BA/MA 1980 Edinburgh University/ College of Art – joint degree in Painting and Art History.
MFA 1983 Columbia University. Film Production.
1985-86 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

FILMS AND DIGITAL WORKS

THE SOMNAMBULISTS
An installation comprising of five miniature wooden theaters/dioramas into which moving images are projected. 2007
Exhibitions:
Arcite Gallery, Windsor Ontario (March – April 08)

SILO DREAMS
3-D Slide/Audio installation 2006
Created in collaboration with Eric Muzzy
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo (April 06)

CHARMING AUGUSTINE
3D 16mm film 2005
Writer, director, cinematographer, editor
Screenings:
York University, England (January 08)
North West Film Forum, Seattle (November 07) Festival Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal (October 07)
Festival of Women’s Film and Media Arts, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC (September 07)
Freud Dream Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (June 07)
Tesla, Berlin Germany (June 07)
University of South Florida, Tampa (March 07)
Roulette NYC (March 07)
SUNY Binghamton (November 06)
Gigantic Art Space (GAS), New York City (October 06)
The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles (September 06)
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley (September 06)
MadCat Film Festival, San Francisco (September 06)
Flaherty Film Seminar (June 06)
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo (April 06)
The Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto (April 06)
Bellwether Gallery, New York City (February 06)
The CUNY Film and Media Lecture Series @ The CUNY Graduate Center (December 05)
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival @ The American Museum of Natural History
(November 05)
University of Wisconsin @ Milwaukee (October 05)

THE IDEOPLASTIC MATERIALIZATIONS OF EVA C.
Four channel, Stereoscopic, Surround Sound DVD Installation 2004
Writer, director, cinematographer, video editor.
Exhibitions:
“Now You See It” Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (March 07)
Artefact Festival, Stuk Art Center, Leuven Belgium (February 07)
"Blur of the Otherworldly:Contemporary Art, Technology and the Paranormal", Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (October - December 05)
Siena Heights University Art Gallery, Michigan (September 05)
Gallery TPW, Toronto (April 05)
Bellwether Gallery , New York City (February 05)

CLAIRE AND DON IN SLUMBERLAND
16mm film and 3D slides - 2002
Writer, director, cinematographer, editor
Screenings:
University of Wisconsin @ Milwaukee (November 06)
MadCat Women’s Film Festival, San Francisco (September 06)
Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn (September 06)
Flaherty Film Seminar (June 06)
PICA – Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts TBA Festival (September 04)
New York State Summer School for the Arts (July 04)
Smith College (March 04)
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (March 04)
Pacific Film Archives (March 04)
The Black Sheep Puppet Festival, Pittsburg (September 03)
The Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto (April 03)
Chicago Filmmakers (February 03)
Ocularis, Brooklyn NY (January 03)
Anthology Film Archives, New York (January 03)
London International Film Festival (November 02)
Notre Dame University (October 02)

THE INFLUENCING MACHINE OF MISS NATALIA A.
Interactive video installation 2001
Writer director, 3D modeling designer, video editor
Exhibitions:
“The Air Loom and other dangerous influencing machines” The Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg (October 06 – April 07)
“Mixing it Up! The Interactive Technology Project” Harvestworks NYC (April 04)
Pittsburg Filmmakers (October – November 03)
“Future Cinema” ZKM Karlsruhe Germany (November – February 03)
“Nam June Paik Award 02” NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Duesseldorf
(September - October 02)
“Situated Realities” Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (February 02)
“International Distinguished Artist Symposium & Exhibition” Joseloff Gallery @ Hartford University: (November - January 01)

SHADOW LAND OR LIGHT FROM THE OTHER SIDE
3D 16mm film 2000
Writer, director, cinematographer, editor
Screenings include:
North West Film Forum, Seattle (November 07)
An Evening of Phantasmagoria, London (November 07)
The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles (September 06)
Anthology Film Archives, NYC (March 06)
University of Wisconsin @ Milwaukee (October 05)
National Arts Club, New York (October 05)
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn (August 05)
New York State Summer School for the Arts @ Ithaca College (July 05)
PICA – Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts TBA Festival (September 04)
Smith College (March 04)
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (March 04)
"An Archaeology of Imaginary Media" Conference, Amsterdam (February 04)
University of Chicago (February 03)
School of the Art Institute, Chicago (February 03)
The Whitney Museum Biennial NY 2002
American Museum of Natural History (April 02)
Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda NY (February 02)
American Museum of the Moving Image NY (November 01)
Lux Cinema, London (July 01)
The Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto (April 01)
Rotterdam International Film Festival (January 01)
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley (November 00)
San Francisco Cinematheque (November 00)

A MECHANICAL MEDIUM
Performance for 16mm film and stereoscopic slides with live sound by Ken Montgomery - 1999
Writer, director, cinematographer, editor
Presentations include:
The Whitney Museum Biennial, NY (2002)
American Museum of the Moving Image NY (November 01)
Joseloff Gallery University of Hartford (November 01)
Hampshire College MA (October 00)
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (October 00)
The Flaherty Seminar, NY (June 00)
Roulette, NY (May 00)
The Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto (April 00)
CityMorph 2000 Festival of New Media, Buffalo (March 00)
Virginia Film Festival (October 99)
The San Francisco Cinematheque (February 99)

ILLUSIONS
Web Site - 1999 http://turbulence.org/Works/illusions/index.html
Presentations:
Thundergultch @ Harvestworks (June 99)
Montreal Int'l Festival of New Cinema & New Media (October 99)
3rd Maid in Cyberspace Web Festival@Cinémathèque Québécoise (Feburary 00)
The New Museum New York (January 01)

WHERE WHERE THERE THERE WHERE
CD-ROM - 1998
Writer, director, cinematographer, designer, programmer
Produced in collaboration with the Wooster Group theater company.
Distributed by EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix)
Acquired by the Centre Pompidou, the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki and the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media at Cornell University for their collections.
Presentations include:
“Wolfgang von Kempelen.Mensch-[in der]-Maschine” Center for Art and Media  Karlsruhe, Germany (June – August 07)
“Haunted Screens” UB Art Galleries, SUNY Buffalo (March – May 07)
Pittsburgh Filmmakers (October – November 03)
Le Fresnoy Studio National des arts contemporains, Tourcoring, France (Sept – Dec 02)
“Lo Spazio Sospeso - usi e riusi di aree industriali dismesse” Turino Italy (June 00)
Flaherty Seminar (June 00)
Alien Intelligence Exhibition, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (February 00)
Ganser Art Gallery, Millersville University (February 00)
Microwave festival 2000, Hong Kong (January 00)
Virginia Film Festival (October 99)
Word Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam (September 99)
“Zonas de Contacto el arte en CD-ROM”, Mexico City (July 99)
Melbourne Film Festival Australia(July 99)
Tramvideo, Lyon France (May 99)
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck (May 99)
Impakt Festival, Utrecht (May 99)
"Artistic Discourses of Digitality" Cornell University (March 99)
Videoformes 99 Clermont-Ferrand, France (March 99)
Rotterdam International Film Festival (January 99)
Cyber 98, Lisbon Portugal (November 98)
De Andere Film: Kino-Eye: CyberCities, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (Nov 98)
Panaemonium Festival: London Electronic Arts (October 98)
Videonale Bonn (September 98)
Biennale de l’Image, Ecole de Beaux Arts Paris (May 98)

BEYOND
CD-ROM - 1997
Writer, director, cinematographer, designer, programmer
Acquired by the Centre Pompidou and the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media at Cornell University for their collections. Winner-Best multimedia project, Best of Show. Apple QuickTime VR competition
Presentations include:
“Haunted Screens” UB Art Galleries, SUNY Buffalo (March – May 07)
“The Disembodied Spirit” Bowdoin College Museum of Art (September – December 2004) traveling to Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (March – May 2004) and Austin Museum of Art (September – December 2004)
Pittsburgh Filmmakers (October – November 03)
“Some Assembly Required: Collage in Post-War America” Everson Museum of Art Syracuse (Sept 02 – January 03) traveling to Madison Art Center Wisconsin (Summer 03) and the Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida (Fall 03)
“World Without End” Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Australia
(December 00 – February 01)
Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (Winter 01)
“Lo Spazio Sospeso - usi e riusi di aree industriali dismesse” Turino Italy (June 00)
“Les Mondes Inventés” Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (April - August 00) “
“Feedback”,Union Gallery at SUNY, Stony Brook (March – April 00)
Tramvideo, Lyon France (May 99)
Videoformes 99 Clermont-Ferrand, France (March 99)
Digital Code/Cultural Patterns, University of Texas at Dallas (March 99)
San Francisco Cinematheque (February 99)
L’immage Leggera, Palermo international Videoart festival (October 98)
Galerie VOX, Montreal (September 98)
Impakt Festival Utrecht (May 98)
Biennale de l’Image, Paris (May 98)
A.S.T.A.R.T.I. POUR L'ART AUDIOVISUEL Paris (April 98)
Kaaitheater Brussels (April 98)
Film Forum LA (March 98)
Rotterdam International Film Festival (January 98)
Museum of Modern Art, New York (December 97)
TechnoLust: Desire and Technology, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (November 97)
"Beyond Technology" London Electronic Arts (November 97)
The Video Festival of Navarre, Spain (November 97)
Flaherty Film Seminar (October 97)
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam (September 97)
"Staging Surrealism. Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio (September 97)
Ars Electronica Festival 97, Linz, Austria. (September 97)
"The Eighth International Symposium of Electronic Arts", Chicago (September 97)
First International CAiiA Research Conference, "Consciousness Reframed" Wales (July 97)
"Selected Memories" Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
(June - August 97)
Festival International du Cinema et des Nouveaux Médias de Montréal (June 97)
The Whitney Museum Biennial 1997
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts (February 97)
Pacific Film Archives (October 96)

BEYOND
Web Site 1995-1996
A serial film. This appeared in 44 weekly episodes on the World Wide Web
Writer, director, cinematographer, designer, programmer
Presentations include:
Artifices Biennial Paris (November 96)
Melbourne International Film Festival (July 96)
Word Wide Video Festival, Den Haag (April 96)
Rotterdam International Film Festival (January 96)
Mostra de Video Independent, Barcelona (January 96)
New York Film Festival (September 95)

LOST
16mm film -1997
Writer, director, cinematographer, editor
Screenings include:
Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival (October 98)
Kaaitheater Brussels (April 98)
Film Forum LA (March 98)
Rotterdam Film Festival (January 98)
Museum of Modern Art, N Y (December 97)

LOST
Performance for hand cranked projector, stereo slides and phonograph - 1995
Performances include:
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn (August 05)
PICA – Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts TBA Festival (September 04)
San Francisco Cinematheque (February 04)
University of Chicago (February 03)
American Museum of Natural History (April 02)
Eighth Floor Gallery, New York (September 96)

A TRIP TO THE LAND OF KNOWLEDGE
16mm film - 1995
Writer, director, cinematographer, editor
Screenings include:
Rotterdam International Film Festival (January 01)
Syracuse University (November 00)
New York State Summer School for the Arts (June 00)
Eighth Floor Gallery, New York (November 97)
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley (October 96)
University of Colorado @ Boulder (June 96)
University of San Diego (February 96)
University of Santa Cruz (February 96)

LIFE UNDERWATER
A music/film/stereo slide performance in collaboration with composer John Cale. 1994
Film director, cinematographer, co-writer
Performed at: The Arts at St Ann's Brooklyn NY

WONDERLAND USA
35mm Film - 1989
Writer, director, editor
Screenings include:
Hotel Utopia, Vienna, (October 99)
Independent Focus, Channel 13 (August 92)
San Francisco Film Festival (May 91)
London Film Festival (November 90)
New York Film Festival (October 90)
Montreal World Film Festival (August 90)
Seattle Film Festival (May 90)
AFI Film Festival, Los Angles (April 90)
Collective for Living Cinema, New York (January 90)
Sundance Film Festival (January 90)
Berlin Film Festival (February 90)

NIGHTMARE ANGEL
16mm film - 1986
Co-writer, co-director, cinematographer, editor
Screenings include:
American Museum of the Moving Image (October 88)
Turin Film Festival (October 87)
National Film Theater London (July 87)
Cinema Femmes Montreal (June 87)
Melbourne Film Festival (May 87)
The Museum of Sound and Image Sao Paulo (May 87)
The Collective for Living Cinema NY (April 87)
Cleveland Film Festival (April 87)
Bilbao Film Festival, Spain, winner of the Independent Producer's Prize (November 86)
Hirshhorn Museum (February 87)

PUBLICATIONS (by Zoe Beloff)
“Towards a Spectral Cinema” in Eric Kluitenberg, editor Book of Imaginary Media: excavating the dream of the ultimate communication medium, Rotterdam Nai Publishers, 2006
“Natalija A. and Eva C.” in Louis Armand, editor, Mind Factory, Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2005
The Influencing Machine of Miss Natalija A. Rhizomes #6 Special Issue on "Codework and Surveillance" Spring 2003 http://www.rhizomes.net/issue6/beloff.htm
Reprinted in Thomas Röske and Bettina Brand-Clausen, editors, The Air Loom and other dangerous influencing machines, Sammlung Prinzhorn 2006
Deux femmes visionaries, Trafic, revue de cinéma issue 44, winter 2002
Reprinted as “Two Visionary Women” in Jennifer Fisher, editor Technologies of Intuition Toronto: XYZ Books, 2006
An Ersatz of Life, in Martin Rieser/Andrea Zapp, editors New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative BFI London in collaboration with ZKM Karlsruhe 2001
Reprinted in Chris Gelman and Steve Reinke, editors The Sharpest Point: animation at the end of cinema Toronto: XYZ Books, 2005
La vie rêvée de la technologie, Trafic, revue de cinéma issue 30, summer 1999

INTERVIEWS (with Zoe Beloff)
Heather Hendershot “Of Ghosts and Machines: An Interview with Zoe Beloff” Cinema Journal vol. 45:3 Spring 2006
Karen Beckman “Impossible Spaces and Philosophical Toys: An Interview with Zoe Beloff” Grey Room vol. 22 winter 2006 pp. 68-85
Chris Gehman Zoe Beloff’s Mechanical Medium , Cinema Scope, issue 6, Winter 2001
Willem van Weelden. Catalog of the15th World Wide Video Festival,
Stedelijk Museum. September 1997

REVIEWS AND ARTICLES (on Zoe Beloff’s work)
Oliver Grau “Remember the Phantasmagoria! Illusion Politics of the Eighteenth Century and its Multimedial Afterlife” in Oliver Grau, editor, Media Art Histories Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press 2007 pp 137-141
Frako Loden “Women at Work” San Francisco Weekly Vol.25 No.24, September 20-26 2006 Girish Shambu “The Nerves in Patterns on a Screen: Zoe Beloff’s Charming Augustine” Artvoice V5n17 April 27 - May 2, 2006
Joe Milutis Ether: the nothing that connects everything Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006
Nancy Princenthal “Willing Spirits: the Art of the Paranormal” Art in America, February 2006 Jessica Dawson “Go Ahead, Look Behind the Curtain: Otherwordly's' Wizardry Conjures Up Spirits” Washington Post Saturday, November 5, 2005; Page C02
Jeffrey Skoller Shadows Specters Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005 pp 188-192
Nadja Sayej “Zoe Beloff”,ArtUS  issue number 9 July-September 2005
Emily Hall “Zoe Beloff, Bellwether”, Art Forum, May 2005
Karen Beckman Ectoplasmic Cinema: The Ideoplastic Materializations of Eva C. This essay accompanies the exhibition  Zoe Beloff: The Ideoplastic Materializations of Eva C. Toronto: Gallery TPW  (April 05
Margot Lovejoy Digital Currents: art in the electronic age Routledge, New York 2004
David Alm Conjuring Phantoms, Res Magazine Vol. 7 No. 1
Seth Thomson Computer Based Movies, Dialogue: the art, architecture and design journal of the Heartland, January/February 2004
Bill O’Driscoll American Dreams, Pittsburgh City Paper, October 15-22, 2003
Agnès Villette Le mode selon Zoe Bilbok: Magazine des errances contemporaines issue17, March 2002
Leslie Mcleave Film Medium: Zoe Beloff’s Uncanny Resurrections Res Magazine Vol.5 No.3
David Kilpatrick Catching up with Gertrude: Stein’s Faustus and the Wooster Group Contemporary Drama in English Vol. 7 2000
Raymond Bellour. Présences Virtuelles, Les Frontières eshétiques de l'art, L'Harmattan, 1999
Marie-Josée Jean. Le technologique comme manière de penser de photographie, ETC Montréal, winter 1998-99
Pascal Beausse. After-Images, Art Press, May 1998
Mike Leggett. Beyond the Millenniums, World Art, issue 18, 1998
Steven Ball. Up the Snakes and Down the Ladders, Mesh, issue 12, 1998
Steve Shaviro. Future Past: Zoe Beloff's Beyond, ARTBYTE, Vol.1, No.3, 1998
Elene Tremblay. Ubiquites, Spirale, No. 162, 1998
Joe Miller. Ghosts in the Machine, Boulder Weekly, November 7, 1996
Steven Tomasula, Electronic Book Review,
http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev7/r7tom.htm#Beyond, September 1998

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