While the MFA program at the University of Illinois at Chicago is relatively small, it provides an intimate site for the exchange of ideas and methods of working. This screening consists of a selection of moving image work from the 2010 graduating class, featuring films and videos by Olivia Ciummo, Nick Harvey, Rebecca Mir, Michael Morris, Orson Panetti and Michael Sirianni. These works construct a kind of portrait of this educational microcosm, visiting themes of loss, longing, doubt, transcendence and light.
Chicago, IL claims as its own a plethora of hardworking film, video, and new-media artists. Since 2008, a rough and ready microcinema called The NIGHTINGALE has been presenting their work. To celebrate the second anniversary of the space, director, Christy LeMaster and her sister, print-maker Jessica LeMaster, are heading out on the roads of the quiet midwest with THE BROAD SHOULDERS TOUR, a showcase of recent Chicago-made work screened at The Nightingale since its opening. The works in THE BROAD SHOULDERS TOUR represent a diversity of mediums and aesthetics but share a similar sensibility. This isn't a city of artists ...
CHANNELING is a film and video program curated by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White.
CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences, and emotions that are often invisible– ghostly, even–in everyday life.
Videos by Vanessa Renwick, Elliot Montague, Shana Moulton, Michael Robinson, EMR (Math Bass & Dylan ...
Presented by Homeroom, hosted by Jon Satrom.
The YouTube Assembly is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of viral video in a live event. The event consists of screening web-based video for a live, participating audience. Like karaoke or a traditional performance open mic, the YouTube Assembly creates a situation in which people take turns entertaining each other, in this case, by sharing their favorite Youtube clips. In the spirit of the popular YouTube interface, audience members will be encouraged to comment on the videos they watch, except out loud and in real time with no anonymity
Each screening will ...
An evening of new film and video work from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Editing Aesthetics course taught by Michelle Peutz. Featuring brand-spanking-new films and videos from Theodore Darst, Nick Edelberg, Samuel Jacob Eisen, Carlos Enriquez, James Ferguson, Danny Gallegos, Emily Irvine, David Lee, Karina Natis, Matthew O'Shaughnessy, David Olson, Hae Yeon Park, Anthony Rizzo and Heather Shilling.
Torsten Zenas Burns works with lots of different mediums and with lots of different people. Collabtronica is a sample of different projects created in tandem with artists, Anne McGuire, Darrin Martin, Christian K. Burns, and Halflifers. Traversing through the worlds of Choregraphy, Performance, Video, and New Media, he explores the realms of performed identity through fantasy characters and has an interest in re-envisioning educational spaces. Often creating animated counterparts of his collaborators, TZB creates spaces where kinesthetics meets virtual life. For example, WHAT IF?, made with longtime collaborator, Darrin Martin utilizes dance software that recreates ...
Presented by Homeroom, hosted by Eric Graf and Alexander Stewart.
The YouTube Assembly is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of viral video in a live event. The event consists of screening web-based video for a live, participating audience. Like karaoke or a traditional performance open mic, the YouTube Assembly creates a situation in which people take turns entertaining each other, in this case, by sharing their favorite Youtube clips. In the spirit of the popular YouTube interface, audience members will be encouraged to comment on the videos they watch, except out loud and in real time with no ...
Film and video by Stephen Connolly.
The Time Machine is your guide through the fourth dimension! Watch and learn about Real-Time Rendering, Quartz, and Max patches as Sabine Gruffat steers you through the sensory drone of the digital and analog hyperspace. Bill Brown takes you on a guided tour of memory's roadside attractions by way of scratchy records and the hazy glow of 35mm slides, narrating the interspatial monuments of our extemporary voyage.