaboration between multimedia artist Scott Andrew and queer icon Veronica Bleaus, featuring video art, live drag performance, and upcoming stage work.
Blonde person in drag, wearing a leopard print coat, headband, and sunglasses, floating in bright blue water.

Mama Said

2015
Mama Said is Scott Andrew's 2015 single channel video, an aesthetic blend of Dusty Springfield, Pebbles Flintstone, and queer iconography focused on celebrity image and performance.
Close-up of a human eye surrounded by red, orange, and white feathers, with water droplets on the left side.

Bird of Paradise

2015
A 2015 single-channel video exploring a ritualistic dimensional shift into a queer futurity within rural Appalachia. It examines hybridized human/animal bodies and gender queer fantasy.
Abstract digital art with fragmented, colorful geometric shapes in purple, gold, red, green, and silver hues.

Phantoms

2014
Phantoms is a 2014 single-channel video by Scott Andrew featuring 3D animated diamonds holding alter egos, tumbling through a psychedelic vortex. Explores themes of entrapment and queer liberation.
Installation with a bed, screen projections of abstract landscapes, a doll, and a heart, all in blues and yellows.

Narcissister is You

2013
Scott Andrew's 2013 video contribution "Narcissister is You," created for Narcissister's exhibition at Envoy Enterprises and later screened at Dirty Looks and How To Water.
Abstract artwork with vibrant, saturated colors. Diagonal lines intersect with organic shapes and bubble-like forms in blue, green, red, yellow, and purple. High contrast and textural appearance.

Sploshing The Void III

2013
Meditative digital dome animation (2013) exploring microscopic organic matter and queer theory. This immersive video collage challenges identity and perspective on a macro/micro scale.
Digital painting of a person with dark skin, red lips, and boxing gloves, surrounded by red and pink roses.

Trans-Q Television / TQ Live!

2012-2024
Trans-Q Television is the seminal video variety show co-produced by Scott Andrew, reveling in the mutability of genders and sexualities. A Dadaist mix of performance, comedy, and queer theory.
Four people in unicorn masks and leotards, with high heels and horse tails, against a vibrant, swirling background.

Ponycorn Apocalypse

2012
Scott Andrew's absurdist multimedia performance imagining the end of the world as a joyful ponycorn mating ritual around a glowing crystal, responding to 'end times' hysteria.
Drag queen in striped caftan with arms raised, surrounded by paper cut-out birds and clouds against a blue sky.

Feeling Good

2011
Single-channel animated music video (2011) by Scott Andrew. Drag performers Veronica Bleaus and Dani Lamorte sing Nina Simone's 'Feeling Good' amidst a vibrant, queer cartoon landscape.
Close-up of a person with dramatic makeup, open mouth, and glitter, surrounded by pink and purple light and fabric.

Neráides

2011
Neráides, a single-channel video from 2011, plunges into a glittering, camp queer fantasy world where an alien drag queen and a flamboyant temptress battle the Crystal Queen.
Woman viewing a multi-screen video installation with abstract shapes, a close-up eye, and a figure in a green room.

Pleasure Attack!

2010
Pleasure Attack! (2010) is a video collaboration by Scott Andrew and Erin Womack, exploring themes of gender, desire, ritual, fantasy, and the collision of distinct aesthetics in performance.
Two figures embracing, distorted by vibrant red, orange, and yellow light, against a swirling background.

Hide

2009
Single-channel video (2009) exploring subliminal camouflage and the queer psychological need to hide personal, homoerotic introspection. A journey toward safe, exposed selfhood.
Abstract artwork with globular forms composed of smaller circles, set against a background of blended red, blue, and orange hues with visible scan lines.

Arise

2008
Arise is Scott Andrew's 2008 single-channel video merging VJ performance, video feedback, and found footage to explore themes of weightlessness, the body, and the cosmos.