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EXFEST 2019 TODAY! (Program Lineup)

The day has arrived! ExFest 2019 is happening tonight at 6pm to 8pm in our Maclean Ballroom on campus! ExFest is ExTV’s annual film festival made by students for students. Open to all forms of video art, our film festival allows students to compete for a chance to showcase their best work in front of a ExTV-selected jury, win festival awards, and have fun! This will be our 14th year running, and we’re excited to see what’s in store. Our event is accessible by wheelchair (just take any elevator to Floor 2). Food and drinks will be provided during the intermission. Come out to support and meet other makers in film, video, animation, sound, new media, etc! Here is our lineup for this evening: Hope to see everyone at ExFest tonight!
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ExTV Presents: ExFest Retrospective

As we quickly approach the next iteration of our annual student moving image festival, ExFest, with this month’s web program we look back at past participants whose work demonstrates the spirit of ExTV and the moving image community at SAIC. This month’s featured artists are listed as shown: Goosed 1:35 Sara Payne 2014 Two friends have a brief misadventure with geese in a corn field. Participated in ExFest 2014. Winter 4:44 Tian Yang 2013 Shot on 16mm and Super 16mm negative, this short film conveys my feelings of living in Chicago during the 2013 winter season. Participated in ExFest 2013. The Barroom Scene 3:05 Stephen Goza 2015 Animation set to found audio. Participated in ExFest 2016. Apple Jacks 7:19 Christine Janokowicz 2013 Experimental video using multiple glitching processes to show parallels between my childhood and the childhood of characters in […]
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ExTV Presents: Nature Narratives

The setting of nature or the immersion of the artist in nature gives way to narrative development that is rich in introspection and grounded by a reckoning with individual or collective memory. Besides the potential effect of nature upon the subject, there can also exist an attention to nature itself, which possesses its own evolving identity, origin, and memory. September’s web program highlights artists who either explore nature as a foil towards personal/collective rumination or as a dedicated and independent subject, or both. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: The TreeLizi Breit20101:40A brief evolutionary study. Natural ArtificialYuan Zheng20157:41 Observation of a series of artifacts, landscape and artificial nature, where live or dead animals has detached from its original habitat and context, the relationship between animal and us has been transformed too. 4 Movement and the Birth of the […]
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ExTV Presents: La fin de l’été

It is often said that the end of the summer is bittersweet, but maybe it is actually the entirety of summer that feels this way? Whether that be the aimless drudge of long hot summer days, filled with nostalgia for past summer adventures and romance or the joy of finally having free time and the endless possibilities to just relax and have fun, the summer is both unbearably long and sadly short. The web program for the month of August highlights works that tap into or resemble the emotional and visual highs and lows of the summer. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: Unmastered Sandin Image Processor Flamingo Beats Alp Seyrekbasan 2017 Unmastered Sandin Image Processor Flamingo Beats is an experimental video work by Alp Seyrekbasan. It consists of three elements. First one being in the background is […]
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Blog, Campus Monitors

July 2019 Monitor Programming

Through a variety of lenses and media, these selection of works are navigating the human experience. What is unique about our experience, if anything? Walking Nightmare Michael Karp The world of a dream and the dangers within it. Tim. Chanina Katz There is an emptiness inside tim, but he doesn’t know whether it is because he is hungry or lonely. Incidences Kim Renaise An iteration by Danill Kharm’s A Dream. Eating/Colors: Pierre Elizabeth Van Loan The eating of ribs, in front of purple. Gotta Go Jiyoon Yoon This is Gotta Go K-pop dance cover by our SAIC Dance team, DUCKIZ. Me as a videographer in this work, I tried to visualize how can the music, dance, the camera works, and visual effects can be harmonious. Perversion: A User’s Manual Adrian Garcia Just a nightmarish vision of human priorities
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Silent Disco 2019 Recap

This year’s Silent Disco was a success! The collaborative event between Free Radio and ExTV featured dancing, silence, and an impressive variety of tunes along with large-scale experimental video projections. It was a great chance to shake up the MacLean ballroom on a Friday night. Thank you to everyone that attended and a special thanks to all of our DJs listed below! LINEUP:k.oz 1660 (https://soundcloud.com/mdclx)GROOVY.WAV (https://soundcloud.com/groovy-unicorn)ilai (https://soundcloud.com/il-ai)MORENXXX (https://soundcloud.com/morenxxx)E. Mele (https://soundcloud.com/emelinem)DJV (https://soundcloud.com/djvalentimes)Tguava (https://soundcloud.com/a2i3g5) W/ GUEST Ariel Zetina (https://soundcloud.com/arielzetina) Hope to see you next year!
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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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Blog, News, Screenings/Installations

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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