EventsThe New Social Environment#1327

Bruce Conner: Recording Angel

Featuring Michelle Silva and Chrissie Iles

Thursday, March 5, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Michelle Silva of the Conner Family Trust joins curator Chrissie Iles for a conversation on Zoom.

In this Talk

Visit BRUCE CONNER / RECORDING ANGEL on view at The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles through July 18, 2026 →

Chrissie Iles

Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney and responsible for helping build the Museum’s comprehensive collection of moving image art. She was co-curator of the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennials and curated the film section of the 2002 Biennial. Past Whitney exhibitions include two major surveys of film and video installation, Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art (2001) and Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art (2016). Recent shows include Mountain/Time (2022), addressing ideas of re-mapping, migration, Black and Indigenous geographies, and conceptualizations of time and knowledge, including Korakrit Arunanondchai, Tourmaline, Clarissa Tossin.

Michelle Silva

Michelle Silva (b. 1979, Los Angeles, CA) served as editor and assistant to renowned artist and filmmaker, Bruce Conner (1933-2008). Their collaborative edit of three-channel video installation, THREE SCREEN RAY – an expansive, explosive iteration of Conner’s seminal 1961 film COSMIC RAY – has exhibited worldwide; it is held in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Currently, Silva resides in Los Angeles where she manages the exhibition, preservation, and restoration of Bruce Conner’s films for his estate.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨