Visiting Artists
The department of Kinetic Imaging frequently invites visiting artists representing a wide range of disciplines, including sound, film, animation, and media art, bringing diverse perspectives to the community. From experimental creators to influential curators, their contributions span the cutting edge of contemporary art. This program enriches students' learning through exposure to both innovative practice and academic insight.
- Shelley Roden, Foley Artist
- Alice Ko, Curator, New York
- Anna Hogg, Artist and Filmmaker
- Alex Christie, Musician and Intermedia Artist
- Sam Lavigne, Artist and Designer, co-sponsored with Graphic Design
- Sabine Gruffat, Experimental Video, Animation, and Performance Artist and Filmmaker
- Marcus Fischer, Musician and Interdisciplinary Artist
- Suzanne Kite, Native American Artist and Composer, co-sponsored with Cabell Library
- Robbie Wing, Artist, Musician, and Composer
- Denise Markonish, MASS MoCA Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions
- Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Artist, Composer, and Performer
- Leah Ollman, Los-Angeles-based critic
- Ander Mikalson, Sound, Performance, and Installation Artist
- Jordan Bruner, Art and Animation Director
- Kasey Fowler-Finn, Biologist
- Prof. Seung-moo Lee, Scholar, Director, Filmmaker
- Maria Chavez, Sound Artist and curator
- Rebecca Gates, U.S. based Musician, Artist, leader of an acclaimed group The Spinanes (Sub Pop), and Activist
- Andrea Williams, Sound Artist
- Aideen Barry, Irish artist, co-sponsored with Crafts
- Ana Quiroz, Mexican artist
- James Duesing, Animator and Electronic Artist
- Dean Moss, Interdisciplinary Choreographer and Video Artist, Co-sponsored with Kinetic Imaging and Dance + Choreography
- Scott McCloud, Comics Artist and Sequential Art Theorist, Co-sponsored with VCUarts, VCU Libraries and the Department of Communication Arts
- Brian Bress, Filmmaker, Co-sponsored with the Art Foundation Program and the departments of Photography and Film, and Sculpture + Extended Media
- Alexander Stewart, Founder and Director of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
- Pamela Z, Composer and Performance Artist
- Steina Vasulka, Internationally Acclaimed Video Artist
- Vito Acconci, Legendary Artist
- Kenneth Goldsmith, (via Skype), Poet and Founder of ubu.com
- Christiane Paul, New Media Curator, Co-sponsored with Department of Art History
- Charles Atlas, Video Maker and former Merce Cunningham collaborator
- Lynn Sachs, Filmmaker
- Nina Colossi, Curator and Founder of The Streaming Museum
- John F. Simon Jr., Artist
- Lev Manovich, Author on new media theory, Co-sponsored with Department of Art History and Media Art & Text PhD Program
- Stanislav Sokolov, Russian animator
- Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner), British Electronic Musician
- Eder Santos, Brazilian Video Artist and Filmmaker
- Michael Mansfield, Associate Curator (Film and Media Arts), Smithsonian Art Museum
- Regine Basha, Independent Curator
- Ann Kroeber, Sound Designer and Recordist for David Lynch, Carroll Ballard and other filmmakers
- Bart Weiss, Curator and Founder of the Dallas Video Festival
- Steve Roden, Los Angeles based Sound Artist, Filmmaker, and Painter
- Paul DeMarinis, Sound and Media Artist, Professor at Stanford University, Co-sponsored with Sculpture and Extended Media
- Brent Green, Animator
- Ed Osborn, Sound and Media Artist, Professor at Brown University
- Kathy Rose, Video and Animation Artist
- Meredith Johnson, Curator and producer, Creative Time, NYC
- Derrick de Kerckhove, Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. 1983 – 2008
- M Dot Strange, Animated Feature Filmmaker
- Steve Seid, Curator at Pacific Film Archive
- Deke Weaver, Performance/theater artist
- Andrew Deutsch, Media artist and professor at Alfred University
- Kathleen Forde, Independent curator
- Julie Martin, Archivist for Experiments in Art and Technology
- Zhao Shulin, Curator, Today Art Museum, Beijing
- Huang Yan, Artist, China
- K’ Arts, Director of School of Visual Arts, Korean National University of Arts (K’ Arts)
- Mike Belzer, Stop Motion Animator, Lead Animator for the films “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “James and the Giant Peach.
- Federico Cuatlacuatl, Mexican Indigenous Animation Artist
- Peter Burr, Video and Multimedia artist
- Margaret Rorison, Curator and Filmmaker
- Audrey Chen, Narrative and non-linear storytelling
- Karen Yasinsky, Artist and a Filmmaker working with experimental film, animation and drawing.
- Paolo Pedercini, Teaches and produces experimental game design and foundational media production courses at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
- Anna Margarita Albelo, Director and Filmmaker
- Brendan Canty, American Musician, Composer, Producer, and Filmmaker
- Matmos, Electronic duo
- Danny McCarthy & Mick O’Shea, Sound Artists
