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The Democratic National Convention comes to Chicago (again)

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This weekend, tens of thousands of people will arrive in Chicago to attend, observe, report on, and/or protest the Democratic National Convention, which is returning to the city for the first time since 1996 – a relatively uneventful convention compared to the previous Chicago convention in 1968. The history of independent documentary video is closely tied to presidential conventions, opportunities for anyone with a press pass and a camera to report on people and issues of pressing, sometimes urgent national […]
Buy a tape shirt, save a tape!

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Many of you have seen our staff and board sporting stylish Media Burn apparel, and have asked how you could get in on the action. Our answer has always been: you can’t. We are now excited to premiere our first Media Burn t-shirt, designed by one of our archivists, Max Hart. Buy one today, and get ready to be the most fashionably dressed person in any room. Plus, your purchase will support our efforts to preserve historically and artistically significant […]

Sayonara Diorama Dress Rehearsal

Adrianne Wortzel, Performance
Sayonara Diorama Rehearsal 2

Adrianne Wortzel, Performance
Sayonara Diorama Rehearsal Close-ups

Adrianne Wortzel, Performance
Early Works, 1960-1967

CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Nina Sobell

A slideshow of early drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures by artist Nina Sobell.
Videoworks: Nina Sobell, 1970-1990

CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Nina Sobell

A compilation of videos made by Nina Sobell, including “25 lbs of Clay/Right Brain Left Brain Investigation of a Creative Process,” several BrainWave Drawing installations, “Videophone Voyeur,” “Six Moving Cameras, Six Converging Views,” two versions of “Hey! Baby! Chickey!,” “Breaking Glass,” “Chicken on Foot,” “Tilt,” “Hair Comb,” “Flip Flop,” “Jump Set,” “Elastic Equations,” and Murder with Mother.”
They’re Gonna Put Me in the Movies

CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Nina Sobell

A short performance by Anne Bean. Followed by footage featuring actress Hilary Beane and Brian Routh and Martin Von Haselberg (aka The Kipper Kids).
[Fashion Show at the Art Garden #1]

CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Nina Sobell

A fashion show/performance.
Nina Sobell: Pioneer in Interactivity

CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Nina Sobell

An edit of a short documentary about artist Nina Sobell by her frequent collaborator, artist and curator Emily Hartzell.