EDUCATION

GRADUATE STUDIES

M.P.S. New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

Inter-Telecommunications, (ITP), 2009, Social Networks, New Technology

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

            B.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1980, Film/Video, Photography

TECHNOLOGY/LANGUAGE SKILLS

DIGITAL: Platforms: Mac, Linux, PC; Software: Adobe Suite- After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, Flash; Avid, Final Cut Pro, Director, Microsoft Office, Painter, Quark, Maya; Coding: HTML Java Script, Eclipse, PHP; Processing, Mobile Processing.

FILM & VIDEO: s-8, 16mm, 35mm, Mini-DV, BetaSP, Beta cam, 3/4SP, SVHS, VHS, 8mm, hi8.

ANIMATION: Mac, Linux and PC computer platforms, JK printer, Richardson printer; Mitchell animation stand, Oxberry stand.

PHOTOGRAPHY: All formats, analog and digital.

WRITING: Daily and magazine journalism, topical essay, film/teleplay, interview, poetry

PAINTING AND DRAWING: Intuitive representation, oil, watercolor, ink, graphite

LANGUAGE: Fluency: English, French. Familiarity: German, Italian, and Latin.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Featuring video, film, photography, multimedia, digital and analog workshops and production courses and humanities courses on visual art and design-related topics.

1993- current Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, Instructor, Adjunct Professor, V            Visiting Assistant Professor, Academic Advisor

·      Maurice Kanbar Institute, BFA Program, Dept. Film & Television

·      Department of Special Programs,

·      Department of Photography & Imaging,

2003-09

"Politics of Portraiture” research, develop/teach syllabus, Humanities/GenEd

1999-02

“Digital Video for Photographers""- research, develop/teach syllabus

“Video for Photographers"- research, develop/teach syllabus

“Photo 1 & 2”- develop/teach syllabus

1994-99 “Sight & Sound Video Production”, BFA program, Spring & Fall

1996+ “Sight & Sound Video Production”, summer, 3 years

-3-camera TV studio and documentary field production, department syllabus

1997-98 “Narrative Director Workshop”- research/teach syllabus

2000-03 NYU, School of Continuing & Professional Studies, Instructor

·      Certificate Program, Dept. of Journalism & Television

"Visual Design of the Frame in Film, Video, New Media”- research, develop/teach syllabus

1998-01 School of Visual Arts, NY, Instructor

·      BFA Program, Dept. of Computer Arts

·      Department of Continuing Education

2001             “Dynamic Media Theory” (Video)

- Research, write & teach syllabus

2000             Director/Designer, Dynamic Media Pre-College Summer Program

"Dynamic Media" Thesis Production (Video)

-Research, write & teach syllabus

1999 Intro to Digital Video Class; Pre-Thesis Class

"Sequential Dynamic Media" Thesis Production (Video)

-Research, write & teach syllabus

 “Macromedia Director & Digital Tools Workshop”

-Research, write & teach syllabus

2004-06 New School University School, Instructor

• BFA, MFA, Dept. of Film and Media

"16mm Film Production”- develop, /teach syllabus

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009    Dantzig, Cynthia, “100 New York Photographers”, Schiffer Publishing, LTD, Pennsylvania

2008    Furness, Maureen, "Animation Bible", book, Lawrence King Publishers, London

2007    Spuytenduyvil Press, Donna Cameron, book, June

2003    "I LOVE MANHATTAN", review, Gallery & Studio, March/April

2000    'Thunderbolt, Indeed!” review, “New York Notebook” Gallery & Studio, November/December 

1998    Ford, Ruth, "BAM Now the Movies", and review, the Brooklyn Papers, Nov 13

1996    Sweeney, John F., "Donna Cameron Comes to the Entrance Gallery", review,

                                    The Observer, Fordham University, NY, NY, November 13

1995    Dunning, Jennifer, "The Veteran Artist behind the Steps", dance review,

                                    The New York Times "The Living Arts", New York, NY, June

1994    "Animator presents her work in N.O.", review, MOVIE NOTES,

                                    The New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA, December

            "Revolutionary Animator will screen works and demonstrate technique Dec 2-4"

                                    Journal of the New Orleans Video Access Center, (NOVAC), Nov-Dec

1994    Jensen, Jytte, "Shirley Clarke In Our Time by Donna Cameron", Museum of Modern Art, NY

1993    Wees, William C., Recycled Images, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY

1992    Herskowitz, Richard, "Experimental Legacies: Donna Cameron and Len Lye",

                                    Herbert F. Johnson Museum Newsletter, Ithaca, NY, November

            "Independent Filmmakers: New Yorkers and Other Americans',

                                    Exhibition brochure, Kuntshalle, Bonn, Germany, June

            Kelly, Kathleen I., "Hallwalls, End of the Season Art Exhibit", review,

                                    Art Voice, Buffalo, NY, May

            Lucia, Tony, "Glitches of Light: Berks Filmmakers will get a Glimpse of a             Groundbreaker",

                                    Review, The Reading Eagle, April 19

1991    Gartenberg, Jon, "The Fragile Emulsion", May

SELECT SOLO SHOWS

2010    Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY, Shirley Clarke In Our Time, January 30

2009    Millennium Film Workshop, NY, Paper emulsion 2D imaging & Films, December

2007    The Museum of Modern Art, Study Center, Donna Cameron: Portrait of an Artist… February

2004    Millennium Film Workshop, NY, Paper emulsion 2D imaging & Films, March

2003    Zeitgeist Theater, New Orleans, LA, March 21, video, imaging and films, DV

            Shreveport Arts Fest, Shreveport, LA, March 22, painted films, DV

            718 Gallery, Visionary Moving Image, paintings, photography, February

2002    Art Vanguard Gallery, NY, paintings, photography, April 7-June 5; Nov 17-Dec 31

            Anthology Film Archives, NY, Visual Communication, films, art, March 21- April6

2000    Museum of Modern Art, NY, MoMA 2000, Making Choices, Part 2, June 17, 23

            The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Cineprobe, June 19

            The Berrie Center for the Performing Arts, Mahwah, NJ, "Thunderbolt", March

1998    New York University, NY, NY, Directors Series, April

            TSOA Institute of Film & Television, NYU, NY, Freshman Symposium, April

1997    Berks Filmmakers, Reading, PA, February

            University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, April 1997

            TSOA Dept. of Film & Television, NYU, NY, Freshman Symposium, April & Nov.

            San Francisco Cinemateque, SF, CA, Donna Cameron Film Retrospective, May

            The Entrance Gallery, Fordham at Lincoln Center, "Sequences of a Multiples Artist"

                              (Retrospective of Donna Cameron's art and films) October, 1996-January, 1997

1996    The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Cineprobe, March

            TSOA Dept. of Film & Television, NYU, NY, Freshman Symposium, April & Nov.

            The Museum of Modern Art, NY, New Releases from the MoMA Circulating Film                                                      Library, May

            New York University, NY, NY, Directors Series, May

1995    Millennium Film Workshop, New York, May

            Gulf & Western Gallery, DONNA CAMERON, TSOA, NYU, photography, Feb-March

            Berks Filmmakers, Reading, PA, February

            TSOA Film & Television, NYU, NY, Freshman Symposium, April & Nov.

            New York University, NY, NY, Directors Series, June

1994    TSOA Institute of Film & Television, NYU, NY, Freshman Symposium, April

            Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA, September

            Zeitgeist Theater Experiment, New Orleans, LA, three solo shows, December

1993    Millennium Film Workshop, NY, NY, January

            The Museum of Modern Art, NY, six solo shows, February-March

1992    Berks Filmmakers, Reading, PA, April

            Cornell Cinema, films & photography, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Nov.

            Museum of Modem Art, NY, What's Happening, October

            Hallwalls Contemporary Art Space, films, sculpture, photography, Buffalo, NY, May

1991    San Francisco Cinemateque, San Francisco, CA, November

            The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Cineprobe, February

            Los Angeles Film Forum, the Art of Film, Los Angeles, CA, November

            Film Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October

            Joy Horwich Gallery, photography, Chicago, IL, October

1988    The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Cineprobe, February

            Collective for Living Cinema, SIC?, NY, October

1987    Millennium Film Workshop, NY, NY, January

            Los Angeles Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA, February

1986    Firehouse, San Francisco, CA, March

SELECT GROUP SHOWS

2009    Millennium Film Workshop, Filmmakers’ Coop Benefit Screening December

2007    Galleria Cà Rezzonico, con latere 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, June -September

2005    The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Premieres, January

Galleria Cà Rezzonico, con latere 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, June-October

            Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, Jazz Elegy, April

            Anthology Film Archives, NY, Light and Substance, sequential 2D imaging, April

2004    Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, February-March

            NuNu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, sequential 2D imaging, April

            New York Expo, Marriott Hotel. Brooklyn, paintings, photos, February

            Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, NY, Sequential 2D Imaging, Jan-April

            Black Maria Film Festival, Directors Citation

2003    Madcat Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, October

            Germaine Keller Gallery, NY, "Art as Seduction", digital canvases, April

2002    Sundance Channel, Shorts from the Underground, November

            Museum Of Modern Art, NY, New Acquisitions from the Film Archive, May

            Exit Art, NY, REACTIONS, photo painting, January-March

            Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA, REACTIONS, photos, June-August

2001    Hudson River Arts, Art Culture & Technology, video & painting, June

2000    Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought:

                        Women in Avant-Garde Film in America, 1944-2000, September 9

1998    Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn on Film: Then & Now, November 12

            Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Independents: Seven Films, September 20, 25

1997    Heart Gallery, Paris, France, video painting “canvas” installation, April

1996    Florida Int'l University, Miami, FLA, Festival of the Performing Arts, November

            The National Flute Convention, Marriott Hotel, NY, NY, New Collaborations, August

            Philadelphia, PA, Crosswaves Festival, March

1995    Beijing, China, Video Wall, Seeing the World through Women's Eyes, September

            Florence Gould Theatre, A Horse Named Dancer, Eleo Pomare Dance Co., June

            Artists Talk on Art, On-line, No Line, Fulcrum Gallery, NY, December

            14th Annual Black Maria Film &Video Festival, 1995 Spring Tour

1994    John Jay College at Lincoln Center, NY, NY, FELICE, 35mm slide show, December

            Exit Art Gallery, NY, NY, Conspiracies Film Festival, June

            HERE Gallery, New York, NY, CINEMA DE-RANGED, Installation, April

            Donnell Media Center, The Independent Spirit, February

            13th Annual Black Maria Film & Video Festival, 1994 Spring Tour

1993    Artists Talk On Art, New York, NY, New York Frames of Mind, November

            Art Initiatives, New York, Reflections on the Duane Street Burial Site, photography, October

            Hallwalls Artspace, Buffalo, lnt'l Festival of World Cultural Events, June

            Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, Recycled Images, May

            University of Illinois, Carbondale, IL, Big Muddy Film Festival, March

1992    Kunsthalle, Bonne, Germany, New Yorkers & Other Americans, November

1991    London Filmmaker's Coop, London, England, New Works, March

            FIAF Symposium on Independent Film, Athens Greece, The Fragile Emotion, May

1990    Martin Rumsby's Invisible Cinema, an international touring exhibit, and 1990-5

            Rapp Theater, New York, NY, Conspiracies Film Festival, May

1989    L'Espace C.R.I.M.E., Paris, France, L'Arte L.E.S., photography, January; also, February, 198

1987    American Federation of Arts, The Clocktower, NY, NY, Moufarrege, June

1986    American Federation of Arts, The Clocktower, NY, NY, The Pop Project, June

1982    Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, March

1981    Film Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May

1979    Facets Multimedia, Chicago, IL, December

1978    Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, May

AWARDS & PROFESSIONAL HONORS

2005-7 Video Artist in Residence, The Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, NY

2003    The Program for Media Arts, Rockefeller Foundation Grant Nominee

2002    MoMA Film Archive, purchase of film “World Trade Alphabet”, February

            Museum of the City of New York, acquisition of 9/11 footage for archive

2001    Patent, U.S. Patent & Trademarks Commission for “Cinematic Paper Emulsion”

2000    Elodie Osborne Award in Film & Video, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

            MacDowell Fellow, May   

            The Museum of Modern Art, NY, video “Shirley Clarke in Our Time”                                                              screened in MoMA 2000: Making Choices, Part 2, June

            Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, film “Fauve” screened in “Color of Ritual, Color                                     of Thought, Women in Avant-Garde Film in America, 1944-2000”, September           

            Fordham University, acquisition of digital 2D art, “Cherie” & “Peterborough Forest”

1999    MacDowell Fellow, May

1998    New York Film & Video Council, nominated to the Board, May

            MacDowell Fellow, June/July

            MoMA Film Archive, purchase of film “Die Honigbiene”, September

1997    University Council of Arts Educators, nominated to membership, February

            Federation of Modern Sculptors and Painters, nom. to membership, January

1996    MOMA Film Archive, purchase of 16mm film “NYC/Joshua Tree”

            New York Film /Video Council's 50th Anniversary Celebration, MoMA, NY,

            Video MOTHER'S PRAYER selected to represent the 1990s

1995    Black Maria Film Festival, Jurors' Citation Award for the film “Autumn Leaves”

1994    Black Maria Film Festival, Jurors' Choice Award for the film “NYC/Joshua Tree”

1992    Films & Videos promoted by MOMA Circulating Film & Video Library

1991    Museum of Modern Art Film Archive, purchase films “TYGER TYGER” & “Fauve”

1990    Jerome Foundation Grant & Fellow

1987    Jerome Foundation Grant & Fellow

1985    Jose De Creef Memorial Award for painting, The Art Students League, NY, NY

1984    Jose De Creef Memorial Award for painting, The Art Students League, NY, NY

            San Francisco Cinemateque, Highlights of the Year for the film, Unicorn, SF, CA

1980    American Academy of Motion Pictures, Animation Division, NEWSW, Chicago, IL, May

1978    Cannes Film Festival, screening of film, “Magnet”, Cannes, France, May

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Duggal Photo Labs, Inc. NY, (digital art)

The MacDowell Colony Collection, NY, NY (digital video and art)

Museum of Modern Art, Film & Video Archive, NY (films & videos)

Museum of Modern Art, Circulating Film & Video Library, NY (digital art, films & videos)

Museum of the City of New York, NY (films & videos)

Museum of Broadcast and Television, NY

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

The Donnell Media Center, NY Public Library, NY (films & videos)

Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA (films & videos)

Light Cone, Paris, France (films & videos)

Elmer Bobst Library, Avery Fisher Media Center, NYU, NY (films & videos)

Fordham University, NY (digital art)

SELECT Films and Documentaries

2010    Shirley Clarke In Our Time (DVD re-master, Documentary Portrait)

            LIFEtranspo (CPE & Documentary Poem) 

2009            Dad’s Diagnosis (Video & Mobile Phone Documentary Portrait)

2007    PJ Titus (Video Gallery Profile)                                                       

2006            Live Reel (CPE 16mm film with live music to digital video)

2005    The Orensanz Portfolio (Video Documentary Portrait)

            Projector (16mm Film to Video)

2002    Saving Squad 1 (Documentary Street Video)

            JAZZ Elegy: A Tribute to Henri Matisse (digital video)

2001    Peterborough Forest (35mm)

            World Trade Alphabet Film (35mm)          

2000    Thunderbolt: A Dialogue with Dr. Vivienne Thaul Wechter (Video Documentary Portrait)

            Spring Fever (Digital Video Montage)

            Jazz STUDY (CPE Photo Collage, 35mm film) 

1998    The Clown (CPE Photo Collage, 16mm film) 

1997    Coralmation (S-8 film)

            Die Honigbiene ( Mac Computer processed 16mm films)

            Mosaic #4 (Video to film 16mm film)

1996    Canvas: I & II (CPE Photo Collage to computer video) 

            Lieder (CPE Photo Collage, 35mm film) 

            Raft (Dance & video presentation)

            Meditation for a Lonely Flute (Live Music and Video presentation)

            Of Water &Clouds (CPE Photo Collage, video) 

1995    Bill's Dummy Film (CPE Photo Collage) 

            Gothic (Documentary Portrait, s-film to video)

            Mother's Prayer (Documentary Dance Poem, hi-8 video)

            A Horse Named Dancer (Dance & video projection)

            Paint box (CPE Photo Collage, 16mm film to computer video) 

1994    Dragon (CPE 16mm film)

1993    Felice (Documentary Media Work- live, w/35mm Slides & Music presentation)

            Autumn Leaves (CPE Photo Collage, 16mm film) 

            Shirley Clarke in Our Time (Documentary Mixed Media Portrait)

            New Moon (Simultaneous Film Video \ Projection Version 1992 

CONFIDENTIAL DO NOT DUPLICATE (8mm video Documentary Portrait)

            Il Etait Une Fois (CPE 16mm double projection film)

1991    Fauve (Sound Version)

            NYC/Joshua Tree (Documentary Poem, live music & film recording, 16mm film)

1990    Fauve (CPE Photo Collage, 16mm film) 

            TYGER TYGER (CPE Photo Collage, 16mm film) 

1988    The Falcon (Mock Doc Red film)

            Signs (Mock Doc Red film)

1987    The Superweapon (16mm film)

            End (CPE Photo Collage) 

            The Chinese Lunch (16mm optical appropriated footage film collage)

             Andrew Is Crying (video Documentary Poem)

1986    New Moon (Film-Video Version)

1985    Dracula and the Babysitter (Mock Doc Red film))

1983    New Moon (CPE Photo Collage) 

            Unicorn (16mm film)

1981    Going to Celia's Wedding (s-8 film)

1980    The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (16mm optical appropriated footage film collage)

1979    Dr. Kirby (16mm optical appropriated footage film collage)

            NEWSW (CPE Photo Collage

            Churchbells (beta portapak video)

            Barf light (beta portapak video)

1978    The Sacred Heart Program (16mm optical track film collage)

            Magnet (Film carving & painting on magnetic film work

1974    A Film made with a Script (CPE Paper film performance presentation)

PUBLICATIONS

1994-now Senior Editor

Manhattan Arts International Magazine, e-zine, NY

1998             Writer, Article about history of current trends in 8mm filmmaking.

The Independent Film & Video Monthly, NY, July

1997-1998 Writer, Catalogue for "Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Film"

"Pieces of Eight”, Essays & interviews with 8mm film artists featured.

1994-7 Writer, Essays on films for promotional literature.

The MoMA Circulating Film & Video Library, NY

1975-77 Writer and Photographer Correspondent

The Miami Herald, Miami, FL

CURATED PROGRAMS

1998             Other Voices, Directors Series, New York University, NY, NY, April

The Character of a Face, Anthology Film Archives, NY, February

1997             Other Voices, Directors Series, New York University, NY. NY, May

Other Voices, Directors Series, New York University, NY, NY, November

Fresh Start, Bi-Weekly NYU Public Access Television Show

1996             Other Voices, Directors Series, New York University, NY, NY, May

Fresh Start, Bi-Weekly NYU Public Access Television Show

1995             On-line/No Line, organizer, panel-Artists Talk on Art, Fulcrum Gallery, NY

Directors Series, New York University, NY, NY, June

1993            York Frames of Mind, Artists Talk On Art, NY, NY, November

SELECT BROADCAST PROGRAMS

2005    Arts From the Orensanz Foundation, Manhattan Cable Network, January

2003    The Sundance Channel, Shorts from the Underground, November

2000            MTV On-line & MTV Broadcast, The Real World, February & June

1998            Multi-Channel across Europe- ANAGRAM INTERNATIONAL

1997            Channel 14- A & E- “Artists Talk on Art” panel.           

            Channel 31 -TIME-WARNER CABLE- Co-Curator/Interviewer

1996            Channel 4- A & E- Location interview about work and teaching.

            Channel 9- KQED- Jack Walsh's “LIVING ROOM FESTIVAL” program

            Kuchar, Mike, "Donna Cameron at Work", video, distributed by

                                    The Museum of Modern Art, Circulating Film and Video Library, NY

Il Grande Occhio Della Notteî, Museo Nazionale Del Cinema, Turino, Italy, July

            Stamets, Bill, "Cameron Leaves Camera at Home", review,

                                    The Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL, October 20

            Thomas, Kevin, "Cameron's Experimental Imagery", review,

                                    The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, November 14

1987    Knode, Helen, "Natural Fibers: Films by Donna Cameron", review,

                                    Pick of the Week, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles, CA, February 27

1985    Charruau, Maryan, "Dona Cameron: Peintre de Talente", review,        

                                    Presse-Ocean, Nantes, France, July 23

1983    Anonymous, "Un Exhibiton: Paris American Academy", review,

                                    Bretagne a Paris, Paris, France, May 30

INTER-DISCIPLINARY WORKS

(SELECT ORIGINAL MULTI-MEDIA COLLABORATIONS)

•             With Angel Orensanz, artist, Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, NY

2005          The Orensanz Portfolio

                        Digital video portrait of Orensanz by Cameron incorporating recordings of                                 Orensanz art on his site locations worldwide.

                        -Shown: Selection for exhibition in the 51^st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

•           With Mark Stewart: Founding Musician, Bang on A Can; lead guitarist,          Paul Simon band; internationally noted composer-musician   

2005          Live Reel

                        Five Short 16mm Filmworks for theater and live musical accompaniment.

                        -Shown: Filmmakers Coop Benefit, Angel Orensanz Foundation, Sept 2005

1996          Jazz Elegy

                        Live music & 35mm/DV imaging tribute to the French painter Henri Matisse,                                     supported by a MacDowell Fellowship.

                        -Shown: Sundance Channel, Shorts from the Underground, November 2003

                                    MoMA, NY, June 2002

•             With Dr. Vivienne Thaul Wechter, Director of Acquisitions;             Professor; Artist-in-Residence at Fordham University, NY

2000            Thunderbolt: A Dialogue with Dr. Vivienne Thaul Wechter: Artist, Poet, Educator

Video portrait of Wechter by Cameron with original poetry by Wechter;

S-8 mm intervalometer photography.

                        -Shown: Berrie Center for the Performing Arts, Ramapo College, NJ My, 2000

                                    - Cineprobe Series, MoMA, NY, March 2000

•            With Fred Kaufman: Composer, Director, School of Music, Florida Int’l University

1996            Meditation for a Lonely Flute

                        Live music & video collaboration, Disney Enterprises a sponsor.

                        Shown: Festival of the Performing Arts, Florida Int’l University, Miami, Nov. 1996

•                       With Flutist Barbara Siesel, Elena Reuhr, Professor of Composition, MIT

1997          OF WATER & CLOUDS

                        Live music & video collaboration commissioned by /performed for:

                        The National Flute Convention, Marriott Hotel, NY, NY, August                                   

•             With Eleo Pomare: dancer, founder, The Eleo Pomare Dance Company;

            choreographer, Alvin Ailey Dance Company, others.

1996          Raft

                        Dance & film collaboration performed:

                        Cineprobe, MoMA, NY, March 4, 1996                       

1995          A Horse Named Dancer *

                        Dance/film collaboration; Horse metaphor refers to the brevity of a dancer’s career.

                        Shown/Performed: Florence Gould Theater, 1995

                                    With Eleo Pomare: dancer, founder, The Eleo Pomare Dance Company &                                              choreographer for Alvin Ailey Dance Company and others.           

                        Review, Jennifer Dunning, the New York Times

•            With Nanette Bearden, Nanette Bearden Contemporary Dance Theater

1994            Mothers Prayer*

                        Dance video documentary.

                        -Shown: Directors Series, NYU, May 1995; Cineprobe, MoMA, March 4, 1996   

                        -Representing the 1990s, NY Film /Video Council 50^th Retro, MoMA, June, 1996

•           With Don Militello: Jazz composer, performer, and pianist

1991            NYC/Joshua Tree:  *; 16mm film.

                        -Shown: The San Francisco Cinemateque, The Film Center at the Art Institute of                                     Chicago, Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris; MoMA, more.              

1994            Felice:

                        Jazz piano/35mm slide piece illustrating career of late painter Felice.

                        -Shown: Introduced by Dr. Billy Taylor, JJCCJ, Lincoln Center, Dec, 1994

1999            Spring Fever: Digital video/ live performance.

                        -Shown: MoMA, June 2000

                        Winner, Juror's Choice Award, 1993 Black Maria Film Festival.

•           With Mike Kuchar: Film/video maker

1991            Donna Cameron at Work              

                        Mike's video portrait of Cameron, a glimpse of her film process,

Films on Filmmakers and Filmmaking, MoMA Circulating Film Library.

                        -Shown: Millennium, MoMA, Pacific Film Archives, others

•           With Shirley Clarke: Film / video director

1987             Shirley Clarke in Our Time (completed 1995)

                        Experimental portrait/auto-portrait of Clarke, including rare home movies of                                     Clarke's childhood. Uses Sequential imaging on Amiga Toaster Computer.

                        -Shown: MoMA 2000 20TH CENTURY RETROSPECTIVE; others.

SELECT LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, PANELS:

2000-2            High School Video Production Workshop, School of Visual Arts, NY              design program; supervise staff; research, write & teach syllabus

1999-             Video Workshop, The Berkeley Carroll Lower School, Brooklyn, NY

Computer Workshop, The Berkeley Carroll Lower School, Brooklyn, NY

1997             Advanced Producing Class, Tisch, Dept. of Film/TV, NYU

             Online No Line, organize/panelist, Artists Talk on Art, Fulcrum Gallery, NY

Scriptwriting, Tisch School of the Arts, Dept. of Film & TV, NYU

Autobiography Class, Tisch School of the Arts, Photography Dept., NYU

1993             NY Frames, organize/panelist, Artists Talk on Art, Fulcrum Gallery, NY

Recycled Images, panelist, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY

Time-Based Projects Class, Tisch School, Photography Dept., NYU

1992             Time-Based Projects Class, Tisch School of the Arts, Photography Dept.,

Classroom Volunteer, The Berkeley Carroll Lower School, Brooklyn, NY

Video Production, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

History of Cinema Class, The Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA

Independent Cinema Lecture, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell                  University, Ithaca, NY

1991            Parent Classroom Volunteer, Berkeley Carroll School, Brooklyn, NY

1990            Creative Process Class, International Center of Photography, NY, NY

1989            Creative Process Class, International Center of Photography, NY, NY

1987            History of Cinema Class, The Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA

1986             S-8 Production Workshop, The Collective for Living Cinema, NY, NY

1985             Filmmaking, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1981             Beginning Film Production Class, the New School, NY, NY

1980             Beginning Filmmaking, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL

1969             Higher Mathematics, Upward Bound Program, New London, Ct.

Donna Cameron

www.donnacameron.info

Tel: (646) 258-7216     Email: papercam@gmail.com

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

My focus as a teacher has been art, new media, script analysis and the documentary tradition. I enjoy sharing ideas with students and helping students explore their personal histories and document cultural icons and events. I have taught studio and field media production to all levels of undergraduate students. Projects in my classes can range from traditional script-based narratives to intuitive visual works. In my approach, the best possible realization of student projects is a goal. Students are encouraged to exhibit their work throughout the production process in my classes. We move from conceptual stages in pre-production through site or lab production and post-production. I encourage students to experiment and learn from approaches that did not work.  I require my students to move on with their productions to the release and exhibit stage, even if it is only in the classroom at the term’s end.

I have encouraged students who have completed superior projects to enter the projects in professional festivals and showcases, and work with them in preparing their entries. Several have won awards at regional and international festivals.

For eight years, at New York University, I have developed and taught an original interdisciplinary humanities course, “The Politics of Portraiture”.  The course, which focuses on the role of the icon in the timeline of human history and social evolution, is open to the entire university. Project samples are available at (www.donnacameron.info)

I am also experienced in teaching Studio and Field Television Production, 16mm and super-8 mm Film Production, 35mm, Medium and Large Format Black and White Photography, Digital Photography, Multimedia Computer Workshops, Documentary Video and Film Production, BFA Media Studies Thesis Production and Computer Graphics, as well as workshops using Adobe Suite software, Final Cut Pro, Macromedia Director, and HTML. In addition to teaching, I have served as an academic advisor for several years. I have also advised a program for off-campus activity entitled “Faculty In and Of The City”, in which a team of professors design cultural excursions in order to help foreign students become integrated into the local community.

My teaching philosophy embraces the entire campus experience for the student. I generally include visits to my studio as part of my courses. As part of these visits and in out of classroom dialogues, I try to give my students a sense of the responsibilities of being an effective contemporary artist. As a film/video maker, I know that unforeseen issues often arise and I encourage them to feel free to contact me in these challenging and unpredictable moments, even if it is outside of scheduled office hours.

-Donna Cameron

References

Annie Stanton,

Executive Director

Special Programs

Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

Office phone: 1-212-998-1500

Email: Annie.Stanton@nyu.edu

Maureen Furniss

Professor, Film/Video Faculty

California Institute of the Arts

24700 McBean Parkway

Valencia, CA 91355-2340

Email: editor@animationjournal.com

Laurence Kardish

Senior Curator

Department of Film and Media

Museum of Modern Art, NY

Office phone: 1-212-708-9612

Email: Laurence_kardish@ moma.org

George C. Stoney

Professor Emeritus

Department of Film and Television

Maurice Kanbar Institute

Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

Office phone: 1-212-998-1718

Email: gcs@nyu.edu