Curtis Miller is an artist and educator working in film, video, photography, and publication. He is the co-founder of Flatland Chicago with Chris Reeves. His films have screened internationally at the Centre for Contemporary Arts - Glasgow, EXIS - Seoul, Fracto - Berlin, Montreal Underground Film Festival, and the Kinodot Experimental Film Festival - St Petersburg. His work has shown domestically at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, ICDOCS, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, the Hyde Park Arts Center - Chicago, Indiana University - Bloomington, Gallery 400 - Chicago, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid - Chicago.

Miller's talk is synthesized as a companion piece to his on-going project A Brief History of Chasing Storms, a feature-length film exploring the south plains of "Tornado Alley" through its weather. Combining portraiture, travelogue, and landscape vignettes, A Brief History searches in hybrid essayistic form to reveal the complexities of a region continuously rewritten through migration, colonization, and severe weather.