THURSDAY 2005.11.03 Mendi+Keith Obadike present their work as a part of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Film, Video and New Media Conversations At The Edge screening program @ the Gene Siskel Film Center.

WEB WORK OF MENDI+KEITH OBADIKE
2003-2005, USA, 75

Mendi+Keith Obadike are interdisciplinary artists whose music, live art and conceptual Internet artworks have been exhibited and commissioned internationally, their critical writing widely published. The couple eschews the notion that the internet can mask identity by using the web instead to explore, celebrate and broadcast their work which involves innovative investigations of personal identity, using their messages to encourage audiences to think in new ways. Their work generated much discussion online and offline when they offered Keith’s blackness for sale on eBay in 2001. Tonight they share with us THE PINK OF STEALTH, a flash-based online game story about two characters who attempt to hide something about their identities through different forms of “passing” and whose distinctive qualities are in some way related to pinkness. Pink is a way of accessing ideas around health, wealth, race, gender, and sexuality. We will also see three new media works in progress: 4-1-9 (OR YOU CAN’T VIEW A MASQUERADE BY STANDING IN ONE PLACE), TARONDA, WHO WORE WHITE GLOVES and FOUR ELECTRIC GHOSTS. Computer projection.

WEB WORK OF MENDI+KEITH OBADIKE
Conversations At The Edge
Film, Video and New Media Dept
School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street
CHI IL 60601

6 PM

$9 for general public
$5 for Film Center members
$7 for all students
$4 for student, faculty, and staff of the School of the Art Institute and of the Art Institute.

"Conversations at the Edge: The Department of Film, Video and New Media of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in association with the Video Data Bank and the Gene Siskel Film Center, presents a series of Thursday night screenings at the Film Center. Conversations at the Edge brings to Chicago media makers, critics, scholars and theorists in dialogue around the most provocative and daring works being produced in media today." - Daniel Eisenberg

links:

MENDI+KEITH OBADIKE
http://obadike.tripod.com

Department of Film, Video and New Media
http://www.filmvideoandnewmedia.info

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/saic

Video Data Bank
http://www.vdb.org

Gene Siskel Film Center
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org