Andrea Eis { Art }
Selected Publications
Selected Presentations
“Gravitational Pull: A Filmmaker in the Orbit of the Modernist Sun”
Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media. Issue 7: Trajectories from the Past and Modernist Futures & Other Essays, Dec. 2023.
"Iphigeneia Breathes: A Filmic Musing on the Winds, Breathing, Life, and the Imagination"
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, Vol. 10, Issue 4, 2023, pp. 229-328.
“The Physical and the Intangible, Structure and Design”
Encountering the Rare Book (exhibition catalog). Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 2018.
"Arterial Thought"
Carl Toth: Pioneering Artist, Photographer and Teacher (exhibition catalog.) Beverly, MA Endicott College, 2018.
“Penelope’s Odyssey: Film Form as Meaning”
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, Vol. 1, No. 3, July 2014.
“Silent Conversations: A Labyrinth of Artistic Research and Practice”
International Journal of Education & the Arts, Vol. 14, 2013.
“Contemporary Art and the Past: Repetition or Rhyme?”
The Visual and Performing Arts: An International Anthology, ed. Steven Andrew Arbury. Athens, Greece: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2012.
“An Entanglement: Ancient Texts, Old Marginalia, and Contemporary Art”
Oakland Journal, No. 22, Fall 2012.
"Multiplicity, Connection, and Divergence: African Art from the John F. Korachis Collection" Curator and editor. Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 2011.
"From Ancient Subtext to Modern Context. An Artist Re-invisions the Past"
From the Remote to the Recent Past, eds. Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Nicholas C.J. Pappas. Athens, Greece: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2008.
“Letter to the Editor: A Child’s Wish: To Touch Antiquity, Once,” The New York Times. January 31, 2004. Sec. A, p. 16.
Harmony in Variation: Form and Meaning in Native American Art
Curator and editor. Rochester, MI: Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, 2002).
“The Epicenter”
Michigan Photography Journal, No. 7, 1995, pp. 8-13.
“On Living with Art”
Michigan Photography Journal, No. 4, 1992, pp. 3-4.
“Architectonic Perspectives and Filmic Visions: Two Artists’ Engagements,” Andrea Eis and Steven Rost.
International Symposium: “Emerging Perspectives in H.D.’s Hellenic Modernity and the Future of New Modernist Studies,” Thessaloniki, Greece. May 2024.
“Carl Toth: Reordering Fictions”
Panel Discussion. Moderated by Chris Fraser, Photography Artist-in-Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art, with panelists Patrick Kelley (MFA Photography 1995), Andrea Eis (MFA Photography 1982), and Kyohei Abe (MFA Photography 2002). February 2024.
“Iphigeneia Breathes: A Filmic Musing on the Winds, Breathing, Life, and the Imagination,”
13th Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts,” Athens, Greece. May 2022.
“A Filmic Speculation on Iphigeneia at Aulis,”
Screening and conference presentation at Antiquity in Media Studies. International conference, virtual. 2021
“Embodied Language: A Filmic Speculation on Iphigeneia at Aulis"
Feminism and Classics Conference: body/language, Winston-Salem, NC. 2021.
“A Filmmaker’s 2020 Iphigeneia Dilemma”
Antiquity in Media Studies. International conference, virtual. 2020.
“Too Relevant for Art? Taking on the Antigone in Film”
Film and History Conference, Madison, WI, 2018.
“Cinematic Perspectives of Home and Nostos: Penelope and Clytemnestra”
Film and History Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 2017.
“Emerging from the Stones: Mycenaean Walls, Strong Women, and the Power of the Imagination” Idea Factory, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI, 2017.
“Embodying the Work: Research, Artistic Process and Learning”
National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York City, NY, 2016. Co-presented with Rachel Delfuoco, undergraduate filmmaker.
“Film: Penelope’s Odyssey”
Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2016.
“Immersed with the Ancients: Penelope and Clytemnestra in Experimental Art Films”
Visions: Feminism and Classics VII, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2016.
“Pawing Over the Ancients: Paradigms from H.D. and Ezra Pound for a Filmic Reframing of Homer” Portals, Gates: The Classics in Modernist Translation, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2016.
“Penelope’s Odyssey: Film Form as Meaning,”
5th International Visual and Performing Arts Conference, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece, 2014.
“Conversations with the Silence of the Past: Art and Marginalia”
“The Preconceptual Postcontemporary," Qualitative Inquiry as Global Endeavor: Eighth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 2012.
“Aesthetic Translation: Conversations with the Past”
Women and the Reception of the Classical World, Classical Association of Canada annual conference, London, Ontario, Canada, May 2012.