Ian Cheng
Tuesday, April 06, 6:30 p.m.–7:45 p.m. CT Zoom Live captions available. Join us live for a virtual lecture by artist Ian Cheng followed by an audience Q&A. Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program. Drawing on principles of video game design, improvisation, and cognitive science, Ian Cheng’s practice explores the nature of mutation and […]
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich Lecture and Conversation
Thursday, March 25, 7:00 p.m. CT Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Live captions available. Join artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and art historian Romi Crawford, professor in visual and critical studies and liberal arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, for this look at Hunt-Ehrlich’s practice, including her ongoing work with the United Order […]
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich: Speculative Archives
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
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 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 […]
Announcing Spring 2021
We’re excited to announce the Spring 2021 season! Screenings and conversations begin February 8 in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s virtual cinema. Join us for programs with Wendy Clarke (Feb 11), Dustin Gibson, Robert McRuer, Liza Sylvestre, and Minh Nguyen (Feb 25), Madeleine Hunt – Ehrlich (Mar 25), Ian Cheng (Apr 6), and Wong Ping […]
Fall 2020 Season Recap
For our Fall 2020 program, we brought together a group of artists and scholars including Alison O’Daniel (10/1), American Artist (10/8), Delinda Collier (10/15), Ursula Biemann (10/22), Auriea and Michaël Samyn (10/28). These vibrant conversations and related screenings took place in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s virtual cinema. We’re grateful for our presenting partners, including […]
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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.
