Deke Weaver

Deke Weaver is a writer, performer, video, graphic, interdisciplinary, spoken-word artist. His award-winning performances have been presented in Wales, Scotland and throughout the United States. A resident at Yaddo and Ucross, a four-time fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and three-time recipient of NEA regional grants in film/video making Weaver’s video work has screened and broadcast in film/video festivals and on public television stations in Russia, Brazil, Australia, Europe and the United States (PBS, Channel 4/U.K., The New York Video Festival, The Berlin Video Festival, MOMA/NY; MOCA/LA; many others). He is an assistant professor in the School of Art + Design’s New Media Department at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).