Discussion with Dustin Gibson, Robert McRuer, and Liza Sylvestre
Thursday, February 25, 7:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Live captions and ASL interpretation available. Join us for a cross-disciplinary discussion with disability activist and educator Dustin Gibson, scholar and Crip Theory (NYU Press, 2006) author Robert McRuer, and This Set of Actions is a Mirror curators Liza Sylvestre and Minh Nguyen. Dustin Gibson, Robert McRuer, Liza Sylvestre […]
Compensation
February 25–March 3 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Open captions and ASL Zeinabu irene Davis’s celebrated and formally adventurous 1999 film depicts Black Deaf lives at the start and end of the 20th century. Renowned for its depiction of Black Deaf lives and expansive reimagining of the cinematic form, Zeinabu irene Davis’s exquisite 1999 […]
New Channels of Access
February 22–28 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Open Captions Select audio descriptions, details below. Works by Carolyn Lazard, Leroy Moore Jr., Sharon Snyder, David Mitchell, Liza Sylvestre, Joseph Grigely, Christine Sun Kim, and Thomas Mader. New Channels of Access gathers together short videos by Carolyn Lazard, Leroy Moore Jr., Sharon Snyder, David Mitchell, Liza […]
Wendy Clarke In Conversation
Friday, February 12, 2:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Live captions available Join Wendy Clarke; Bruce Jenkins, scholar and professor of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Maria Gaspar, artist and associate professor of Contemporary Practices at SAIC, for this wide-ranging look at […]
Wendy Clarke: One on One
Monday, February 08–Wednesday, February 17 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions availableConversations at the Edge presents two works from Wendy Clarke’s extraordinary One on One project (1991-94), a revelatory series of video dialogues between inmates at the California Institute for Men in Chino, members of the Church In Ocean Park in Santa Monica, and a […]
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Conversations at the Edge is a weekly series of screenings, performances, and talks by groundbreaking media artists.
CATE is organized by SAIC's Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and SAIC's Video Data Bank.
Programs take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / Chicago, IL / 312.846.2600), unless otherwise noted.
