8/14/20: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Laurie Little
Laurie Little is a Chicago-based filmmaker, artist, and educator.
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7/30/20: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Skip Blumberg
Skip Blumberg is an activist and video artist whose work has been shown widely on TV, the web, media art centers, and museums.
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7/23/20: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Tom Weinberg
Tom Weinberg is a pioneering TV and nonfiction producer who has worked in video for more than 50 years.
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7/16/20: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Eleanor Boyer
Eleanor Boyer is a Chicago-based videomaker who has worked in video activism since the 1970s, beginning with her work on the Women’s Video Project at the Loop YWCA.
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7/2/20: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Ira Schneider
Ira Schneider is a video artist living in Berlin, who was part of the Raindance Corporation and the co-editor of Video Art: An Anthology.
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6/15/20: Historic Happy Hour with Chicago Detours + Media Burn
Since 2010, Chicago Detours has been offering fun and educational guided walking tours and bus tours of Chicago architecture, history and culture to public and private groups. Their cool Chicago walking tours bring curious people to explore stories and places locals don’t even know. They were voted “Best Tour of Chicago 2019”! As part of their Historic Happy Hour series, Chicago Detours Executive Director Amanda Scotese will talk with Media Burn Executive Director Sara Chapman about Media Burn’s work preserving […]
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5/18/20-5/22/20: Ghosts in the Machine screenings and discussions
Can you trust the images and videos you see on TV and through social media? Ghosts in the Machine is a collaborative work by American and Russian filmmakers that questions our ability to tell fact from fiction in media. This experimental documentary also investigates the outsized role that the Russian-American rivalry plays in both nations’ collective imaginations and how that provides fertile ground for manipulation. The four filmmakers– Americans Dimitri Devyatkin and Lori Felker, and Russians Dmitrii Kalashnikov and Mikhail […]
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5/1/20: Media Burn in Conversation with Chicago Collections Consortium
Friday, May 1, 2020 12:00 – 12:30 p.m Free Webinar Register HERE This Friday, Media Burn’s executive director Sara Chapman will be giving a virtual behind-the-scenes tour of our collections and work in a talk with Jeanne Long of the Chicago Collections Consortium. CCC is a consortium of libraries, museums, and other institutions with archives that collaborate to preserve and share the history and culture of the Chicago region. This will be the debut of their “Conversations with Chicago Collections” […]