Echotrope's artist in residence is an invitational program for video makers and media artists to do a site specific project in the Omaha / Council Bluffs community while working with Echotrope. Residencies
are short in duration and high in productivity.

Echotrope works with local venues and institutions to provide our artist in residence with the technical resources necessary to produce a media work while working in the Omaha / Council Bluffs community. We provide technical assistance, volunteers, a screening or exhibition locale, community connections and when possible housing arrangements for artists during their residence. Artists are responsible for travel to and from Echotrope.

Artists who submit work to Echotrope are automatically considered for
Echotrope's Artist in Residence program.

This fall our media artist in residence is Caitlin Horsmon. Caitlan will
be working with Echotrope and the UNO Art Gallery to produce a piece on location called Made in U.S.A:

Made in U.S.A

This site-specific piece is designed for my upcoming show at Echotrope.
In the tradition of early cinema’s strategy of doubling the theatre as
a center of exhibition and a site of production, I plan to restage their technique – making a video about and at the site of the screening.
For early cinema audiences, this appeal of this style of filmmaking was as a curiosity – the experience of seeing yourself or your neighbor represented cinematically provided a thrill. I’m interested in seeing
how this very specific production practice organized around the possibility of representation plays out in contemporary culture. So
the end product will be an experimental video that takes seriously
the methodology of ‘the experiment’ – the outcome will depend entirely on the variables and constants at play. The content of the video will develop through the production process – I imagine a kind of
theme and variation structure or a series of hypothesis beginning observationally but likely assuming additional modes of address
(camera to subject) over the course of the project.

statement provided by Caitlin Horsmon