Curriculum Vitea

Professional Activities as a Moving Image Artist

  • Recipient of New York Council on the Arts Individual Artists Grant

  • Recipient of New York Foundation of the Arts Grant

  • Recipient of the Kathy Acker Award for Lifetime Achievement of Excellence in Avant-Garde Art

Professional Activities at The New American Cinema Group/Film-Makers’ Cooperative

  • Assistant Curator, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1983-87 Executive Director, The New American Cinema Group/Film-Makers’ Cooperative 1991-present:

  • Curated Monthly screenings of new works at Anthology Film Archives 1991-2000

  • Curator, “Counter Culture, Counter Cinema: An Avant Garde Film Festival” 4 day FF, 2007-08

  • Touring program, Experimental Films 1948-1994”, 1994. Holland, Switzerland, Germany, France.

  • Touring program, Curator, “X-Rated Films by Women Artists” 1997. Touring program: Poznan and Warsaw “New York Experimental films” 2009 Touring program: Looking Forward Looking Back” Uruguay 2016 NACG/FMC awarded Non-Profit Status, 1993

  • Bi-Monthly Screenings in Charles S. Cohen Screening room in our office, 2010-present Festival Director, “Conspiracies Experimental Film Festival” New York Short films - 1991-2001

  • Rap Arts Center, New York, NY; Context Studios, New York, NY

  • Launched online catalogue 2001 www.film-makerscoop.com to be revised June 2017

  • Relocated Office to 475 Park Avenue South, NYC 10016, 2008-present First Art Auction at 303 Gallery on Bond Street, 1991 Fundraiser Paddle8 online art auction 2013-present Film Workshops 2000-present

  • Published Catalogue of new works, 1994 first to accept videotapes as well as film Published “I Was a Flawed Modernism” The Collected Writings by Paul Sharits and Collected Stories about Paul Sharits, edited by Sarah Markgraf and published by NACG/FMC 201

Teaching

  • Associate Part-Time Teaching Professor, The New School 1998-present

  • Courses: History of Avant-Garde Cinema; The Skin Off Your Face: Anatomy of Horror; Avant-Garde and the Moving Image; Sexual Persona; Art(c)ore: Sex, Gender and Media; Scared Stiff: Violence in American

  • Movies in the 20th Century; Queer Cinema

  • Guest Lecturer, New York University 2001

  • Explicitly Independent: Sex Gender and Media

Publications

  • “Framework, The Journal of Cinema & Media, Vol. 61, Fall, 2020.” Special COVID issue.

  • “Framework, The Journal of Cinema & Media, Vol. 59, No.2, Fall 2018,

  • “The Films of MM Serra: Art(core) and the Explicit Body”, pg 134.

  • “Chop Off” 2009 Millennium Film Journal, Issue 51.

  • “Flowers for Brakhage” 2003 Millennium Film Journal, Issue 41.

  • “Eye/Body: The Cinematic Paintings of Carolee Schneemann” 2007 Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks, Duke University Press .

Lectures

  • Visionaries: Self-portraits by experimental filmmakers Marie Menken, Storm de Hirsch, Carolee Schneemann and MM Serra

  • The Louvre, auditorium in Paris, France on December 1st, 2019.

  • Art(core) and the Explicit Body: The Films of MM Serra 2018

  • The 9th Annual Experimental Lecture at NYU’s Cinema Studies Department and Undergraduate Film & TV Department

  • Art (core): Avant Garde and the Cinematic Body 2015. Indiana University Lecturer

  • New Directions in Avant-Garde Cinema 2012. Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretations.

  • International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV) San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba . Lecturer and curator

  • Art (core): Avant Garde and the Cinematic Body 2009 Office of Contemporary Art in Oslo, Norway