CV
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JAMES CONNOLLY
jconno[at]saic[dot]edu | jameshconnolly.com
EDUCATION
BFA With Emphasis in Art History, Theory, and Criticism
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Degree completed December 2009
Video, New Media, Printmaking, Modern & Postmodern Theory
EXPERIENCE
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Lecturer, department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation
August 2013-Present
Courses taught: Media Practices: Moving Image; Realtime
Roger Brown Study Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Assistant Curator
January 2010-Present
Pentimenti Productions
Assist Editor, Research Assistant
January 2011-December 2011
The Estate of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
Audio Archivist
January 2011-May 2011
Roger Brown Study Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Curatorial Assistant
August 2006-December 2009
Friends of Fred Smith
Preservation Assistant
Summer 2009
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Henry Darger Room Installation Assistant
Fall 2007
The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Education Intern
Summer 2007
The Art Institute of Chicago
European Painting Research Assistant
August 2006-January 2007
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2015
Physical Education
ChiTown Futbol, Chicago, IL
TCC Digital Art Buffet
Catalyze Chicago, Chicago, IL
RGB.VGA.VOLT
Coop Gallery, Nashvile, TN
VIRTUALPUBLIC.NETWORK
Museums and the Web 2015 Conference, Chicago IL
Dallas Medianale
McKinney Avenue Contemporary
2014
glitChicago
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Frequency Fridays
Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH
Discarded: The Afterlife of Everyday Electronics
The Arcade Gallery Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2013
DINCA VISION QUEST
Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Jon Cates & James Connolly
Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL
Articular Facet
The Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
Expanded Cinematic
Tritriangle, Chicago, IL
Dither Doom & James Connolly
The Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
NO MEDIA
Tritriangle, Chicago, IL
John Cage: Variations V
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
2012
GLI.TC/H 2112
High Concept Labs, Chicago, Illinois
Variations VI (John Cage)
The Leroy Neiman Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Vancouver New Music Festival
The Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia
a.pe.ri.od.ic Presents A John Cage Festival: Variations V
Room 300, Chicago, Illinois
Guthman Musical Instrument Competition
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia
2011
Glitch Screening
Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Floating World Animation Festival
Hollywood Theater, Portland, Oregon
GLI.TC/H 20111
Enemy, Chicago, Illinois
They, Who Sound
Avant Garden, Houston, Texas
Strange Electronics 2
Enemy, Chicago, Illinois
Version 11
Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, Illinois
Handmade Music Showcase, SXSW
Venue 222, Austin, Texas
TLVSN 2
Maria’s Community Bar, Chicago, Illinois
Acid Marshmallow Night
Beauty Bar, Chicago, Illinois
I:3 Current Trajectories in New Media Art
Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois
Strange Electronics
Transistor, Chicago, Illinois
2010
GLI.TC/H 2010
The Nightengale, Chicago, Illinois
Friday Night Live
Transistor, Chicago, Illinois
Critical Glitch Artware Category
NOTACON/BLOCKPARTY, Cleveland, Ohio
Xperiments in Realtime 2
The Nightengale, Chicago, Illinois
2009
SAIC Fall 2009 Undergraduate Exhibition
Sullivan Galleries, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
SAIC Undergraduate Film and Video Festival
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, Illinois
Xperiments in Realtime
Hotti Biscotti, Chicago, Illinois
Cadaver Corpse
Golden Age, Chicago, Illinois
RESPONSE
Columbus Galleries of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
PUBLICATIONS
2014
Leonardo Music Journal
“Cracking Ray Tubes: Reanimating Analog Video in a Digital Context” published
Computer Music Journal, MIT Press
Cracked Ray Tubes featured on accomapnying DVD
2012
Afterimage Exhibition Catalog
The Depaul Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Contributed essay on audio/video performance artists Spectralina to exhibition catalog.
Composite Arts Magazine
Written text and image documentation of Cracked Ray Tube.
The Creator’s Project
Cracked Ray Tubes featured in writeup.
But Does It Float
Cracked Ray Tubes featured in writeup.
2011
Bad at Sports
Art podcast and blog, Chicago, Illinois
Interviewed on my work as curator of the Roger Brown Study Collection for Bad at Sports blog
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2012
Roger Brown Study Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ongoing
Assistant Curator January 2010-Present
Assisting in the interpretation, curation, and management of the Roger Brown Study Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a museum and academic resource.
2011
Strange Electronics 2, May 2011
ENEMY Sound, Chicago, Illinois
Performance event featuring new media artists and experimental electronics musicians curated and organized by James Connolly and Kyle Evans.
Strange Electronics, February 2011
Transistor, Chicago, Illinois
Performance event featuring new media artists and experimental electronics musicians curated and organized by James Connolly and Kyle Evans.
2010
Roger Brown: Calif. USA,
The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
Curatorial Assistant
WORKSHOPS, TEACHING, AND PUBLIC LECTURES
2015
Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, TN
Artist talk and hardware hacking workshop
Dallas Medianale, Oil and Cotton Creative Exchange, Dallas, TX
Artist talk and hardware hacking workshop with Kyle Evans
2014
Systems Codes and Spaces, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Artist talk and discussion of realtime new media art.
History of Video Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Artist talk and demo of the Sandin Image Processor
Research Studio Class, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Artist talk and e-waste discussion
2013
Video Class, the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Video lecture on glitch art histories and practices
The Sound Department, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Artist lecture and performance
2012
Weekly Colloquium
The Sound Department, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Artist lecture and performance
2011
GLI.TC/H Conference and Festival, Chicago, Illinois
DIY hardware hacking electronics workshop organized and taught by James Connolly and Kyle Evans.
Handmade Music and Switched On workshop Series, Austin, Texas
DIY hardware hacking electronics workshop organized and taught by James Connolly and Kyle Evans.
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2015
Signal Culture Artist in Residence
June-July 2015
2013
Roger Brown and George Veronda Pavilion Residency
December 2013
2012
2nd Place Prize, Guthman Musical Instrument Competition
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Cracked Ray Tube (James Connolly and Kyle Evans) audio/video performance system.
2010
Roger Brown and George Veronda Pavilion Residency
December 2010-January 2012
NEWS/EVENTS
2022
September 10, 2022, 8:30 pm CRT Flux Phaser/RGB.VGA.VOLT performance at The Latent Space for the "Control Signals" exhibition performance series, Chicago, IL
August 13, 2022, 8:30 pm CRT Flux Phaser/RGB.VGA.VOLT and Cracked Ray Tube performance at The Latent Space for the "Control Signals" exhibition performance series, Chicago, IL
August 6, 2022, 7:00 pm opening for "Control Signals" solo exhibition at The Latent Space, Chicago, IL
August 6 - September 10, 2022 "Control Signals" solo exhibition at The Latent Space, Chicago, IL
October 13, 2020 Phasing the electromagnetic flux of another shit moment, February 4, 2020 screened at BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
August 15 - September 26, 2020 installation at "New Media 10101" at the Peninsula School of Art
April 27, 2019 worked screened in "Video Worship" guest curator film and video series curated by Sky Goodman at the Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
April 2019 essay on Rolling Ryot's Rainforest Reverb published in exhibition catalog for 2019 Fusebox Festival, Austin, TX
February 28, 2019 RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for the Performing Media Festival at Indiana University South Bend
February 18 - March 9, 2019 2019 Romp Through the Sandin Image Processor exhibited in the Performing Media Exhibition at Indiana University South Bend
January 25, 2019 Aesthetic Catharsis in the Era of American Fascists screens at Collective Misnomer's "the way things are. the way they are going to be." at the Dikeou Pop-Up, Denver, CO
November 29, 2018 Light/Transmission/Protocol interactive outoor installation for CounterVolt Version.002 at The North Door, Austin, TX
November 29, 2018 RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for CounterVolt Version.002 at The North Door, Austin, TX
August 11, 2018 RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for ARIADNE/CONNOLLY/CATES/KOLAR at Digital Art Demo Space, Chicago, IL
April 10, 2018 Aesthetic Catharsis in the Era of American Fascists premieres at the Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH.
April 8, 2018 short video screened at ACRE TV's Nightingale Tele-thon fundraiser, Chicago, IL.
March 24, 2018 RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for the Ann Arbor Film Festival "Off the Screen" expanded cinema program
April 2017 Universal Codec Error Aborting Video and Ball Skills/Waveforms/White Bro Riots screened at "VIGOROUS—a series of shorts" at Mini Microcinema, Cincinnati, OH.
October 2016 RGB.VGA.VOLT performance for "Ariadne, James Connolly, Jon Cates" at Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL
September 2016 Light.Transmission.Protocol interactive sound and video installation at the Paseo Festival, Taos, NM.
June 2016: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM.
June 2016: Cracked Ray Tube hardware hacking and DIY video synthesis workshops at the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM.
June 2016: Cracked Ray Tube hardware hacking and DIY video synthesis workshops Austin, TX.
1.9.2016: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX.
1.6.2016-1.11.2016: Residency at the Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX.
10.16.2015: RGB.VGA.VOLT at Aurora 2015 in the arts district of Dallas, TX.
9.10.2015-9.12.2015: RGB.VGA.VOLT performance at DINCA VISION QUEST 2015, exact location and date TBA.
7.18.2015: video screening at Physical Education, ChiTown Futbol, Chicago, IL.
7.9.2015: work available for download in TCC Chicago's Digital Buffet at Catalyze Chicago.
6.25.2015-7.2.2015: Residency at Signal Culture, Owego, NY.
5.27.2015: Essay "Cracking Ray Tubes: Reanimating Analog Video, a Digital Context," published in the 2014 Leonardo Music Journal now available for download.
5.2.2015: RGB.VGA.VOLT at Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN. Installation from 6:00-9:00, performances at 7:00 and 8:00.
5.1.2015: Artist talk and hardware hacking workshop at Watkins College of Art, Design, & Film, Nashville, TN.
4.10.2015: Remote performance for VIRTUALPUBLIC.NETWORK at the Museums and the Web 2015 conference, Chicago, IL.
1.10.2015: Artist talk and hardware hacking workshops with Kyle Evans at Oil and Cotton, Dallas, TX.
1.9.2015: Cracked Ray Tube performance for the Dallas Medianale at the Mckinney Avenue Contemporary's Black Box Theater, Dallas, TX.
1.23.2014-3.7.2014: Cracked Ray Tube performance for Discarded: The Afterlife of Everyday Electronics at Columbia College's Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL.
11.23.2013: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for DINCA VISION QUEST at Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
9.30.2013: Jon Cates and James Connolly at Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL.
6.21.2013: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for mACREs & brACREs at Landscape, Chicago, IL.
5.30.2013: Articular Facet collaborative performance at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL.
4.30.2013: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance with Dither Doom at the Empty Bottle, Chicago.
4.28.2013: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for Expanded Cinematic at Tritriangle, Chicago, IL
2.15.2013: Universal Codec Error Aborting Video screened for the Floating World Animation Festival at the Synchronicity Space, Los Angeles, CA.
1.12.2013: Collaborative John Cage-influenced performance with Julia Miller and Enid Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
12.8.2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the GLI.TC/H DeFunct/ReFunct thread, Chicago, IL.
12.7.2012: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance at GLI.TC/H Open Robin at Tritriangle, Chicago, IL
12.5.2012: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance of John Cage's Variations VI, organized by Julia Miller at the Leroy Neiman Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
10.19.2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Vancouver New Music Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia.
9.14.2012: Essay on Spectralina published, the catalog for the exhibition Afterimage at the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL.
10.14.2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at Bernadette's, Austin, TX.
4.14.2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance of Jon Cage's Variations V score organized by Julia Miller at Room 300, Chicago, IL.
3.6.2012: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance at the Burlington bar, Chicago, IL.
2.19.2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN.
2.16.2012: Cracked Ray Tube wins 2nd place at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
2.16.2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
11.21.2011: Universal Codec Error Aborting Video screened for the Floating World Animation Festival at the Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR.
11.5.2011: Hardware hacking workshop with Kyle Evans at the Nightingale for GLI.TC/H festival, Chicago, IL.
11.4.2011: Cracked Ray Tube performance at ENEMY for the GLI.TC/H festival, Chicago, IL.
5.6.2011: Cracked Ray Tube performance at ENEMY for Strange Electronics 2, Chicago, IL.
2.18.2011: Cracked Ray Tube performance for Strange Electronics at Transistor, Chicago, IL.
10.2.2010: Die Computer performance at the Nightingale for the GLI.TC/H festival, Chicago, IL.
4.14.2010: Die Computer performance for Critical Glitch Artware Category at Notacon, Cleveland, OH.