Amy Beste is director of public programs and senior lecturer in the department of film, video, new media, and animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her publications include "Interview with Hannes Schüpbach" in Schüpbach (2015) and "Designers in Film: Goldsholl Associates, the Avant-Garde, and Midcentury Advertising Films" in Jacob and Baas (2012). She curates “Exhibitions: Conversations at the Edge,” an ongoing series of screenings, talks, and performances by leading media artists at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago. Beste received her PhD from Northwestern University.