Friday, October 30, 2:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m., CT Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions and ASL Interpretation available. Tune in for this in-depth conversation with artist and filmmaker Alison O’Daniel moderated by Deborah Stratman. Recorded October 1. Her project The Tuba Thieves (2013 – ongoing) is on view in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s virtual […]
Month: October 2020
Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn
Thursday, October 29, 2:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Live captions availableJoin us for this discussion with net art pioneers and game developers Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn (Tale of Tales), moderated by University of Chicago English and Cinema and Media Studies professor and Weston Game Lab Director Patrick Jagoda. Audiences are invited to join […]
Ursula Biemann
Thursday, October 22, 2:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m., CT Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Live captions available Join us for a talk with Swiss artist, author, and video essayist Ursula Biemann whose visionary practice focuses on the planet’s changing climate and its ecological impact. Her videos Deep Weather (2013), Forest Law (2014), Subatlantic (2015), and Acoustic Ocean (2018) are on view in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s […]
Delinda Collier
Thursday, October 15, 7:00 p.m.–8:15 p.m. CT Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions available Join scholars Delinda Collier and Leslie Wilson as they discuss the artists and ideas behind Collier’s new book Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa (Duke University Press, 2020). A sweeping study of technological media centering Africa, Media Primitivism examines film, digital art, and electronic music […]
American Artist
Thursday, October 08, 7:00 p.m.–8:15 p.m. CT Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual CinemaLive captions available.Join us for a talk by multidisciplinary new media artist American Artist, whose work examines Black labor and visibility within networked life. Their video, Blue Life Seminar, is on view in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s virtual cinema from October 4–10. American Artist will […]