CATE: Tony Cokes: Notes on Evil (and Others), Thurs., March 31 @ 6 p.m.

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Tony Cokes: Notes on Evil (and Others) Thursday, March 31, 6:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State St. / 312.846.2600) Still from Evil (Tony Cokes, 2003). Courtesy the artist. Tony Cokes in person! In his incisively witty videos and installations, Tony Cokes juxtaposes familiar archival footage, Google searches, and Hollywood imagery with text and popular music to critique the media's often reductive representations of race and class. This evening's screening surveys Cokes' career and includes Black Celebration (1988), selections from the Pop Manifesto project (2000-04) and his on-going Evil series (2004-), including the US premiere of Evil.20.b.om.h (2011). The Pop Manifestos connects the history of pop with a larger, nefarious matrix of capitalist production. The Evil videos continue the biting aims of the Pop Manifestos in a more fervently politicized manner, tackling post 9/11 political flash points-Abu Ghraib, the Patriot Act, and various speeches of the Bush Administration-to explore the mediated rhetoric surrounding the US's ongoing "war on terror." 1988-2011, Tony Cokes, USA, multiple formats, ca. 75 mins plus discussion. TONY COKES (b. 1956, Richmond, VA) is a post-conceptualist whose practice foregrounds social critique. His video, installation, and sound works recontextualize appropriated materials to reflect upon our production as subjects under capital. His recent projects often take the form of text animations with sound functioning as a constitutive, intertextual element, complicating the visual. Cokes' works have appeared in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, and La Cinémathèque Française, Paris. His numerous media festival screenings include International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (1993, 2005), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2001-2006 and 2009-2011), and Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid (2003-2010). Cokes's projects have been supported by grants and fellowships from The Rockefeller Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts. In 2008-2009, he was a Resident Scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA. Cokes is currently a Professor in Media Production, Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Providence, RI. CATE is organized by the School of the Art Institute's Department of Film, Video, New Media & Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank. We have a blog! Visit us at www.saic.edu/cateblog. UPCOMING PROGRAMS: 4/7 - Botborg! (Live performance! Joe Musgrove and Scott Sinclair in person!) 4/14 - Aberration of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure (Live performance! Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder, and Olivia Block in person!) LOCATION AND TICKETS Programs take place Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State St.), unless otherwise noted. CATE is FREE to SAIC students with a valid student ID. Tickets are $10 General public, $5 Film Center members, $7 students, and $4 SAIC faculty and staff and Art Institute of Chicago staff. Any person with a disability who would like to request an accommodation for this program should contact the Disability and Learning Resource Center at dlrc@saic.edu or 312.499.4278 as soon as possible to allow adequate time to make proper arrangements. About the School of the Art Institute of Chicago A leader in educating artists, designers, and scholars since 1866, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) offers nationally accredited undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate programs to nearly 3,200 students from around the globe. Located in the heart of Chicago, SAIC has an educational philosophy built upon an interdisciplinary approach to art and design, giving students unparalleled opportunities to develop their creative and critical abilities, while working with renowned faculty who include many of the leading practitioners in their fields. SAIC's resources include the Art Institute of Chicago and its new Modern Wing; numerous special collections and programming venues provide students with exceptional exhibitions, screenings, lectures, and performances. For more information, please visit www.saic.edu.

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