curriculum vitae
| PAM KRAY pam (at) pamkray (dot) com +1-646-298-1124 |
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| FILM, VIDEO, INSTALLATION WORKS | |
2011 |
Six Degrees of High Plains Drifter (video, 14 minutes) I CAN READ YOU LIKE A BOOK (online graphic novella) Essentially a Gambling People (video, 22 minutes) The Art of Falling (video for dance: collaboration with choreographer, Catherine Hourihan) Virtually Certain (3-channel video installation, 5.5 minutes) Wanna Bet (video, 10 minutes) Motomanhattan/The Art of Falling (film & video study for The Art of Falling) Sanctuary, Last of the Artists (video, 5 minutes) Gone Global (film & video, 5 minutes) Mushroom Seekers (video, 55 minutes) Archaeology (film & video, 30 minutes) Motomanhattan (super-8 film, 10 minutes) Smalltown Dr. So & So (super-8 film, 9 minutes) My Year Without Words (super-8 film, 20 minutes) Consenting Children (super-8 film, 30 minutes) Piss Mission (super-8 film, 10 minutes) The Million Heirs (16mm film, 20 minutes) Penis Puppets (super-8 film, 12 minutes) The Ghost Sonata (16mm film, 5 minutes) A Void Dance (super-8 film, 20 minutes) Chapter Of (super-8 film, 5 minutes) Constrictor Construction (super-8 film, 3 minutes) |
| LIVE-MEDIA PERFORMANCES AND COLLABORATIONS | |
2013 |
Video for play: 12 Angry Men. Performed at Eastern Correctional Facility, Napanoch, NY. Roaming Urban Soundscapes: 90-minute, 3-channel video installation of original and culled footage accompanying live readings of John Cage works for centenary celebration of his life and 50th anniversary of the New York Mycological Society. Performed at Great Hall at Cooper Union, NYC. Video for play: The Exonerated. Performed at Eastern Correctional Facility, Napanoch, NY. Video for play: The Euthanasist. Performed at P.S. 122, NYC. The Art of Falling. Dance-video collaboration with Catherine Hourihan. Performances and 2-week installation at 15 Nassau Gallery, NYC. Solo Exhibition: The Art of Falling multimedia performance. Live dance and 2-channel video window installation on 42nd St., at Chashama, NYC. Collaborative film-music-sculpture with Multicide (Poland) and Katrin Regelski (Germany). Live performance at Lichtmess Kino, Hamburg, Germany. Golem of Consciousness: collaborative film-video-music-spoken word with Viktor Mazin, Olessia D., Valery Dudkin (Russia). Performed at Orient to Occident Festival, CESTA, Tabor, CZ. Fast Forward: video-spoken word-dance-music collaboration. Performed at d.c. space, Washington, DC. |
| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS | |
2013 |
OPULENTE FIGUREN: invitational screening in gender studies exhibition. Hamburg, Germany. RIGHT ON TIME: 25 Years of Pam Kray Films & Videos: Complete multimedia retrospective. CESTA, Tábor, CZ. SOLO SHOW: various films/videos. At Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany. SCREENING: Six Degrees of High Plains Drifter. Part of exhibition: Place + Time. Bullet Space. New York. INSTALLATION/SCREENING: Essentially a Gambling People. Video screening and multimedia exhibition. Downtown Community Center, NYC. Artist in Residence: 11 BC Garden, NYC. RECLAIM: group show. Six Degrees of High Plains Drifter excerpt screened. Supreme Trading Co., Brooklyn, NY. HOWL! FESTIVAL: Motomanhattan/The Art of Falling. NYC. 1ST RENO INTERDISCIPLINARY FESTIVAL OF NEW MEDIA: Virtually Certain: 3-channel video installation: Sheppard Art Gallery, Reno, NV. CHANNELS: EMERGING MEDIA PUBLICS: Graduate student group exhibition: Virtually Certain: 3-channel video installation: 15 Nassau Gallery, NY. REEL VENUS FESTIVAL: Motomanhattan/The Art of Falling. NYC. PERIPHERAL VISIONS FESTIVAL: Motomanhattan/The Art of Falling. Single-channel video installation, CESTA, Tabor, CZ. NEW YORK-CZECH FILM & VIDEO EXCHANGE SERIES: curator of short video programs. CESTA & FCCA, Czech Rep., Anthology Film Archives, NYC. FESTIVAL DIVADELNI SEDMICKA: Mushroom Seekers. European Premiere. Tabor, CZ. TELLURIDE MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: screened Mushroom Seekers. U.S. AND WORLD PREMIERE: Mushroom Seekers, documentary feature. Anthology Film Archives, NYC. GROUP SHOW: ABC NO RIO, NY. SUPER-8 MASTERS TOUR: various films screened by invitation. U.S. and Europe. GROUP SHOW: ABC NO RIO, NY. EX-GROUND FESTIVAL: program of short films and group show. Wiesbaden, Germany. EUROPEAN TOUR: programs of films toured various locations in Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and Czech Republic. Comprehensive exhibition list available. |
| CURATORIAL AND TECHNICAL PROJECTS | |
1995-2014 |
Freelance high-end camera operator, video and graphics creator, editor and on-site coordinator for live-event presentations. Media installation and design. Technical Producer-Director, Videographer, Editor & Projection Designer: Roaming Urban Soundscapes: New York Mycological Society/John Cage Centenary Anniversary gala presentation, Great Hall, Cooper Union, NYC. Technical Director, CHANNELS: EMERGING MEDIA PUBLICS: Graduate student group exhibition. 15 Nassau Gallery, NYC. Curator and project manager: NEW YORK-CZECH FILM & VIDEO EXCHANGE SERIES. At CESTA and FCCA, Czech Republic, and Anthology Film Archives, New York. Curator: films for the New York Mycological Society, American Museum of Natural History, New York. Curator: videos at Anthology Film Archives, NYC. Guest Curator: The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema. NYC. Film/video Curator: The Women’s Show. Bullet Space, NYC. Guest Curator: Knitting Factory Video Lounge. Organized program of documentaries from Orient to Occident Festival, Czech Republic. Booking, stage management: Studio 4: Performance art space collective. San Francisco. Founder, organizer. A Bunch of Drunks Read Their Shit: Poetry Series. Various venues. Washington, DC. Co-founder, co-curator. I AM EYE Independent Film Forum. Washington, DC. |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
Ongoing |
Essentially a Gambling People blog Provocative Barbara Rosenthal Existentially Grows Up. Review in The Book Arts Newsletter. Center for Fine Print Research Editor: newsletter of the New York Mycological Society. Contributor: HaraKiri: music and scene ‘zine: Stuttgart, Germany; Outside: ‘zine: Poznan, Poland. The Storm. Short story published in Diffusions (literary ‘zine) Paris. Publisher/Co-editor, Quality Compositions, ‘zine arm of IAMEYE Independent Film Forum. |
| ARTIST GRANTS | |
2012 |
NYFA Strategic Opportunity Stipend for presenting retrospective of work at CESTA (Cultural Exchange Station at Tabor), Tabor, Czech Republic. Puffin Foundation Grant for video for The Exonerated produced and performed at Eastern Correctional Facility, Napanoch, NY. Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Finishing and exhibition funding for video, Essentially a Gambling People. Swing Space Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. The Art of Falling: multimedia performance installation collaboration with choreographer, Catherine Hourihan. Travel Grant, New School University. Attendance and presentation of media installation: Virtually Certain, at 1st Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media. Stipend, University of Nevada Reno. Attendance and presentation of Virtually Certain, at 1st Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media. Supplemental funding, Czech Center New York: New York-Czech Film& Video Exchange Program. Residency grant, CESTA, Czech Rep. To work on video documentary, Mushroom Seekers. |
| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | |
2013 |
Adjunct Professor, Communications, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY. Adjunct Professor, Communication Arts Department, Contemporary Arts School, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ. Guest lecturer, “Media Literacy and Advocacy.” NYU School of Social Work. Guest lecturer with solo film exhibition. George Kuchar’s film class, San Francisco Art Institute. Guest lecturer with exhibition. Maryland College Institute of Art. |
| EXTRACURRICULAR AND COMMUNITY WORK | |
2011-14 |
Video artist, videographer, projection designer, ArtTree Theater Group at Eastern Correctional Facility. Napanoch, NY. Co-op Board of Directors, 633-11 Housing Corp NYC. Editor, New York Mycological Society quarterly newsletter. Co-organizer, children’s art classes, ABC No Rio, New York. |
| EDUCATION | |
2008 |
MA, Media Studies, The New School University, New York, NY BA, Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |