NEWS: Bridge Video Announces Multiple Bodies Video Art Exhibition in Partnership with Indiana University, Bloomington
NEWS
Bridge Video Announces Multiple Bodies Video Art Exhibition in Partnership with Indiana University, Bloomington
Bridge Video, a division of Bridge Art NFP, the registered Illinois 501 (c) 3 not for profit organization that publishes the Bridge Journal, the weekly online Bridge magazine at bridge-chicago.org, today announces a partnership with Indiana University Bloomington’s Sidney and Lois Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. Together, we will produce “Multiple Bodies,” a special programming category of our upcoming Bridge Video streaming service showcasing digital art area student works.
“Multiple Bodies” delves into the shifting and overlapping conceptions of the body within contexts of technological and social change. It touches on the fleshy exchanges and entangled relations between digital bodies, more-than-human bodies, and unstable bodies while considering individual and collective influences on body politics. Ranging from experimental self portraiture to sensory explorations, these collaboratively developed video artworks embrace plurality as a feature within our speculative dreaming.
“This project is a tremendous opportunity for our students to articulate how they position their identity in relation to technology and the body. It's thrilling that they have Bridge Video as a megaphone to share their ideas." Christine Snyder Bruening (Visiting Assistant Professor Digital Art)
“I’m excited our MFA students will get professional experience while working collaboratively on topics that impact us all.” Janna Ahrndt (Lecturer & Digital Art Area Coordinator)
“It’s been refreshing. Embodiment is a beautiful motif to bring us back – both within ourselves, but also connecting with one another.” Lyndsey Gillespie (MFA Digital Art ‘24)
“We are thrilled to partner with Indiana University’s Eskenazi School for our partnership on the ‘Multiple Bodies’ program.” says Bridge President Michael Workman. “Academic programs such as this one provide students real-life experience in arts and culture to advance the field. We are especially grateful to Megan Young, a member of our Movement Matters committee for dance and performance, under whose leadership this program has come to fruition.”
MEET THE CURATORS
Megan Young’s interdisciplinary practice considers what evades capture in a machine vision landscape. Her works have been featured in Hyperallergic, The Atlantic, and on NPR with credits including ISEA (Hong Kong), Art Souterrain (Montreal), Open Engagement (Chicago), SPACES (Cleveland) and the Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology (Connecticut College). Additional recognition includes a Knight Foundation technology grant, two OAC Individual Excellence awards, and a CEC ArtsLink residency in Armenia. Young holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art & Media from Columbia College Chicago; BFA in Dance from Ohio University. She has taught courses on interactive art, video art, installation and performance for Cleveland Institute of Art, Baldwin Wallace University, and Kent State University. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Indiana University.
Janna Ahrndt is a Lecturer and Digital Art Area Coordinator at Indiana University, teaching undergraduate through graduate courses on digital and interactive art. She is part of an emerging wave of new media artists rejecting the notion that craft and technology are inherently opposed. Her work explores how building and deconstructing everyday technologies creates space for participatory political action while questioning oppressive systems. Ahrndt has presented her creative research at ISEA (South Korea), facilitated workshops with the Science Gallery (Australia), and exhibited through NEoN Digital Arts (Scotland). She holds an MFA in Electronic & Time-Based Art from Purdue University.
Christine Bruening is an interdisciplinary artist whose research and creative practice focus on the role of moving images in contemporary life, most recently the depiction of women in horror films. Through this body of work she reveals the potential for catharsis within the aesthetics of violence. Her work has been exhibited at WomenMade Gallery, Stamps Art Gallery, Phosphor Project Space, and Zoller Gallery. She received her MFA from the Stamps School of Art and Design from University of Michigan. Bruening is currently teaching as visiting faculty in Digital Art at Indiana University and bases her practice out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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