Liz Miller

lmiller@redlizardmedia.com

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Education
Professional Teaching Experience
Full-time Professional Experience
Screening & Exhibition History
Grants & Fellowships
Bibliography
Conferences
Visiting Artist Lectures
Curatorial Projects/Programming
Professional Affiliations
Technical Expertise/Languages

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Education

Integrated Electronic Arts
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Social Thought and Political Economics
Certificate: Latin American Studies
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Professional Teaching Experience

9/2004 - Present

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec

http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/comm

9/2001-6/2004

Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Video Production
University of Massachusetts, Smith College, Amherst College, Amherst & Northampton, Massachusetts

Taught courses, "Video One: Introduction to Video Production and the History of Video Art," “Non-Fiction Video,” “Critical Links: Advanced Video Production and Community Engagement.” Set up a digital production facility through the communications department at University of Massachusetts for community-based productions. Co-direct the “Five College Student Film Festival.” Organize film screenings and filmmaker visits for the five colleges.

9/2000-8/2001

Visiting Assistant Professor of Video/Digital Design
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts

Taught courses, "Video One: Introduction to Video Production and the History of Video Art,""Contested Visions: Latin American Film and Video," and "Critical Thinking & Community Video."

Full-Time Professional Experience

Digital Design

3/1999-6/2000

Digital Designer
Video Data Bank, Art Institute of Chicago, www.vdb.org

Designer, producer, HTML programmer, and curator at the Video Data Bank
Maintained site and produced still images, animated gifs, quicktime clips, and page design for the on-line multi-media catalogue. Curated video programs for galleries, universities. Produced on Art and Artists Interview Series.

International Education Experience

6/1991-6/1996

Country Coordinator/Academic Supervisor
Institute for Central American
Development Studies, ICADS (Nicaragua 1991-93, Belize 1994, Costa Rica 1995 -1996).

Coordinated work internships and family placements for university students and provided academic supervision while students were in the field. Managed the office, led educational tours in Nicaragua and provided training for new coordinators.

Screening & Exhibition History

2004

Marvelous Resources, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
work in progress

A feature length documentary about the conflicts born of water scarcity, outdated public utilities, and the struggle between citizens and the corporations vying to control this fundamental resource. http://www.marvelousresources.com

* Recipient of Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media

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2003

Water Postcards, Visual Artist

Water Postcards are a series of postcard art on the conflicting views of water as human right versus water as commodity. These postcards are visual headlines that emphasize the tension between conflicting perceptions of water — valuable commodity, essential service, sacred resource, human right. Catalogue.

Exhibition: Global Priority Show, Herter Gallery, Univ. of Mass

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2002

Novela , Novela, Director, Videographer, Editor

A 30-minute documentary about a group of Nicaraguan feminists who have fused human rights with popular culture to create Nicaragua's most popular telenovela (soap opera). Novela,Novela examines how this ground-breaking series made it to broadcast, and how the creators, writers, actors and viewers grappled with controversial themes like domestic violence and homophobia. Project reviewed: BBC, NPR, and HBO latino.

US Distributor: Frameline / Television: Free Speech Television

Awards:
* Recipient of “Freedom Award,” Outfest, Los Angeles Film Festival
* Honorary Mention, 2003 International Association of Women in Radio &vTV
* Latin American Studies Association Award of Merit in Film
* Frameline Finishing Funds

Selected Screenings:
Provincetown Film Festival Provincetown
San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Out on Screen, Vancouver
KidFlix Int’l Children’s Film Festival
Florida New Festival, New York
Boston Women’s Festival
Kopkind Colony Film Series Reeling, Chicago
Women in the Director’s Chair , Chicago
Mix Mexico / Mix Brazil / Miami International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
7th International Gay Film Festival, Madrid
Cine Accion, San Francisco
Mostra Internacional de Cinema Gai Lesbic, Barcelona, Spain
Image Out, Rochester
Milwaukee Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

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2000

Parkville Portraits Director, Videographer, Editor, Web Designer

Real Art Ways. Hartford, Connecticut
http://www.redlizardmedia.com/muc/index.html

Selected as a community artist by Artists and Communities: America Creates for the Millennium - a nation wide project of the National Endowment for the Arts and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Produced nine short video portraits, Parkville Portraits, screened before feature films in the Real Art Ways Cinema. Portraits were projected on buildings throughout the community. Project featured on NPR.

Selected Screenings: Real Art Ways Cinema

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2000

It's Not Lie, Director, Videographer, Editor

A five-minute short about phonelines and fantasies.

Selected Screenings:
Sex on the Lawn 2: the Second Coming, Pasadena, Ca.
Identities Queer Film Festival, Vienna
Kino im Schulz, Germany
San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
New Festival, New York
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Console-ing Passions Conference
Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
Flaming Film
Video Festival, Intermedia Arts
The Mix Film Festival, NYC
Image & Nation Film Festival, Montreal
Pacific Film Archives
Fifth Annual Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Women in the Directors Chair 6th Annual Pride Night, Chicago

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1999

Just Here, Executive Producer/Director/Editor

The Ark, Troy New York

Four youth, ages 14-17 from the Taylor Projects were hired to produce a personal story and to learn to direct young actors. The result is a 23 minute documentary, Just Here.
US Distributor: Free Speech TV

Awards:
*Recipient of the Golden Apple Award of the National Educational Media Network
*Recipient of Bronze award of the Columbus Int'l Film & Video Festival

Selected Screenings:
Chicago International Children's Film Festival
Colombia County Film
Festival Hope and Dreams Film Festival
Marco Island Film Festival
On Tour with Women in the Director’s Chair, Youth Program

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2000

New Technologies, New Incursions, New Voices on the Internet Director, Videographer, Editor

Shot and Edited a five-minute bilingual video, New Technologies, New Incursions, New Voices on the Internet, that documents the collective webcast of FIRE with Latin American Radio Producers at the VIII Encuentro Feminista, La Republica Dominicana, Nov. 1999.

Television: Aired on television in Costa Rica.

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1999

Moles, Web Artist

Moles is a web narrative. http://www.redlizardmedia.com/moles/index.html

Awards:
* First place web award at THAW 00, Fifth Annual Festival of Video, Film, &
Digital Media of the Institute for Cinema and Culture. 2000.
* Co-winner of Art and Science Collaboration,Inc. Digital 99 Competition
* 2nd place in the McKinney Writing Contest, 99

Gallery/ Museum Exhibitions:
* 2nd Annual Digital Art Exhibition of the New York Hall of Science
* Obsession exhibition at Goucher College
* Electronic Lounge of the art gallery Dominikanerkirche during
the European Media Art Festival
* Dream Centenary CG Grand Prix99 in Japan
* Brooks Gallery at The Cooper Union

Print/Web Publications:
* Stills published in art magazine, Simul - taneita, Italy, 99.
* Assemblage: The Women's Hypertext Gallery, 2000.
*Drunken Boat Winter/Spring 2001 - http://www.drunkenboat.com

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Grants and Fellowships

2003

Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media of the Funding Exchange

2003

Smith College Faculty Travel Grant

2001

Frameline Finishing Funds

2000

Artists and Communities: America Creates for the Millennium, National Endowment of the Arts and Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.

Bibliography

Water Risks Published artists pages in Riesgo/Risk edition of FELIX, a journal of Media Arts and Communication, 2003

Betraying Amnesia: Portraying Ourselves: Video Portraits by Latin American and Latino/a Artists, essay published in the Photography Quarterly published by the Center for Photography at Woodstock, #77, 2000.

Charlene Scott, “Memories Under Construction: Community Artist in Parkville” National
Public Radio, September, 2001.

Conferences

2002 - 2003

Organizer, “Water Rights and Wrongs: Global & Gender Perspectives on Water Sovereignty,” Conference at Smith College

2003

Panelist, “Youth Diversity,” Provincetown Film Festival.

2003

Panelist, “Building Film and Video Studies for the Digital Age”, Five-College Symposium, Amherst College.

2003

Panelist, “Art and Activism, From Abortion Rights to Social Justice,” Hampshire College.

2003

Screening & Presentation, American University, Washington College of Law: “Re/Dis/Un Covering Reproductive Rights in the Americas.”

2003

Panelist, “Community Art” Arts and Management Symposium, Northampton.

2003

Participant, “Diaspora-As-Object in Contemporary Visual Culture,” Kahn Institute.

2001

Organizer, Lecturer, “Feminist Response to 911,” co-organized two panel discussions at Hampshire and University of Massachusetts, presented feminist analysis of media coverage.

2000

Lecturer, “Community Art” Arts and Management Symposium, Northampton.

2000

Panelist “Synonymous with Irrelevant? Community Based Art and the Engaged Campus” Mid-America College Art Association (MACAA).

Visiting Artist Lectures

2004

Lecturer, Nasau Community College

2004

Lecturer, Five College Women’s Inc

2003

Lecturer, Drew College “Mainstreaming Feminism through Media.”

2003

Lecturer, Dartmouth College “Social Soaps and Gay Culture in Nicaragua.”

2003

Lecturer, Emerson College, “Women, Media, and Globalization.”

2002

Lecturer, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain “Media as an Educational Tool.”

2002

Lecturer, Smith School of Social Work “Media and Mental Health.”

Curatorial Projects / Programming

2002-3

Programmer, In coordination with Motion Pictures Committee of Smith College brought “Women in the Director’s Chair Touring Film festival”, curator Astria Superak, filmmakers Yael Bitton, Harry Dodge, Silas Howard, Julia Meltzer, David Thorne, and Yvonne Welbon to Five Colleges.

2000

Co-Curator, Out in Africa Film Festival, South Africa
Co-curated a program of work from the Video Data Bank Collection to exhibit at the 6th Annual Gay South African Film Festival. Presented work and lecture.

2000

Programmer, 19th Annual Women in the Director's Chair International Film and Video Festival. Worked on the judging, selection and programming committees.

2000

Programmer, 19th Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival
Worked on the programming Committee selecting documentary shorts and features.

1999

Co-Curator, V111 Latin American Feminist Encuentro, Dominican Republic
Curated a video program of Latin American female video artists.

1999

Co-Curator, Center for Photography at Woodstock
Curated a video program, "Betraying Amnesia: Videos by Latin American and Latino/a Artists," to be shown at the Center Gallery, Sept. 25 - Dec. 19, 1999. The tape is also distributed by Video Data Bank.

Professional Affiliations

Board Member

Institute for Central American Development Studies, 2003 – present

Member

International Association of Women in Radio and Television

Member

International Documentary Association

Member

College Art Association

Member

Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers

Member

Feminist Aid to Central America

Member

Women in the Director’s Chair

Technical Expertise / Languages

Final Cut Pro, Media 100, Avid, Pro-tools, PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Media Cleaner Pro

Fluency in reading, writing, and speaking

Basic – reading, oral comprehension (12 years in high school).