MEDIA

Eye + Ear ClinicFilm Series

MacLean Building, 112 S. Michigan Avenue, 13th Floor, Chicago, IL 60603

                CONTACT:        eyeandearclinic@gmail.com


Promotes understanding and awareness of experimental, avant-garde, and micro-cinemas throughout campus. Eye & Ear Clinic hosts free, bi-weekly film screening run by Film, Video, New Media (FVNM) students.

F News Magazine

MacLean Building, 112 S. Michigan Avenue, #305, Chicago, IL 60603

                CONTACT:        Editors, student editorial board & designers

                                          312.345.3840

                                          editors@fnewsmagazine.com

                                          www.fnewsmagazine.com

           APPLICATION:       Contact editors about submission idea


What happens when one of the country’s leading art schools puts out a student newspaper? You get a newspaper that is read all over the city. Each month 6,000 copies are distributed free at colleges, cafés, bookstores, record stores, galleries, and art supply stores at over 250 locations throughout Chicago. In tandem with the print edition is the web edition of F Newsmagazine, with web exclusive articles, reviews, mp3 interviews, film clips and much more.

BETA 1.0

 

Gene Siskel Film Center

Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street, Theater 1 & 2, Chicago, IL 60601

                CONTACT:        Jean de St Aubin

                                          312/846-2076

                                          jdestaubin@saic.edu

                                          www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter

           APPLICATION:       Available to graduating students in all departments


For over 30 years, the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has presented world-class independent, international, and classic cinema. Renamed in honor of the late film critic in 2000, the Gene Siskel Film Center presents approximately 1,500 screenings and 100 guest artist appearances a year to over 65,000 film enthusiasts at its unique, sophisticated, modern facilities, which have been operating since June 2001 at 164 N. State St.

The Gene Siskel Film Center hosts the annual Spring BFA/MFA thesis screenings (contact Todd Cashbaugh, tcashbaugh@saic.edu) and the weekly series Conversations at the Edge curated by Amy Beste in the Department of Film, Video, New Media (abeste@saic.edu).

New Blood II: Second Annual Performance Festival (November 7 – 9, 2008)

                CONTACT:        Trevor Martin

                                          tmartin@saic.edu

           APPLICATION:       On the portal: www.go.artic.edu (Public Programs tab, Rymer Gallery channel)

                          DUE:        September 17, 5:00 p.m.


Held at Links Hall (3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Chicago, www.linkshall.org), this second annual juried event features new time-based works by SAIC students that blur the boundaries between theater, movement, audio, video and the visual arts.

ExTV Experimental Television

112 S. Michigan Avenue, Office: MI 1401  &  Master Control Room: MI B - 120A, Chicago, IL 60603

ALSO website, Campus Monitors, and CANTV.

                CONTACT:        Station Manager: Exal Iraheta

                                          Outreach Coordinator: Kali Heitholt

                                          Staff Adviser: Lori Felker

                                          312.345.3609

                                          extv@saic.edu

                                          www.extvsaic.org

           APPLICATION:       Download Artist Agreement PDF here.

                                          and Drop off submissions to: MC-1401

                          DUE:       Work accepted on a continual basis

                                          and per specific calls for submissions

               SCHEDULE:       International Video ExChange (see website)

                                          Undergraduate Film Video Festival Sept 5 & 6, 2008. 


ExTV is The School of the Art Institute’s student-run broadcast platform that showcases the challenging and engaging work of SAIC students, faculty, staff and alumni. Our mission is to offer a variety of continual and exciting opportunities for members of the community to show, share, and curate time-based work of all genres.  ExTV is always accepting submissions to be added to our programs.  In addition, ExTV posts specific calls for entries, conducts a time-based art exchange with other schools, supports SAIC community events, and collaborates with Visiting Artists.

If you’re not sure of your video skills, attend an ExTV workshop to get the basics down!

Free Radio SAIC

MacLean Building, 112 S. Michigan Avenue, Office: MI 1401  &  Radio Booth: 1302C, Chicago, IL 60603

                CONTACT:        Station Manager: Pippa Everard-West

                                          Promotions Director: Nickolas Williams

                                          Outreach Coordinator: Nadia Garofalo

                                          Staff Adviser: Lori Felker

                                          312.345.3609

                                          freeradio@saic.edu | freeradiopromo@saic.edu | freeradiooutreach@saic.edu

                                          www.freeradiosaic.org

           APPLICATION:       Submission Form/DJ application                                                                         

                          DUE:       Ongoing, or per specific calls for submissions


Free Radio SAIC is our student-run internet radio station, broadcasting daily to a global audience. The station uses an open format, meaning individual DJs  program the content of their shows according to their own interests, without the pre-determined formats used by most college stations. Free Radio also airs lectures, performances, class audio projects, and other material generated by the School community. Free Radio SAIC is eclectic and unconventional, engaging radio with listeners tuning in from around the world. All SAIC students, faculty, staff, and alumni can become Free Radio SAIC DJs. Listen to Free Radio SAIC on the Internet at www.freeradiosaic.org