Jennida Chase
Jennida Chase

Video

  • Lollipop, Don't Be a Hero
  • Joy’s Children
  • Anticipating
  • A Most Delightful Bill Pickett Experience
  • Apple Portraits
  • Curiosity
  • Strange Fits of Passion We Have Known
  • The WHY CHEAP ART? manifesto

Collaborative Video Works By Jennida Chase & Hassan Pitts

  • Conversations
  • Cui Bono
  • Ruminations
Jennida Chase

Bio

Jennida Chase is an electronic artist who currently explores and combines several aspects of media-based art, ranging from film, video, animation, sound and photography. Her BFA was completed at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 with a concentration in film, video and sound. In 2009 she completed her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University's department of Photography and Film. Themes within her work deal with relational interaction played out in society at large. Her work has been extensively shown in galleries and film/video festivals. She currently collaborates in and performs with experimental sound and multi-media ensemble Pilottone, and has recently joined the HzCollective based in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.

Jennida Chase

Statement

Born out of frustration and a desire to reclaim reality, my work largely exists within a realm of imagined emotional space where defiance and absurdity revolutionize the mundane. I approach themes of relational interaction with the deliberation to undermine and subvert negative social constructs, primarily using the vehicle of media based art along with the power of good cheer and humor, believing that activating good conversation is the precursor to positive change. The work operates under the continuous supposition that another world is possible.

Jennida Chase

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Jennida Chase

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2009 MFA Photography-Film
School of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

1998 BFA Interdisciplinary (Time Arts)
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Recent Exhibition Record

2009 12 Nights: Electronic Music and Art Festival
Beauty, Horror and Silence Juried Show
Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, Florida

2009 A-B(o)MB II: The Fallout
Artoconecto Jurried Show
Macy’s on Flagler Street, Miami, Florida

2009 Kalospectra
Aloft Richmond West, Glen Allen, VA

2009 The Spirit Show
The Warehouse, Norfolk, Virginia

2009 Lollipop, Don’t Be a Hero
VCU Graduate Thesis Exhibition
Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

2008 I Read Your Theory and it Broke My Heart
VCU Candidacy Exhibition,
Plant Zero, Richmond, Virginia

2008 Repressed III
Gallery 5, Richmond, Virginia

2008 Renewal II
The Warehouse, Norfolk, Virginia

2008 Pratt Graduate Exchange Show
Pratt, Brooklyn, New York

2007 The Secret Life of Cotton
VCU 1st Year Show
Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

2007 Listening Dinner Party
VCU Department of Kinetic Imaging Showcase
FAB Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

2007 Wonder
The Warehouse, Norfolk, Virginia

2007 Joan of Art Show
Fuzion Ink Norfolk, Virginia

2007 2 person exhibition
The Green Onion, Norfolk, Virginia

2007 Renewal I
The Warehouse, Norfolk, Virginia

Video / Film Festival Screenings

2010 The Indie Grits Film Festival
Columbia, S.C.

2009 DC Shorts Film Festival
Washington, D.C

2009 FilmOneFest
Atlantic Highlands Marina, Atlantic Highlands, NJ

2009 The Electronic Arts Exchange I & II
ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA

2009 James River Film Forum
Carver Healing Center, Richmond, Virginia

2009 James River Film Festival
Richmond, Virginia

2008 Student Film Festival
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Collaborative Sound Performance

2010 Pilottone
Secret Show @ The Studio
Garbers, Richmond, VA

2009 Pilottone
John Cage Musicircus
Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA

2009 Pilottone
HzCollective Presents: NanoHz No.27
Ghost Print Gallery, Richmond, VA

2009 Pilottone
The Electronic Arts Exchange
ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA

Teaching Experience

2009 Digital video editing tutor for Stone Circle of Friends

2008/09 Editing Instructor for the “Peep This” film project
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

2008 Teaching Assistant for Summer Intensive Program
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

2007 Teaching Assistant for Elements of the Moving Image
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Professional Experience

2008–2009 Documentary Film/Video Producer/Editor
Burn Baby Burn Productions
Department of African American Studies,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

2008 Editor of “Peep This” 60 Second Spot
Department of African American Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, Virginia

2008 Editor for independent documentary “These Are the Breaks: The Hip-Hop Divide”

2008 Producer/Editor for “Jesus Phreak” Promotional Trailer
Richmond, Virginia

2008 Photography Assistant for Lee Brauer Photography
Richmond, Virginia

2007 Photography Assistant for Missy Bane Studio
Richmond, Virginia

Awards

2007 Graduate Assistantship, Department of African American Studies
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Professional/Community Service

2007–2008 President of the Organization for the Photographic Arts
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

2005–2007 Non-profit Administrator
Willowwood Food Pantry, Willowwood Presbyterian Church, Norfolk, Virginia

Publications

2008 “Lumpkin’s Jail Dig” Department of African American Studies Newsletter Issue 2, Fall 2008, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

2007 “Joan of Art Show” September, 2007
Portfolio Magazine, Norfolk, Virginia

1999–2001 Music Reviewer
Tailspins Magazine, Chicago Illinois

Design Projects

2006 Restaurant Menu Design
The Green Onion, Norfolk, Virginia

2006 Vegetarian Showdown Fundraiser Event Poster Design
The Taphouse, Norfolk, Virginia

2004 Various Event Poster Designs
Coyote West, Norfolk, Virginia

2003 The Next Best Thing (CD Design and Photography)
Amendment Records, Norfolk, Virginia

2003 Project 208 (CD Design and Photography)
Amendment Records, Norfolk, Virginia

2002 Mother’s Day Compilation (45 rpm Record Art and Design)
Amendment Records, Norfolk, Virginia

2002 Transistor (Video Production and Package Design)
Amendment Records, Norfolk, Virginia

Video Production

Video Cameras: Various DVCam, MiniDV, VHS, and Hi8 cameras
including - Canon XL1/GL1, Sony VX2000/TRV-900/TRV-950,
Panasonic AG-DVX100A 24p and JVC cameras.

Audio Production

Sound Equipment: Digital Compact Flash Card Recorders: Marantz
PMD670 and Tascam HDP2, Sync Nagra recorder, DAT recorder,
Minidisc digital audio recorder and various wireless audio recording
systems
Audio Post Production: Digital Audio Workstations with Pro Tools and
Sound Forge, Tascam mixing board, Mackie 1202 Mixer, and
Shure 267 Mixer, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Sound Forge, Audacity, Fruity Loops

Software

Web Studio: Macromedia Dreamweaver 4, Microsoft Front Page 2000,
Macromedia Flash 5, Macromedia Director 8, Blackboard 6.0
Computer Animation: 2D animation, Adobe AfterEffects 6.0 and digital
rotoscoping, 3D animation, Maya 4.0
Digital Imaging and Publishing: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator 9.0,
Adobe PageMaker 6.0, Adobe FrameMaker 4.0, and Quark XPress 3.2

Editing

Digital Post Production: various nonlinear systems including Avid Express,
Final Cut Pro HD, and Adobe Premiere 6.0
Linear: 1/2 and super 8mm offline editing

Professional Organizations

2009 HzCollective
2008 American Society of Media Photographers: Member

Exhibitions Curated

2009 The Electronic Arts Exchange
Two day multi-media art exhibition, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA

2007 Renewal I
Juried, group art exhibition, The Warehouse Space, Norfolk, Virginia

2007 Two Person Exhibition for Amanda Stevens and Cathrine Hodil
The Green Onion, Norfolk, VA

2006 Norfolk Craft Mafia Holiday Arts and Craft Show
The Green Onion, Norfolk, Virginia

2004 Three Person Exhibition for local artists
Coyote West, Norfolk, VA