Doug Ischar
Associate Professor
Photography
dischar@uic.edu

Fall 2009 Courses

AD 462 - Advanced Art/Studio Critique  [6 hours ]
25138: CNF, TR 1:00-1:50pm, Art and Design Hall #2236
29966: CNF, TR 1:00-1:50pm, Art and Design Hall #2236
25137: LBD, TR 2:00-3:40pm, Art and Design Hall #2236
29965: LBD, TR 2:00-3:40pm, Art and Design Hall #2236

AD 472 - Independent Study in Film/Video/Electronic Visualization  [4 to 12 hours ]
18370: CNF, by appointment

AD 499 - Cooperative Education  [0 to 4 hours ]
10447: COP, by appointment

AD 561 - Advanced Photography  [5 hours ]
10583: CNF, by appointment
10587: LAB, by appointment


Biography:

Since the early 1990s, his work has focused on the potentials of video and sound in ever more distilled manifestations. Following large multi-media installations such as Orderly (1994) and Wake (1996) Ischar turned to more minimal arrangements. His 1997 work for InSite (San Diego/Tijuana) used a high school basketball court as local for a multimedia meditation of adolescent homosexual desire. His 2001 work ground uses 24 channels of sound to replicate the sound of a gallery floor being swept. His 2005 public installation Water Music explores the relationship between personal and artistic histories of the Pacific rim cultures in which Ischar lived as a child. Ischar has taught extensively in Scandinavia as a visiting professor (Göteborg, Malmö) and was a visiting artist at IASPIS (Stockholm) in spring 2001.