Steve Reinke: Recent Videos

In conversation with Jon Cates – 2 Chicago Premiers

Steve Reinke with Jessie Mott, Rib Gets In the Way (Final Thoughts, Series Three), 2014, 52 minutes.

The Natural Look, work-in-progress, 2014, 38 minutes.

Curated by Doug Ischar

Steve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his videos. He is the author of Everybody Loves Nothing and The Shimmering Beast. Reinke lives in Chicago and is associate professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University. His video Rib Gets In the Way (Final Thoughts, Series Three) was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
http://www.myrectumisnotagrave.com/

Jon Cates is the Chair of the Film, Video, New Media & Animation department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His projects are presented internationally in exhibitions and events in cities such as Aix-en-Provence, Austin, Berlin, Beijing, Boston, Cairo, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Linz, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mexico City, New York, Vienna and Warsaw as well as being widely available online. His research and writings appear online and in print publications from Gestalten, The Penn State University Press and Unsorted Books; and forthcoming publications from the MIT Press, Intellect Books and The Chicago University Press. In 2005 he created the concept of Dirty New Media, a culture of what is now often known as Glitch Art.
http://systemsapproach.net/