15 Years of the Chicago Underground Film Festival
Thursday, October 2, 6pm | Festival director Bryan Wendorf and CUFF filmmakers in person! Roger Ebert once said of the Chicago Underground Film Festival, “What you get for your money is not just admission to the films, but admission to a subculture.” For 15 years, CUFF has exhibited the vibrant media emerging from Chicago’s schools, […]
GLITCH: Creative Problem Creating
Thursday, September 18, 6pm | Curator Jon Satrom in person! What happens when the creative roadblocks—errors, glitches, accidents—become the building blocks in the art-making process? This program highlights artists who intentionally create problems by corrupting data, hacking signals, and manipulating the medium, often to the point of challenging its own display. Curated by new media artist and SAIC […]
You Don’t Remember the Time You Do: Moments in the Lives of Prisoners
Thursday, April 17, 6pm | Laurie Jo Reynolds in person! Robert Todd, In Loving Memory (2005). Image courtesy of the artist. Prison has long been a popular setting for motion pictures, from the oft-remade Man in the Iron Mask to recent Oscar-nominated hits Dead Man Walking and The Shawshank Redemption. Rarer is the film that […]
CameraLESS Films / Movies without Cameras
Thursday, March 27, 2008, 6pm | Curator Jodie Mack in person! Thorsten Fleisch, Kosmos (2004). Image courtesy of the artist. For over one hundred years, filmmakers have found ways to emancipate themselves from advanced photographic processes and make films without cameras—by drawing, painting, scratching, or adhering figures and objects directly onto filmstrips. Whether produced meticulously […]
I Love Presets
Thursday, February 21, 2008, 6pm | Rob Ray, Jon Satrom, & Jason Soliday in person! As I Love Presets, Chicago-based sound and new media artists Rob Ray, Jon Satrom, and Jason Soliday do everything wrong the right way. The trio manipulates found sounds and animated GIFs on home-brewed equipment in spectacular live audio/video performances, breaking […]
Outer Ear Festival of Sound: Chris Mann, Danièle Wilmouth, and Morganville
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 8:15pm | Chris Mann, Danièle Wilmouth, Trevor Martin, and Kym Olsen in person! Danièle Wilmouth, A Heretic’s Primer on Love and Exertion (2007). Image courtesy of the artist. The Outer Ear Festival of Sound and CATE present a special two-part evening of films, videos, and performances that mine the relationships between […]
Outer Ear Festival of Sound: The Hysterical Alphabet
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 6pm | Terri Kapsalis, John Corbett, and Danny Thompson in person! The Hysterical Alphabet (2007). Written by Terri Kapsalis, video by Danny Thompson. Image courtesy of Danny Thompson. The Outer Ear Festival of Sound and CATE present a special two-part evening of films, videos, and performances that mine the relationships between […]
Tommy’s Chicago: Newly Preserved Films by Tom Palazzolo
Thursday, September 13, 2007, 6pm Tom Palazzolo in person! For over four decades, Chicago legend and SAIC alum Tom Palazzolo (“Tommy Chicago”) has documented the unorthodox rituals of the Windy City with genuine affection and wonder. From frantic deli owners to the unveiling of the Picasso sculpture, Palazzolo’s work is suffused with mischievous humor and […]
SAIC Film, Video & New Media Department Year-End Show
Thursday, May 3, 2007, 6pm Tonight’s program is a cinematic toast to the semester’s end with a cross-section of current work by students in the department of Film, Video & New Media. All Stars Jodie Mack, 2006, 0:24 min, 16mm Colored acetate + star punch + tape = this mini-movie. (JM) Bird Song Trilogy, Part […]
LTTR: The Dead, The Absent and Fictitious
Thursday, April 5, 2007, 6pm LTTR in person! LTTR (K8 Hardy, Emily Roysdon, Ulrike Mueller, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi) is a radically vibrant feminist art collective. Post-punk and gender-queer, their exuberant activist practice includes international curatorial projects, community-based workshops, screenings, and an annual self-published arts journal-enthusing a growing community of artists and thinkers. Tonight’s program […]
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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.
