Cecelia Condit (born 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American video artist. Condit's films are noted for their attempts to subvert traditional mythologies of female representation and psychologies of sexuality and violence. Condit has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation,

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, Mary L. Nohl Foundation, Wisconsin Arts Council and National Media Award from the Retirement Research Foundation. Her work has shown internationally in festivals, museums and alternative spaces and is represented in collections including the

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in NYC and Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France. In 2008, Condit had her first solo show exhibition at the CUE Art Foundation in New York. She studied at the

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, University of Pennsylvania, received a B.F.A. in sculpture from the

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and M.F.A. in photography from

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of Temple University. She served as professor and director of the graduate program in the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, before retiring in 2017. Condit's work received renewed attention in 2015 after her short film '' Possibly in Michigan'' was posted to

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. Four years later, an audio clip from the same film became a viral hit on

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, with over 22,000 iterations created as of July 2019. Her videos are available from the Video Data Bank, Chicago, and

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, NYC.

Videography

Select Installations

Condit has created a number of video installations including: * ''First Dream After Mother Died'' (2010), a three-channel video installation that was exhibited at the North Dakota Museum of Art * ''Within a Stone's Throw'' (2012), a three-channel video installation exhibited at the

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, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Burren College of Art in Ireland * ''Tales of Future Past'' (2017), a two-channel video installation exhibited at the Lynden Sculpture Garden

Personal life

Condit has two grown sons, Schuyler Vogel, who serves as the Senior Minister of the

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, and Lloyd Vogel, who is the CEO o
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References

* University of Wisconsin faculty profile * Tamblyn, Christine. “Significant Others: Social Documentary as Personal Portraiture in Women’s Video of the 1980’s.” * Mellencamp, Patricia, “Uncanny Feminism: The Exquisite Corpses of Cecelia Condit”, Framework, vol. 32, no. 3:104-22. * Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer's “Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art.”

External links

*
Condit's web page

Video Data Bank

Electronic Arts Intermix

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