ExTV WELCOMES YOU TO: EXFEST 2024
Come enjoy a feature-length’s worth of short films and video work made by students of SAIC! Our 19th Annual ExFest will take place at 3:45PM Central in Screening Room 1307 at Maclean. The program will contain the screening, and an awards ceremony for the best films – decided by a jury of FVNMA Faculty & Students!
ExTV welcomes you to our 2nd Video Maker Mixer! Video Maker Mixers are casual meetings where students have the opportunity to meet other students interested in video work, whether as an actor, sound designer, or anything else! We’ll give a small presentation about upcoming events and opportunities, but otherwise we want to leave the space open for you all to converse and network! (and enjoy some snacks) Come meet us Next Wednesday, October 23rd @ 4PM in Maclean 1408!
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Another year, another ExFest! As the Spring semester comes to a close, it is once again time for us to open the submissions for ExFest 2024. We are accepting time-based works from current students, whether that be narrative film, animation, performance for video, or even experimental video! Click the full post for more information.
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Submissions for GENDRHAX 2024 are now closed! ExTV Presents: GENDRHAX 2024, our screening event focused on work made by LGBTQIA+ artists under the themes GENDER and SEXUALITY! We are accepting moving image work from Students, Faculty, and Staff. The event will be held in Maclean 1307, and the screening will be followed a special guest led discussion. Submissions will be due by March 17th, and our screening will be held on April 19th You can apply using the google form in the button below! Submitting is not limited per person, and is open to all current undergrad and grad students, as well as alumni who have graduated in the last two years. Submissions Closed!
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Next Monday, February 26th, PolyPlay will be held in the Neiman Center located on the first floor of the Sharp Building at 37 S Wabash from 11AM to 5PM! We will host an assortment of student’s games run on computers, as well as an installation piece and a book! There will also be refreshments, so bring your friends and have some fun!
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This month, the campus monitors are featuring selected works from the Experimental 3D and Digital Bodies Performed Fall 2023 classes taught by Anneli Goeller!
Meshed Potatoes is an exhibition of selected works from the fall 2023 Experimental 3D and Digital Bodies Performed classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This exhibition showcases the wide breadth of workflows among SAIC artists working in experimental 3D animation and new media. These works range from narrative animations, interactive online games, abstract explorations of 3D space, speculative fiction, to live visuals from a DJ set.
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Submissions for PolyPlay 2024 have closed!
As 2024 approaches, so does our annual video game and interactive new media art arcade – PolyPlay! Every year ExTV presents an opportunity for the SAIC community to submit games, interactive installations, virtual reality, and other interactive media art to be shown in an interactive physical space. Once we receive all our submissions, we will decide on a space that best fits the year’s content – so location TBD!
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Watch the Full ExFest 2023 Program Here!
ExTV Presents: ExFest 2023 – our longest running festival for student video work at SAIC! And congratulations to our winners:
1st Place: Zechen Li – “Chroma Wheel”
2nd Place: Yutong Ao – “The Feast of Weasels”
3rd Place: Daniel Tseng – “appropriation”
