Jem Cohen. Filmmaker/photographer/multi-media artist ​Jem Cohen​​’s feature-length films include ​Museum Hours, Counting, Chain, Benjamin Smoke, Instrument,​ and ​World Without End (No Reported Incidents).​ Shorts include ​Lost Book Found, Little Flags, and Anne Truitt – Working​. His films are often documentary/fiction hybrids – navigating between city symphony, diary film, and essay, they pull things seen on the periphery into the center. Cohen’s work is in the collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum, Jewish Museum, and D.C.’s Natl Gallery of Art, and has been broadcast by PBS, Arte, and the Sundance Channel. Retrospectives include Harvard Film Archive and London’s Whitechapel Gallery. Grants/Fellowships include Guggenheim, Alpert, Creative Capital, and awards include the Independent Spirit Award (IFP) and Persistence of Vision Award (SFFS).

Sundance Announces 2018 Art of Nonfiction Fellows and Grantees

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Lebanese filmmaker and photographer and Media Studies alum Akram Zaatari presents his video Her + Him (2001–12), which was recently acquired by the Guggenheim Museum, and discusses his practice. A founding member of the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut, Zaatari assumes the roles of researcher, collector, archivist, and curator in his work, investigating the sites, documents, and memories of the Middle East’s history through the filter of subjective experience. Funding for this event is provided by members of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Middle Eastern Circle.

$15, $10 members. All free student tickets for this program have been claimed. Students with a valid school ID may register for a discounted ticket price of $5.

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Recognized worldwide as a groundbreaking leader in the use of technology in the arts, Anderson collaborated with Interval Research Corporation, a research and development laboratory founded by Paul Allen and David Liddle, in the exploration of new creative tools, including the Talking Stick.

A highly acclaimed performance artist who also became an unlikely pop star in the 1980s. She was a pioneer of multimedia Performance and Installation art, before crossing over into the popular music industry with songs from her large-scale performance pieces, later producing full albums for commercial release. As one of the first artists of her downtown New York context to achieve a level of commercial fame, she was at the forefront of debates around the influence of mass media on the art world. She has since been recognized as being remarkably ahead of her time in embracing of new technologies in art and performance practice, and in her engagement with new media to share her work.

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