CRISTEN LEIFHEIT
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Single Channel Installation, 60” monitor, bench, sound. 2019
Installation Views from MFA Thesis Exhibition, Logan Center Exhibitions, University of Chicago
The gathering of information from the Internet in the aftermath of a natural disaster disrupts the actual experience of the event. A large monitor on the floor presents Internet tweets and reportage juxtaposed with an audio performance of two people trying to navigate their way out of an unexpected threatening encounter within a changed environment.
Load Bearing
Single channel video installation, 54x72” screen, silent. 2019
Installation Views from MFA Thesis Exhibition, Logan Center Exhibitions, University of Chicago
In one floating frame, time-lapse reveals events unfolding while stop motion characters respond, questioning relationships between passive and active change within a landscape.
TPS or True Potato Seed
Single channel video, 8 min, sound. 2018
A chorus of voices mined from videos on a popular Internet platform discuss the True Potato Seed Movement, a counter-narrative to the production of potatoes in the agricultural industry. Note: This video consists of mostly black image frames, with intermittent collaged source footage as seen in the film stills below.
Film Stills
Liquid Crystal
Multi-channel video installation, 2 projection screens (72x108”, 54x96”), 1 phone, 1 tablet, tree stump, sound. 2017
A multi-channel video installation forms a landscape of screens, focusing attention to the materiality of media technology by animating isolated extracted elements of a landscape in relationship to the whole.
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Repaint, Replenish, Repeat 1
Single channel video, 5:28 min. 2018
Notable Moments: 3:50-5:24
Experimental work investigating the tension between time-lapse, stop motion, and motion graphic forms.
Repaint, Replenish, Repeat 2
Single channel video, sound, 4:40 min, 2018