Fifty names sit on a page headed “Past Artists.” Animators, video artists, collectives and a few named programs, from Adam Ferriss at the top to Yoshi Sodeoka at the bottom. The page belonged to the original Ghosting.tv, the Los Angeles screening series that carried this name from 2013 to about 2018, and the Wayback Machine captured it on September 25, 2020, after the nights had stopped and before the domain lapsed. The roster below reproduces those names exactly. It records who the series listed as having shown. It says nothing about anyone’s connection to the site published here now.
The page
The original site kept the roster as a page of its own, a running list of the people whose work had been on its screen. At some point it stopped changing. The version reproduced here is the archived past-artists page, and that snapshot is the source for every name below.
We copied the names and nothing else. Whatever the page showed around them, the snapshot is the place to see it, and anyone who wants the page as it looked should go there rather than trust a description of it.
The roster
- Adam Ferriss
- Al Jarnow
- Alexander Peverett
- Allison Schulnik
- Amy Lockhart
- Antonio Roberts
- Barry Doupé
- Brandon Blommaert
- Caleb Wood
- David Daniels
- David OReilly
- Don Hertzfeldt
- Eddie Lee
- Experimental Half Hour
- Georges Schwizgebel
- Ian Cheng
- Jacob Ciocci
- Jamie Boulton
- Javier Galán Rico
- Jen Stark
- Jennifer Juniper Stratford
- Jeremy Couillard
- Jodie Mack
- Joe Merrell
- Johnny Woods
- Josh Studham
- Joshua Catalano
- Kate Parsons
- Leah Shore
- Lost & Found Film Club
- Wong Ping
- MSHR
- Natalie Rodgers
- Nic Wilson
- Nick Briz
- PES
- Peter Burr
- Sabrina Ratté
- Sam Newell
- Sarah Manuwal
- Semiconductor
- Steve Smith
- Taras Hrabowsky
- The Great Nordic Swordfights
- The Moth Collective
- Thomas De Rijk
- Trash Toons
- Vince Collins
- Yannick Val Gesto
- Yoshi Sodeoka
What the list can tell you
It tells you one thing for certain: each name was on the page when the Wayback Machine captured it. The page’s own heading presents them as past artists of the series, and that is as far as we take it.
It does not say which night a given artist’s work screened, which piece was shown, or whether the artist was in the room. It does not mean anyone on it endorses, supports or has heard of the Ghosting.tv published at this address today, which is run by different people and writes about something else.
Reading it slowly
The first thing the list shows is range. Some names will be familiar to anyone who follows animation or net art: Don Hertzfeldt, Jen Stark, PES, Ian Cheng, David OReilly, Peter Burr, Semiconductor. On this page they stand in the same column as everyone else. We have not ranked, highlighted or annotated anyone, because the record gives no basis for deciding who mattered more to the series.
The second is that not every entry is a person. The Moth Collective and Semiconductor are group names. Lost & Found Film Club, Trash Toons and The Great Nordic Swordfights read as names of projects, programs or groups; the page does not explain them, and we will not either.
The third is an entry that is not an artist at all. The Experimental Half Hour was a recurring segment of a Ghosting.tv night, and here it is on the roster, between Eddie Lee and Georges Schwizgebel. The series counted one of its own formats among the things it had shown. How a night was put together, block by block, is told in the history of the series.
The names that are not here
The roster and the showcase listings do not fully overlap. The listings on the archived main page name artists such as Malcolm Sutherland, Michael Frei, Natalia Stuyk, Sean Buckelew and Charles Huettner, and none of them is on the roster above. Neither are the musicians and installation artists credited at particular nights.
So the list is best read as the page the founders kept, not as a register of everyone who ever showed. Whether it stopped being updated at some point, or was always a selection, the archive does not say. A page that lists the past has a past of its own, and this one is missing some of it.
Why the list stays
The roster is the most concrete trace the series left of what it actually screened. Fifty entries, solo animators beside collectives and programs, describe what Ghosting.tv was better than any summary we could write. With the founders’ story, it is the core of Origins, the section of this site that keeps the record of the series.
This site is now about ghosts on screen: in films, in footage, in the houses where the stories started. The series is kept because it is where this address comes from, and because a list of names on a page nobody updates is a kind of ghost the site knows how to look at. That framing is ours. No one on this list is enlisted in it, and who publishes the site, and how these pages were built, is set out on the about page.
If your name is here
If you are on this list and want something corrected or removed, the contact page has the address. If you were there and remember which of these fifty showed on which night, or have a program that says so, the submissions page is where to send it.
The snapshot still holds fifty names. It still does not say who was in the room.