Welcome to SAIC\u2019s 2024 FVNMAS Festival<\/b><\/p>\n
Let me welcome you to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\u2019s 2024 Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival featuring works by our graduating BFA and MFA students. Held annually each spring at the Gene Siskel Film Center, this showcase provides us with the chance to encounter the work of more than forty young artists across a wide range of moving-image and sonic genres, forms, and practices. Like their peers exhibiting in the Undergraduate and Graduate gallery shows, these students are engaged in a rite of passage that marks their official entry into the arena of public presentation as well as the opportunity to share their visions with an audience of friends, family members, fellow students, faculty and staff, and the general public.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Programmed by Amy Beste, FVNMA\u2019s Director of Public Programs and curator of the screening series <\/span>Conversations at the Edge<\/span><\/i>, the three-day festival brings to the big screen some fifty works that represent a wide range of genres and practices: experimental media, intimate essays, rebellious animated shorts, and ambitious narrative and documentary films. We are proud to celebrate these diverse voices at the heart of our community.<\/span><\/p>\n I am deeply grateful to Amy Beste; Emily Eddy, our festival producer; Trevor Martin and the Department of Exhibitions; Rebecca Fons, Emily Long, Michael Wawzenek, Dan Stolley, and the entire staff at the Gene Siskel Film Center; Dan Holmes, Cameron Worden, Debs Akinlade, and the FVNMA technical staff; Gordon Fung, Graduate Assistant; all the faculty members who have worked diligently with our students over the past years; and, above all, the participating artists for their hard work and inspiring vision.<\/span><\/p>\n Given the ubiquity of screens in contemporary culture, there will be a multitude of destinations for the works shown in these programs. Some of them have been or will soon be festival bound or will encounter audiences in galleries or online; others will form the basis for more ambitious projects; and all of them will serve to showcase the creativity, perseverance, and commitment of these young artists.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So please join us in congratulating this remarkable group of students as they celebrate the completion of SAIC\u2019s demanding fine arts degree programs and begin the next chapters of their lives and careers.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bruce Jenkins, Chair<\/span><\/p>\n Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The School of the Art Institute of Chicago\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n May 2024<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to SAIC\u2019s 2024 FVNMAS Festival Let me welcome you to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\u2019s 2024 Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival featuring works by our graduating BFA and MFA students. Held annually each spring at the Gene Siskel Film Center, this showcase provides us with the chance to […]<\/p>\n