CONTRIBUTORS

ART OFFICE for Film + Video seeks, shares and promotes a community around time-based art. Victoria Fu and Julie Orser, artists who met at CalArts, founded the group in 2006 to enhance the presence of film and video art in the greater Los Angeles area through screenings. In 2009, the MOVING INDEX launched in the form of online exhibitions, reaching out beyond the scope of physical screenings.

In its current form, the MOVING INDEX is a snapshot of time-based art and media from around the world: events, exhibitions, screenings, talks, articles. It follows a blog format, inviting contributors who are practicing artists, filmmakers and writers from around the world to post about their findings and interests.
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Hyunjoo Byeon is a curator based in Seoul. Her curated projects include Tourist’s Dream, Project Space 2 at Iniva, London, 2010; Flexible Aura, Brain Factory, Seoul, 2009; Here Once Again - Where Art and Cinema Interact, SNU Museum of Art/Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, 2008. Byeon has received her MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2008 and BAs in Art History and Business Administration from Ewha Womans University, Seoul in 2005. She has worked as a lecturer at Kaywon School of Art and Design, South Korea and was selected as a participating curator for the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course in 2009. Byeon has contributed several texts on contemporary art to publications including Dual Mirage Part 1 and Part 2 and she has recently translated the book Curating Subjects into Korean which will be published in 2012. 

Heather Bursch (b. San Francisco) received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from CalArts. She was a 2011 participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 2009, she went to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship. She was a recipient of the CCI Investing in Artists Grant in 2010. Her video installation work explores relationships between affect, media and a publicized self. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Victoria Fu (b. Santa Monica) received her BA from Stanford, MA in Art History from USC, and MFA from CalArts. Recipient of a 2008 Art Matters Foundation Grant, she was also a participant of the Whitney Independent Study Program and of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006. Her film and video works have been shown at venues including De Appel in Amsterdam, Zona Maco México Arte Contemporáneo, Seoul National University and Loop Gallery in Korea, El Museo de la Ciudad in Quito, Ecuador, Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York, Fundación Sa Nostra in Palma de Mallorca, Ballhaus Ost and General Public in Berlin. She has also worked on editorial projects for the Centre Pompidou, Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné, Afterall Journal, USC Fisher Gallery, Otis College of Art+Design and the Musée d’Orsay. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Rebecca Ann Hobbs (b.Townsville, AUS.) received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA, with Honors, from the Victorian College of the Arts, Australia.  Hobbs works with both still and moving images, which have been exhibited at The Dunedin Public Art Gallery (NZL), City Gallery Wellington (NZL), St Paul Street Gallery (NZL), Monte Vista (USA), Sutton Gallery (AUS), Johnston Gallery (AUS), Stills (AUS), Clubs Projects Inc (AUS) and Centre for Contemporary Photography (AUS).   Editorial projects include #74 Eyeline (AUS), Liquid Lady Swagger (NZL), Hijacked Vol. 2 (AUS/DEU) Future Images (ITA) and Momentos Kodak MEX).  Hobbs currently lives and works in South Auckland, New Zealand where she is Academic Staff at the Manukau Institute of Technology. 

Stephanie Hutin (b. 1978 in Minneapolis) received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from the University of Florida.  Her work explores the threshold at which a production or process comes to life. Hutin founded The New School for Post-Animative Thought in order to approach animation as a concept – ‘to bring to life’ – and apply it to performance and constraint-based work in other media. Kendall Lakes (2006) – a film about two girls from another planet who live in a Miami suburb – is a performative exploration of what minimally constitutes filmmaking. Formally, it teeters between children playing versus acting, between a home video and an art film. Similarly, the art-punk-rock group, Jennifer The Leopard (J-Lep) that she created with three fellow artists, is a self-aware performance of a band by amateur musicians. J-Lep has played at a number of venues around Los Angeles, including The Silent Movie Theatre, the Echo Park Film Centre, and REDCAT. A recent collaboration, Call With Questions, is an ongoing performance of a radio talk show in which both hosts and audience members try out different personas. Hutin is interested in the threshold between familiar (‘real’) and mythic (‘larger-than-life’) personality constructions and their social formation, and in what it means to act as a character outside a circumscribed frame.

Heather Jeno Silva is a Santa Barbara-based visual arts writer and curator of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Forum Lounge, an award-winning performance art program. She is also the Programming Manager at Arts & Lectures, a multidisciplinary performing arts program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. 

Julie Lequin (born in 1979) is a French Canadian artist. She received a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from Art Center College of Design. Julie’s multidisciplinary practice interweaves personal history with fictionalized events and circumstances in a manner that constantly blurs the line between the artist as individual and the artist as self-consciously constructed persona. In 2007, 2nd Cannons Publications published Julie’s first book and DVD project. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally at venues such as the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in California, La Centrale Powerhouse in Montreal, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art in General and White Columns in New York City. Julie is the 2011 recipient of the Joseph S. Stauffer Award, an honor given by the Canada Council for the Arts. Julie is happily living and working in Montreal.

Elana Mann is a multidisciplinary artist who creates artwork through strategies of performance and exchange. Mann inserts herself into the cracks of interpersonal, social, and political impasses and leaves the sticky imprint of a body chewing over contemporary life. Her art practice encompasses live performance, video, installation and objects, in addition to discursive and collaborative projects. She has presented work  at REDCAT, Los Angeles; Apex Art, New York; the Ford Foundation, New York, LEVEL, Brisbane, Australia; A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jancar gallery, Los Angeles and Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She is a recipient of California Community Foundation’s 2009 Visual Arts Fellowship and has published five books, four of which are in the collection of the Getty Research Institute. Her projects have been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, NPR, O Globo, El Pais, La Reuppublica and X-Tra Magazine. Mann received her B.F.A. from Washington University, St. Louis and her M.F.A from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Scripps College, Claremont, CA.  Mann lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Jessica Mein (b. Sao Paulo) received an M.F.A. from Hunter College and her BA from Duke University. Recent and upcoming shows include Verso Reverso at Simon Preston Gallery, NY, El Museo’s Biennial, Number Five: Cities of Gold and Mirrors, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany, Big Screen Project with the Drawing Center, New York and a solo project at the Pavillion in Dubai, Off Camera at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia, Cegueira at Gallery Pfeister, Denmark, Feldman Gallery at PNCA in Portland, Oregon and Natureza Morta in Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago. She lives and works between Brooklyn, Dubai and Sao Paulo. Her videos have been shown at MoMA in New York, Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City.


Julie Orser (b. Chicago) received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her videos, photography, and multi-channel installations have exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Changing Role Gallery (Rome), Steve Turner Contemporary (Los Angeles), Rosamund Felsen Gallery (Los Angeles), Il Magazzino d’Arte Moderna (Rome), Royal College of Art (London), Kunstraum Innsbruck (Austria), The Gallery Loop (Seoul), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, The Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Cheekwood Museum of Art (Nashville), Ann Arbor Film Festival, Saison Vidéo, PDX Film Festival, and Dallas Video Festival. Orser is a recipient of the 2010 Fellowship for Emerging Visual Artists from the California Community Foundation and the 2009 CCI Investing in Artists grant. Co-founder of ART OFFICE, she lives and works in Los Angeles where she is the New Genres Lab Supervisor in the Department of Art at UCLA.

Catherine Ross (b. 1972 in New York) received her BA from Dartmouth College. Catherine’s video work borrows gestures from films & television to create new sequences of motion and sound. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including such venues as the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in California, PS.1 New York, and Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. Ross attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2002, the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2003 and received a 2005-06 residency from The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. Ross was awarded “Best International Short Award” at the 2006 Darklight Festival (Dublin, IRELAND). Catherine Ross lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 

Kelly Sears was born in Lynn, MA and lives and works in Houston, TX. She received a B.A. from Hampshire College and an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego. Sears’ collage animations are created from periodicals, books, archives and ephemeral films. Sears uses images from the past to examine the histories of today. Her films draw on experimental, documentary and narrative practices and feature both analog and digital animation techniques. Her work has screened in a variety locations, such as museums, galleries and film festival, such as The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, MOMA, The Hammer Museum, Machine Project, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Sundance Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Black Maria Film Festival. She has taught experimental and found footage video at The University of Houston, Rice University, Pitzer College, and has been awarded residencies from Yaddo and the Core Program.

Stephen Slappe (b. Charleston, WV) is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Slappe’s work has exhibited and screened in venues such as Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, The Horse Hospital (London), The Sarai Media Lab (New Delhi), Consolidated Works (Seattle), Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), and Artists’ Television Access (San Francisco). His work has been funded by project grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission. Slappe is an Assistant Professor in Intermedia at Pacific Northwest College of Art where he teaches Video, Sound, and Theory and Practice courses. He is an active curator and organizer of video and film exhibitions including New Mutants at Worksound Gallery (Portland) and Out of the Great Northwest at The Horse Hospital (London). He is an amateur film archivist and has presented two programs of archival 16mm films entitled Rolling Deep: Skateboarding Films, 1965-1980 and Static Age: The Culture of Early Television.

Susanne Ø. Sæther received her Ph.D. in media studies from the University of Oslo in 2009, and is an alumnus from the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. A former director of Fotogalleriet in Oslo (The Photographers Gallery) and Preus Museum (The National Museum of Photography in Norway), she is now active as an independent curator with a particular interest for camera based works. Sæther has published academic articles on the relationship between art and media nationally and internationally, and has written numerous catalogue essays. Among her curated projects are the exhibitions Ghost in the Machine at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Everyone Got Something Great at Nationaltheateret in Oslo, and a yearly screening series of Norwegian film and video art at The Short Film Festival in Grimstad. Sæther is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, where she examines how the concept of cinema is transposed in contemporary art production.

José Carlos Teixeira is a former fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart), in Film/Video/New Media. He completed an MFA at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), after having studied at the New York University (NYU), and in Bilbao, Basque Country (UPV). He got a BFA from the School of Fine Arts at the University of Porto (Portugal). His interdisciplinary work is mainly focused on video, photo, text, installation, and performance. It explores concepts of identity, otherness, language, boundary, exile, and displacement. Collaboration and participation are key elements in Teixeira’s work. So far, he has been involved in several exhibitions, festivals, and screenings both in Europe (Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Scotland, Sweden, Russia, Lithuania, and Cyprus) and in the USA (New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta, Detroit, Tucson, among others), as well as in Singapore, Brazil, Chile, Mozambique, Angola, and Cape Verde. His video work has been shown in venues such as the Hammer Museum, LACE and Armory Center for the Arts (Los Angeles), Art Interactive (Boston), Museum of the City of New York (New York), Le Grand Halle de La Villete (Paris), Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart), National Center for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum (Kaunas), and Museu da Electricidade, Museu da Cidade, Fundação Carmona e Costa, and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon). Teixeira has been awarded several awards and grants, he is represented by Galeria Presença, and worked up to now as Assistant Professor of Video at ESAD, an Art and Design Institute (Portugal).

Jonathan Thomas is a two-time alumnus of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, has an MA in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota, and teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.  He has contributed writings to October, Art Journal, caa.reviews, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and is currently the 2010-11 visiting critic and catalogue writer for the Jerome Foundation.  In addition to exhibiting artworks at venues such as Art in General and the Chelsea Art Museum, he has curated exhibitions for Midway Contemporary Art (Minneapolis), and Marginal Utility (Philadelphia).

Jason Underhill, (b. 1982 in Los Angeles) Jason’s videos have been screened and exhibited internationally in the U.S. and Europe, at venues including The Hayward Gallery, London, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Dan Graham Gallery, Los Angeles, and Landmark at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway. This past November, his film Universal City was screened at the ICA, London, part of Against Gravity, curated by Catherine Borra. In 2008, Jason’s film JESSIE LIVES was selected for Bloomberg’s New Contemporaries, an annual traveling exhibition of emerging artists in the UK. Jason received his MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2009 and his BFA from CalArts in 2005. He lives and works in Los Angeles.