Events and Lectures in February

To create Print Generation, J.J. Murphy duplicated a one minute piece of film fifty times, mapping the deterioration of image and sound through each generation from abstract to concrete and back again. This rarely-seen seminal film raises questions about perception, memory, time and the transmission of information. Murphy will be present to introduce and answer questions about his work.

Thursday, February 2, 6 pm @ Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave., 1st floor

With an increasing abundance of technology at our collective fingertips, the potential for creating and disseminating moving images seems almost endless. Curated by Eric Fleischauer, Speechless is a one-night public screening of video work examining the role of technology in shaping visual culture.

Screened in conjunction with the MoCP’s current exhibition, Limits of Photography, the artists featured in this screening locate the various immaterial and structural qualities present within the medium of video, subverting and usurping these qualities to tap a unique creative potential.

Featuring work from: Agnes Bolt, Phil Morton, Takeshi Murata, Monica Panzarino, Jennifer Proctor, Jon Satrom, John Smith, Scott Stark, and Andrew Norman Wilson.

Admission is free and open to the public.

About the Curator:
Eric Fleischauer is a Chicago-based artist whose work has been exhibited at institutions including threewalls, the Hyde Park Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Interstate Projects, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Videonale 12 at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, and the Santiago Bienal of Video + New Media. His curatorial projects have been presented at Roots & Culture Gallery, Rooftop Films and MMX Open Art Space in Berlin. He received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently, he teaches in the department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Wednesday, February 29, doors at 5:30 p.m., screening from 6 to 9 pm @ MoCP, 600 S. Michigan Ave.