Alternating/Currents will warp time and open on December 8, 2017 and March 9, 2018. Two exhibitions featuring artworks by Theo Chin, Anneli Goeller, Jillian Musielak, and Amanda VanValkenburg will re-imagine/re-investigate the dynamism that alternates between
3D scanning/3D printing
animation/recording
bedroom/clinic
construction/destruction
corporeal bodies/digital bodies
documentation/fiction
experience/experiment
Facebook/Instagram
grow/decay
hand-drawn/computer-generated
interruption/intervention
love/hate
mundanity/desire
natural/unnatural
new media/old media
other/self
physical/digital
projector/monitor
real/virtual
social media/social presence
substance/nothingness
television/computer
utopia/dystopia
VHS/streaming
work/leisure, and
YouTube/Vimeo. Alternating/Currents is an exhibition series that thinks one concept through two iterations and provides the artists an alternative opportunity to re-exhibit the works in a different format.

Alternating/Currents pays homage to Frédéric Moffet’s brilliant class Shapeshifters at SAIC.

Opening receptions:
Alternating/Current on Friday, December 8, 6-9pm Alternating/Current2 on Friday, March 9, 6-9pm

Theo Chin is a video artist living and working in Chicago. He received a BA in Illustration from Camberwell College of Art with 1st Class Honours, and is currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation.

Anneli Goeller lives and works in Chicago and New York. She is an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her BFA with honors from Parsons The New School for Design. Using new media, Goeller probes the virtual and physical divide and seeks to expand the dichotomy between corporeal and digital bodies while highlighting the potential of digital space as a queer arena. Her work has been exhibited internationally at The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Greenpoint Open Studios, Gallery MC and A.I.R. Gallery, in New York, Peripheral Forms in Portland as well as the Palazzo dei Cartelloni in Florence, Italy.

Jillian Musielak will receive her MFA from the Film, Video, New Media and Animation department at SAIC in May, 2018. She also studies language, specifically, new ways to talk about art and emotions. Active on the DIY circuit, she has exhibited at Archer Beach Haus and House of Heavy Petting in Chicago as well as Roman Susan and ACRE TV. She has toured the US as one half of “Potions” providing visuals for his music at venues such as Cairo in Seattle; Xhurch in Portland, Oregon; the Basement in San Francisco, Life Changing Ministries in Oakland, California; and Glob in Denver, Colorado. Musielack is currently Graduate Collections & Media Assistant at The Video Data Bank at SAIC. She lives in Pilsen with her partner and their two cats. She says, “Hi!”

Amanda VanValkenburg is a visual artist using a combination of traditional and digital techniques. She received her BFA in Painting/Drawing /Sculpture at Brigham Young University, studied digital media at Hochschule für Künste Bremen, and received her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Film/Video/New Media/Animation. Her work has been exhibited at the MCA, Elmhurst Museum, Mana Contemporary, Woman Made Gallery, 6018 North Gallery, LeRoy Neiman Center, and screened at the Gene Siskel Theater, Nightingale Cinema, Links Hall, Filmfront, and the Chicago Digital Media Festival. She was recently a High Concepts Labs sponsored artist and an artist in residence at Ox-Bow School of Art, and expected to complete a residency at Ragdale in 2018.

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