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With a background in painting, drawing, and sculpture I primarily use digital media in non-narrative formats to create videos and installations that explore themes of contemporary anxiety and human expansion.My work focuses on an interplay between real world spaces and digital recreations, the natural and the unnatural. I’m particularly interested in investigating visually the methods that the past echoes and reverberates through the present, and using digital media as a method of visually mediating disasters.

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Amanda VanValkenburg is a multimedia artist based in Chicago, Illinois. They received their MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago where they investigated the intersection of art and technology. They primarily work with digital media to investigate digitally mediated interactions between memory, projection, contemporary anxiety, and the relationship with technology and the environment. Currently their work is focused on using technology for processing video to examine the anatomy of a visual scene and fleshing out echoes of memory and the membranes of virtual and physical spaces. 

Their work has been exhibited and screened internationally and nationally, including at the CICA Museum in Korea, the Hong Kong Art Centre, Currents New Media Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Gene Siskel Theater in Chicago, VastLabs Experimental Festival in Los Angeles and Chicago, Trumbullplex Detroit, Elmhurst Museum, Mana Contemporary, Woman Made Gallery, 6018 North Gallery, Nightingale Cinema, Links Hall, Filmfront, and the Chicago Digital Media Festival. and they have  completed residencies with the Ditrapano Foundation for the Arts, Ragdale, High Concept Labs, and Ox-Bow School of the Arts.

They currently teach at Northern Illinois University as an Assistant Professor of Time Arts and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as an instructor in ACE and ECP programs.