{"id":6412,"date":"2015-10-02T09:12:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T04:26:43","slug":"october-8-louis-henderson-melts-into-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2015\/10\/02\/october-8-louis-henderson-melts-into-air\/","title":{"rendered":"October 8- Louis Henderson: Melts Into Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><strong>Thursday, October 8<\/strong>\u00a0| <em>Paris-based filmmaker Louis Henderson\u00a0in person!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6428\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6428\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/10\/Lettres-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/10\/Lettres-1-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/10\/Lettres-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/10\/Lettres-1-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/10\/Lettres-1-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/10\/Lettres-1-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis Henderson, still from Lettres du Voyant (2013). Courtesy of the artist and the Video Data Bank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his first Chicago appearance, award-winning director Louis Henderson presents a pair of films on the networked links between colonialism, computing, and capitalism in contemporary Ghana. In\u00a0<i>Lettres du Voyant\u00a0<\/i>(2013), a series of mysterious letters describe the practice of \u201cSakawa\u201d\u2014e-scams fortified by Western African religious rituals\u2014and the possibilities it proposes for political resistance. Choreographed on Henderson\u2019s desktop screen,\u00a0<i>All That Is Solid<\/i>\u00a0(2014) maps connections between the Cloud and its waste, layering ephemeral image searches, email, data, and notes over footage of the grinding physical labor of the massive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/inpictures\/2014\/01\/pictures-ghana-e-waste-mecca-2014130104740975223.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agbogbloshie electronic waste ground<\/a> in Accra.\u00a0<strong><i>Presented in collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Video Data Bank.<\/i><\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>2013\u201314, France, HD Video, ca 60 min + discussion<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/louishenderson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Louis Henderson<\/a><\/strong> (1983, Norwich) is an English filmmaker whose research focuses on new materialities of the Internet and the neocolonialisation of cyberspace through planetary scale computing. He is a graduate of London College of Communication and Le Fresnoy\u2013studio national des arts contemporains and is currently finishing a post-dipl\u00f4me at the European School of Visual Arts. His work has been exhibited across Europe and the Americas, including at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Transmediale, Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogota, The Centre Pompidou, FRAC Midi-Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es, Louisiana museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Whitechapel Gallery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/10\/Louis-Henderson-Notes-1-1.pdf\">Louis Henderson Program Notes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 8\u00a0| Paris-based filmmaker Louis Henderson\u00a0in person! In his first Chicago appearance, award-winning director Louis Henderson presents a pair of films on the networked links between colonialism, computing, and capitalism in contemporary Ghana. In\u00a0Lettres du Voyant\u00a0(2013), a series of mysterious letters describe the practice of \u201cSakawa\u201d\u2014e-scams fortified by Western African religious rituals\u2014and the possibilities [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2015\/10\/02\/october-8-louis-henderson-melts-into-air\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from October 8- Louis Henderson: Melts Into Air<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[52,203,206,381,450,476,623],"class_list":["post-6412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20","tag-africa","tag-essay-film","tag-europe","tag-louis-henderson","tag-non-fiction","tag-political","tag-video-data-bank"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9892,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions\/9892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}