User:Colapeninsula/Van McElwee

Van McElwee is an American video artist and academic. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010. He is a professor in the department of Electronic and Photographic Media at Webster University, St. Louis.

McElwee was born in 1948 in Meridian. He first studied at Memphis College of Art, where he gained a BFA in Printmaking. A growing interest in sound and time-based art led to him earning a MFA in multimedia at Washington University, where he was taught by Howard Jones and he later took over from Jones while he was on sabbatical. He moved to Webster University in 1983.

???? He also received the American Film Institute's Independent Filmmaker Award.

His 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship allowed him to complete a video, Half-Real, which combines architectural detail with natural textures and patterns from decay.

Robert E. Kohn has analysed McElwee's art as typical of a tendency for what Paul Virilio terms "motorization" in recent art, a tendency towards accelerated movement.

His art is in the collection of LUX Moving Image.

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