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YouTube Assembly

chicagoa — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:01 +0000

The first YTA of the season will feature a ten-course meal for the eyes, lovingly prepared by CATIE OLSON and MEG DUGUID! Come with an appetite for videos!

The YTA consists of screening web-based video for a live and participating audience. Each YTA features 2 hosts that use YouTube to elaborate on a point of interest relevant to their artwork or creative practice. After the “talk” the assembly opens for dialog, giving audience members the opportunity to pull up videos in response or that are relevant to the topic. It’s halfway between an artist talk and film screening; yet goes beyond their conventions by channeling the social possibilities of the medium.

Meg Duguid was raised in Columbus, Ohio, and received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA in from Bard College. She has performed and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, the DUMBO Arts Festival in Brooklyn, and 667 Shotwell in San Francsiso. Duguid has screened work at Synthetic Zero in New York, Spiderbug in Chicago, and at the Last Supper Festival in Brooklyn. Duguid lives and works in Chicago, IL where she runs Clutch Gallery, a 25 square-inch white cube located in the heart of her purse.

Catie Olson is multi-disciplinary artist born in Decatur, Illinois, the pleasant home of two chicken cars. She received her BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995 in Agriculture, ventured to Chicago and received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute in 2000. Catie organizes SpiderBug, a mobile short film festival, along with her husband, EC Brown. The pair also run Floor Length and Tux, an apartment art space. Catie has an animation that will be shown in the International Pancake Film Festival in Boston upcoming in July. She has shown work in Chicago including Heaven, Swimming Pool, antena and minidutch galleries. http://www.catieolson.com/, http://www.floorlengthandtux.com/, http://www.spiderbug.org/

Presented by Homeroom

Rafaël Rozendaal

karly — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:00:58 +0000

Artist Rafaël Rozendaal provides an overview of his past and current work.

PERFORMANCE POST APPROPRIATION

karly — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:56 +0000

Performance art is still thriving despite the bombardment of an oversaturated media culture, where so called reality is pumped out of TV shows and do it yourself web video postings. Artists are turning to devices that surround our everyday lives and using them as their props, their sets, and mediums to make performance work. This screening program shows a wide range of performances either made in front of the camera, to document the actions or manipulating found footage of others performing. Performing is all about the staging of the action and this selection of videos embraces the exciting diversity of just that.

The videos in this program are part of a Berlin/Chicago Exchange between Eric Fleischauer and the one-year art space MMX Open Art Venue in Berlin.

Work by Andrew de Freitas, Elizabeth Wurst, Eric Fleischauer, Jon Rafman, Zachary Fabri, Inez de Vega, Michelle Teran, Nicolas Provost, Jacob Tonski, Cari Freno, Hugh Walton, Ben Kinsley, Jesper Just and David Sherry.

Nicholas O’Brien: I am Back

karly — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:00:22 +0000

During the course of the evening, Nicholas O’Brien will weave a conversation and lecture around his recent screen based works. These routes will range from a reading of an online conversation about mediated spatial awareness, screening samples from an ongoing video blog, presenting a pecha-kucha style lecture on the show Breaking Bad, as well as showing a VHS love letter sent to a distant, yet familial, stranger. The evening will enfold over the course of interlinking monologues discussing loss/return, finding sincerity in flippant formats, discovering self through cultural history, excavating digital landscapes, and employing wit to both disarm and embrace.

Chris Cuellar – Tutorials

chad — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:01 +0000

Chris Cuellar is a Los Angeles (previously Chicago) based new-media artist, writer and provocateur. His works occupy various media simultaneously including www, installation, social-media and printed texts. His pieces, occasionally brain-busting but often conceptually simple, deal with themes of digital identity, distribution of information, labor, spam, networks and telepresence in a way that never fails to incite a re-evaluation of these issues. He has worked and performed for the Austin New Music Co-op in Austin, TX; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hyde Park Art Center; the Red Rover Reading Series in Chicago; and Diapason Gallery in Brooklyn.

Chris Cuellar will be presenting on a series he recently organized for the Art21 blog where he transformed the guest column into “a practical art-making resource” as well as a “vehicle for the un-distribution of existing works.” He asked a small group of artists to give away their secrets in the form of online tutorials. “Each how-to is meant to give the reader enough information to accurately reproduce the project presented.” Furthermore, “in order to reduce issues of artistic ownership, each artist’s contribution has been more or less ‘anonymized’ before posting, with as many overt references to the the individual artist or original project removed as possible.” Cuellar asks why display a work when you can use a work? Why distribute copies when you can distribute a process? “Why buy a work, when you can just make it yourself?”

Read more about the series and view the tutorials on the art21 blog (http://blog.art21.org/author/chris-cuellar/), and Upgrade! Chicago at http://upgradechicago.org/.

GLI.TC/H run.time & real.time program 2

karly — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:08 +0000

The second GLI.TC/H screening program features a diverse collection of artifacts and glitch works. From magnetic media to celluloid, nothing is safe from the GLI.TC/H. Realtime performances will follow the screening spotlighting artists misusing hardware and software.

Work by Jodie Mack, Theodore Darst, Nick Briz, Alexander Stewart, Clint Ens, Nick Salvatore, Johnny Rogers, Jon Satrom, James Connolly, Ben Pearson, Jimmy Joe Roche, Karl Klomp, JB Mabe and LJ Frezza.

Performances by James Connolly & Eric Pellegrino, Tamas Kemenczy & Mark Beasley, Jeronimo Barbosa, Andrew Bucksbarg, Ben Baker-Smith & Evan Kühl, StAllio!

WHAT MADE IT THROUGH THE FIRE

karly — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:00:17 +0000

While the MFA program at the University of Illinois at Chicago is relatively small, it provides an intimate site for the exchange of ideas and methods of working. This screening consists of a selection of moving image work from the 2010 graduating class, featuring films and videos by Olivia Ciummo, Nick Harvey, Rebecca Mir, Michael Morris, Orson Panetti and Michael Sirianni. These works construct a kind of portrait of this educational microcosm, visiting themes of loss, longing, doubt, transcendence and light.

THE BROAD SHOULDERS TOUR

karly — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:00:17 +0000

Chicago, IL claims as its own a plethora of hardworking film, video, and new-media artists. Since 2008, a rough and ready microcinema called The NIGHTINGALE has been presenting their work. To celebrate the second anniversary of the space, director, Christy LeMaster and her sister, print-maker Jessica LeMaster, are heading out on the roads of the quiet midwest with THE BROAD SHOULDERS TOUR, a showcase of recent Chicago-made work screened at The Nightingale since its opening. The works in THE BROAD SHOULDERS TOUR represent a diversity of mediums and aesthetics but share a similar sensibility. This isn’t a city of artists looking to quit their day jobs. Chicago makers are teachers, builders, programmers, journalists, workers. There is an economy, a beauty built out of utility, and an accessibility that Chicago breeds into its makers.

Featured artists in the program include Jon Cates, Warren Cockerham, Nick Edelberg, Lori Felker, Jason Halprin, Emily Kuehn, Kent Lambert, Jodie Mack, Jesse McClean, Nicholas O’Brien, Jon Satrom, Kate Raney, Michael Robinson and Jerzy Rose.

CHANNELING: an invocation of spectral bodies and queer spirits

karly — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:00:44 +0000

CHANNELING is a film and video program curated by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White.

CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences, and emotions that are often invisible– ghostly, even–in everyday life.

Videos by Vanessa Renwick, Elliot Montague, Shana Moulton, Michael Robinson, EMR (Math Bass & Dylan Mira), Aay Preston-Myint, Jillian Pena and John Di Stefano. Presented by Threat Level.

Jon Satrom: YouTube Assembly

karly — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:00:12 +0000

Presented by Homeroom, hosted by Jon Satrom.

The YouTube Assembly is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of viral video in a live event. The event consists of screening web-based video for a live, participating audience. Like karaoke or a traditional performance open mic, the YouTube Assembly creates a situation in which people take turns entertaining each other, in this case, by sharing their favorite Youtube clips. In the spirit of the popular YouTube interface, audience members will be encouraged to comment on the videos they watch, except out loud and in real time with no anonymity

Each screening will feature a pair of hosts from different artistic backgrounds that will share their YouTube video picks and help facilitate the evening’s open mic portion.

Editing Aesthetics

karly — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:00:22 +0000

An evening of new film and video work from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Editing Aesthetics course taught by Michelle Peutz. Featuring brand-spanking-new films and videos from Theodore Darst, Nick Edelberg, Samuel Jacob Eisen, Carlos Enriquez, James Ferguson, Danny Gallegos, Emily Irvine, David Lee, Karina Natis, Matthew O’Shaughnessy, David Olson, Hae Yeon Park, Anthony Rizzo and Heather Shilling.

Collabtronica

karly — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:00:38 +0000

Torsten Zenas Burns works with lots of different mediums and with lots of different people. Collabtronica is a sample of different projects created in tandem with artists, Anne McGuire, Darrin Martin, Christian K. Burns, and Halflifers. Traversing through the worlds of Choregraphy, Performance, Video, and New Media, he explores the realms of performed identity through fantasy characters and has an interest in re-envisioning educational spaces. Often creating animated counterparts of his collaborators, TZB creates spaces where kinesthetics meets virtual life. For example, WHAT IF?, made with longtime collaborator, Darrin Martin utilizes dance software that recreates choreography by Merce Cunningham. Weird and playful, TZB’s works feel a bit like a good recess. The pleasure of movement and imaginative improv win the day.

YouTube Assembly

karly — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00:19 +0000

Presented by Homeroom, hosted by Eric Graf and Alexander Stewart.

Each screening will feature a pair of hosts from different artistic backgrounds that will share their YouTube video picks and help facilitate the evening’s open mic portion.

Stephen Connolly: Occasional Pieces

karly — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:30:31 +0000

Film and video by Stephen Connolly.

Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat: The Time Machine

karly — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:00:54 +0000

The Time Machine is your guide through the fourth dimension! Watch and learn about Real-Time Rendering, Quartz, and Max patches as Sabine Gruffat steers you through the sensory drone of the digital and analog hyperspace. Bill Brown takes you on a guided tour of memory’s roadside attractions by way of scratchy records and the hazy glow of 35mm slides, narrating the interspatial monuments of our extemporary voyage.