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Lisa Barcy
Woman Without a Past
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Jesse Seay
Likes to Do Other Things
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MakeOut Club
Grad Screening @ Busker
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Film, Video and New Media Faculty
Mary Patten, Assistant Professor FVNM
email
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About:
My works seeks to isolate and transmute interactions with mass media
and popular culture to counteract the incessant parade of information that reduces every
human and social crisis to spectacle. I use performance, agit-prop, repetition and montage,
accretion and erasure to address a wide range of concerns: loss and disappearance, lesbian
and queer representations in visual culture, surveillance, prison and repression.
My artistic response to an event of mythic proportions, such as the Stonewall riot,
was quiet testimony. In approaching loaded subjects such as terrorism, urban crime,
and serial murder, I use deliberately quiet strategies to counter media spectacles and codes,
blurring constructions of "fact" and "fiction." I prefer to shun sensationalist imagery,
police-blotter graphics, and titillating sound bites in favor of quiet and minimal means,
trying to slow down the flood of news flashes so that more critical, poetic, and absurd
readings may emerge. My work is driven by deeply-felt political ideas, as well as the desire
to address the contradictory worlds of politics and art-making.
CV summary:
Associate Professor; Film, Video, and New Media (1993). BFA, 1973,
Kansas City Art Institute; MFA, 1992, University of Illinois at Chicago. Exhibitions: Shedhalle,
Zurich; Cooper Union, NY; Kunstverein and Kunsthaus, Hamburg Fischbach Gallery, NY; Center for
\Contemporary Art, Seattle; New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY. Screenings: Kino im SCHULZ, Germany;
The New Festival, NY; Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London; Depot, Vienna, Austria; Retinal Circus,
Copenhagen. Publications: WhiteWalls; New Art Examiner; Yours Truly. Awards: Artcouncil/ ARTADIA
Artist's Fellowship; Illinois Arts Council Grants; Chicago Artists¯ International Program; NEA
Visual Artist's Fellowship; Ucross Foundation Residencies, WY.
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