2024 Artists and Scholars in Residence
Henrique Landulfo – October 2024
Producer Henrique Landulfo is the Producer and Co-Director with Sandra Kogut of the film “No Céu da Pátria Nesse Instante” (2023), which premiered at the 56th Brasília Film Festival, winning the Best Editing and Special Jury prizes. The film is selected to be screened at the Málaga Film Festival (Spain), DOK.fest München (Germany) and Biarritz Film Festival (France). Henrique was the Production Coordinator for the film “Pelé” (Netflix, Pitch International, UK, 2020) & the film “The Conductor” (Waystone Productions, United States, 2021). Production consultant for the feature film “The Outpost” (Rai Cinema, Italy, 2023), by Edoardo Morabito, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival’s Author’s Journey and was selected for the Rio Film Festival and São Paulo Film Festival. He is the producer of “Dossiê Chapecó, O Jogo Por Trás da Tragédia” (HBO, Pacha Films, Peru), nominated for an Emmy for Best Documentary, and co-Director of the film “Voluntário **1864” (Globoplay, 2021), directed by Sandra Kogut, shown at BAM Brooklyn (USA), and selected for the 26th Infinito Film Festival.
Kathryn Ramey – December 2024
Kathryn Ramey is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work operates at the intersection of experimental film processes and ethnographic research. Her award winning and strongly personal films are characterized by manipulation of the celluloid including hand-processing, optical printing, and various direct animation techniques. Most recently she has been focused on creating an anti-colonial film practice with collaborators in Puerto Rico and researching environmentally friendly photochemical processes utilizing indigenous flora. She is deeply committed to sharing her knowledge of alternative analogue technologies through workshops and publications and is the author of the book Experimental Filmmaking: BREAK THE MACHINE (focal press 2016). Her work has been international screened and awarded and she is a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellow and Creative Capital awardee.
Soyoung Kim – February 2025
Soyoung Kim is a filmmaker and scholar who directed the Women’s History Trilogy (2001-2008) and the Exile Trilogy (2014-2018). Her works include the feature film Viewfinder, the experimental video Ana: Cosmic Archivist, SFdrome: Ju Se-juk, and Ana Inn: Harvesting the Light (a multi-channel video work). Her film Goodbye My Love North Korea (2018) was released in art house cinemas in Korea and Japan in 2020. Currently, she is a professor of Cinema Studies at the Korean National University of Arts and serves as the director of the Trans-Asia Screen Culture Institute, a position she has held since 2000. As a curator, Kim has organized numerous international academic conferences, including the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Biennale and various forums. She was the founding program director for the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival and the first co-programmer for the Jeonju International Film Festival as well as the program director of The Climate of Cinema film exhibition (MOCA, 2023). Her recent publications include Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Post-Colonial Phantom, Blockbuster, and Trans-Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2022). She is the editor for the comprehensive 10-volume History of Korean Cinema (Korea Research Foundation).
McKenzie Wark – March 2025
McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar. Wark is known for her writings on media theory, critical theory, new media, and the Situationist International. She is the author of “Reverse Cowgirl”, “Raving” and “Love and Money, Sex and Death”, shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction, “A Hacker Manifesto”, “Gamer Theory” and “Capital is Dead”. She is Professor of Media and Culture at Eugene Lang College, The New School. At the theoretical level, Wark’s writing can be seen in the context of three currents: British Cultural Studies, German Critical Theory and French Poststructuralism. Her earlier works combined British and French influences to extend Australian cultural studies to encompass questions of globalization and new media technology. Her later works draw more from Critical Theory and a much revised Marxism. Through her experimentation with new media forms, starting with listservers such as nettime.org and later with web interfaces such as the one developed for “Gamer Theory”, her works intersect with other new media theorists such as Geert Lovink and Mark Amerika.
Patricia White – April 2025
Patricia White is Director of the Aydelotte Foundation for the Liberal Arts and Centennial Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College, where she alsothe Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on feminist, queer and trans film theory, independent filmmaking, and women’s genres. Her books include Rebecca (BFI Film Classes); Women’s Cinema/World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (Duke University Press), and Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability, and, with Timothy Corrigan, The Film Experience (now in its 6th edition with Bedford St. Martin’s). Her recent essays have appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema; Ulrike Ottinger: Film Art, and the Ethnographic Imagination; Studies in World Cinema, and Film Quarterly, on whose editorial board she serves. A member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective, she has edited special issues and dossiers on the work of Chantal Akerman and Barbara Hammer and oversees the Camera Obscura book series with Duke University Press. She is Secretary of the Board of Women Make Movies, the feminist distributor and media arts organization founded in 1972. Her current book project is a study of the language of world cinema in the work of independent US women directors
2022 Artists in Residence
Jane Jin Kaisen – Spring 2022
Jane Jin Kaisen (born in on the Jeju Island, South Korea) is a visual artist living in Copenhagen who works with video installation, experimental film, photographic installation, performance, and text. Her artistic practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research and engagement with diverse communities. Her work is best known for its visually striking, performative, and feminist qualities in which past and present are brought into dialogue with each other. Engaging topics such as memory, migration, border theory, and translation, she activates the field where subjective experience and embodied knowledge intersect with larger political histories. Jin Kaisen will join the Center for Advanced Media Studies as well as the initiative on “Building Anti-Racist Coalitions and Intersectional Knowledge in the Face of Anti-Asian Violence” at Johns Hopkins for an artist residency in 2022.
Eduardo Kac – Spring 2022
A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web ’80s, Eduardo Kac (pronounced “Katz”) emerged in the early ’90s with his radical works combining telerobotics and living organisms. His visionary integration of robotics, biology and networking explores the fluidity of subject positions in the post-digital world. His work deals with issues that range from the mythopoetics of online experience (Uirapuru) to the cultural impact of biotechnology (Genesis); from the changing condition of memory in the digital age (Time Capsule) to distributed collective agency (Teleporting an Unknown State); from the problematic notion of the “exotic” (Rara Avis) to the creation of life and evolution (GFP Bunny). At the dawn of the twenty-first century Kacopened a new direction for contemporary art with his “transgenic art”–first with a groundbreaking piece entitled Genesis (1999), which included an “artist’s gene” he invented, and then with “GFP Bunny,” his fluorescent rabbit called Alba (2000). Kac’s work has been exhibited internationally, and is in the permanent collections of the Tate, London; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. Kac’s work has been featured both in contemporary art publications, contemporary art books, and in the mass media. Kac has received many awards, including the Golden Nica Award, the most prestigious award in the field of media arts and the highest prize awarded by Ars Electronica. He lectures and publishes worldwide. His work is documented at www.ekac.org. Eduardo Kac will join us for a residency and exhibition at the SNF Parkway Theater in Baltimore during the Spring of 2022.
Haoran Chang
Haoran Chang is a multidisciplinary artist who uses video installation, virtual reality, and digital print in exploring the social construction and digital mediation in contemporary society. Chang’s installation Wen Xi: Tracing Fire (on view in the Parkway’s Dietz Lounge and the second floor lobby, March 26-April 2) zeroes in on the historic Wen Xi Fire that happened in 1938 in Changsha, China. By tracing the representations of this traumatic event, Chang explores how the “reality” of the historic event is mediated by cultural memories which become a “virtual” story of the past. Chang deploys a variety of digital media in developing this project, from documentary, to virtual reality, digital print, and photogrammetry. Each of them becomes a different tangent line to differentiate the function of this past story. While the past, present, and future do not exist chronologically in the timeline of this installation, they nevertheless converge into different kinds of “digital debris.” Like the formation of a rock, each of these media helps in calibrating the location of this historic fire. Chang will join us in the fall of 2022 as an Artist in Residence.