Contact
james.connoll@gmail.com | instagram.com/jxconno
Bio
I am a Chicago-based artist, educator, archivist, and developer. My videos, open-source tools, and real-time audio/video performances undermine the interfaces and break through the algorithms of digital and analog systems, examining hidden power structures and liberating latent aesthetic materialities in cathartic and captivating compositions.
I have presented work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Intermediale's Videosyntezy3 in Legnica, Poland; Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival in Bilbao, Spain; South by Southwest in Austin; the GLI.TC/H Festivals in Chicago; and the Vancouver New Music Festival, among others.
I am an Associate Professor, Adj. in the departments of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation and Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 2020 to 2025 I was the Collection Manager of the Roger Brown Study Colleciton of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Photo: Aaron Wharton