Program 12: MFA Thesis Exhibition, “No Burden for Continuity”
Exhibition dates: Friday, May 4, 2018- Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Program 12 runs in conjunction with the Department of Visual Arts’ MFA Thesis Exhibition, “No Burden for Continuity” (on view in the Logan Center Gallery, until June 10th), showing moving-image works from the following second-year MFAs:
Derek Ernster
Chichan Kwong
Frances Lee
Takashi Shallow
Program 11: BA Thesis Exhibition, “New Work”
Exhibition dates: Friday, April 6, 2018- Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Program 11 runs in conjunction with the Department of Visual Arts’ BA Thesis Exhibition, “New Work” (on view in the Logan Center Gallery), showing moving-image works from the following graduating seniors:
Sean Allen
Luke Clohisy
Claire Ducanto
Aleksandra Majka
Program 10: Experimental Animation
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screen Share Gallery (outside Room 201)
Chicago, IL
Exhibition dates: Thursday, February 1, 2018- Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Experimental Animation is an intensive production course where students create self-directed animation works. This course explores experimental and improvised approaches to stop-motion video-making, combining analog, manual and material approaches with digital production, post-production and special effects.
Program 10 surveys select animation works made during Scott Wolniak’s Winter 2017 course.
Participating Students:
Addie Barron
Yida Cai
Luke Clohisy
Andrew Jaffe
Jameson King
Amber Love
Aleksandra Majka
Scarla Lejia Pan
Program 9: Made-Up with Danny Volk
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screen Share Gallery (outside Room 201)
Chicago, IL
Exhibition dates: Thursday, January 4, 2018- Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Made-Up with Danny Volk is a performance and video series taking the form of an interview/talk show. The host, Danny Volk, interviews artists about their life and work while the artists use everyday cosmetics to paint his face into a temporary work of art. The project exists as a promotional platform with an interest in exploring power, intimacy, and the dynamics of interpersonal situations.
Screen Share Video Gallery is showing Seasons 1-4 and Season 7, during this month-long program. Seasons 5 & 6 were staged as live performances and are, therefore, not included.
Season Breakdown
Season 1
Graduate students and faculty of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Produced by Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor, recorded in 2014.
Featuring:
Dado
Richard WIlliamson
Zak Harvey
Scott Wolniak
Anaïs Daly
Laura Letinsky
William Pope.L
Jessica Stockholder
Catherine Sullivan
Zachary Cahill
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Casey Smallwood
Amber Ginsburg
Theaster Gates
Season 2
Residents at the Banff Center, Alberta, Canada, recorded in 2014.
Featuring:
Katie Piatt
Nick Howe
Tamara Kuselman
Pascale Theoret Groulx
Wade Folger MacDonald
Ann Maria Healy
Dustin Brons
Kara Hansen
Season 3
Artists working and living in Chicago who support or promote other artists. Produced by Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor and directed by Casey Smallwood, recorded in 2015.
Featuring:
Carris Adams
Matt Morris
Jennifer Reeder
Jessica Campbell
Stephanie Anne Harris Trevor
Aay Preston Myint
Edra Soto
Katherine Harvath
Faheem Majeed
Dan Paz
Alberto Aguilar
Season 4
An entire season working with one artist, Alberto Aguilar. Production contributors included undergraduate students from the University of Chicago and Harold Washington College. Other contributors included Dana Bassett, Victoria Bradford, James T. Green, Madeline Aguilar, Edra Soto, and Michael Soto, recorded 2015.
Season 7
A live performance promoting the Akron, Ohio sessions, recorded in 2017.
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Program 8: Video I & Video Workshop
Two DoVA courses taught by Scott Wolniak
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screen Share Gallery (outside Room 201)
Chicago, IL
Exhibition dates: Thursday, November 9, 2017- Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Video I & Video Workshop are intensive production courses geared towards short, independent works involving experimentation, process, play and variety. Video Workshop functions as a continuation and expansion on the foundations of Video I. Projects include a series of short works based on prompts, group exercises and a larger-scale independent project, exploring a spectrum of genres and forms through experimentation, critique, personal whim and considerations of media specificity. The included works were chosen from the Fall 2016 & Spring 2017 courses.
Participating Students:
Tate Hamilton
Eleonora Edreva
Takashi Shallow
Sydelle Keisler
Jameson King
Sean Allen
Program 7: DOUBLE GANGERS, Curated by Morganne Wakefield
“By Way of Today presents….Laredo” by Cameron Gibson & Kyle Schlie
“Trial Child: Nurture A Better Nature” by Scotty Wagner & Bailey Hikawa
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screen Share Gallery (outside Room 201)
Chicago, IL
Exhibition dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017- Thursday, November 2, 2017
DOUBLE GANGERS focuses on the work of two collaborative duos: Cameron Gibson & Kyle Schlie and Scotty Wagner & Bailey Hikawa. Within each of the duos’ collaborative works, a few common strategies emerge. Both foreground the role of mise-en-scene, making the objects within each respective video works contenders for our attention. The use of “the commercial” and marketed goods appears to be a necessary inclusion, to contrast props from products; products have a more emotionally heightened role to fill, here. The scale of emotional response, likewise, in both Laredo and Trial Child, is also played with. In the former, the characters often underreact, creating a conversational cadence that comes across as productively awkward, flipping the conventional tendencies of the Soap Opera, as a genre. Trial Child dances on the line between the filmic and theatrical space and consistently presents moments to remind the viewer of such. Extreme close-ups, crisp audio and animation remind us that we are in the filmic space, however the tendency toward tableau and frontal presentation is equally as strong; we are reminded of the conditions and limitations of theater. These limitations are also dealt with (in both works), through the use of wigs and costume elements, to help a single actor play multiple characters. By shifting the scale and role of the basic tenants of the cinematic and theatrical world, both works create a discomfort that helps drive their specific narrative concerns.
By Way of Today presents…
Laredo
created by
Cameron Gibson and Kyle Schlie
a Globe Al Chemical Company Production
© 1984
By Way of Today is an expanded soap opera guided by Cameron Gibson and Kyle Schlie. Equal parts genre study, fan fiction and mundane sci-fi, it is a series like many and unlike none. Episodes “air” irregularly and in various forms such as video, script, rehearsal, live broadcast, performance, commercial, installation and animation.
Laredo, “Hazy Days” (C2D1)
“Island Time” (Commercial break)
“The Island Awaits” (Commercial break)
“Where’s the Pudding?” (Commercial break)
TRIAL CHILD: NURTURE A BETTER NATURE
created by
Scotty Wagner & Bailey Hikawa
“Trial Child: Nurture a Better Nature” is an unconventional household drama set in an imagined future where self-control is the single most important quality in human development. Trial Child, a robotic replica of a couple’s would-be child, is the newest technology. This tragicomic Pinocchio-esque tale addresses issues surrounding the cyborg identity and our growing personification of robotics in relation to gender, identity, technological absurdity and family politics.
Program 5: MFA Thesis Exhibition
“And and and”
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screen Share Gallery (outside Room 201)
Chicago, IL
Exhibition dates: Thursday, May 4- Sunday, June 18, 2017
Jan Brugger (May 4-24)
The Magic of David Copperfield: 4 Episodes (Fires, Flying, Orient Express & Niagara Falls)
Benjamin Nicholson (May 4-24)
Mr. Boare Industries: The Promotional Video Experience™
Mr. Boare Industries: Meme Menagerie™
Mr. Boare Industries: Brand Presentation
Andrew Bearnot (May 25- June 18)
Noise
Toaster Composition
A Hair’s Breadth
Molecular Movement
Interval Flux
Program 4: Select works from Minimalist Experiment in Film and Video, taught by D.N. Rodowick
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screen Share Gallery (outside Room 201)
Chicago, IL
Exhibition dates: Thursday, March 30- Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Elisabeth Hogeman
Program 3: Alumni Showcase
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screen Share Gallery (outside Room 201)
Chicago, IL
Exhibition dates: Thursday, February 16- Thursday, March 16, 2017
Screen Share Video Gallery will be showcasing works from past DoVA alumni, featuring one artist per week, for the duration of the 4-week program.
Marco Ferrari (February 16-23)
Spirit Level (2015-2016, 30:00)
Dan Paz (February 23- March 2)
Untitled, Kodak, HD (2014, 39:15)
A Song for Rosalind Blalock (2014, 02:32)
Learn How to Simulate Flying (2014, 03:46)
Bathhouse (2012, 15:53)
Eric Watts (March 2-9)
While I Live in Hope: Channel 1 (2012-2014, 03:06)
While I Live in Hope: Channel 2 (2012-2014, 03:05)
While I Live in Hope: Channel 3 (2012-2014, 04:53)
While I Live in Hope: Channel 4 (2012-2014, 02:38)
Tori Whitehead (March 9-16)
Movement 3 (2014, 13:00)
Degenerescence (2015, 04:30)
Screen Share Video Gallery is a new venue for screen-based media at the David and Reva Logan Center for the Arts, designed as a way to showcase student work made in various production courses in DoVA, including Video, Animation and On Time & Space. This space will also host curatorial projects by students, alumni and guests from various Chicago art organizations. Located in the reception area outside of the Film and Video Screening Room (on the second floor of the Logan Center), Screen Share will function as a video lounge, showcasing programs of video, animation and new media on a rotating schedule.
