. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Jennet Thomas and Exploding Cinema Showcase

Thursday, March 20, 2003, 8:15 pm Jennet Thomas in person! Originating from the lively underground film scene of London in the early 1990’s, Jennet Thomas’s work has become renowned worldwide. Her films and videos come from an eclectic and multiply discursive history, as well as a curiosity about animating matter and images through time. Regardless of […]

Another Planet: Recent Australian Digital Video

Thursday, February 6, 2003, 8pm Curator Keely Macarow in person! Australian curator Keely Macarow presents a survey of recent Australian digital video that probes the interface between new and old media cultures. Among the works to be shown are: Martine Corompt’s Spell on You (2002), which features a boy who is either an unwilling child […]

Film and Video by Elisabeth Subrin

Thursday, October 10, 2002, 8:15pm Elisabeth Subrin in person! Subrin’s films and videos examine the intersections of history and subjectivity within female biography. Engaging conventions of documentary and personal narrative, the works strategically undermine their own forms, shifting historical periods, genres and characters to explore the residual impact of the 1960s and the hazy boundaries […]

Contemporary Artist – The Videos of Ximena Cuevas

Thursday. April 18, 2002, 6pm Ximena Cuevas in person! “Ximena Cuevas, Mexico’s video artist extraordinaire: half magician, half mermaid, master of all she surveys.” — B. Ruby Rich “Mexican video artist Ximena Cuevas is a poet of everyday life, a master of self-portraits and the fairy godmother of a new melodrama. Boldly defying taboo subjects […]

Videos by Cecilia Dougherty

Thursday, April 4, 2002, 6pm Cecelia Dougherty in person! Cecilia Dougherty’s work employs experimental documentary and narrative to explore family interactions, the representation of lesbians in popular culture, outsider psychology, and everyday life. Dougherty will appear in person to present a wide range of her work, from early pieces such as Grapefruit (1989), Coal Miner’s […]

Cybernoia: Suicide Box and Fresh Kill

Thursday, December 6, 2001, 6pm CYBERNOIA:
 SUICIDE BOX 1996, Natalie Jeremijenko, USA, 13 min, video. and FRESH KILL 1994, Shu Lea Cheang, USA, 80 min, 35mm. Technology takes a sinister turn in these works, which alternately satirize and comment darkly upon the omnipresence of electronic telecommunications, surveillance video, and broadcast propaganda in contemporary life. Co-presented […]

Lost Sound

Thursday, September 13, 2001, 6pm John Smith in person! A special presentation of works by internationally renowned, London-based film and video artist John Smith. Since 1972, Smith has made over thirty film, video and installation works. The continuing popularity of his work can be explained by his wry sense of humor, his plays on language […]

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