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Two Dogs and a Ball
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One of several videos the artist made with her brother while still in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Two Dogs and a Ball is a cover of William Wegman’s piece of the same title from the late 60’s. During the...

 

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: art history

1997 | 11:04
Miller & Shellabarger,
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Miller & Shellabarger, their breath made visible by the cold of a refrigerated room, exchange breath with each other.

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Tags: autobiography, body, chicago art, gender, performance

Reed Anderson + 1 other
2000 | 07:21
Macho Shogun
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¡Macho Shogun! was created by Reed Anderson and Daniel Davidson over a single weekend some time in 2000.  It's your basic monster-robot / destroy-city kind of video that we wanted to make when we were kids but never did.

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Collection: Single Titles

Tags: chicago art, city, war, youth/childhood

1999 | 01:22
Marc Schwartzberg, Shooter
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Shooter explores the idea of overt manliness, exposing it to be a flaccid gesture and an exercise in posturing. In the video, I assume the persona of a metal head wandering an urban landscape, making threatening yet empty gestures to...

 

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Tags: chicago art, gender, humor

Kirsten Stoltmann, I Spill My Guts Everyday for Nothing
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Kirsten Stoltmann's video, I Spill My Guts Everyday for Nothing, is exactly that, a portrait of the artist spilling her Guts with a blank expression on her face. Again, Kirsten emerges as an empathetic anti-hero, who, in her own...

 

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Tags: body, chicago art, humor

O'Malley's Head #2
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In 1998 I made a sculpture of a decapitated head. I featured it in a photo and video. I thought of the head as a character whose adventures would be documented. The name O’Malley was inspired by Chicago’s Irish heritage (I was living in Chicago...

 

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: artist spaces, chicago art, city, death and dying

Untitled (Nixon / HAL)
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This video is a 7-minute single channel piece consisting of two monologues: the first is a speech prepared for Richard Nixon in the event of a moon landing disaster in 1969, the second is the final words of the computer HAL from the film 2001....

 

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Tags: found footage, future/technology, history

2001 | 03:21
Wurmburth
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Swamp Swamp and Wurmburth are each comprised of a series of tightly cropped shots of small, hand-made table-top sculptures or "sets".  Paint and many other materials that behave like paint (i.e. lotion, shampoo,...

 

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Tags: art criticism, chicago art, performance

INEVITABLE
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A grinding mortar and pestle vignette analogously describes the evolution of digital resolution; from a single color to a high definition image to an infinite splitting of that image back into the pixels themselves.

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Tags: image processing, photography