Welcome to the 2016 BFA and MFA Media Arts Festival and screenings!<\/strong> Here you will encounter the next generation of film, video, new media, animation, and sound artists as SAIC students present their thesis projects. In this festival, you will experience innovative live-action shorts, all kinds of animation, feature-length narrative and nonfiction works, video essays, and experimental digital and audio pieces that will provoke, pleasure, instigate, and surprise you.<\/p>\n In FVNMA and at SAIC, we embrace radicalities of different shapes, sizes and forms in our experimental Media Arts. We encourage and are committed to a fluidity of ideas, theories, and practices. FVNMA students move far beyond traditional approaches, often working in interdisciplinary ways. The works here cross and intermix technologies, genres, and approaches, manifesting new and hybrid forms of expression.<\/p>\n We salute all these graduating students in celebrating the work that they will now share with us. We appreciate your time, labor, love, and the community that you have built together with us these last few years as you worked hard to compose, write, shoot, record, re-enact, direct, perform, edit, sample, digitize, experiment, generate, render, draw, model, design, photograph, chroma-key, interact, loop, re-mix, re-author, re-form, collaborate, improvise, craft, and hone your materials, ideas, sounds, and visions.<\/p>\n We congratulate you all, and wish you the best in your continuing lives as artists!<\/p>\n Mary Patten Presented by the Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies in collaboration with the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation<\/em> Special thanks to Chris Sullivan, Daniel Eisenberg, Eric Fleischauer, and Claudia Hart for their work programming the 2016 Festival. And an extra-special shout-out to Brandon Doherty of the Gene Siskel Film Center, and to Mickey Mahoney, Emily Kuehn, Andrew Zoleta, and Dan Holmes in FVNMA for technical support.<\/em><\/p>\n Dark Matter<\/em>, 2016 \u201c…all our phrasing\u2014race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial pro\ufb01ling, white privilege, even white supremacy\u2014serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth.\u201d – Ta-Nehisi Coates. She Believed She Could, So She Did (gift)<\/em>, 2016 digital video Ty Rykeyn, Rose, Bobby. Thrall<\/em>, 2016 digital video sound, color Thrall<\/em> is a narrative work which observes the psychological manipulation of a man held hostage in a claustrophobic environment. Ambedo<\/em>, 2016 digital video \/ sound sound, color A meditation of the past and the deep dwellings of the heart, Ambedo is a sample-based journey into the practice of longing, the process of loss, and the hope of personal renewal. Divided into four separate pieces, the work is meant to be felt rather than contemplated, as love tends to be. Wrapping Up<\/em>, 2016 digital video Wrapping Up<\/em> is a narrative short about a girl who is stuck between END and START. Pills<\/em>, 2015 digital video sound, color Pills<\/em> is a documentary about the dark side of taking ADD medication; the experiences and side e\ufb00ects that the pharmaceutical industry does not want you to know about. SAIC students discuss severe side e\ufb00ects including strokes, seizures, brainzaps, and hallucinations. As a search for water unravels, candid moments are slowed and abstracted as a montage of gluttonous characters at a bar are observed by a disembodied voice.<\/p>\n FVNMA 2016 program four (download)<\/a> Livia Margon The Devil Between Us<\/em>, 2016 digital video Two strangers contemplating suicide for di\ufb00erent reasons are stuck on a roof. Evelyn has been given a death sentence at the prime of her youth. By his own choice, Adam can\u2019t bare to live another day. This \ufb01lm explores the idea of survival and \ufb01nding likeness in the most unlikely of human interactions. Always Flying<\/em>, 2014 digital video Leaving a party with the intention to buy more alcohol, Tatiana makes the life-changing decision to get in the car with a drunk driver. The car crash leaves her unable to walk for the rest of her life. This \ufb01lm explores her story and the ability of art to help heal from tragedy. A family-friendly \ufb01lm, please watch. The image is blank due to overexposure of the sunlight during a summer when Sam collects worn-out white cloth shoes named Pat Fan Yu. The audio is rich and the subtitles are clear. This non-traditional documentary provides the audience with a more an intimate look at the subject. Special thanks to Abhijeet Rane and J Frank Wilson. And thanks to my mom and dad, Joanne and Dean, for always supporting me\u2014I love you so much! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to the 2016 BFA and MFA Media Arts Festival and screenings! Here you will encounter the next generation of film, video, new media, animation, and sound artists as SAIC students present their thesis projects. 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\nchair, FVNMA
\nSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago
\nMay, 2016<\/p>\n
\n Department, and the Gene Siskel Film Center.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFVNMA 2016 program two (download)<\/a>
\nMay 11
\nProgram 2
\n5:00 – 5:50 p.m.<\/strong>
\nNicholas Nakai Garcia
\nTaylor Larned
\nGavin Ringquist<\/em>
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\nNICHOLAS NAKAI GARCIA
\nBFA FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, AND ANIMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n
\ndigital video, 3d animation, Depthkit mapping sound, color
\n7:00<\/p>\n
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\nTAYLOR LARNED
\nBFA FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, AND ANIMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nsound, color
\n15:30<\/p>\n
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\nGAVIN RINGQUIST
\nBFA FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, AND ANIMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n9:00<\/p>\n
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\nFVNMA 2016 program three (download)<\/a>
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\nMay 11
\nProgram 3
\n6:00 – 7:50 p.m.<\/strong>
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\nThumpdrag (Ethan Kaplan)
\nYuyeol Chun
\nChanel Kaliski
\nMisael Jose Oquendo<\/em>
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\nTHUMPDRAG
\nBFA SOUND<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n10:00<\/p>\n
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\nYUYEOL CHUN
\nBFA FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, AND ANIMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nsound, color
\n33:15<\/p>\n
\nThis thirty-minute short was shot in Canon 60D, and I was the screen writer, DP, camera man, sound mixer, director, and editor. The \ufb01lm doesn\u2019t really explain the character\u2019s background, as much as life doesn\u2019t explain everything.
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\nCHANEL KALISKI
\nBFA FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, AND ANIMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n31:30<\/p>\n
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\nMISAEL JOEL OQUENDO
\nBFA FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, AND ANIMATION
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\nLa Libertad<\/em>, 2016 digital video sound, color
\n8:15<\/p>\n
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\nMay 11
\nProgram 4
\n8:00 – 9:50 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nChanel Kaliski
\nFerrell Lamothe
\nSam YiYao Chao<\/em>
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\nLIVIA MARGON
\nBFA FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, AND ANIMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nsound, b\/w
\n14:00<\/p>\n
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\nCHANEL KALISKI
\nBFA FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, AND ANIMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nsound, b\/w
\n8:00<\/p>\n
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\nSAM YIYAO CHAO
\nBFA FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, AND ANIMATION
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\nSweet Sweat Fish in-between Sea and Shore, 2016 audio translated to digital video
\nsound, color
\n30:32<\/p>\n
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\nFERRELL LAMOTHE
\nBFA FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, AND ANIMATION
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\nAbhi<\/em>, 2015 digital video sound, color
\n26:53<\/p>\n
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