Contact
james.connoll@gmail.com | instagram.com/jxconno
Bio
I am a Chicago-based artist, educator, archivist, and developer. My videos, open-source tools, and real-time audio/video performances undermine the interfaces and break through the algorithms of digital and analog systems, examining hidden power structures and liberating latent aesthetic materialities in cathartic and captivating compositions.
I have presented work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe; Ann Arbor Film Festival; London Experimental Film Festival; Chicago Underground Film Festival; Conversations at the Edge, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; San Diego Underground Film Festival; Intermediale's Videosyntezy3 in Legnica, Poland; Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival in Bilbao, Spain; Resonant Gallery, Central Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI; Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT; South by Southwest in Austin; the GLI.TC/H Festivals in Chicago; and the Vancouver New Music Festival, among others.
I am an Full Professor, Adj. in the department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 2010 to 2025 I was the Collection Manager of the Roger Brown Study Colleciton of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Photo: Aaron Wharton