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Van McElwee is an American video artist and academic.[1][2] He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010. He is a professor in the department of Electronic and Photographic Media at Webster University, St. Louis.[3]

McElwee was born in 1948 in Meridian.[4] He first studied at Memphis College of Art, where he gained a BFA in Printmaking.[5] A growing interest in sound and time-based art led to him earning a MFA in multimedia at Washington University[6], 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.[1]

???? He also received the American Film Institute's Independent Filmmaker Award.[clarification needed]

His 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship allowed him to complete a video, Half-Real, which combines architectural detail with natural textures and patterns from decay.[1]

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.[7]

His art is in the collection of LUX Moving Image[8].

http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/van-mcelwee http://racstl.org/2013-rac-artist-fellows-profiles/


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  1. ^ a b c "St. Louis Innovators: The 21st-Century Artist, Van McElwee". STL Magazine. December 22, 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  2. ^ Tristan, Julie (Aug 30, 2010). "Van McElwee". KSDK. Gannett. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Van McElwee". Webster University website. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Van McElwee: Space Splice". International Exhibitionist. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Biography". VanMcElwee.com. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  6. ^ Burns, Gabe (January 23, 2013). "Webster Professor Van McElwee showcases abstract 'Dream' films". Webster Journal. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  7. ^ Kohn, Robert E. (2010). "The Motorization of Video Art: Van McElwee's Liquid Crystal through the Lenses of Virilio and Berardi". Afterimage. 37 (6).
  8. ^ "Collection / Artists / Van McElwee". Lux. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
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