The Film & Digital Media Visiting Artist Series presents:
Zoe Beloff, Film/Artist (NY)
Public Lecture: Monday, March 12, 2012
Time: 7:00 - 9:00PM
Location: Communications 150 (Studio C)
Workshop: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Time: 12:30 - 2:00PM
Location: Communications 139
More details to be announced; contact film@ucsc.edu
Bio:
Zoe Beloff grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1980, she moved to New York to study at Columbia University, where she received an MFA in Film. Her work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings; venues inclued the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Freud Dream Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. In 2009, she participated in the Athens Biennale, and has an upcoming project with MuHKA Museum in Antwerp. Her most recently completed work is the exhibition "The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and their Circle. She has been working with the Christine Burgin Gallery on a number of artist projects that include books and prints.
Zoe works with a wide range of media including film, stereoscopic projection performance, interactive media, installation and drawing. Her artistic interest lies in finding ways to graphically manifest the unconscious processes of the mind. She considers herself a medium, an interface between the living and the dead, the real and the imaginary. Sometimes, she uses archaic apparatuses, sometimes, new analog/digital hybrids. Each project aims to connect the present with the past, to create new visual languages where modern media will once again be invested with the uncanny. She has collaborated with artists from other disciplines including composer John Cale, the Wooster Group Theater Company and composer, singer and performance artist Shelley Hirsch.
Zoe has been awarded fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation (2003), The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts (1997) and NYFA (1997, 2001). She has received individual artist grants from foundations that include NYSCA , The Jerome Foundation and Experimental Television Center Finishing Funds Award. She teaches at Queens College.