{"id":9143,"date":"2020-10-15T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2025-02-23T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:21:37","slug":"delinda-collier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2020\/10\/15\/delinda-collier\/","title":{"rendered":"Delinda Collier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thursday, October 15,\u00a07:00 p.m.<\/span>\u2013<\/strong><\/em>8:15 p.m. CT<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/span><\/span>Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema<\/p>\n

\nClosed captions available<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Join scholars Delinda Collier and Leslie Wilson as they discuss\u00a0the artists and ideas behind Collier’s new book\u00a0Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa<\/em>\u00a0(Duke University Press, 2020). \u00a0A sweeping study of technological media centering Africa,\u00a0Media Primitivism\u00a0<\/em>examines film, digital art, and electronic music produced by African artists in relation to other modes of transfer and transmutation.\u00a0 A related program of films and videos is on view in the Gene Siskel Film Center\u2019s virtual cinema from October 11 – 17.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Julian Jonker and Ralph Borland, performance view of Song of Solomon (2006). Courtesy of the artists.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ABOUT<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Delinda Collier is Associate Professor of\u00a0Art History, Theory and Criticism and\u00a0Interim Dean of Graduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her research interests are in old and new media in Africa, Luso-African Art, and Cold War modernisms. She is the author of\u00a0Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art\u00a0<\/em>(University of Minnesota, 2016) and\u00a0<\/em>Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa<\/em>\u00a0(Duke, 2020), among many articles, essays, and reviews.<\/p>\n

Leslie\u00a0Wilson\u00a0is Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Art at the University of Chicago\u2019s Smart Museum of Art and Assistant Professor of Art History at Purchase College, the State University of New York. Her research focuses on the global history of photography, modern and contemporary arts of Africa, the African diaspora, and America, and museum and curatorial studies.\u00a0Her writing has been featured in\u00a0Manual<\/em>,\u00a0FOAM Magazine<\/em>, and\u00a0African Arts<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n

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RELATED SCREENING<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Transfer and Transmutation
\n<\/strong>October 11-17
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema<\/p>\n

Featuring work by Wangechi Mutu, Sammy Baloji, Tabita Rezaire, CUSS Group, Listening at Pungwe, Ralph Borland, and Julian Jonker, this program explores the transfer and transmutation of ideas, culture, material, and memory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 15,\u00a07:00 p.m.\u20138:15 p.m. CT Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions available Join scholars Delinda Collier and Leslie Wilson as they discuss\u00a0the artists and ideas behind Collier’s new book\u00a0Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa\u00a0(Duke University Press, 2020). \u00a0A sweeping study of technological media centering Africa,\u00a0Media Primitivism\u00a0examines film, digital art, and electronic music […]<\/p>\n

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