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Edín Vélez

Edín Vélez: Biographical Information
Edin Vélez: Born 1951 Arecibo, Puerto Rico Edin Velez attended the University of Puerto Rico from 1968 - 1969 and left to study painting at the School of Fine Arts of Institute of Puerto Rican Culture from 1969 - 1970. Feeling he the need to be innovative in his art making and a desire to work in unexplored territory Vélez was drawn to video. He When Edin Vélez first moved to New York City in 1971 he worked at Global Village for John Reilly and Rudi Stern in a loft at Broome and Mercer. This is where he learned to work with video: shooting, editing and working at the video theater. The video theater charged admission for people to view video displayed on 12 monitors that showed three channels of video that would switch to different patterns and configurations utilizing a machine created by C.T. Lui. At this time the media was electronically unstable so it could not be broadcasted. Global Village was one of the first groups to develop and experiment with closed circuit video, the new portable video technology

1975	The Kitchen, New York, screening Andes, Phaedra, Rainbow

1975 	Andes, Phaedra, Rainbow Series of three abstract, scan process analog synthesizer videos.

While studying painting in Puerto Rico, Vélez read Marshall McLuhan’s theories on media and art and decided to move to New York to explore the possibilities of the new medium of video as a personal art form. In New York he became part of a small but close-knit emerging video art community that developed and defined the original parameters of the genre of video art. This community included video artists such as: Woody and Steina Vasulka founders of The Kitchen, Nam Jun Paik, and Juan Downey. During the early 1980’s he researched concepts of visual perception and tried to adapt them to my videomaking. Out of this research came an interest in layering multiple images into one video frame. This form of visual representation, which he helped create, has become a common filmic language. It has migrated to mainstream media where it is employed in Hollywood films, music videos and commercials.

His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Louvre, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Tate (London), the Mori Museum (Tokyo), and at major festivals such as The Whitney Biennial, Dokumenta 8 (Germany), Sao Paolo Biennial (Brazil) and on broadcast television, PBS (U.S.A.), ARTE (France, Germany) and NHK (Japan). His video works are part of the curricula at many universities including New York University, Stanford University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz.

His video essay on the Guatemalan highlands Meta Mayan has been included in Harvard University’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies list of 100 Films and Videos to See. Archive of his papers and videos has been purchased by Stanford University and is available to researchers at their Green Library Department of Special Collections. In recent years art work to include the production of narrative film and large scale photographic prints, developing new methods to exhibit video using state-of-the-art solid state storage digital video frames in installations and sculptural boxes.

Screenings, Lectures and Exhibitions,  Selected Highlights 2000-2008

2008	National Art Museum of China, Beijing Synthetic Times – Media Art China 2008 Curated by the Museum of Modern Art, NYC Screening of Meta Mayan II

2008	Square Inch Gallery, NYC Solo show, 12 Digitally manipulated photographs (Giclee Prints)

2008	Phillips de Pury, NYC Issue Project Room Benefit Auction An Apparent Doubt, giclée videograph

2007	Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ		A Processive Turn: The Video Aesthetics of Edin Vélez A survey exhibition of three new video installations, Ten new works on paper, and single channel videos by Vélez. 112 page illustrated catalog published by Robeson Gallery

2007	New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center Premiere of A Certain Foolish Consistency, opening feature of festival

2007	Dallas Video Festival Screening of A Certain Foolish Consistency

2006	Taiwan International Documentary Festival, China Screening of Meta Mayan II

2006	CIRCA PR, first international art fair in the Caribbean Mistaken Identities, Cycle 4, single channel video installation

2006	Biennial of the Moving Image, touring exhibition of retrospective show, Warsaw, Poland Screening: AS IS

2005	Reel New York WNET TV, Channel Thirteen, New York Broadcast premiere of A Reasonable Facsimile An experimental narrative video commissioned by Reel New York.

2005	Rewind, Rewind Exhibition at Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, PR Premiere of: if not then, what, video installation

Screenings, Lectures and Exhibitions,  Selected Highlights 2000-2008, continued

2004	Modern Means, Mori Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Group show of 300 artists representing  an overview of contemporary art from  the XIX Century to the Present. Including Picasso, Rauschenberg, Mondrian, Rodin, and others. Screening: META MAYAN II

2004	Dallas Video Festival, Texas Premiere of two channel video installation; Uncertain Consequences

2004	New York City Parks Department Waterfront Festival, New York Open air screening of This and That… along with Federico Fellini’s  La Strada

2003	Festival de Marseille, France Screening: Dance of Darkness

2002	Museum of Modern Art, New York Premiere of This and That, and other minor misunderstandings Experimental road movie chronicling lost loves and a father’s fight with Alzheimer’s Disease

2002	Conversations with Contemporary Artists, Museum of Modern Art, New York Lecture and screening.

2001	Mistaken Identities, Stux Gallery, Chelsea, New York Exhibition of Giclee large format digital portraits

2000	World Trade Center, New York, artist in residence Created a site specific video installation on the 91st floor of Tower One, ….the thing itself

Screenings, Lectures Exhibitions, Awards     Selected Highlights Previous to 2000

1999	Havana Film Festival, Cuba Retrospective exhibition 1994	New York Film and Video Festival, Lincoln Center, Premiere; Memory of Fire 1994	Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Japan;, screening Memory of Fire

1990	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ,Premiere Screening; A Mosque In Time 1990	Louvre Museum, Paris, screening A Mosque In Time 1988	International Center of Photography, New York, screening Meaning of the Interval

1987	Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany, screening Meaning of the Interval 1985	Cinema du Reel, Pompidou Center, Paris, screening: AS IS: 1984	Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil, screening: Meta Mayan II

1984	San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain, screening Oblique Strategist Too 1983	Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, New York, screening: Meta Mayan II 1983	First Prize, Video Art, United States Film and Video Festival, Meta Mayan II

1975	The Kitchen, New York, screening Andes, Phaedra, Rainbow

Selected Television Broadcasts 2005	WNET-TV, New York, Reel New York series broadcast premiere, A Reasonable Facsimile 2004	Sky Channel TV, Artsworld series, United Kingdom, Dance of Darkness 2003	Much Music program, Mexico City, broadcast premiere, Kinski

2002	WNET-TV, New York, Reel New York series, This and That,… 1997	Kunstkanaal (television series on art), Holland, Memory of Fire 1996	PBS national broadcast, American Independents series, Memory of Fire

1995	American Program Service (PBS) national broadcast; Revelaciones, Revelations 1994	New Television series PBS national broadcast, Dance of Darkness 1993	Star Television, Hong Kong, Dance of Darkness

1990	La Sept, France, Dance of Darkness 1979	New Television series, WNET-TV New York, WGBH Boston and KCET Los Angeles, AS IS 1979	Televisione Suisse, Switzerland, AS IS

Selected Fellowships and Grants 2007	Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swingspace Studio, studio space grant 2006	New York State Council on the Arts, development grant 2005	Latino Public Broadcasting Program, development grant 2004	Creative Capital Foundation, development grant 2004	National Video Resources Technical Assistance Grant 1998	Rockefeller Foundation Media Fellowship 1995	National Latino Communications Center, post-production grant 1991	Independent Television Service (ITVS), production grant 1991	New York State Council on the Arts, production grant 1990 	New York State Council on the Arts, production grant 1990	American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Fellowship 1990	Massachusetts Council on the Arts, production grant 1989	La Sept (French Television) post-production grant 1989	Program for Art on Film, Metropolitan Museum of Art, production grant 1988	National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships 1988	New York State Council on the Arts, production grant 1988	New Television series. WNET-TV and WGBH-TV, production grant 1986	New York State Council on the Arts, production grant 1986	Art Matters, Inc, post-production grant 1986	New York Foundation for the Arts 1985	Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 1985	Jerome Foundation, production grant 1985	US / Japan Friendship Commission Fellowship 1984	US / Japan Friendship Commission Fellowship 1983	New York State Council on the Arts, production grant 1982	National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships 1982	WNET-TV, production grant 1981	WNET-TV, production grant 1980	Jerome Foundation, production grant 1976	Creative Artists Public Service Program, production grant Productions

Unless otherwise specified, Edin Vélez’s role is Producer, Director, Camera, Editor and Sound Designer on all video projects listed.

Productions Currently in Progress

Delirio Tropical (currently in development) Delirio Tropical is an experimental, ninety-minute narrative video that takes place in Puerto Rico in the late 1980s. It interweaves and layers the personal history of a twenty-something Puerto Rican woman, Alicia, with sociopolitical events deriving from the most controversial political event in recent Puerto Rican history: the Cerro Maravilla assassinations.

Development funding by: Creative Capital Foundation Latino Public Broadcasting Program New York State Council on the Arts Expected completion date: Fall 2009

Completed Productions- Video

2009	Untitled ( WTC 2000), 8 minutes Single channel video using material shot during rish hour at the lobby of the World Trade Center in June 2000. Premiered at Nurture Gallery, Williamsburg, NYC

2008	Re: Fragmentation 10 Channel video installation reconfiguring scenes from A Certain Foolish Consitency into an immersive video environment.

2007	A Certain Foolish Consistency Experimental narrative feature, 80 minutes Curated screenings Premiere at New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater Dallas Video Festival, Texas

2007	Mistaken Identities, Cycle 5 ReMixBox Five channel video installation using new digital video frames Curated Screenings Premiere at Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, September

2007	A Certain Foolish Consistency ReMixBox Three channel video installation using new digital video frames Curated Screenings Premiere at Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, September

2007	This and That, and other minor misunderstandings ReMiBoxx Three channel video installation using new digital video frames Curated Screenings Premiere at Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, September

2006	Mistaken Identities, Cycle 4 A seven and a half hour long, single channel video installation. It is part of the urban portrait series of videos and digital prints. Curated Screenings Premiere at CIRCA PR, art fair, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006

2005	A Reasonable Facsimile A multilayered video combining documentary material with narrative segments to reveal a city rife with missed connections and misunderstandings among its inhabitants. Commissioned by WNET-TV New York (PBS) Curated Screenings 2005	Broadcast premiere WNET-TV, New York 2005	Woodstock Film Festival. New York

2004	If not then, what Single-channel, vertical-format video installation with accompanying Giclee prints. Curated Screenings Premiered at Rewind, Rewind, 2005 Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2004	Uncertain Consequences A six-channel video installation exploring the creation of new resonances between images based on their physical proximity on a 3X6 grid. Different alignments occur with each viewing, much as our memories of events often shift under the weight of new experiences. Curated Screenings 2004	A two-channel version exhibited at Dallas Video Festival

2003	Kinski Experimental video clip for ambient band Black Tape. Curated Screenings 2003	Broadcast Premiere on Much Music program, Mexico City 2003	Broadcast on Once TV program, Mexico City

2002	This and That, and other minor misunderstandings

A road movie about forgetting…and being forgotten. Shot over six years while traveling in France, Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Argentina, the video chronicles lost loves and a father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Partially funded by The Rockefeller Foundation

Selected Television Broadcasts 2002	Reel New York series, WNET-TV New York Selected Curated Screenings, or purchases 2007	Northwestern University, Evanston, Il, collection purchase 2007	University of California at Davis, collection purchase 2007	Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Il, collection purchase 2007	Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI, collection purchase 2006	Columbia UniversityLibrary, NYC, collection purchase 2006	Stanford University, Ca. collection purchase 2006	Monash University, Victoria, Australia; collection purchase 2003	10e Biennale del’Image en Mouvement, Geneve, Switzerland 2003	Argos Festival, Brussels, Belgium 2003	Vancouver International Film Festival

This and That….Selected Curated Screenings, or purchases, continued

2002	Museum of Modern Art, New York	 (Premiere) 2002	Mill Valley Film Festival, California 2002	Louisville Film and Video Festival, Kentucky 2002	Dallas Video Festival, Texas 2002	Videoteca del Sur at ICAIC, Havana, Cuba

2002	COMMITMENT

A video essay about Rockefeller Foundation Media Fellows and their work.

Commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation for exhibiting during its series of screenings at the Museum of Modern Art

This video is currently streamed on the Rockefeller Foundation’s website at: http://www.rockfound.org/display.asp?context=1&Collection=4&DocID=490&Preview=0&ARCurrent=1

2000	… the thing itself

A site-specific video installation created during an artists’ residency at the World Trade Center in New York City.

Partially funded by The Jerome Foundation and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Selected Curated Exhibitions 2000	Installed on the 91st Floor of the World Trade Center 2002    Microviews, Artists’ Documents of the World Trade Center video documentation of the installation …the thing itself, New York

2000	Mistaken Identities

Single-channel video installation, with accompanying Giclee large format prints on Arches paper. Created during an artists’ residency at the World Trade Center in New York City. Selected Curated Exhibitions 2001	Stux Gallery, Chelsea, New York 1994	Memory of Fire

A magical realist dream narrative, based on the mythology surrounding Christopher Columbus. (Michael Mayers, Director of Photography)

Commissioned by the Independent Television Service, with additional funding from the National Latino Communications Center Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix

Selected Television Broadcasts 1996	PBS national broadcast, American Independents series 1997	Kunstkanaal (television series on art), Holland 1994	Memory of Fire, continued

Selected Awards 1995	Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival Selected Curated Screenings 1999	Havana Film Festival, Cuba (Retrospective exhibition) 1998	Recent Video Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1996	Image Forum Festival, Japan 1995	Berlin VideoFest 1994	New York Film and Video Festival, Lincoln Center (Premiere) 1994	Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Japan

1994	Revelaciones / Revelations: Hispanic Art of Evanescence Documentary about seven Latino installation artists invited to create site-specific works at Cornell University. (Produced by Chon Noriega)

Commissioned by the Latino Studies Department at Cornell University Distributed by The Cinema Guild Selected Television Broadcasts 1995	National broadcast on the American Program Service (PBS) Selected Curated Screenings 1994	Non-Fiction Festival, Cornell University 1995	UNC Institute of Latin American Studies

1989	Dance of Darkness

An experimental, multi-layered documentary on Butoh dance in Japan.

A co-production of WNET and La Sept (France), with additional funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and Art Matters, Inc. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, Tapestry International and the Museum of Modern Art

Selected Television Broadcasts 2004	Sky Channel TV, Artsworld series, United Kingdom 1993	Star Television, Hong Kong 1994	New Television series (PBS national broadcast) 1993	Kunstkanaal (television series on art), Holland 1990	La Sept, France 1990	Alive From Off-Center series (PBS national broadcast)

Selected Awards 1992	Best Film on Art Technique, Festival International du Film sur l’Art, Montreal 1989	Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Juror’s Citation Award

Selected Curated Screenings 2002 	Festival de Marseille, Les Rendezvous D’Arte, France 2002	Tapahtuma Anti Festival, Finland 1997	Havana Film Festival, Cuba (Retrospective exhibition) 1994	Fukui Video Festival, Japan 1994	Ars Electronica, Austria 1993	Natur im Kopf Festival, Stuttgart, Germany 1989	Dance of Darkness, continued

Selected Curated Screenings, continued

1993	1st Latin American Video Festival, Barcelona, Spain 1990	Montbeliard Video Festival, France 1989	Video and the Computer, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Collections Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989	A Mosque in Time A video presenting the complex ornament and design of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, through the layering of images. (Co-Directed with Dr. Jerrilyn Dodds)

Commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and the Getty Trust Distributed by the Program for Art on Film, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Selected Curated Screenings 1990	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Premiere Screening) 1990	Louvre Museum, Paris (Special Screening)

Collections Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Harvard Design School Los Angeles County Museum of Fine Arts, Teacher Resource Center 1987	Meaning of the Interval

A meditation on the contemporary and the traditional in Japanese culture. Shot over a one-year period in Japan, this video is one of the first examples of multiple image layering.

Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation and the Checkerboard Foundation Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix

Selected Television Broadcasts 1988	New Television, series broadcast

Selected Awards 1988	First Prize for Video Art, National Latino Film Festival, New York

Selected Curated Screenings 1997	Havana Film Festival, Cuba (Retrospective exhibition) 1989	The Arts for Television, traveling show curated by the Stedejlik Museum (Amsterdam) and MOCA (Los Angeles) 1995	Imagine Video Festival, Perugia, Italy 1988	International Center of Photography, New York 1987	Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany 1987	American Film Institute Video Festival 1987	Geneve Film and Video Festival, Switzerland 1987	Festival International du Noveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada 1984	OBLIQUE STRATEGIST TOO

A tangential, hermetic portrait of composer Brian Eno.

Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts and the TV Lab (WNET-TV) Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix

Selected Television Broadcasts 1987	Independent Focus series, WNET-TV New York and WGBH Boston 1983	TV TV, NHK-TV, Japan 1985     The Independents series, The Learning Channel 1984	Video and Film Review, WNET-TV New York

Selected Curated Screenings 1984	American Film Institute Video Festival 1984	San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain 1984	Primer Festival Nacional de Video, Spain

1984	AS IS:

A vertical, structural view of New York City as a place of ritual.

Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix

Selected Television Broadcasts 1979	New Television series, WNET-TV New York, WGBH Boston and KCET Los Angeles 1979	Televisione Suisse (Switzerland)

Selected Awards 1985	Grand Prix de la Ville de Geneve (St. Gervais, Switzerland)

Selected Curated Screenings 2002     Le Musee Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland 1985	INPUT Public Television Conference, Granada, Spain 1986     International Center of Photography, New York 1985	Cinema du Reel, Pompidou Center, Paris 1984	Geneve Film and Video Festival, Switzerland 1984     Electronic Image Festival, Bologna, Italy

1984	Sanctus

Three-channel video installation commissioned by El Museo del Barrio, with images drawn from videos shot in Guatemala.

Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts

Selected Exhibitions 1984	El Museo del Barrio, New York

1981	META MAYAN II

An essayistic observation of the Guatemalan Highlands. Beneath the surface beauty of the imagery, the reality of a country undergoing social upheaval is underscored.

Funded by the Jerome Foundation and the TV Lab (WNET-TV) Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Museum of Modern Art

Selected Television Broadcasts 1998 	Videografia, TV3, Spain 1985	Videografia, TV3, Spain 1984	ORF TV, Austria 1984	TV Lab: A Survey, WNET-TV New York 1981	Video and Film Review, WNET-TV New York 1981      KQED-TV, Los Angeles

Selected Awards 1983 	Red Ribbon, Video Art, American Film Institute Video Festival 1983	First Prize, Video Art, United States Film and Video Festival 1981	Silver Medal, Video Art, III Festival D’Art, Locarno, Switzerland

Selected Curated Screenings 2008	Synthetic Times, National Museum of China, Beijing 2006	Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2004	Modern Means, overview of contemporary art from XIX Century to the Present Mori Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 2004	Artists Working in the Ethnographic Mode conference, Harvard Film Archive 2002	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA	1999	Havana Film Festival, Cuba (Retrospective exhibition) 1996	Digital Video Wall, Mitsui Building, Rockefeller Center, New York 1984	Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil 1984	San Francisco Museum of Art 1983	Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, New York 1983	Tate Gallery (Traveling Whitney Biennial Show), London 1983	San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain 1981	Latin American Video, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1978	TULE, The Cuna Indians of San Blas

Video verite documentary about the Cuna Indians of Panama’s San Blas Islands. The first video documentary to be exhibited at the Museum of Natural History (New York), in 1978.

Partial funding by Electronic Arts Intermix Not in current distribution

Selected Television Broadcasts 1980	Independent Focus series, WNET-TV New York

Selected Curated Screenings 1979	Inter Media Art Center, New York 1979	Videoethos: Cross Cultural Video by Artists, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA 1979	Ithaca Video Festival, Ithaca, NY TULE, The Cuna Indians of San Blas, curated screenings, continued

1979 	5th Annual Global Village Documentary Festival, New York 1979	Museum of the American Indian, New York 1978	Arden House Public Television Conference, New York

1975 	Andes, Phaedra, Rainbow Series of three abstract, scan process analog synthesizer videos.

Selected Exhibition 1975	New York Avant Garde Festival 1975	The Kitchen

Selected Lectures and Public Presentations 2007	Video Arte, documentary about video art produced by WIPR TV, Puerto Rico ( PBS) included a 12 minute interview with Vélez and excerpts of work. 2005	Emerging in the Media Arts Panel, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2005	Imagining Change Conference, Rutgers University (panel presentation) 2005	New Jersey City University, Media Arts Department (guest lecture) 2005	Hunter College, MFA Program in Integrated Media Arts, New York (guest lecture) 2004	Hunter College, Department of Film and Media Studies, New York (guest lecture) 2003	Rhode Island School of Design, An Overview of Edin Velez’s Work (guest lecture) 2002	Long Island University, Digital Video Festival (panel presentation) 2002	Museum of Modern Art, New York, Conversations with Contemporary Artists (guest lecture) 2002	Videoteca del Sur at ICAIC, Havana, Cuba (guest lecture) 1997	Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina (guest lecture) 1997	University of Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Rojas, Argentina (guest lecture) 1997	Flesh Eating Technologies Conference, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada (guest lecture) 1994	Non-Fiction Festival, Cornell Cinema, Cornell University (screened and discussed work) 1993	Boston Film and Video Foundation, TV Dinner with Edin Vélez, (benefit, guest lecture) 1992	San Antonio Cinefestival, San Antonio, TX (screened and discussed work) 1991	University of Southern California, Society for Cinema Studies, The Locating Gaze: A Retrospective of the Work of Edin Velez (screened and discussed work) 1990	University of Illinois Gallery, Behind the Screen (guest lecture) 1990	Montbeliard Video Festival, France (screened and discussed work) 1998	Flaherty Film Seminar, Aurora, New York (screened and discussed work) 1988	Latino Collaborative, New York, Edin Velez: Early and Recent works (guest lecture) 1988	INPUT International Public Television Conference, Philadelphia (screened and discussed work) 1988	International House, Philadelphia, The Independent Eye (screened and discussed work) 1988	Port Washington Public Library, New York, Meet the Artist (guest lecture) 1988	Esalen Institute, Aperture Cross Cultural Conference, California (guest lecture) 1988	Guadalupe Cultural Center, San Antonio, TX, CineFestival 88 (screened and discussed work) 1988	Museum of Modern Art, New York, Conversations with Contemporary Artists (guest lecture) 1987	INPUT International Public Television Conference, Granada, Spain (screened and discussed work) 1987	Rensselaer Cultural Center, Troy, NY, Electronic Arts Series (guest lecture) 1987	Boston Video and Film Foundation (guest lecture 1985	Museum of Modern Art, New York, Video Viewpoints (screened and discussed work) 1983	American Center, Paris (screened and discussed work) 1982	Donnell Media Center, New York Public Library, Meet the Makers (screened and discussed work) 1982	INPUT International Public Television Conference, Toronto (screened and discussed work) 1987	Media Alliance Annual Conference (panel presentation) 1987	United Nations Women’s Guild, New York (guest lecture) 1979	Media Study/ Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo (guest lecture) 1979	Museum of the American Indian, New York (screened and discussed work) 1978	American Museum of Natural History, New York (screened and discussed work) 1978	Arden House Public Television Conference, New York (screened and discussed work) 1977	Anthology Film Archives, New York (screened and discussed work)

Work in Museum Permanent Collections

1998	Museum of Modern Art, New York: Memory of Fire 1990	Museum of Modern Art, New York: Dance of Darkness 1988	Nagoya Museum, Japan: Dance of Darkness 1987	Stedelijk Museum of Art, Amsterdam: Meaning of the Interval 1983	Museum of Modern Art, New York: META MAYAN II 1983	Whitney Museum, NY: META MAYAN II

Artists’ Residencies 2007	Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swingspace Program 2000	Artist in Residence, World Trade Center, New York 1997	Senior Artist in Residence, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada

Career Awards

1989	American Film Institute, Maya Deren Award for Excellence in Film and Video

Awards for Video Work

1995	Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival Memory of Fire 1991	Best Film on Art Technique, Festival International du Film sur l’Art, Montreal Dance of Darkness 1989	Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Juror’s Citation Award, Dance of Darkness 1988	First Prize for Video Art, National Latino Film Festival, New York Meaning of the Interval 1985	Grand Prix de la Ville de Geneve (St. Gervais, Switzerland) AS IS 1983	Red Ribbon, Video Art, American Film Institute Video Festival META MAYAN II 1983	First Prize, Video Art, United States Film and Video Festival META MAYAN II 1982	Silver Medal, Video Art, III Festival D’Art, Locarno, Switzerland META MAYAN II

Publications About Vélez

Vélez’s notes, papers, writings, working videos and completed works from 1970 to 1997 have been purchased by Stanford University, and are available for researchers at the library’s Department of Special Collections.

2007	A Processive Turn, The Video Aesthetics of Edin Vélez Catalog for extensive video survey of new video installations, works on paper and single channel videos. 112 pages with six essays and an interview with Vélez. Published by the Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University

2007	Internet Killed the Video Star? Village Voice, NY	Article about the Scanners Video Festival, featuring an interview with Vélez

2007 	Rewind Rewind: Catalog for extensive video survey of Puerto Rican video artists featuring Edin Velez published by the Institute for Puerto Rican Culture. Includes five stills from Velez’s works exhibited in show.

2006	Still Moving, Edited by Steven Higgins:.386 pages: Book of photographic stills from the Museum of Modern Art’s Film and Media Collections. Includes a color still from Meta Mayan II

2004	Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s World Trade Center Residency 1997 – 2001 (Book, contains two pages of Vélez’s work during his residency at the World Trade Center)

2003	Nations, Pollinations and Dislocations: Changing Imaginary Borders in the Americas (Argos Festival Catalog, Brussels, Belgium, contains critical writing on This and That, and other minor misunderstandings …)

2002	COMMITMENT: Rockefeller Foundation’s Media Arts Fellowships Catalog (Catalog, includes Vélez’s bio and lists recent work)

1999	Video Arte: Edin Vélez. (Catalogue, 21 Festival Internacional Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Cuba, contains critical essay by Eduardo A. Russo on Velez’s work) 1998	Contaminaciones: Del videoarte al multimedia. University of Buenos Aires Press. (Book, contains a chapter on Velez’s work, “Una aproximacion a Edin Vélez: Explorar, descubrir, encontrar” by Eduardo Russo.)

1997	New Art. Abrams Publishing. (Book, includes Vélez’s book art in compilation of recent art.)

1993	Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film. Eric Barnouw, Oxford University Press (Book, contains critical writing about Velez’s video Meta Mayan II.)

1995	The Nation, “Japanese Avant-Garde Art.” (discussion of Dance of Darkness in article by Arthur Danto.)

1994	Jump Cut: Review of Contemporary Media. (Interview with Vélez, by Lillian Jimenez.)

1991	Art Scene, “Two Surveys of Artists’ Books.” (Review of Velez’s book art by Judith Hoffberg.)

1990	Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art. Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer, Editors. Aperture Foundation, Inc. (Book, discussion of Vélez’s work in several chapters.)

1990	University of Illinois, Gallery Catalog.

1990	Aperture, “Of Wood and Stone.” (Photo feature on Meaning of the Interval.)

1990	American Film Institute’s Maya Deren Awards (Catalog, includes essay by Barbara London, Assistant Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, about Velez’s work.)

1990	Traversals: Instructions to the Double, Long Beach Museum of Art. (Catalog, critique of Meaning of the Interval by Michael Nash.)

1990	IN VIDEO, Mostra Internazionale di Video d’Arte (Catalog, Milano, Italy)

1989	Art News, “Video Art: The Fabulous Chameleon.” (Critique of Meaning of the Interval by Charles Hagen.)

1989	L.A. Times, “Darkness Airs on KCET Tonight,” May 26. (Review of Dance of Darkness by Lewis Segal.)

1987	New York Times, “Innovation is a Primary Color on the Video Artist’s Palette,” April 19. (Review of Meaning of the Interval by John Wallace.)

1987	High Performance, “Video Poetics: A Contemporary Survey.” (Discussion of Vélez’s work by Michael Nash.)

1987	The Boston Phoenix, “Big Deals on the Little Screen.” (Review by Kathy Huffman,)

1986	Video Classics: A Guide to Video Art and Documentary Tapes. Deirdre Boyle, Oryx Press. (Book, includes discussion of Oblique Strategist Too and Meta Mayan II.)

1981	The Village Voice, “Otro Video, Otro Vietnam.” (Review by J. Hoberman.)

1978	Videography, “Taping the Cuna Indians.” (Cover article on Vélez by Victor Ancona.)

Selected Consulting Work 2006	Latino Public Broadcasting, Reader for production proposals 2004	Jerome Foundation, Emerging Artist Fellowship Panelist 2003	Jerome Foundation, Emerging Artist Fellowship Panelist 2002	Rockefeller Foundation, Panelist for Rockefeller Media Fellowships 2001	Illinois Council for the Arts, Panelist for State Media Fellowships 2000	Independent Television Service, Reader for Production Funding Awards 1997	Rockefeller Foundation, Panelist for Rockefeller Media Fellowships 1996	Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Panelist for Media Grants 1995	American Film Institute, Maya Deren Award Nominating Committee 1992	Jerome Foundation, Emerging Artist Fellowship Panelist 1992	American Film Institute, Maya Deren Award Selection Committee 1991	American Film Institute, Maya Deren Award Selection Committee 1991	Jerome Foundation, Emerging Artist Fellowship Panelist 1991	New England Film and Video Festival, Selection Committee 1991	National Endowment for the Arts, Panelist for Dance/Media Grants 1990	National Endowment for the Arts, Panelist for US/Japan Fellowships 1989	National Endowment for the Arts, Panelist for Media Grants 1989	New York State Council on the Arts, Panelist for Media Grants 1988	New York State Council on the Arts, Panelist for Media Grants 1987	New York State Council on the Arts, Panelist for Media Grants 1984	Massachusetts Council on the Arts, Panelist for Media Grants 1982	Boston Film and Video Foundation, Panelist for Media Grants

Selected Board Work

2003-	present WNET TV, Reel NY series, Board of Advisors 1991-	1994	Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Board of Directors 1987	Latino Collaborative, Board of Directors

Selected Teaching Experience

2003-	Rutgers University, Newark Present	Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Associate Professor, Video , Media Studies Department	 Coordinator

2002	School of Fine Arts, Puerto Rico Master Video Art Class, summer 2000-	New York University, Tisch School of the Arts 2002	Department of Film and Television, Adjunct, Experimental Video

1999	International Film and Television School, Cuba Documentary Instructor, sponsored by Sundance Institute

1997	Banff Center for the Arts, Canada, Senior Artist in Residence 1995-6	Fundacion Antorchas / Rockefeller Foundation / MacArthur Foundation Instructor, Advanced Seminar in Video Art

1996	Film / Video Arts, New York, Mentor Program 1994	Cornell University, Visiting Lecturer

1975-6	Young Filmmakers Foundation, New York Instructor, Intensive Video Production