Video of Cory Arcangel at CATE Spring 2009
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The Films of Bruce Conner
Thursday, April 16 & Friday, April 17, 6pm | Guests in person!
Bruce Conner, A Movie (1958). Image courtesy of the Conner Family Trust.
Explosive, elegiac, and ecstatic, the films of Bruce Conner (1933-2008) have had an enormous impact on film and pop culture, echoing through the rhythms of MTV, on-line remixes, and the use [...]
Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S.
Thursday, April 9, 6pm | Curator Chris Hill in person!
People’s Communications Network, Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison (1973). Image courtesy of the Video Data Bank.
In 1995, the Video Data Bank published “Surveying the First Decade,” a massive, 16-hour anthology of nearly 70 titles from artists and media-makerswho defined the first decade of [...]
A World Rattled of Habit: Films by Ben Rivers (and Karl Kels & Barry Kimm)
Thursday, April 2, 6pm | Ben Rivers in person!
Ben Rivers, Astika (2006). Image courtesy of the artist.
In the last three years, UK artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers has produced a series of rich, expressive portraits of people living on the wilderness fringes of Europe and the British Isles. Rivers builds a strong bond with his [...]
The Animated Films of Naoyuki Tsuji
Thursday, March 26, 6pm
Naoyuki Tsuji, The Place Where We Were (2008). Image courtesy of the artist.
The work of Japanese animator Naoyuki Tsuji hovers between dream and nightmare, fairy tale and psychodrama. Tsuji animates his films with charcoal—drawing, erasing, and redrawing over a single sheet of paper. The erasures remain as ghostly afterimages, creating the sense that [...]
Cory Arcangel
Thursday, March 19, 6pm | Cory Arcangel in person!
Best known for his Nintendo game cartridge hacks, multi-media trickster Cory Arcangel uses new and vintage computers, sound, performance, and the web to recontextualize popular figures (Super Mario Brothers, Bruce Springsteen, Simon & Garfunkel) and aesthetic systems (the instructional video, adult contemporary music, the “artist talk”) in [...]
Letters, Notes: Films by David Gatten
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 6pm | David Gatten in person!
David Gatten, The Great Art of Knowing (2004). Image courtesy of the artist.
“Influenced equally by Stan Brakhage and Ludwig Wittgenstein.”—Ed Halter, Village Voice
For more than ten years, filmmaker and SAIC alum David Gatten’s serenely beautiful handmade films have employed experimental techniques—cellophane tape ink transfers and [...]
DDR/DDR
Thursday, February 26, 2009, 6pm | Director Amie Siegel in person!
DDR/DDR (Amie Siegel, 2008). Image courtesy of the artist.
The latest feature by artist, filmmaker, and SAIC alum Amie Siegel (Empathy, 2003) is a multi-layered and disarmingly beautiful essay on the German Democratic Republic and its dissolution, which left many of its former citizens adrift in [...]
The Dance Camera: Locked & Loaded
Thursday, February 19, 2009, 6pm | Curator Danièle Wilmouth in person!
Read the Chicago Reader capsule by Andrea Gronvall here.
Miranda Pennell, Tattoo (2001). Image courtesy of the artist.
In an effort to dispel the notion that the dance film is largely a decorative and apolitical genre, The Dance Camera: Locked & Loaded is an international [...]
Through the Looking Glass: Videos by Cecelia Condit
Thursday, February 12, 2009, 6pm | Cecelia Condit in person!
Cecelia Condit, Annie Lloyd (2008). Image courtesy of the artist.
Since the early 1980s, Cecelia Condit has garnered acclaim for her sweetly gruesome stories of menaced and menacing women. Cultural critic Laura Kipnis calls Condit, “the most serious practitioner of the grotesque in video art” and media [...]
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