Deke Weaver

Deke's bio

Deke Weaver’s work has been presented by 21c Museum Hotels, PBS, the Sundance Film Festival, Channel 4/UK, the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Berlin Video Festival, the Moth, and many other venues including livestock pavilions, backyard sheds, and living rooms. A Guggenheim fellow and Creative Capital grantee, Weaver is currently an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with appointments in the School of Art and Design, the Department of Theatre, and the Department of Dance and has faculty affiliation with the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies.