The Sharpest Point
Thursday, March 2, 2006, 6pm | Curators Chris Gehman and Steve Reinke in person! Jude Norris, Red Buffalo Skydive (2001). Image courtesy of Vtape. In celebration of the publication of SAIC faculty member Steve Reinke and Chris Gehman’s recent animation anthology, The Sharpest Point, tonight’s program spans the entirety of animation history, tracing subterranean cinematic […]
Confessions of a Sociopath: Recent Work by Joe Gibbons
Thursday, February 23, 2006, 6pm | Joe Gibbons in person! Joe Gibbons, Confessions of a Sociopath Part 1 (2001-06). Image courtesy of the artist. Joe Gibbons’ dry humor comes across in obsessive rants that scrape the bottom of a monomaniacal mind, spilling forth with fantasies of power, destruction, and death. In this selection of recent […]
A Heart and Other Small Shapes: Jennifer Reeder Videos 1995 – 2006
Thursday, February 16, 2006, 6pm Jennifer Reeder in person! Eleven years ago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum Jennifer Reeder took the art world by storm with her riot grrl super hero White Trash Girl. Since then, she has continued to mine the charged landscape of the profane with sublime portraits of adolescence, […]
Of a Feather
Thursday, February 9, 2006, 6pm Curator Cecelia Condit in person! A bright spot in the long months before spring’s winged migration, curators Cecelia Condit and Carl Bogner have collected bird films and videos from around the globe in a program at once swooping and earthbound, caged and wild. Works include: The Canaries (1968, Jerome Hill); […]
Soft Science
Thursday, February 2, 2006, 6pm Curator Rachel Mayeri in person! Some of the most astonishing art projects exist behind laboratory doors. This collection of video-curiosities, curated by filmmaker Rachel Mayeri, brings together work by artists and scientists in experiments with ebullient nanogears, tethered flies, and the ever-elusive idea of Reason. It Did It (2000, Peter […]
Shadows, Specters, and Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film – From the Pole to the Equator
Thursday, December 8, 2005, 6pm | Jeffrey Skoller in person! The last part of a trio of screenings related to the release of the Department of Film, Video and New Media’s Jeffrey Skoller’s book Shadows, Specters, and Shards: Making History in Avant-garde Film. The Flow of Blood and Life From the Pole to the Equator […]
Video Remains
Thursday, December 1, 6pm Alex Juhasz in person! In observance of World AIDS Day we’re glad to welcome documentarian Alex Juhasz with her recently completed video about the intersection between AIDS, the deterioration of video documentation and the complicated nature of collective and individual memory. Like much of Juhasz’s work, this tape is part homage, […]
Films of Timoleon Wilkins
Thursday, November 17, 2005, 6pm | Timoleon Wilkins in person! In the words of critic Brecht Andersch, “Timoleon Wilkins has fashioned a mytho-poetic vision of his own resolutely in the American grain. His stunning Kodachrome imagery, redolent of home-movies, educational films, the specter of Hollywood arcane Americana, frames a world of memory and experience.” Wilkins […]
Shadows, Specters, and Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film – Chile, Obstinate Memory & Cooperation Of Parts
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 6pm Daniel Eisenberg & Jeffrey Skoller in person! This program is part two of three screenings celebrating FVNM faculty-member Jeffrey Skoller’s recently released book, Shadows, Specters, and Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film. Patricio Guzmán explores collective political amnesia in Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997). Twenty-five years after The Battle of Chile, […]
Web Work Of Mendi+Keith Obadike
Thursday, November 3, 2005, 6pm Mendi and Keith Obadike in person! Mendi+Keith Obadike are interdisciplinary artists whose music, performances, and conceptual Internet artworks have been exhibited and commissioned internationally. Their critical writing has been widely published. The couple eschews the notion that the Internet can mask identity by using the web instead to explore, celebrate […]
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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.
