Jodie Mack

|Professor
Academic Appointments

Professor of Film and Media Studies

Jodie Mack is an experimental animator who received her MFA in film, video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and meaning. Musical documentary or stroboscopic archive: her films study domestic and recycled materials to illuminate the elements shared between fine-art abstraction and mass-produced graphic design. The works unleash the kinetic energy of overlooked and wasted objects and question the role of decoration in daily life.

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Contact

Visual Arts Center, Room 211
HB 6194

Education

  • B.A. University of Florida
  • M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Selected Publications

  • Selected Films:

    2018     

    The Grand Bizarre (60m, 16mm, color, sound)

    Hoarders Without Borders (4m45s, 16mm, color, silent)

    2017

    Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant (4m30s, 16mm, color, silent)

    Goody Goody (3m, super 16mmà DV, color, sound)

    2016

    Curses (4m45s, digital video, color, sound)

    2015

    Something Between Us (10m, 16mm, color, sound)

    2014

    Razzle Dazzle (5m, 16mm, color, silent)

    2013

    New Fancy Foils (12m30s, 16mm, color, silent)

    Undertone Overture (10m, 16mm, color, sound)

    Glistening Thrills (8m30s, 16mm, color, sound)

    Let Your Light Shine (2m45s, 16mm, b/w and color, sound)

    Dusty Stacks of Mom: the Poster Project (41m, 16mm, color, sound)

    Blanket Statement #2: All or Nothing (3m, 16mm, color, sound)

    2012

    Blanket Statement #1: Home is Where the Heart is (3m, 16mm, color, sound)

    MackDash (23m, 70mm, color, sound)

    Persian Pickles (2m45s, 16mm, color, sound)

    Point de Gaze (4m30s, 16mm, color, silent)

    2011

    August Song (5m, DV, color, sound)

    The Future is Bright (3m, 16mm, color, live sound)

    2010

    Rad Plaid (5m, 16mm, color, silent)

    Posthaste Perennial Pattern (3m38s, 16mm, color, sound)

    Unsubscribe #1: Special Offer Inside (3m, 16mm, color, sound)

    Unsubscribe #2: All Eyes on the Silver Screen (3m, 16mm, b/w, silent)

    Unsubscribe #3: Glitch Envy (4m45s, 16mm, color, sound)

    Unsubscribe #4: The Saddest Song in the World (2m45s, 16mm, color, sound)

     

     

    Selected Installations:

    2018       

    Glitch Envy, Govett Brewster Art GalleryNew Plymouth, NZ

    Three Screens for Looking at Abstraction, Columbus Museum of Art—Columbus, OH

    Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro, Museum of Art and DesignNew York, NY

    Phantom Horizons, KuenstlerhausBerlin, NY

    In Any Direction, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA

    2017        

    Visual Intelligence, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA

    Deep Time, Radiator GalleryQueens, NY

    Fashion in Film, GoldsmithsLondon, UK

    Color Play, Art Blocks—Houston, TX

    2016        

    Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts—Melbourne, FL

    Peephole Cinema—San Francisco, CA

    Dhaka Art Summit—Dhaka, Bangladesh

    2015        

    Verge Art Fair, Art Toronto—Toronto, Canada

    Material Girl—Dunlop Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

    2014        

    Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale—Shenzhen, China

    Making Space,City Limits—Oakland, CA

    Undertone Overture: Jodie Mack, The Walls—Queensland, Australia

    Crossing Terrain: Isabelle Hayeur, Jon Sasaki, Jodie Mack, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria—Victoria, BC, Canada