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Faculty

Sheri Wills

Sheri Wills, M.F.A.

Director, Film/Media Program
Professor, Art & Art History

Email: urifilmdirector@gmail.com
Phone: (401) 874-9474
Office: 151 Swan Hall

Sheri Wills is an artist whose work is based in film, video performance & digital media. She is a professor of Art & Art History, and the Director of the Film/Media program.

Her work has been exhibited around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the London Film Festival and the International Film Festival in Rotterdam and is featured in the Rizzoli book, Sonic Graphics: Seeing Sound, by Matt Woolman.

She holds an MFA in filmmaking & an MA in art history, theory & criticism, both from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her collaborations include video projects with music composed by Bright Sheng, Jan Jirásek, Charles Norman Mason, and Ofer Ben-Amots and video performances with music ensembles, including the Providence String Quartet, Luna Nova New Music Ensemble, and Ensemble QAT in Montreal.

www.sheriwills.com

Scene Box - Sheri Wills (USA, 2011, video, 5:20).
The visual equivalent of a dusty box of aged, foil-covered chocolates, Scene Box presents a barely overheard promise of mystery - seductive, but not necessarily pleasant. A veiled diorama of uncertainty.

 

NYC artist Sheri Wills and composer, Charles Norman Mason, continue their collaborative work with METAMAN, created specifically for Karen Bentley Pollick.

METAMAN blurs the digital with the human by turning the soloist into a visual and aural landscape: as both the source and site of the imagery and as both the source of real and imagined sound sources. The video is projected onto the soloist, who becomes the screen for the imagery - imagery that shifts as the violinist moves within the frame.

The audio is a combination of live acoustic and digital audio that includes samples of recorded performances of Ms. Pollick. The title for the piece comes from Gregory Stock’s book "Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism."

The METAMAN was premiered at the Birmingham Museum of Art on March 11, 2010.