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ExTV Presents: Lost/Found

In the month of May, the works of artists utilizing found footage in both unique and critical ways is highlighted. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: UNBELIEVABLE: Teens Hang Out at Malls! (2016) Ava Threlkel @ 00:23 “UNBELIEVABLE: Teens Hang Out at Malls!” is a found footage documentary comprised of YouTube-ripped TV tabloid interviews, Utah tourism clips, and a city branding development seminar, exploring intersections of iconography and commerce. Wound Up (2015) Grace Palmer @ 6:19 Inspired by ballerina jewelry boxes, Wound Up visually emulates the issue of societal control of the female body. An appropriated video of a young baton twirler is obsessively cut up and manipulated to create an allegory beneath a jarring watching experience. Thermographic (2017) Greymar @ 10:39 Manipulating the relationship between explicit content and censorship by means of abstraction, […]
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DIAAASSPORA: Asian-Pacific Islander Screening 2019 Official Lineup

ExTV and the Asian American and Asian Students at SAIC (AAASS) are thrilled to be collaborating in second year of the Asian-Pacific Islander (API) Screening! To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we will be screening a selection of 14 works made by Asian artists, discussing a wide range of political, social, and cultural issues. The screening is the first part of a two-day event, DIAAASSPORA, the 3rd annual Asian-Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebration by AAASS. Food and snacks will be provided for the screening, happening this Wednesday, May 1, from 4:30pm to 5:30pm on the 2nd floor of the Neiman Center.
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Campus Monitors Exhibit: Ocular Ambien

ExTV is impressed (and knows you will be too) with the videos made by students from Eric Fleischauer’s Spring 2019 Video Everywhere class. The following videos will play on ExTV’s monitors between April 15 – May 12, 2019.
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PolyPlay 2019 RECAP

Thanks to everyone that showed up, helped us set up (figuring out tech stuff is hard), and contributed work to PolyPlay 2019. This was our first year incorporating VR installations into the event. Enjoy watching our documentation of the event. And let’s get amped up for PolyPlay Spring 2020! There was no shortage of fun moments to include.
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ExTV Presents: Interweb Intimacies

Intimacy is often associated with touch, the body, and can imply spatial constraints, but in the age of the internet, we’ve created unexpected ways to engage intimately with ourselves and others through internet based technology. Intimacy through the medium of the web transforms the spacial, temporal, and corporeal limits of traditional intimacy rendering an entirely new and unique connective, emotional experience. For April’s web program we’ve selected four artists whose work demonstrates and embodies this new form of digital intimacy.
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ExFest Staff Pick Award: Yitong Lu

This past fall we had the wonderful opportunity of interviewing current SAIC student, Yitong Lu, about her staff favorite film, 苏 Soo.
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Poly Play 2019 Official Lineup

Come to our 4th annual gaming event of the year! Poly Play is ExTV’s video arcade event that showcases some of SAIC’s best art games and new media works. This year, check out the latest video games and virtual reality installations, accompanied by a curated animation screening and free food and drinks. Poly Play will occur on Thursday, March 21, on the first floor of the Neiman Center.
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ExTV Presents: Distorted Mobility

Mobility can be limited or expansive and its scope is filtered through personal perspective or the perspectives of others on the individual. It can be both a social rite or detriment. It can also determine a way of life or seeing that is simultaneously in and out of the control of the individual. In this month’s program, we’ve selected works that manipulate the perspective of mobility and movement and/or address larger themes of social mobility in relation to the individual, the artist, and their perspective. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: “Holding a Bridge” – Katie Condon (2013) @ (00:20) The performer is tested to physical limits as a conversation with the physical DuSable Bridge and its inability to withstand its original purpose, to connect Chicago’s North and South sides. Viewers of the performance had free reign to […]
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ExTV Presents: Lost/Found

DIAAASSPORA: Asian-Pacific Islander Screening 2019 Official Lineup

Campus Monitors Exhibit: Ocular Ambien

PolyPlay 2019 RECAP

ExTV Presents: Interweb Intimacies

ExFest Staff Pick Award: Yitong Lu

Poly Play 2019 Official Lineup

ExTV Presents: Distorted Mobility

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