Bevier Video Collection
Bevier Video
Collection
About Susan Bevier
Susan Bevier (1821-1903) was an instrumental figure in supporting RIT’s earliest art programs. The Bevier Memorial Building, located in downtown Rochester, was erected in 1911 and housed various art and design programs as well as an art gallery. When RIT moved to the Henrietta campus beginning in 1968, Bevier Gallery (in Booth Hall) was named in her honor. Part of her remaining support was for the acquisition of artworks to display in what is now the College of Art and Design.
Browse the Collection
Browse the collection below. The Bevier Video Collection was created in 2019 to acquire works of art and design in contemporary media and screen-based formats. The Collection is on permanent display in the lobby of Gannett Hall on the RIT Campus, and also appears on the featured window screen at RIT City Art Space in downtown Rochester, NY.
Short Attention Span Film Festival
RIT Student Work
various individual video works under 30 seconds each, 2018-24.
The annual Short Attention Span Film Festival (SASFF) invites RIT students to exhibit moving image works thirty seconds or less in duration. The works on view are a sample of nominated and award-winning pieces submitted by students from across the College of Art and Design.
They express a wide range of ideas and methods through digital, hand-drawn and stop-motion animation, photographic GIF loops, digital collages, motion graphics, experimental short films, and more.
Students from the RIT Schools of Art and American Crafts, Design, Film and Animation, and Photographic Arts and Sciences participate. Each year the SASFF is updated with new featured work, and is played regularly on screens in Gannett Hall.
Zach Nader
Trace Shadow
HD single-channel video, 4:39, 2014.
“trace shadow consists of a white background overlaid with drawings based on advertisements, set in motion, and used as masks which another set of advertisements pours through. The human form is frozen and in flux throughout while the distinction between body and image, foreground and background, collapses."
Zach Nader is a Brooklyn-based artist who improvises structures to create friction and versions of mimetic rituals around ideas of home, memory, and play. He often alters and interrupts photographic information in an inquiry-based practice, investigating the feedback loop between images and our physical world. Treating all physical objects as a potential screen through which images may pour and stick, Nader reprograms images through a variety of techniques, including digital-image rendering, painting, sculpture, and drawing.
Since arriving in New York in 2011, his work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions and projects include a video installation in Times Square as part of month-long nightly series called Midnight Moment; Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts in Birmingham, AL. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and screenings, including Cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Belgium; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel; Eyebeam, New York; and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn. He was an artist in residence at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn, as part of their Center for Art and Innovation Residency Program.
Christine Banna
Pink Pottery
experimental animation, 2022.
"Pink Pottery is an independent, experimental animation that juxtaposes vibrant imagery of the earliest art-making with modern destructive technology. It is an exploration of our relationship with material culture made in the Paleolithic through Neolithic time periods. The art objects include cave paintings, fertility figures, and pottery contrasted against destructive objects including arrows to modern missiles."
Pink Pottery was featured in the October 2023 episode of STRATA on The Archaeology Channel's website and broadcast TV in parts of the USA and Europe. It was included in the 2022 RIT College of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition.
Christine A. Banna is an internationally showing, multidisciplinary animator and educator. She works in both modern and traditional methods with a focus on experimental animation and projection design.
Her animations and projections have been shown at the CICA Museum in South Korea and at various film festivals around the world. Some of her former credits and clients include the National Young Arts Foundation, pianist Christina Wright-Ivanova, Greater Boston Stage Company, MassOpera, Lowell Chamber Orchestra, and Keene State College.
Born in Providence, RI, Banna grew up with a deep love of ancient history and science which has been a driving force for her since she was a young girl. This dichotomy between ancient and modern is reflected in both Banna’s subject matter and medium choices in her work. Christine A. Banna received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She received her BFA in Painting with a minor in Art History from Boston University’s College of Fine Art. She is a faculty member in the School of Film & Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology and currently lives and works out of Rochester, NY.
Laurie O'Brien
The Hand
digital animation, 2022.
Laurie O’Brien is multi-disciplinary artist working with video, installation, performance and animation. Her films and installations have screened and been shown in galleries nationally and internationally. Her work is inspired by the outdated, the hand-made and the mechanical combined with the digital. She is particularly interested in dual identities, alternate worlds and our attraction to deception. She is the creator of the Peephole Cinema, a “miniature cinema” collective with satellite projects in three cities: San Francisco, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles. In each city, silent film shorts are screened 24/7 through a dime-sized peephole installed in a public location. O’Brien received an MFA from Cal Arts and currently resides between Brooklyn and Rochester. O’Brien is an Assistant Professor of Visual Media at RIT in the Photography Department.
Sean Capone
Sky Report
digital animation, 2017.
“This work is an ever-evolving digital drawing created from various computer-generated mark making systems. Strokes, scribbles and calligraphic flourishes evoke a range of visual associations, from abstract expressionism to graffiti, from musical notation to baroque ornament. Set against a field of deep blue & orange and rippling cloud forms, the strokes trace a pattern of imaginary constellations and skyward trajectories over landscapes in restless motion.”
Sean Capone is a video artist working in digital animation, projection installation, and moving-image based public art. A Rochester native, he received degrees from the University of Texas at Arlington and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sean’s work has been commissioned and presented at events and exhibitions at the SCAD Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Art & Design, SFMoMA, and in screenings at Supernova Festival, the Visual Studies Workshop, and the National Gallery. Sean’s writings and interview series with animation artists appears in BOMB Magazine.
Sean is a 2020 recipient of a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship award in Digital/Electronic Art. He currently lives/works in New York City.
WANG Chen
Sin Park
digital animation, 2019.
“This work portrays a satirical, imaginary space based on our present day society. I tend to create an overwhelming fantasy world by incorporating multiple moving layers that become unstoppable. I see their continual transformation as a way to think about the possibilities of a future world, one that expresses both a utopia and dystopia. Rather than linear storytelling, the work is open to multiple meanings that viewers may read or construct on their own, which helps transform and become part of the work.”
WANG Chen is an artist and alumna of RIT’s MFA program in Photography and Related Media. She received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in painting and printmaking, then expanded her practice to include performance, video, and digital animation. Chen is a 2021 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work, and has completed residencies at the Roswell Artist in Residence Fellowship in Roswell, NM, and the Institute for Electronic Arts Residency at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. She currently lives/works in State College, PA.
Images from Science 3
video works by various artists, 2019.
Images from Science is a collaborative experiment that initially began in 2002 at Rochester Institute of Technology, and was organized to celebrate the production of extraordinary images featuring science. At its core mission, the project seeks to explore the interface of science, technology, art, design, and communication.
The Images from Science 3 exhibition showcased 82 extraordinary images from 71 image makers from 15 countries around the world. For the first time, the exhibition included moving images using video, computer generated images (CGI), animations and illustrations. The images were selected by an international panel of experts from around the world.
Images from Science 3 is sponsored by RIT School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, School of Art, the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, and Johns Hopkins University. A catalogue is available, published by RIT Press.
Read more at this link: https://images.cad.rit.edu
Cecily Culver
Polar View
split-screen digital video, 2014.
“Polar View is a nine-channel video exploring a day in the life of a 44-ounce expanded polystyrene cup; more specifically a “Polar Pop” from the Circle K convenience store. From the point of purchase to its eventual toss into the rubbish pile, Polar View presents multiple viewpoints from the oculus of a mundane part of our reality. These cups are ever-present in the urban, desert landscape and yet, easily overlooked. Polar View points at the life of a particular thing that is clearly an active player of our material culture, the ecology of Arizona and our reality. “
Cecily Culver is an interdisciplinary artist working in experimental forms of sculpture, light, sound and the moving image. She received her MFA from Arizona State University and BFA from RIT’s Studio Art program. Culver curated the exhibition Best Foot Forward as part of the 2019 Current Seen multi-venue project in Rochester. She is a recipient of the 2015 Dedalus Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture and currently maintains her studio practice from Rochester, New York.