- Deborah Stratman People
Deborah Stratman was Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film, Video, and New Media (1998) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; she holds a BFA (1990) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Film/Video (1995) from the California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at Temporary Services Gallery (Chicago), Para/Site Gallery (Hong Kong), the Latvian Museum of Foreign Art (Riga) and Smioagalleri (Reykjavik), and screened at San Francisco Cinematheque, Rotterdam, Sundance, Viennale 2002, L'Alternativa (Barcelona) and CinemaTexas. Awards and support include the Center For Land Use Interpretation (Wendover, UT), Wexner Center for the Arts (OH), Danish Film Institute Workshop (Copenhagen), Illinois Arts Council Artist's Fellowships, the Gecko Award (CinemaTexas), THAW Best of Festival and CUFF Best Experimental Film.
- Luis Recoder People
Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have shown collaborative film installations and performances since 2001; they have presented work at film festivals, museums, galleries and alternative venues. Representative venues listed include the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Kitchen (NYC), Images Festival (Toronto, Canada), International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Hartware Medien Kunst Verein (Dortmund, Germany), La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain), Museo do Chiado (Lisbon, Portugal), Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee, Scotland), Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo, Japan) and Image Forum Festival (Yokohama & Kanazawa, Japan).
- Ross McElwee People
Filmmaker Ross McElwee’s films have screened at festivals in Berlin, London, Vienna, Rotterdam, Florence, Sydney and Wellington; retrospectives have been held at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the American Museum of the Moving Image (New York) and …tats généraux du film documentaire. He has received fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Film Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Arts Council. Since 1986 he has taught filmmaking at Harvard University, where he is a professor in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
- Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager People
Erik Moskowitz makes installations and films that examine the relationship between cinema space and gallery space; solo installation exhibitions at Momenta Art, Freight and Volume, Holiday (NYC) and Le Sous Salon (Paris); festival screenings at Impakt (Netherlands), Antimatter (Canada), Oberhausen (Germany), Experimenta (India), Press Play (Carnegie Mellon) and Experiments in Cinema (University of New Mexico); website http://www.americantrance.com/. Amanda Trager combines painting, sculpture and installation with first-person prose narrative; solo exhibitions at Momenta Art, Annika Sundvik (NYC), Clifford-Smith Gallery (Boston) and Le Sous Salon (Paris); group shows include Brooklyn Museum's Open House, NextNext Visual Art program at BAM, White Box gallery and Feature gallery (NYC); both live and work in NYC.
- Carlos Motta People
Carlos Motta (b. Bogot·, Colombia, 1978, lives in New York) was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program, (2005-2006), and completed his MFA at Bard College in 2003. Working primarily in photography and video installation, he uses strategies from documentary and sociology to engage wit…
- John Manning People
John Manning served as Associate Professor of Art and Technology Studies (1982) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and holds a BA (1974) from the University of Chicago and an MFA (1981) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; his work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Galleria F15 (Norway), Bosgarren Kolectiboa (Spain), Pompidou Center (Paris) and Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada). He has received the Tokyo International Video Festival Award of Excellence, an NEA/American Film Institute Regional Fellowship, an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship and a Chicago International Film Festival Special Merit Award.