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Come to ExFEST 2018!

Join us on October 26 at the Leroy Neiman Center! ExFEST is SAIC’s 13th annual film festival and held every year in the fall semester. Made by students, for students, this gives our filmmakers and artists a great way to win festival awards, show their work in front of a select jury and audience, and showcase some of the best video art made at SAIC! ExTV strives to bring students of the FVNMA department and those with interest of video work together and engage a community that fully represents all our video artists at SAIC. In our 13th year hosting ExFEST and 20th year anniversary of ExTV, we are honored to be screening 12 outstanding artists and 14 different works in total and seeing all of you there! Artists participating in ExFEST 2018: Yitong Lu Marisa Tolomeo Kathryn Lee Jillian […]
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ExTV Presents: A Familial Halloween

In the shadow of the coming of Halloween, we celebrate this fun holiday with a consideration of family. In what ways do myths, monsters, and fears guide the ways we maneuver our relationships with our parents and our children? This month we highlight two very special videos for a special edition of ExTV Presents. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: “Mother and daughter learning how to play Ghost in the Graveyard in the presence of their future graves” – Katie Condon (2013) A simplistic work that showcases a relationship between a mother and daughter, performing exactly what the title suggests. (@00:08) “Lover Boy” – Zia Angry (2010) For his ninth birthday Myles asks for nothing but wood. With his once vivacious grandmother slowly dying, and his burdened mother struggling for relevance he is constructing […]
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October 2018 Monitor Programming

This month our monitor programming are all videos that were submitted to us without any sound because what’s a more perfect mood than silence for the month of Howl-o-ween – when sometimes no sound can be scariest sound of them all. But instead of going way way back to the bygone era of silent horror films we’re thinking of shooting forward into the new, a new month, a new age, the digital age. All included works deal with the new digital realm whether they’re meant to be screen savers, PSA’s (sort of) that take a closer (more critical) look into popular social media platforms, or whether they’re showing some BTS (behind the scenes) by manipulating the image that we take for granted. If it’s wasting time, hyper-masculinity, or even knowledge that scares you we’ve got something for everyone this month so check […]
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ExTV Fall Open Meeting!

Happy fall semester! If you’re interested in ways to put your work up publicly or submitting to future events, come to our open meeting at MacLean 1401 (right next to the lounge and elevators) to meet the team that makes that happen and find out new opportunities to share your video art. You can ask us all the questions you’ve been wondering about, including how to submit and how to create your own ways to connect with the FVNMA community at SAIC. You’ll get to see the behind-the-scenes of how we plan our programs and upcoming events, including ExFEST and our 20th-anniversary screening. Though ExTV is a student-run organization and NOT a student group, we’re still looking for a new member to join us on the team! We are also now hiring a new production assistant to join our team! […]
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Archive, Blog

ExTV Presents: IRL to URL

In an age where our relationship with technology continues to grow and expand, we consider the ways in which digital bodies and avatars go on beyond reflecting real life and the ways in which avatars take on new forms, meanings, and build new worlds around them. In the same vein as Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto, we delve into our archive to find works to explore the digital experience, moving out of the IRL and into the URL. In our September Web Program, we highlight four videos dealing with the (digital) body and self, video game machinima, who all ask questions about identity, the consumption of technology, and the new digital experience. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: “Making of an Avatar” – Jenny Kljucaric (2017) Making of an Avatar explores the regimented process of avatar creation within gaming, […]
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Blog, Campus Monitors

September 2018 Monitor Programming

Don’t forget to set your alarm clock — or two, the new Fall semester is just getting started and those absences add up real quick! This month our monitor programming features four videos artists that incorporate text into their work with each artist exploring and approaching in wildly different ways sub-current themes about the body and politics. Trailing Eve Kalugin – 2015 TRAILING is a short experimental, darkly comedic video about surveillance and being surveilled. Highlighting the absurd reality of paranoia, the video explores the language applied to surveillance and reportage. In the black space of a cinema, words detail various suspects listed in filed reports, government reports, your accounts and official papers. Constantly shifting between watching and being watched, the viewer is transposed into a space where they become implicated in some irrational act of hiding from […]
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PolyPlay 2018: Interview with Unyimeabasi Udoh, a Twine Text-Based Game Designer

Before summer comes to an end, check out our interview with Polyplay 2018 participant Uno Udoh! Grocery Shopping and Gamemaker were up on the first floor in the Neiman Center for Polyplay this past March. Don’t worry if you missed it because you can still find Uno’s games up on https://unyi.me/games including a new Plant Simulator game. In our interview, Uno reveals what inspires these games, how win and lose conditions are decided, and major influences.
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Archive, Blog

ExTV Presents: A Lament for Shame

Representation and storytelling are both critical tools towards pushing for change. In an growing conversation surrounding queerness and LGBTQIA+ people, we have seen numerous amounts of victories achieved both in legislative realms and social realms. Yet, there is still action to be taken and change to be made. In our August Web Program, we highlight three different queer artists delving into abjection, taught shame, false monstrosity, and heartbreak, all in search of a different representation of queer stories. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: “Faggot” – Ythan Ponio (2017) This was a response to my father’s silence towards me after finding out I was gay. I wanted to show a bodily rejection of his prayers of conversion as well as remind myself that his attitudes towards my sexuality are a product of Catholicism being used as a […]
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Come to ExFEST 2018!

ExTV Presents: A Familial Halloween

October 2018 Monitor Programming

ExTV Fall Open Meeting!

ExTV Presents: IRL to URL

September 2018 Monitor Programming

PolyPlay 2018: Interview with Unyimeabasi Udoh, a Twine Text-Based Game Designer

ExTV Presents: A Lament for Shame

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