Elise Schierbeek
b. 1995
Elise Schierbeek is an archivist, painter, and video essayist from Grand Rapids, Michigan currently living in Chicago, Illinois. Elise’s work playfully examines human affect and meaning amidst extinction.
Elise has broadcast on ACRE TV, shown at LVL3 Gallery, Arts on Elston Gallery, VCR, and The Observatory in Chicago, IL, as well as Flat Earth Film Festival in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and West Michigan’s ArtPrize. Their writing has been published in Minding Nature Journal and ON Journal. Elise holds a BFA in Film & Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Elise Schierbeek is an archivist, painter, and video essayist from Grand Rapids, Michigan currently living in Chicago, Illinois. Elise’s work playfully examines human affect and meaning amidst extinction.
Elise has broadcast on ACRE TV, shown at LVL3 Gallery, Arts on Elston Gallery, VCR, and The Observatory in Chicago, IL, as well as Flat Earth Film Festival in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and West Michigan’s ArtPrize. Their writing has been published in Minding Nature Journal and ON Journal. Elise holds a BFA in Film & Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
PROFESSIONAL
2022 - Present Digital Collection and Media Manager (FT) - Video Data Bank (SAIC)
2021 - 2022 Archive & Distribution Associate (FT) - Kartemquin Films
2019 - 2020 Archive Associate (PT) - Kartemquin Films
2019 Archive Assistant (PT) - Kartemquin Films
2018 - 2019 Box Office Assistant (PT) - Gene Siskel Film Center
2018 Manuscript Assistant - School of the Art Institute of Chicago Science Faculty Kathryn Schaffer
2017 - 2019 Media Collections Assistant (PT) - John M. Flaxman Library Special Collections, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2017 - 2019 Stock footage cataloger - A/V Geeks
CURATORIAL
2024 Comfort Film: Me and You and Everyone We Know - Works by Miranda July and Shana Moulton, programmed by Elise Schierbeek. April 2024.
2023 VDB TV: Doldrums: On the Uncanny Domestic, programmed by Elise Schierbeek. April 2023.
2023-2024 Onion City Experimental Film Festival Screening Committee
2022 Milwaukee Film Festival Shorts Program Juror
2022 Kartemquin / Hulu Accelerator Green Light Committee
PANELS
2023 Guerilla Television - Media Burn and Kartemquin Films. Midwest Archives Conference. Presenters: Elise Schierbeek and Dan Erdman.
2021 The Portable Revolution: The 1970s Guerilla Television Movement. Presenter in Media Burn Archive Screening and Discussion.
2021 Living Archives: A Roadmap for Donation of Documentary Production Collections. Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Conference. Panelists: Elise Schierbeek (Chair), Carolyn Faber, Nadia Ghasedi, Andy Uhrich.
PUBLICATION
2023 “Camera #1, Kartemquin Films” by Elise Schierbeek and Tim Horsburgh. Tales From the Vaults: Film Technology over the Years and across Continents. International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and The International Research Partnership on Cinema Technology (TECHNÉS). June 2023.
2023 “Doldrums: On the Uncanny Domestic“ by Elise Schierbeek. VDB TV, Video Data Bank. April 2023.
2022 “Reconstructing Copyright Law: An Interview with Jack Lerner and Gordon Quinn” by Elise Schierbeek. Kartemquin Films Camera One Blog.
2020 “Kartemquin’s Archive in Good Hands” by Peter Monaghan, interview with Elise Schierbeek. Moving Image Archive News.
2019 “Diachronous Markers, Violent Surfaces” by Diamond Woods, Elise Schierbeek, Lucas Reif, Zhanna Ter-Zakaryan. Unseen and Anthropocene: Unearthing Chicago as Second-Nature. Minding Nature Journal Winter 2019, Vol. 12 No.1. Chicago, IL.
2018 “Bodies of Water,” ON / Being Read. On Journal, Issue 02. Ed. Gabrielle Welsh. Published by Shelf Shelf, Chicago, IL.
EXHIBITION
2022 Kid Pix Art Show–Media Archeology Lab @ New Art City–Online
2020 Direct Sunlight–LVL3 Gallery–Wicker Park
2019 SAIC BFA Show–Sullivan Galleries–Chicago
2019 SITE Curated: A Poem Left Untitled–SITE Galleries Sharp–Chicago
2019 ON / Being Read–LVL3 Gallery Wicker Park
2019 Flat Earth Film Festival–Herðubreið Theater Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2018 Queer Online Spaces–VCR–Chicago
2018 Flat Earth Film Festival–Herðubreið Theater–Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2017 Film Essay Showcase–The Observatory–Chicago
2017 Staging the Film Essay–ACRE TV Broadcast–Chicago, IL
2016 ArtBash Alternative Space–Leroy Neiman Center–Chicago, IL
2015 Blick Fall 12 x 12 Show–Blick Art Materials–Chicago, IL
2015 Art by America: A National Review of 2-D Contemporary Art Juried Exhibition–Arts on Elston Gallery–Chicago
2015 West Michigan Regional Art Show–King Gallery–Lowell, MI
2014 ArtPrize–The B.O.B.–Grand Rapids, MI
2013 West Michigan Drawing & Printmaking–King Gallery–Lowell, MI
2013 Congressional Art Show–Cannon Tunnel–Washington, D.C. Grand Prize Michigan 3rd District