- Cecelia Condit
Cecelia Condit (born in 1947) is an American
video artist . Her work focuses on the contrast between the everyday world and fairytales, with topics ranging from female aging to the imaginary world of children to suburban cannibalism.Condit received a B.F.A. in sculpture from the
Philadelphia College of Art and an M.F.A. in photography from Tyler School of Art ofTemple University . Currently she is a full professor at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the director of its graduate film program.Condit's video works have been shown internationally in such venues as the
Paris Biennale ; the Institute of Contemporary Art, London;The Museum of Modern Art , New York,Long Beach Museum of Art , California,Carnegie Institute , Pittsburgh, TheInstitute of Contemporary Art, Boston , and at numerous film/video festivals including the 11th Biennale de l'image en Mouvement, St. Gervais, Exis 2006, Seoul, and the Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong.Condit has received awards and grants from major foundations, including the
American Film Institute , theNational Endowment for the Arts and the Mary L. Nohl Fund. In 1989 she was awarded aGuggenheim Fellowship . [ [http://www.gf.org/89fellow.html gf.org] ]Her video works are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Video Data Bank.
Videography
*Beneath the Skin 1981, 12:05 min, color, sound
*Possibly in Michigan 1983, 11:40 min, color, sound
*Not a Jealous Bone 1987, 10:24 min, color, sound
*Suburbs of Eden 1992, 15:17 min, color, sound
*Oh, Rapunzel 1996, 35 min, color, sound
*Why Not a Sparrow 2003, 12 min, color, sound
*All About a Girl 2004, 5:25 min, color, stereo
*Little Spirits 2005, 8:35 min, color, stereo
*Annie Lloyd 2008, 18:03 min, color, stereoReferences
* [http://www.eai.org/eai/artist.jsp?artistID=398 Electronic Arts Intermix]
* [http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?CONDITC_002 Cecelia Condit] in theVideo Data Bank External links
* [http://www.ceceliacondit.com/ Cecelia Condit's official site]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2479/is_n4_v25/ai_20418255 "Afterimage" article]
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