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