Amy Beste – Page 5 – Conversations at the Edge Program Archive

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich: Speculative Archives

Posted on March 22, 2021 (February 23, 2025)

Monday, March 22–Sunday, March 28 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions available. See four recent films by the artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Spit on the Broom (2019), A Quality of Light (2019), Footnote to the West (2020), and Outfox the Grave (2020). Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s rich and often surreal works blend narrative and documentary to explore the private worlds of […]

Discussion with Dustin Gibson, Robert McRuer, and Liza Sylvestre

Posted on February 25, 2021 (January 8, 2025)

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

Posted on February 25, 2021 (January 8, 2025)

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

Posted on February 22, 2021 (February 23, 2025)

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 […]

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Wendy Clarke In Conversation

Posted on February 12, 2021 (February 23, 2025)

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

Posted on February 8, 2021 (February 23, 2025)

Monday, February 08–Wednesday, February 17 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions available Conversations 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 […]

Alison O’Daniel

Posted on October 30, 2020 (February 23, 2025)

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 […]

Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn

Posted on October 29, 2020 (February 23, 2025)

Thursday, October 29, 2:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Live captions available Join 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 […]

Ursula Biemann

Posted on October 22, 2020 (February 23, 2025)

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

Posted on October 15, 2020 (February 23, 2025)

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 […]

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