Poetronics students visited the MCA.
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Do you want to know more about Poetronics? If so, attend an informal screening of selected video and audio artworks created by the Poetronics class from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., on Wednesday, May 16, in the Christman Pavilion Theater, inside the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Natural and Social Sciences.

A few select works from J-Term 2018 will also be played during this screening. The artworks include the use of moving images with text, voice, animation, audio effects, and music. Some of the artworks are narrative, some address social concerns, others are conceptual and humorous. The students created the videos in editing program, Adobe Premiere Pro.

A few of the artworks in the upcoming screening are inspired by the course’s March field trip to downtown Chicago with art instructor, Jojin Van Winkle. The students visited the Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago (MCA) and the Video Data Bank (VDB), a video archive located within the School of the Art Institute.

At the MCA, students experienced a range of contemporary art exhibitions: “We Are Here,” part three of a major survey exhibition from the collection in honor of the museum’s 50th anniversary, Paul Pieffer’s two-channel video, “Three Figures in a Room,” Chicago artist Paul Heyer’s exhibition of paintings and sculptures, Michael Rakowitz’s “Backstroke of the West,” and Maurizio Cattelan’s large-scale sculpture, Felix.” The Poetronics students are pursuing majors and minors in: biology, communications and digital media, art and others. For several of the students, the Pieffer exhibit was their first two-channel video projection experience in a museum setting.

The field trip included a meeting with Zachary Vanes, VBD’s distribution manager, to learn more about this digital media-based archive. They also attended a private screening of selected works from the archives, including videos by contemporary artists: Evan Meany, Bryan Boyce, Vanesa Renick, Paul Bush, Semiconductor, Ezra Wube, EMR, Zhengan Yang, and Akram Zaatrari.

Paul Heyer’s exhibitions of paintings and sculptures