Amie Siegel

Siegel (b. 1974, Chicago) works in 16mm and 35mm film, video, photography, sound, and writing, often using the cinematic image as a material means to a conceptual end. In multi-channel video and film installations, she reformulates cinematic elements and conventions  to explore otherwise intangible senses of absence, historical disorientation, and nostalgia.

Weaving together diverse areas of concern—including history, memory, voyeurism, surveillance, psychoanalysis, modernist architecture, and the futuristic landscape—Siegel mixes original footage and historic images as well as found, amateur internet performances, to upend traditional genre conventions.

Siegel's work often moves unexpectedly between what is scripted and what is spontaneous, what is documentary and what is fictitious, and who is acting and who is not. Looking and being looked at are explored from psychological, historical, sociological, geopolitical, technological, and literary angles in work that
travels from the psychoanalyst’s couch to the teenager’s bedroom, courtesy of youtube.

In her most recent work, Black Moon, Siegel looks to a future that never was to imagine a post-apocalyptic American landscape.

Siegel received her BA from Bard College in 1996 and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. She is Assistant Professor of Visual & Environmental Studies at Harvard University.

LINKS
amiesiegel.net