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spotlight: MIT faculty and affiliates show films at ICA opening | |||||||||||||||||||||||
MIT's Visual Arts Program is honored to announce that three MIT affiliates will be included in the grand opening of Boston's new Institute of Contemporary Art this Sunday, December 10, 2006. |
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MIT Visual Arts Program instructor Joe Gibbons will be screening one of his films at the ICA opening on Sunday.
This event follows on the heels of the filmmaker's screening at The Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of the Black Maria Film Festival. In addition to MoMA, Gibbons' work has been featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain. His work has thrice been chosen for the Whitney Biennial (1993, 2000, 2002) and is regularly programmed at the New York Video Festival, the Rotterdam Film Festival, and others. His most recent work "Confessions of a Sociopath" was included in "Best Films of the Year" by Film Comment and Artforum magazines, and the piece will be screened at MoMA in 2007. Louise Bourque, a frequent guest artist and visiting lecturer here at MIT, will be another featured filmmaker at the ICA opening. In addition, the artist's work will also be shown on Thursday, December 14 in MIT room 10-250. This screening is part of the Chicks Make Flicks series co-presented by Women in Film & Video/New England and the MIT Program in Women's Studies. Bourque's work was presented at the 50th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 2004 and as part of the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and will be screened at The Museum of Modern Art in April. Gibbons and Bourque are also organizers of SCREEN, a forum for the viewing and discussion of works-in-progress by local film/video-makers. Hosted by MIT's Visual Arts Program, this event is open to established-as well as emerging-artists and takes place every Friday during the semester from 6:45 pm until 8:00 pm at MIT's Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337, located at 265 Massachusetts Avenue.) Finally, young up-and-coming filmmaker Nina Yuen will also be screening her work at the ICA opening. Yuen was a student in Joe Gibbons' video class at MIT, and she collaborated extensively with Sung Kim (SMVisS '03). This fall, she came back to the the Visual Arts Program as a guest artist in Joe Gibbons' two film classes. Details of the ICA grand opening can be found at the ICA web site. |
 VAP instructor Joe Gibbons: screening his work at the ICA grand opening
 Louise Bourque: a frequent guest artist and visiting lecturer, will also be featured at the ICA |
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