About
An experimental documentary maker for over 25 years, Even has produced work which ranges from feature-length documentaries to multichannel, immersive and interactive video installations, and which, relying on almost imperceptible digital manipulation of slow and extended moments, depicts the less overt manifestations of complex, and at times extreme, social and political dynamics in locations such as Palestine, Turkey, the U.S. and Germany.
Even's video-work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many galleries, museums and festivals in the U.S., Canada and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight (NY), RIDM Festival (Montreal), and Rotterdam Film Festival. Her work has won numerous grants and awards including Artadia Awards (Chicago), Jerome Foundation's Media Arts Award, 3ARTs Visual Arts and Next Level Awards, Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship, and multiple NYSCA and DCASE Individual Artists Grants; and has been purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Jewish Museum (NY) and Harvard University's Carpenter Center, among others.
A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department, Even has frequently been an invited guest and featured speaker at programs such as the Whitney Museum Seminar series, MIT Doc Lab, SXSW Interactive Conference, the Digital Flaherty Seminar, ACM Multimedia and many more.
Even’s work is distributed by Heure Exquise (France), Video Data Bank (U.S.), and Groupe Intervention Video (Canada).