AN EVENING WITH DARA BIRNBAUM
Thursday, February 11, 6pm | Dara Birnbaum in person!
Still from Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (Dara Birnbaum, 1978-79). Courtesy the Video Data Bank.
Thirty years before the ubiquitous YouTube mash-up, artist Dara Birnbaum hijacked television imagery in a series of coolly ironic videos that recontextualized pop cultural icons (Wonder Woman, Kojak, Laverne & Shirley), TV grammar (inserts, [...]
VARIABLE AREA: HEARING AND SEEING SOUND, 1966–78
Thursday, November 12, 6pm | Art Lange, Guillermo Gregorio and Brian Labycz in person!
Still from The Gypsy Cried (Chris Langdon, 1972). Courtesy the artist.
Experimental Sound Studio’s Outer Ear Festival of Sound and CATE team up once again to present a program of films that investigate the visual and aural possibilities of 16mm optical [...]
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 [...]
Carolee Schneemann: Film & Performance
Thursday, November 6, 6pm | Carolee Schneemann in person!
Carolee Schneemann, Fuses (1964—67). Image courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix.
Since the early 1960s, legendary multimedia artist Carolee Schneemann has blazed a groundbreaking, taboo-busting path through the art world. Expressive, exuberant and intelligent, her work ranges from hand-made diary films and politically charged performances to painting, poetry, and [...]
LoVid: Flipped Chips
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 6pm | Tali Hinkis, Kyle Lapidus, and Jon Satrom in person!
Jon Satrom, Yuppster Video (2003). Image courtesy of the artist.
Curated by the interdisciplinary artist-duo LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus), Flipped Chips pairs the work of pioneering video artists who built their own A/V hardware with the work of a younger [...]
Guerrilla Television
Thursday, September 20, 2007, 6pm
Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, and Chip Lord in person!
The 1970s gave rise to a network of radical video makers who set out to create a feisty alternative to broadcast television. Decades before the so-called media democratization offered by YouTube, cell phone cameras, and hundred-channel cable, these artist-activists turned their Portapaks on [...]
Copy-It-Right! Selections from the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive
Thursday, February 15, 2007,6pm
Curator Jon Cates in person!
Charismatic video pioneer Phil Morton influenced an entire generation of video and digital artists, founded SAIC’s Video Department, laid the groundwork for what has since become the Video Data Bank, and developed Copy-It-Right, an anti-copyright ethic that set the precedent for the current open-source movement. His name has [...]
The World of George Kuchar
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 8pm | George Kuchar in person!
George Kuchar has been working with the moving image for nearly half a century. First, with his twin brother Mike, producing their ultra-low-budget underground versions of Hollywood genre films. And then, on his own, since the 1980s, creating brilliantly edited, hilarious, often diaristic tapes with dime-store [...]
Calculations: Pioneers of Computer Animation
Thursday, May 4, 2006, 6pm
Larry Cuba, Calculated Movements (1985).
Decades before Hollywood CGI spectaculars, artists worked with computers to create an aesthetic specific to the machine. At IBM, Bell, and in their own home-built labs, they generated visionary spectacles from mathematical precision– stroboscopic patterns, kinetic rhythms, and volumetric illusions. Tonight’s program is a cross-section of films [...]
Dan Sandin: 35 Years of Electronic Art
Thursday, March 9, 2006, 6pm
Dan Sandin in person!
Chicago artist Dan Sandin is one of the leading figures in the history of image-based electronic art. With the development of the Sandin Image Processor (I.P.), the University of Illinois’ Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL), and CAVE virtual reality theater, Sandin is a key figure in the history of [...]
