Sabine Gruffat
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Assistant
Professor of Digital Media, Hamel Family
Professorshipin in Communication Arts |
(608) 262-1637
6052 Vilas Hall
Office Hours:
Mondays & Wednesdays:
11:45am - 12:30pm
Thursdays:
3:15pm - 4:30pm
or by appointment
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LINKS
www.sabinegruffat.com
COURSES
ACTIVITIES
As an interdisciplinary digital media artist, I learn from the culture industry-its institutions, history, narrative formulae and other such devices-foremost for its ability to affect, but also as a means of challenging the codes and patterns it uses to attribute meaning and produce definition. I believe these attempts at definition (through naming, categorizing, and limiting) are suggestive not only of poor assumptions but also failures of vision. As a result, collective freedoms and singularities inherent in difference are at stake. Therefore, through my art I strive to work poetically between the bounds of existing languages in order to produce unique and compelling meanings.
My work thus aims to disrupt the repetitions of circumscribed, yet superficial classifications disseminated by cultural media production through institutionalized ideological systems of distribution, including: museums, film studios, mass media publications, advertisements and the like. Believing genres similarly share specific and inveterate codes that organize reality into implicit and typified experiences, I seek to maneuver through, redirect and otherwise manipulate their conventions as a means of engendering disruptions among the aforementioned systems. By working within and around the language of the Western film or Science Fiction novel, the museum audio tour or the news photograph, I seek to draw connections between these infinitely recurring spectacles of reality and the hidden (and sometimes not so hidden) contradictions beneath their ever-present and seemingly obvious messages. To achieve this, my work takes as fact the cybernetic, standardized and surface nature of many identities and forms, including my own, and digitally collages the contrasting and incoherent values that reflect off their glossy, cliche?Ld appearances. These acts of questioning, disordering and revising exist, then, as both a means for me to critique culture and to make art.
The modes by which I undertake this practice are increasingly pervasive and seemingly omniscient, and include photography, film, digital video and web.
DEGREES
- MFA
2004 Studio (Film, Video, New Media)
School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
- BFA
1998 Film/ Video/ Animation
Rhode Island School Of Design, RI
MAJOR HONORS/AWARDS
- 2006
University of Missouri Research Council (Large) Grant
- 2005
University of Missouri College of Arts and Humanities Grant
- 2001
School of The Art Institute of Chicago Trustee Merit Scholarship
SELECTED SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain.
Molehills, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago IL
Pantheon Xperimental Film Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Future Yonder, Hudson Franklin, New York, NY.
MadCat Women?fs International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Liar Lies: Contemporary Performance for the Camera, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
The Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival, Portland, OR.
No Convenient Subway Stops, (curated by Sofía Hernandez and Jeffrey Walkowiak), Art In General, NY.
Rencontres Internationales Paris/ Berlin, Paris, France
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI.
Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia.
Image Forum Festival 2007(Touring Festival), Japan.
LA Freewaves' 10th Festival of New Media Arts
Pantheon Xperimental Film Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Frozen in Light, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL.
S1 Salon, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK.
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