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 […]
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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.
