. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Spring 2021 Season Recap

Thank you for joining us for the Spring 2021 season of Conversations at the Edge!  We are so grateful for the artists and scholars who shared their work with us and for our presenting partners, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Visiting Artists Program, the Open Practice Committee in the Department of […]

Wendy Clarke In Conversation

Friday, February 12, 2:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Live captions available Join Wendy Clarke; Bruce Jenkins, scholar and professor of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Maria Gaspar, artist and associate professor of Contemporary Practices at SAIC, for this wide-ranging look at […]

Wendy Clarke: One on One

Monday, February 08–Wednesday, February 17 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions available  Conversations at the Edge presents two works from Wendy Clarke’s extraordinary One on One project (1991-94), a revelatory series of video dialogues between inmates at the California Institute for Men in Chino, members of the Church In Ocean Park in Santa Monica, and […]

Announcing Spring 2021

We’re excited to announce the Spring 2021 season! Screenings and conversations begin February 8 in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s virtual cinema. Join us for programs with Wendy Clarke (Feb 11),  Dustin Gibson, Robert McRuer, Liza Sylvestre, and Minh Nguyen (Feb 25),  Madeleine Hunt – Ehrlich (Mar 25), Ian Cheng (Apr 6), and Wong Ping […]