. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

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 […]

The Animated Paul Bush

Thursday, September 29, 2005, 6pm Paul Bush in person! UK-based artist Paul Bush is an award-winning experimental filmmaker whose life changed when he discovered animation in the early 1990’s. “Within the animation community there was an understanding of a purely visual language, not one borrowed from the theatre (as in drama) or journalism (as in […]

Islands and Sea in the Blood: Videos by Richard Fung

Thursday, September 22, 2005, 6pm Richard Fung in person! Video artist and educator Richard Fung is known for bringing criticism and activism to art. A Trinidad-born, Toronto-based video artist and cultural critic, Fung studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Toronto, where he runs the Centre for Independent Visual […]

Shelly Silver’s World

Thursday, September 15, 2005, 6pm Shelly Silver in person! Acclaimed photographer and video artist Shelly Silver’s work has been exhibited the whole world over, and indeed a peripatetic existence is essential to her practice, which questions the myths and realities of cultural and national identity. Her work is simultaneously honest and fictional, beautiful and disturbing, […]

National Philistine: Videos by Paul Chan

Thursday, March 18, 2004, 8pm | Paul Chan in person! A wry political sensibility informs the work of Paul Chan, a New York-based video and installation artist who returns to Chicago to present three recent works. These include an astonishing new piece shot in Iraq, made while Chan was a member of the Chicago-based, Nobel […]

Depression: What Is It Good For?

Thursday, March 11, 2004, 8:15pm This screening of shorts from the Video Data Bank investigates the thick blanket of experiences and social dynamics that share the rubric of depression – from invisible and privatized feelings to the collapse of the social safety net. In an era where drugs promise to manage all psychological ills and […]

Animal Attraction

Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8pm Kathy High in person! Animal Attraction is a documentary about the relationship between people and animals, the way we project our hopes and desires onto our pets and ascribe human qualities and attributes to their gestures.  Frustrated by the obnoxious behavior of her cat, Ernie, the video maker contacts Spring […]

The Aids Crisis Is Still Beginning: Four Video Works

Thursday, December 4, 2003, 8pm Curator Gregg Bordowitz in person! Introduced by SAIC faculty Gregg Bordowitz, who is himself a person with AIDS and leading figure within the AIDS activist media, this program will show a range of video works addressing the now twenty-year-old AIDS crisis.  Following the screening, Bordowitz will lead a discussion about […]

Anti-Space Suit: The Dirty Future

Thursday, September 4, 2003, 9:30pm Curators Ben Russell & Sabine Gruffat in person! UFO’s made of cotton fluff.  Cyber-diving rods.  Sad robots.  Cosmic floating beauty aids.  All of this is but a small bit of the detritus that litters our dirty future, a new reality of the always everyday.  Media artists Sabine Gruffat and Ben […]

Recent Work by Donigan Cumming

Thursday, April 10, 2003, 8pm Donigan Cumming in person! Essentially documentary in nature, Donigan Cumming’s work incorporates photography, sound, video and installation.  His work is routinely unsettling and wrought with unexpected turns and complex characters.  Cumming has succeeded in establishing a documentary method that breaks away from the illusion of objectivity.  In the words of […]

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