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WHO
Director/Curator
Victoria Keddie is a curator, archivist, and artist based in New York City. She has programmed events and exhibitions throughout the city involving collaboration of film and video, performance and electro -acoustic sound in dialogue. She is a co-founder of the international artist exchange, The Lighthouse Project in partner with This is Not a Shop Gallery, based in Dublin, Ireland. She co curated Lost Symbols at the Convent of Saint Cecilia, a two week exhibition with intensive programme surrounding ritual in art. As an archivist, she focuses on preserving time-based media in a cultural context. She is a consulting archivist for artists working with ephemeral media, and as an advocate for orphaned collections. She works primarily with sound and radio collections. As an artist, she works in varying media involving film, analog sound, and performance.
She is an Associate Director at Salon 94 Gallery. She holds a MA in Museum Studies from NYU, with a concentration on Ephemeral and Time -Based Media collections. She is a founding member of the film-based collective, Optipus, and is on the programming committee of The Archivist Roundtable of NYC, and a member of Association of Moving Image Archivists and the Association of Recorded Sound. Her work has been shown and performed at Museum of Moving Image, Microscope Gallery, Experimental Intermedia, General Public(DE), The Kitchen, Canada Gallery, Secret Project Robot, and more.
Director/Curator
Kristin Trethewey is a video artist, curator, media arts instructor and live cinema performer. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive Media. She is originally from Toronto, Canada where she worked at the Ontario College of Art and Design and in music video production at Soft Citizen and Radke Films. She has been curating and collaborating with artists and musicians since the early 2000s. These projects are multidisciplinary, interactive, performance and video related pieces within the media, arts and music scene.
After a year working with the BNMI at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada she relocated to New York where she presented various artworks as well as a two-week international festival of video called Play With Fire Festival in 2009. She teaches progressive video courses in video sculpture and live video as well as courses for youth in media literacy within the non-profit and media art centre settings. Currently she has returned to Canada working with Moment Factory in Montreal, Canada and producing live visuals at the historic Club 1234.
Consultant:
Malcolm Levy is a curator, artist and filmmaker living in Vancouver, Canada. He was the Curator of CODE Live at the 2010 Winter Olympics, where he oversaw the installation of over 40 interactive media artworks and 8 performances across the city. Working primarily in experimental film, new media and documentary, his projects include Capital Magazine (1999-2005) and the New Forms Festival (1999-present), undertaking projects for CBC / 120seconds, Virtual Museum Canada, and Project Stitch, and writing or curating for Mobile Muse, MUTEK, VIDFEST and Assignment Zero, among others.
Levy’s curatorial, film and video installation works have been presented in India, Australia, China, Germany and Canada. Feature length documentaries include Shambhala (2001-2008) and Walking on Glass (2006-2010). Current projects include pursuing an MA in Media Studies at the New School in New York, developing a media lab for the grunt gallery in Vancouver, Nuit Blanche Vancouver, and producing a series of commissioned artworks for urban screens in connection with Mcluhan in Europe 2011. Malcolm is the co-Founder of the contemporary art consultancy Revised Projects and is represented by Grace Gallery.
The Team:
Kellie Morgan is a writer, curator and video artist based in Brooklyn. Kellie’s research and video art practice is concerned with the dialogs and relationships between underground art and music. Her website, straighttovideo.org serves as a forum for bringing these sometimes disconnected scenes into contact; as well as highlighting a selection of cultural events in NYC and internationally. Starting in 2010, Kellie began to develop several curatorial projects which also focus on convergent practices in contemporary music and art; as well as analog and digital processes.
Currently, she works at the Brooklyn Museum, managing and maintaining the museum’s collection database for the museum’s 15 departments, which is conservatively estimated at 500,000 objects. She is also part of the team that makes the collection publicly accessible via the museum’s website. She earned a Master’s degree from NYU, where she focused on exhibition and preservation of time-based media.
Helen Homan Wu was born in Hong Kong and raised in the Lower East Side, New York, and is an Events Producer and Independent Curator. Helen established Opalnest in 2007– what initially began in SoHo, New York as intimate gatherings for artists, musicians, and writers – perpetually expanded to the fluxing needs of an international audience. Since then Opalnest projects have become even broader to include audiovisual media collaborations and artist management. Wu recently co-founded and is editor-in-chief of Artcards Review (artcards.cc/review), an online publication dedicated to providing critical coverage on art and cultural happenings written from artist perspectives. Artcards was a media partner with NADA in the 2010 Art Basel Miami, PULSE New York 2011 and provided live coverage of the art fairs.
Mika Tarkela- Sound engineer extraordinaire.
Volunteer support:
Sonel Breslav
Sonya Eklund
Alpna Gupta
Lucy Hunter
George Kotsovos
Kaitlin McKeown
Mary Nichole Nelson
Patrick Proctor
Nereida Trujillo
Faren Ziello
