Chloe Zimmerman is an artist, filmmaker, writer and educator working across analogue film, video, installation, drawing, language art and pedagogical experiments. Chloe founded and facilitated the Mycological Research Playgroup, a research group for artists to learn about and with fungi, and Meshwork, a study group for poets and scholars with a focus on correspondence, entanglement and relational outcomes. She teaches creative practices in spaces that have included a community biology lab, a floating food forest, public libraries and parks, museums, multilingual learner spaces, community centers, alternative art schools and universities (including Brown University and Massachusetts College of Art & Design). Her films have screened via the Criterion Channel, UnionDocs, Anthology Film Archives, the Poetry Project and MoMA PS1, among other venues. She is a recipient of the LEF Flaherty Fellowship, the SMFA Traveling Fellowship and the UnionDocs Collaborative Fellowship and holds an MFA from Brown University.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
DM 4534-01 - ENTANGLEMENT STUDIO
LevelGraduate
UnitDigital + Media
Subject Digital + Media
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
DM 4534-01
ENTANGLEMENT STUDIO
LevelGraduate
UnitDigital + Media
Subject Digital + Media
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: M | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Chloe ZimmermanLocation(s): Center for Integrative Technologies, Room 402Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This graduate-level research studio explores concepts of entanglement through collaborative and cross-disciplinary artistic practices. We’ll be guided by critical texts and creative prompts, considering mycelial webs and rhizomatic thinking, quantum theory and intra-action, symbiogenesis and extended cognition, hydrocommons and queer ecologies, ecomedia and extractivism. We’ll learn from artist collectives around the world who engage conceptually and practically with entanglement and ecological relations through digital media, transdisciplinary practices and collective authorship. Participants will initiate cross-disciplinary dialogue with someone in a related field or practice, and will follow their own lines of inquiry to support creative work. Final projects will be research-based artistic engagements with entanglement (“research” casts a wide net here, referring to an array of embodied, scientific, theoretical and communal practices) and can be in participants’ media of choice. Thinking and making will happen independently, collaboratively and interstitially throughout the semester.
Elective
LAS E409-01 - TEXT AND THE MOVING IMAGE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP
LevelUndergraduate
UnitLiterary Arts and Studies
Subject Literary Arts and Studies
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatSeminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
LAS E409-01
TEXT AND THE MOVING IMAGE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP
Our explorations in this interdisciplinary workshop will center around the interplay of image and text, particularly in film and video. We will tend to the space between words, between images, the movements from one to another, what’s alive in the cracks. How might poetic devices translate to film? How might film theory inspire our writing? What are the myriad ways text, voice and image can layer and entwine?
This workshop is for students interested in practices that live and migrate between moving images and language art. Together we will consider essay films, cinepoetry, video art, installation and live performance. Class time will include screenings, discussions of texts by artists, poets and film theorists, and open-ended prompts for individual and collaborative experiments. No prior experience is necessary, only a desire to engage deeply with films and writing, experiment with new forms and media, and create in thoughtful community.
