CHRISTOPHER HARRI Christopher Harris Associate Professor, Film School of Visual Arts & Design College of Arts and Humanities University of Central Florida P.O. Box 161342 Orlando, Florida 32816-3120 407-823-4288 [email protected]
Education 2000 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1997 BA, Webster University, Webster Groves, MO
Teaching Experience Associate Professor, 2007-present: University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Assistant Professor, 2001-2007: University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Adjunct Faculty, 2000-2001: Webster University, Webster Groves, MO Adjunct Faculty, 2000: St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, St. Louis, MO
University of Central Florida Undergraduate Courses Taught FIL 1000 “Cinema Survey” (Cinema Studies) FIL 2030 “History of Motion Pictures” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3006 “Art of Cinema” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3051 “Avant-Garde Cinema” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3309 “Women in Film” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3363C “Film Documentary” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3803C “Film Theory & Criticism I” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3804C “Film Theory & Criticism II” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3831 “Black Cinema” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3845 “World Cinema Traditions” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3850 “Cinema Directors” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3871 “The American Film Artist” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3876C “Experimental Cinema 1” (Film Production) FIL 3877C “Experimental Cinema 2” (Film Production) FIL 3922 “Colloquium” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3930 “Black Images in Film” (Cinema Studies) FIL 3930 Special Topics “Documenting the Civil Rights Era in Central Florida” (Film Production) FIL 3930H Special Topics “Slavery in the Artistic Imagination” (Honors interdisciplinary course) FIL 4202C "Intermediate Production" (Film Production) FIL 4203C “Capstone I” (BFA Thesis Film Production) FIL 4211C “Capstone II” (BFA Thesis Film Production) FIL 4301C “Documentary Workshop” (Film Production) FIL 4830 “Motion Picture Genre” (Cinema Studies) FIL 4941 “Internship” AFA 3104 “Black Experiences” (African American Studies)
Additional Undergraduate Courses Taught MEDC 1020 “Introduction to Media Production” (Audio and Video Production) Webster University MEDC 2060 “Modern World Cinema” (Cinema Studies) WU MEDC 2800 “Cultural Diversity in the Media” (Media Studies) WU MCM 130 “Film Appreciation” (Cinema Studies) St. Louis Community College at Forest Park
UCF Graduate Courses Taught FIL 5853 “Independent Cinematic Forms” UCF FIL 6918 “Directed Research” UCF
UCF Undergraduate Course Innovations FIL 3051 “Avant-Garde Cinema” (created original syllabus for cinema studies course) FIL 3876C “Experimental Cinema 1” (created original syllabus for production course) FIL 3877C “Experimental Cinema 2” (created original syllabus for production course) FIL 3930 Special Topics “Documenting the Civil Rights Era in Central Florida” (co-created original syllabus for production course) FIL 3930H Special Topics “Slavery in the Artistic Imagination” (co-created original syllabus for Honors course) FIL 4301C “Documentary Workshop” (revised an existing documentary film production course by creating an original syllabus for an essay film production course)
UCF Thesis Supervised FIL 6971, Rama Masri Zada, MFA Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, 2016 FIL 6971, Allyson Dickerson, MFA Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, 2016 FIL 6971, James Mitchell, MFA Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, 2015 FIL 6971, Maillim Santiago, MFA Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, 2015 FIL 6971, Phyllis Redman, MFA Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, 2015 FIL 6971, Zachary Beckler, MFA Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, 2014 FIL 4970H, Allyson Dickerson, Film BFA Honors in the Major, 2014 FIL 4970H, Sebastian Jones, Film BFA Honors in the Major, 2013 FIL 6971, Katherine Shults, MFA Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, 2012 FIL 4970H, Jonathon Perez, Film BFA Honors in the Major, 2011-2012 FIL 4970H, Brendon Kingsbury, Film BA Honors in the Major, 2009-2010
Thesis Committees Forrest DeBlois, MFA Studio Art, 2016, UCF Taylor Battle, MFA Studio Art, 2015, UCF Reina Castellanos Bermudez, MFA Studio Art, UCF Kade Dalton, Film BFA Honors in the Major, 2014, UCF Emilia Garcia, MFA Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, 2013, UCF Joel Wanek, MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts, 2013, Duke University John Goshorn, MFA Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, 2012, UCF Marcos Casilli, MFA Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, 2011, UCF Sam Torres, MFA Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema, 2011, UCF Drew Blatman, Film BFA Honors in the Major, 2004-2005, UCF
UCF Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema MFA Thesis Review Boards Erin Kitzinger, Spring 2008 Laura Lopez, Spring 2007
UCF Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema MFA Consult Panels Yson Dickerson, Spring 2015 James Mitchell, Spring 2014 Maillim Santiago, Spring 2014 Yesenia Lima, Spring 2013 Andrew Cadieux, Spring 2013 Emilia Garcia, Spring 2012 Daisy Blakelock, Spring 2012 Zachary Beckler, Spring 2012 Phyllis Redman, Spring 2011 Marcos Casilli, Spring 2010 UCF Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema MFA Consult Panels (cont.) John Goshorn, Spring 2010 Sam Torres, Spring 2009 Keith Alan Morris, Spring 2009
UCF Independent Studies Supervised FIL 4906, Wanjiku Mwangi, Spring 2015 FIL 4906, Metrah Pashaee, Spring 2012 FIL 4906, Christopher Carullo, Fall 2011 FIL 4906, Nick Briz, Spring 2009 FIL 4906, Jared Melman, Spring 2009 FIL 4906, Alexandra Duggins, Fall 2006 FIL 4906, Benjamin Piety, Summer 2005 FIL 4906, David Reddish, Fall 2003
UCF Graduate Directed Research Supervised FIL 6918, Zachary Beckler, Fall 2013 FIL 6918, Katherine Shults, Spring 2010
UCF Undergraduate Honors Directed Reading Supervised FIL 4903H, Allyson Dickerson, Summer 2013 FIL 4903H, Sebastian Jones, Fall 2012 FIL 4940H, Jonathan Perez, Summer 2011 FIL 4940H, Jonathan Perez, Spring 2011 FIL 4940H, Christopher Carullo, Spring 2011 FIL 4940H, Brendon Kingsbury, Fall 2009
Internships Supervised FIL 4941, Lauren Garafalo, Fall 2002
Awards/Grants/Fellowships 2015 Creative Capital Award 2012 Research Incentive Award, University of Central Florida 2011 College of Arts and Humanities Research and Development Award, University of Central Florida Special Jury Prize: Best International Work, WNDX: Winnipeg’s Festival of Film and Video Art, 28.IV.81 (Descending Figures) Double Documentary Jury Award, Ann Arbor International Film Festival, 28.IV.81 (Descending Figures) 2008 Special Mention Jury Prize, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Sunshine State (Extended Forecast) Artist Enhancement Grant, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Honorable Mention Jury Prize, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Sunshine State (Extended Forecast) 2008 Professional Development Grant, United Arts of Central Florida Creative Capital Finalist 2005 Cine-X Prize for Best Experimental Film, Olympia Film Festival, Reckless Eyeballing Artist Enhancement Grant, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs 1st Place Medium Category, Sarah Lawrence College Experimental Film and Video Festival, Reckless Eyeballing 2005 Juror’s Choice Award, Humboldt International Short Film Festival, Juror: Craig Baldwin, Reckless Eyeballing Creative Capital Finalist 2004 Programmers’ Choice Award, Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, Reckless Eyeballing Research Grant, University of Central Florida 1991 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1990 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago
Filmography 2016 Distant Shores, 3 min., 16mm-to-HD, color, sound 2016 Halimuhfack, 4 min., 16mm-to-HD, color, sound 2014 A Willing Suspension of Disbelief, 9:03, 16mm-to-HD, black and white, sound, 3-channel video installation 2014 Photography and Fetish, 7:37, 16mm-to-HD, black and white, sound, split-screen video installation 2011 28.IV.81 (Descending Figures), 3 min., 16mm double projection, color, silent 2009 28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark), 3 min., 16mm, color, silent 2007 Sunshine State (Extended Forecast), 8 min., 16mm, color, sound 2004 Reckless Eyeballing, 14 min., 16mm, black and white, sound 2001 still/here, 60 min., 16mm, black and white, sound
Selected Screenings and Exhibitions 2017 Crossroads, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN Kino Tuskanac, Avant-Noir, Volume 1, Zagreb, Croatia Solo Screening, Guyon Auditorium, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Cellular Cinema, Minneapolis, MN Festival of (In)appropriation #9, Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA Mechanical Eye Microcinema, The Spaces Between Us, Asheville, NC The Box, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH 2016 L’ALTERNATIVA, 23rd Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, Hall Screen, Barcelona, Spain Light Field, The Lab, San Francisco, CA Solo Screening, Visiting Artist, Department of Visual Arts, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, New York, NY Solo Screening, James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, Visual Arts Program of the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Return of the Electric Love (Take II), Troy, NY Solo Screening, Union Cinema, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI Solo Screening, Headroom Screening Series, FilmScene, Iowa City, IA Solo Screening, Home Manchester, Black Atlantic Cinema Club, Manchester, England, UK Solo Screening, Bristol Watershed, Cinema Rediscoverd, Black Atlantic Cinema Club, Bristol, England, UK Solo Screening, MICROSCOPE Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Boca Raton Museum of Art, All Florida Exhibition, Boca Raton, FL Solo Screening, Autograph ABP, Black Atlantic Cinema Club, London, England, UK Lucchiche (shimmering): A Video Art Symposium, at Ponte di Ferro, Carrara, Italy Antioch College, No New York (curated by Roger Beebe), Yellow Springs, OH The Lab, Surplus/Lack, San Francisco, CA Cinema Project, Black Cinema 1: Image and Mirage, Meaning and Identity, Portland, OR 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI Solo Screening, Black Film Center/Archive, Films by Christopher Harris, Bloomington, IN UNEXPOSED Microcinema, No New York (curated by Roger Beebe), Durham, NC Solo Screening, Black Cinema House/Southside Projections, Frame of Reference: An Evening With Christopher Harris, Chicago, IL Solo Screening, Gene Siskel Film Center, Radiant Visions: Media Art From SAIC, 1965-Now, Chicago, IL Solo Screening, Independent Filmmakers’ Co-operative of Ottawa, Dimensions: The Avant-Garde Cinema of Christopher Harris, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Mechanical Eye Microcinema, FU DW Griffith, Asheville, NC Selected Screenings and Exhibitions (cont.) 2016 University of Central Florida Art Gallery, The Encounter Baalu Girma and Zora Neale Hurston, Orlando, FL Shotgun Cinema, Full Aperture: Collected Visions (curated by Christy LeMaster), New Orleans, LA Echo Park Film Center, No L.A., (curated by Roger Beebe), Los Angeles, CA 2015 Cinema Contra, Black Lives Matter, Denver, CO Experimental Pints & Pictures, Fort Collins, CO MICROSCOPE Gallery, No New York, Brooklyn, NY Plug Projects, FPS, Kansas City, MO 2014 Institute of Contemporary Arts/London, Artists’ Film Biennial, Avant-Noir, London, UK Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando Museum of Art Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Orlando, FL (catalogue) Spectra, Politics: Aesthetics: Action, Kansas City, KS 2013 Best of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA Two-Person Exhibition, Film the House of the Word, Duke University, Durham, NC (with novelist and poet Nathaniel Mackey) Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, GA MICROSCOPE Gallery, MORE OF HIM, Brooklyn, NY C. Emerson Fine Art Gallery, Best of Florida Experimental Film/Video Showcase, St. Petersburg, FL 2012 The Substation, 3rd Experimental Forum, Florida Experimental Film/Video Showcase, Singapore 2011 Other Cinema, Avant to Live: New Experimental Works; San Francisco, CA L’ALTERNATIVA, 18th Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, Hall Screen, Barcelona, Spain Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA James River Shorts, Richmond, VA Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada WNDX-Winnipeg’s Festival of Film and Video Art; Winnipeg, Canada MICROSCOPE Gallery, Best of the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Brooklyn, NY Crossroads Festival of Moving Image Arts, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI Maysles Cinema, Black X: African Diaspora Experimental Film Series, New York, NY LaborBerlin, Best of the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Berlin, Germany Experiments in Cinema v 6.3, Albuquerque, NM Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival; Iowa City, IA Eckerd College, Best of the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Tampa, FL 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Gainesville, FL 2010 24th Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, U.K. WNDX-Winnipeg’s Festival of Film and Video Art, Winnipeg, Canada 21st Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille, Parallel Screens, Marseille, France Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA Courtisane Festival for Short Film, Video and New Media, Ghent, Belgium 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2009 Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada 63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. Milwaukee Underground Film Festival; Milwaukee, WI Experiments in Cinema v 4.2, Albuquerque, NM 23rd Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, U.K. Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Gainesville, FL 2008 Solo Screening, Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Films by Christopher Harris, Pont- Aven, France Solo Screening, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Film Series, Films by Christopher Harris, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, Maryland Selected Screenings and Exhibitions (cont.) 2008 24th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI 34th Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH 27th European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany Courtisane Festival For Short Film, Video and New Media; Ghent, Belgium Experiments in Cinema v 3.0, Albuquerque, NM 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2007 Solo Screening, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Juror screening, Films by Christopher Harris, Iowa City, Iowa Avanto Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland Iowa City Experimental Film Festival, Iowa City, IA Bearded Child Film Festival, Grand Rapids, MN Museum of Contemporary Art-Detroit, Shrinking Cities, Detroit, MI 2006 Solo Screening, Block Cinema, Block Museum of Art, Films by Christopher Harris, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 40th Nashville Film Festival, Nashville, TN Black & White Festival, Porto, Portugal 25th Viper International Festival for Film, Video and New Media, Basel, Switzerland 2005 Solo Screening, City University of New York, Lehman College, The City & The Humanities, Bronx, New York Two-Person Screening, San Francisco Cinematheque, Dialogues in the Dark, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA (with filmmaker Peter Hutton) Rencontres Internationales Paris, Paris, France Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 22nd Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA 49th VIENNALE-Vienna International Film Festival, Vienna, Austria Double Negative Film Collective, Montreal, Canada University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina DC Underground Film Festival, Washington, D.C. Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA 33rd Huesca Film Festival, Huesca, Spain Museum of Contemporary Art-Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Art Cinema, OFF OFF Nucleo, Ghent, Belgium MMBase Forum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Limelight, Kortrijk, Belgium Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival, Portland, Oregon Sarah Lawrence College Experimental Film and Video Festival; Bronxville, NY 38th Humboldt International Short Film Festival, Arcata, CA Wisconsin Film Festival; Madison, WI New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2004 OPENSOURCE Art, An Informal Series about Place, Champaign, IL Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival; Gainesville, FL Cinematexas International Short Film Festival; Austin, TX Bearded Child Film Festival; Grand Rapids, MN 2003 Solo Screening, Gene Siskel Film Center, Conversations at the Edge, Chicago, IL 2002 Solo Screening, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2001 Two-Person Screening, Chicago Filmmakers, The Space of the City, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL Thaw Festival of Film, Video and Digital Media, Iowa City, IA Solo Screening, Webster University Film Series, St. Louis, MO
Selected Bibliography Lynne Sachs, “This Camera Fights Fascism: A Personal Survey of Cinemas of Resistance,” OtherZine, February 19, 2017: Issue #32, Spring. Michael Sicinski, “Halimuhfack,” Letterboxed, December 2016. Ephraim Asili, “2016: The Year According to Ephraim Asili,” Crosscuts, Walker Art Center, December 22, 2016. Rhett Jones, This Week’s Must See Events: Fear and Loathing in the Art World, “Christopher Harris: Films & Videos,” Art F City, July 25, 2016. The Editors of ARTnews, 9 Events to Attend in New York City this Week, “’Christopher Harris: Films and Videos’ at Microscope Gallery,” ARTnews, July 25, 2016. Terri Francis, “Cosmologies of Black Cultural Production: A Conversation with Afrosurrealist Filmmaker Christopher Harris,” Film Quarterly, Summer 2016: Volume 69, Number 4. Christopher Good, “The Past Keeps Happening: Suspending Disbelief with Filmmaker Christopher Harris,” South Side Weekly, March 8, 2016. http://soutshideweekly.com/the-past-keeps-happening/ Kyle Cubr, “Christopher Harris’ still/here,” CINE-LIST: A Weekly Guide to Alternative Cinema, February 19th-25th, Crucial Viewing. http://cine-file.info/list-archive/2016/FEB-16-4.html Sophia Satchell-Baeza, “Artists’ Film Biennial, ICA 2014,” NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, autumn 2015. http://www.necsus-ejms.org/artists-film-biennial-ica-2014/ Hansen Mulford, “Ten Florida Artists,” Orlando Museum of Art Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, catalogue, summer 2014. Terri Francis, “Between Documentary and the Avant-garde: Exploring the Visual Poetics of Ruins in Christopher Harris’ still/here,” Black American Cinema: Race Sexuality and Gender at the Movies, edited by Mia Mask. New York: Routledge, 2012. Andréa Picard, “Fast and Furious: The Best of 2011 in Avant-Garde Film,” indieWIRE, 2011. http://www.indiewire.com/article/fast-and-furious-the-best-of-2011-in-experimental-film Michael Sicinski, “Between Two Eyes: Four Emergent Avant-Garde Film/Videomakers for the New Decade,” Cinema Scope Magazine, July 2011, 28-32. Terri Francis, “Ethnicity, Race and Film,” An Introduction to Film Studies (5th edition), Routledge, 2011. Terri Francis, “She Will Never Look: Film Spectatorship, Black Feminism, and Scary Subjectivities,” Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History, edited by Vicki Callahan. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2011. Ben Franzen, “Reel Talent,” The Crisis Magazine, Winter 2010, 23. Terri Francis, “African American Cinema: Ethnicity, Race an Film,” Introduction to Film Studies, Edited by Jill Nelmes. London: Routledge, 2008. Michael Sicinski, “Reel Nashville 2006, A User’s Guide to the Nashville Film Festival: Films Without Boundaries,” reviewed as “Highly Recommended,” Nashville Scene, April 20, 2006. http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Cover_Story/2006/04/20/Reel_Nashville_2006/index.shtm l Michael Sicinski, “Reviews of New Releases Seen, April 2006,” The Academic Hack “blog.” April, 2006. http://academichack.net/reviewsApril2006.htm Fred Camper, "Chicago's Own: The Space of the City," Critic's Choice, Chicago Reader, Chicago, IL, December 14, 2001, Volume 31, Number 11. http://onfilm.chicagoreader.com/movies/capsules/23561_STILL_HERE Thomas Crone, "Filmmaker Turns Camera on City's Crumbling Neighborhoods," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, January 4, 2001. Byron Kerman, "Home Sickness," Riverfront Times, St. Louis, MO, January 3-9, 2001. 29. http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2001-01-03/nd.html Thomas Crone, “Still Life,” The Commonspace, Grassroots Civics and Culture in St. Louis, Jan, 2001. http://www.thecommonspace.org/2001/01/communities.php
Selected Presentations and Studio Visits 2017 Studio Visits with MFA students in the Department of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, Class: Post-production, Instructor: Jennida Chase Visiting Artist, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, Class: Visiting Artist, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, Class: Advanced TV Production, Instructor: Wago Kreider Visiting Artist, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, Class: Producing Independent Cinema, Instructor: Angela Aguayo Visiting Artist, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, Class: Art and Activism, Instructor: Cade Bursell 2016 Visiting Artist, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Class: Documentary Filmmaking, Instructor: Lynne Sachs, Senior Lecturer, Program in Visual Arts, November. Visiting Artist, The New School, New York, NY, Class: Corporeal Cinema, Instructor: Lana Lin, Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Programs, School of Media Studies, November. Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Class: Time, Light and Sound, Instructor: Sheri Wills, Professor and Dean of Fine Arts, November. Visiting Artist, Emerson College, Boston, MA, Class: Alternative Production Techniques, Instructor: Kathryn Ramey, Associate Professor, November. Studio Visits with MFA Moving Image students, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, October Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Class: Documentary: Photo/Film/Video, Instructor: Thomas Comerford, Adjunct Associate Professor, October. Visiting Artist, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, Class: Film and Experience, Instructor: Lori Felker, Assistant Professor, October. Visiting Artist, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, Class: Graduate Seminar, Instructor: Steven Wetzel, Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Film Program, October. Studio Visits with Film, Video, Animation, & New Genres MFA students, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, October. Studio Visits with Film and Video Production MFA students, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, October. 2012 “Delia Speaks,” College of Arts & Humanities Research Presentation, University of Central Florida, April. 2006 “A/K/A Mrs. Gilbert,” African American Studies Program Black Atlantic Film Series, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, February. 2005 “My Grandma’s Advice,” Formal Screening respondent, University Film and Video Association Conference, Chicago, IL, August. “Toward an Avant-garde Poetics of Black Cinema,” Black Abstraction and Cinema, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, London, England, April. 2004 “Killer of Sheep,” Brown v. Board Screening Series, Burnett Honors College, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, October. “Save the Last Dance,” Brown v. Board Screening Series, Burnett Honors College, University of Central Florida, September. 2002 “Black Nationalism, Internationalism and Larry Clark’s Passing Through,” American Literature Association Conference, Long Beach, CA, May. "Blinded By the White: Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark and Idealized Whiteness in The Matrix," St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, April. "Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Sub-Altern in Paradise," American Culture Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, March. 2001 "Blinded By the White: Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark and Idealized Whiteness in The Matrix," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., May. "Dust to Dust: The Trauma Narrative of the Black Diaspora in Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust," Real-to-Reel: Black Life in Cinema Symposium, Chapel Hill, NC., April. 1999 “Wanted Dead or Alive or in Living Color: Transforming Outlaw Angela Davis into Sex Symbol Pam Grier,” American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore, MD., May. 1998 “A ‘Jazz Aesthetic’ in New Wave Cinemas,” St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO., April. Collections and Library Holdings Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Northwestern University Library, Evanston, IL St. Louis University Library, St. Louis, MO St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies, St. Mary’s City, MD St. Mary’s College of Maryland Library, St. Mary’s City, MD University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA University of Chicago, Film Studies Center, Chicago, IL University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA University of Texas at Dallas, Eugene McDermott Library, Dallas, TX Washington University Library, St. Louis, MO Yale University, Film Study Center, New Haven, CT
Artist Residencies 2012 Wexner Center for the Arts, Film/Video Studio Program, Columbus, OH (October 1 – October 19; November 5 – November 17) 2008 Résidences-ateliers de Pont-Aven, Pont-Aven, France (September 12 – October 31)
Distribution Ann Arbor Film Festival Collection, DVD Home Video Canyon Cinema, 16mm Experiments in Cinema, DVD, Home Video Other Cinema DVD, Home Video
National Service 2016 NOW! A Journal of Urgent Praxis, Editorial Board 2014 Georgia State University, Promotion & Tenure external reviewer 2013 Canyon Cinema, Board of Directors Syracuse University, Promotion & Tenure external reviewer 2012 Continuum Publishing Book Proposal Review 2010 University of Missouri-Kansas City, Promotion & Tenure external reviewer 2008 University of Illinois at Chicago, Promotion & Tenure external reviewer 2007 Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Juror
Regional Service 2016 Panelist, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Media Arts General Program Support Grant 2008 Panelist, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Media Arts Cultural Support Grant 2005 Panelist, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Media Arts Individual Artist Fellowships
University, College, School and Departmental Service 2014-2015 Member, School of Visual Arts & Design, Film Search Committee 2014-Present Faculty Mentor, School of Visual Art & Design 2014 Chair, School of Visual Arts & Design, Film Search Committee 2013-Present Member, School of Visual Arts & Design, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member, School of Visual Art & Design, Graduate Curriculum Committee Member, School of Visual Art & Design, Promotion and Tenure Committee Member, School of Visual Art & Design, Scholarship Committee Member, School of Visual Art & Design, Film Graduate Committee Member, School of Visual Art & Design, Film BFA Admission Committee Member, School of Visual Art Film BFA Admissions Portfolio Review Committee 2012-2016 Faculty Advisor, School of Visual Art & Design student organization, Student Cinematheque
University, College, School and Departmental Service (cont.) 2011-2012 Member, Film Department/School of Performing Arts Exploratory Committee 2011 Member, College of Arts and Humanities Excellence in Teaching and Service Award Committee Member, College of Arts and Humanities, Office of Research and Commercialization, In House Research Grant Committee Member, Film Department/School of Visual Arts & Design Exploratory Committee Faculty Advisor, Film Dpartment student organization, Hypnotic Suggestion 2010-2012 Chair, Film Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Faculty Advisor, Film Department student organization, Student Cinematheque 2010-2011 Member, College of Arts and Humanities Excellence in Teaching/Excellence in Service Awards Committee 2009 Member, College of Arts and Humanities Mentoring Task Force 2009-2010 Member, Governance Document Committee 2008-2012 Member, Film Department MFA Committee 2008 Member, Film Department Cinema Studies Search Committee 2007-2012 Faculty Mentor, Film Department 2007-2008 Member, Center for Humanities and Digital Research Advisory Board 2007-2010 Member, Film Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member, Film Department Cinema Studies Committee 2007 – 2012 Member, Film Department Promotion and Tenure Committee 2006 Member, School of Film and Digital Media Search Committee 2004 – 2005 Mentor, McNair Scholars Program 2003 – 2012 Chair, Film Department Scholarship Committee 2003 – 2009 Member, Film Department Cinema Studies Committee 2003 Member, College of Arts and Humanities Research Incentive Award Committee 2002 – 2005; 2006 – 2012 Member, Film Department BFA Admissions Application Portfolio Review Committee 2002 – 2004 Member, College of Arts and Humanities Undergraduate Curriculum and Standards Committee 2003 Member, Film Division Cinema Studies Search Committee 2002 Member, Film Division Production Search Committee Member, African American Studies Program Search Committee Member, African American Studies Program Advisory Committee 2001 – Present Member, Film Division Cinema Studies Committee 2001 – 2003 Faculty Advisor, Elements, UCF student organization 2001 – 2002 Member, African American Studies Recruitment Committee
Curatorial Projects 2011 Programmer, Night Catches Us, Enzian Theater, Orlando, Florida 2009-Present Artistic Director, Sunspot Cinema Microcinema, Orlando, FL Coco Fusco, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL A Roll for Peter: Peter Hutton Tribute Program, UCF Art Gallery, Orlando, FL Former Models: Recent Experimental Films and Videos by UCF Film Alumni, St. Matthew’s Tavern at the Orlando Beer Garden, Orlando, FL Melika Bass, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Jake Barningham, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Jodie Mack, Winter Springs Festival of the Arts, Winter Springs, FL Phil Solomon, Blank Space Gallery, Orlando, FL Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour, Walt Disney Amphitheatre at Lake Eola, Orlando, FL Paul Clipson, Overlapping Worlds, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Roger Beebe, Films for One to Eight Projectors, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Films of Stan Brakhage, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL The Presentation Theme, Selections from the Florida Experimental Film Festival, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 2004 Guest programmer, Experimental Film, Downtown Media Arts Center, Orlando, FL Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby Kevin Jerome Everson 2002 Selection Committee, Documentary Program, Florida Film Festival, Orlando, FL 1999-2000 Co-Curator, Eye and Ear Clinic Experimental Film Series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago