The AIDS story behind a 2023 Oscar nomination
More about the 1989 Artists Space protests featured in Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
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Apply now for a paid summer job at Media Burn Do you know a college student looking for a rewarding summer job in Chicago?Studio Institute’s Arts Intern program matches skilled college students seeking valuable career experience with paid internships in museums and arts organizations, including Media Burn. These internships are crafted to provide interns with learning opportunities and responsibilities that make them an active part of the organizations that host them. The program seeks candidates with demonstrated financial need and […]
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Ghosts in the Machine
Ghosts in the Machine is a collaborative work by American and Russian filmmakers that questions our ability to tell fact from fiction in media. The documentary also investigates the outsized role that the Russian-American rivalry plays in both nations’ collective imaginations and how that provides fertile ground for manipulation. The four filmmakers–Americans Dimitri Devyatkin and Lori Felker, and Russians Dmitrii Kalashnikov and Mikhail Zheleznikov–used archival footage from Media Burn to create the 65-minute film. The film was produced by Media Burn Archive and funded through an International Connections Fund grant of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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4/27/23: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: “Chemical Valley”
Screening/discussion of the 1991 documentary “Chemical Valley” with director Mimi Pickering
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4/13/23: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Resistance Videos from Turkey
Screening/discussion of protest videos from Turkey, featuring Guliz Saglam and Florencia Incarbone.
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3/30/23: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: “CamNet”
A screening/discussion about the groundbreaking 1990s “camcorder series” CamNet, with producer Judith Binder and scholar Leah Shafer
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Floater
An early computer animation, mixing figurative images of buffalo with abstract forms. Exhibited at the SIGGRAPH 1983 Art Show. Hardware: Datamax UV-1 computer. Software: Zgrass
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Warpitout
Documentation of an installation presented at the SIGGRAPH ’82 art show, the 9th annual conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, Boston July 26-30, 1982. 1984 version exhibited and a permanent installation at the Ontario Science Centre Canada.