Dann Disciglio
Chicago, IL 60647
ddisciglio@gmail.com
Education
• Master of Fine Arts (Sound Department), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2019)
Thesis Work: De-Arborescence II
• Bachelor of Arts, Hampshire College (2015)
Senior thesis: “Sonic Tendencies: An Analysis of Noise, Phonography, and Drone in Sound Art and Experimental
Music Practices” (http://hdl.handle.net/10009/843)
Advisors- Christoph Cox and Lorne Falk
I. Group Exhibitions
2019 Dinacon 2019 (Gamboa, Panama) - Extemporization with Strangler Fig [Striation Sonification] Fig (Feat. Lucinda Dayhew)
2019 SAIC MFA Thesis Show (Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL) - De-Arborescence II
2019 Negotiating Space (Sharp Center, Chicagol, IL) - De-Arborescence I
2018 SoftLanding (SoftLanding, Chicago, IL) - A Year of Improvisation
2018 Waveforms, Fall 2018 (Chicago Design Museum, Chicago, IL) - Recitation for
Begonia, Euphorbia, and Guiana
2018 THAW 2018 (Constellation, Chicago, IL) – Ficus Elastica
2018 Waveforms, Spring 2018 (Electronic Sound Studios, Ravenswood, IL.) – Stop
And Talk to the Roses
2017 New Blood XI Festival (Link’s Hall, Chicago, IL) – (312) 755- 8549
2017 Practicing Interludes (Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) –
Mung Beans 1014
II. Invited Public Presentations:
2019 Artist Lecture, "When Is Sound Art?" in the Department of Art and Art History,
College of Arts + Architecure, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, February
2019.
2019 Artist Lecture, “Futuring Ecologies” for Minding Nature Journal with the Center for
Humans and Nature and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Neiman
Center, Chicago, IL. February 2019.
III. Service
2019 Research Affiliate at Morton Arboretum (Lisle, IL)
2018 Argonne National Lab Invited Artist - Array of Things
Chicago’s Networked Urban Sensor Project
2018 Co-Designer of GoCivic’s Electronic Voting Machines at Lollapalooza 2018
Chicago Leadership Alliance
2017- Tree Art and Science Outreach Fellowship at the Morton Arboretum (Lisle, IL)
Present