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GREG COHEN

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
LECTURER, Dept. Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, January – June, 2009; January 2015 – present
AFFILIATED FACULTY, UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative, 2017 – present
LECTURER, Dept. Film, Television, & Digital Media, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, January 2010 – June 2015
TEACHING FELLOW, Dept. Visual & Environmental Studies, Harvard University, 2006-07
TEACHING FELLOW, Dept. Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University, 2007; 2004-05

CURATORIAL POSITIONS
ASSOCIATE PROGRAMMER, Los Angeles Filmforum, longest-running organization in Southern California dedicated to exhibition of experimental and alternative film, video, and media art, 2012-present
CO-CURATOR, Festival of (In)Appropriation, annual international showcase of experimental found-footage film/video, sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, 2012-present

EDUCATION
PH.D., ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, Concentration: Latin American Visual and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, June 2008
A.M., ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, Harvard University, March 2003
M.A., SPANISH, Middlebury College International Institute – Madrid, Spain, May 2001
B.A. (W/ DISTINCTION), GERMAN, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 1993

SELECT PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Festival of (In)appropriation: invited public presentation, screening (6th edition), and panel discussion with film scholar Michael Renov, First Forum 2018: “Emergency & Emergence,” Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Conference organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Division of Media Arts + Practice, University of Southern California, October 20, 2018
Sylvestre Byrón, “OMR,” translated by Greg Cohen, in Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America (Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Cine experimental en América Latina), ed. Jesse Lerner, Luciano Piazza (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017) 190-203
“Documentary in/and the Hospitable Common?” Invited lecture/discussion, UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative, May 11, 2017Festival of (In)appropriation: invited public presentation, screening (8th edition), and televised
discussion with film scholar Constance Penley, Carsey-Wolf Center/Pollock Theater, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 27, 2016. https://vimeo.com/191083847
“Of Speculation and Experimental Accumulation: Notes on the Valaco Archive.” Invited lecture.
Information Studies Colloquium Series. UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, May 5, 2016
“Selections from the Valaco Archive” (Featured Artist). The Total Archive, ed. Stephen J. Collier, Christopher M. Kelty, Andrew Lakoff. Special issue of Limn 6 (Winter 2016): 68-71. http://limn.it/selections-from-the-valaco-archive/
“The Revolution Must (Not) Be Advertised: The Players vs. Ángeles Caídos, the Discourse of Advertising, and the Limits of Political Modernism.” Jump Cut 56 (Winter 2014-15): https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc56.20142015/CohenPlayersFallenAngels/index.html
“The Valaco Archive Project: The Speculative Archive as Machine for Visual Thinking.” Artisttalk/presentation. Radical Archives: Conference organized by Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani, Artists-in-Residence, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University, April 11-12, 2014
“Spot Radical: From the Discourse of Political Modernism to the Aesthetics of Advertising in Films of the Argentine Underground,” Panel paper, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 17-21, 2010
“Brasília and the End(s) of Modernity: Cinematic Space, Urban Design, and the Distant Horizon in a Forgotten Film by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade,” Open call paper, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Tokyo, Japan, May 21-24, 2009
“Long Live My All-Time Favorite Latin American Film.” Film review of Idade da Terra, dir. Glauber Rocha (Brazil, 1970).” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America 8.3 (Fall 2009/Winter 2010): 27
“City of the Planalto: The Filmic Brasília and the Nature of Late-Modern Spatiality,” Panel paper,
Transnational Space and the Politics of Place: Third Annual Conference of the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities Program, UCLA, May 8-9, 2009
“New Takes on the New: The Cinemas of 1960s Latin America.” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America 8.2. The 60s in Latin America, Glimpses of an Era (Winter 2009): 53-55
Cinema, Spatial Thought, and the Ends of Modernity. Argentina and Brazil in the Sixties. Ph.D. diss.,Harvard University, 2008

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
Urban Humanities Faculty Research Seminar, invitational, interdisciplinary workshop for faculty involved in innovative research and pedagogy related to the urban environment, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Urban Humanities Initiative, UCLA, Academic Years 2017-18, 2018-19
Honorable Mention award, for experimental video “Self-Portrait with Mother, circa 1976-1945,”Los Angeles Underground Film Forum 2018
Honorable Mention award, for experimental video “Self-Portrait with Mother, circa 1976-1945,”Experimental Forum 2018
Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award, UCLA, for innovative undergraduate curriculum development in Latin American experimental cinema, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese,Academic Year 2016-17
Artist in Residence, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, July 11 – August 1, 2016
Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award, UCLA, for innovative undergraduate curriculum design in documentary film theory and production, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, Academic Year 2015-16
Visualist in Residence, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, October 2012 – April 2013
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, “Cultures in Transnational Perspective,” UCLA, July 2008 – June 2010
Andrew W. Mellon/Harvard Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University, Academic Year 2007-08
Presidential Instructional Technology Fellow, Harvard University, for undergraduate curriculum design, directed by Prof. Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard English Dept.), Summer, 2007
U.S. Dept. of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), for preliminary dissertation research in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Academic Year 2003-04
U.S. Dept. of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), for dissertation research in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Academic Year 2005-06
Writing in the Americas Summer Institute Fellow, Boston University, June, 2004
Nancy Clark Smith Summer Fellowship, language study and research in Brazil (2003)
Nancy Clark Smith Summer Fellowship, language study and research in Portugal (2002)

SELECT UNIVERSITY TEACHING
GRADUATE SEMINARS
Situating the Commons: Discourse, Representation, Practice [co-instructor with Dana Cuff, Professor of Architecture/Urban Design and Urban Planning], UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative, Fall quarter 2017
Global Political Modernisms, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Winter quarter; 2014, Fall quarter 2012
Experimental Cinema and Landscape, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Fall quarter 2013; Winter quarters 2013, 2011
Exit Utopias: Cinema, Visionary Architecture, Radical Urbanism, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Spring quarter, 2010; Fall quarter, 2010
Theories of Space and the Moving Image, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Winter quarter 2012
New Cinemas in the Latin American Sixties, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Winter quarter, 2010; Fall quarter, 2010
Bibliographies and Methods of Research, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, FalL quarter, 2011
Cinema, Space, Theory: Reading the Spatial Turn through Argentine and Brazilian Film in the 1960s and 70s, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Spring quarter, 2009

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Living Cinema: An Urban-Latino Humanities Workshop, Seminar-Studio, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Spring quarters, 2016-2019
The Art of Revolution and the Politics of Art in Latin America. Seminar, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Fall quarter 2017, Winter quarter 2019
New Cinemas in the Latin America Sixties, Seminar, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Winter quarter, 2009; Spring quarter 2015, Winter quarters 2016, 2019
Liquid Modernities: Latin American Cinema and the Global Urban Imaginary, Seminar, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Winter quarter 2015, Fall quarters 2015, 2016, 2018
Contemporary Argentine Cinema. Aesthetics, Politics, Visual Culture. Seminar, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Winter quarters, 2017, 2018
History, Memory, Truth, Fiction: Documentary Practices in Latin America. Seminar, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Fall quarter 2017
Film & Social Change: Cinema and Political Agency, from the Global Sixties to the Globalized Present, Lecture Course, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Spring quarter 2015
The Art of Revolution: Cinema and Politics in the Global Sixties, Lecture Course, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Spring quarters 2011-14

SELECT CURATORIAL/ARTS PROGRAMMING
Co-curator [with Paul Malcolm], Third Cinema is [Not] Dead (working title), retrospective screening series on the 50th anniversary of the publication of “Towards a Third Cinema” (Fernando Solanas, Octavio Getino), UCLA Film and Television Archive, slated for Fall 2019.
Co-curator [with Kate Brown], Still Moving: Cinema, Photography, and the Real, MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), with filmmaker Domietta Torlasco in person, screening of experimental films organized in conjunction with exhibition Real Worlds: Brasäi, Arbus, Goldin, co-sponsored by MOCA and Los Angeles Filmforum, May 10, 2018
Programmer, A Personal Journey through Found Footage with Luis Ospina, Public screening and Master Class with Colombian director Luis Ospina, UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, co-sponsored by UCLA Latin American Institute and Los Angeles Filmforum, in conjunction with Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, January 18, 2018
Programmer, The End(s) of Remembrance: Two Films on Holocaust Memory by Sergei Loznitsa.
James Bridges Theater, UCLA, with Sergei Loznitsa in person, Co-sponsored by Los Angeles
Filmforum, UCLA Dept. of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, UCLA Department of Slavic,East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, International Documentary Association, February 27, 2017
Curator, The Early Films of Phill Niblock. Los Angeles Filmforum @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), with Phil Niblock in person, February 8, 2016
Curator, Landscape and the Body at Work and Play, featuring works by Phill Niblock, Francis Alÿs, and Sharon Lockhart, with Sharon Lockhart in person, Los Angeles Filmforum, October 18, 2015
Programmer, The Thoughts That Once We Had by Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Filmforum, April 19, 2015
Curator, Experimental Cinema and Landscape, weekly screening series in conjunction with eponymous graduate seminar, UCLA, James Bridges Theater, Winter 2013Guest Curator, Fata Morgana 1, inaugural session of monthly series on collaborative visualresearch, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, February 20, 2013
Co-programmer [with Phil Coldiron], “The Indian Boundary Line” by Thomas Comerford, LosAngeles Premier, Melnitz Movies Film Series, UCLA, April 7, 2011
Guest Curator, The Experimental Landscape Films of Thomas Comerford, Echo Park Film Center,Los Angeles, CA, April 7, 2011
Steering Committee Member, Latin American Film and Media Project, Latin American Institute,UCLA, Initiative aimed at fostering research, teaching, and programming of Latin Americanaudio-visual production. Activities include screenings, lectures, course development, film andvideo acquisition, and formation of electronic database of Latin American media, Los Angeles,
2008-09
Inaugural Member, Committee on Ibero-American Cinema, David Rockefeller Center for LatinAmerican Studies and Harvard Film Archive, initiative aimed at promoting exhibition of Iberian,Lusophone and Latin American film at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2007-08

PROJECTS/PRACTICE
EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
Intra-. Infra-. Ultra-. Auto-. Four Short Video Works. Solo screening, followed by discussion withPhillip John Usher, Associate Professor of French, NYU, Columbia Global Centers-Paris, Paris,France, July 12, 2017
Portrait: (Auto-)biography of a Way of Seeing, solo multi-media installation (Iteration IV of “WithEverything but the Monkey Head” project), Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, July 30, 2016
Second Annual Art Exhibition, group show, Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, 28April – 21 May, 2016
A New History of the Photographic Science and Treatise on its Potential for the Enhancement of
Mechanical Vision, solo archival installation, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, February-March 2016
6th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt, 8-20 November 2014.
Electron Salon, invitational group exhibition, curated by Rex Bruce, Los Angeles Center for DigitalArt (LACDA), October 2014
7th Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria, 1-7 August 2014
Ten New Artists to Watch, group exhibition, curated by Holly Harrison (LACMA) and Peter Frank (Huffington Post), Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), September-October 2013
Valaco in Babel, solo installation and artist talk, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, April 2013

VISUAL & MULTI- MEDIA WORKS
Grupo Anarquitectura (Rama argentina), multimedia speculative archive and installation (in development)
Orchid/Sound (working title). HD video project in progress (co-created with Christian Zorka) Foundation. HD video, color, sound. 39:00 min (2017)
Self-Portrait with Mother, circa 1976-1945. HD video, color, sound. 17:00 min (2016).
Self-Portrait (with Mother)1976-1945. Single-channel HD video loop, color, silent. 16:04 min (2016)
Alyce K, circa 1962?. 2D mixed-media work (scavenged photographs, ink-jet prints on vellum corrugated, cardboard), 3 panels, 48 in. x 48 in. each (2016)
H-E-T-E-R-O-N-Y-M. Word diagram, inkjet print on transparencey film affixed to butcher paper, approx. 110 in. x 36 in. (2016)
Glitchfields. iPhone Panorama Subversions. (2015-16, ongoing)
Intra-spherical projections. Google Street View Subversions. (2015-16, ongoing)
41 Hologrammata (with Christian Zorka). Multi-media project and artist’s book. 2016.
Seven Marseille Morning Minutes. HD video, color, sound. 10:00 min. (2014)
Seven Marseille Morning Minutes (Abridged version). HD video, color, sound. 3:32min (2014)
Metaphorical Voids. Experimental Analog-Digital Photography series. Archival Inkjet prints from analog negatives, 14.5 in. x 14.5 in. each (2013, ongoing)The Valaco Archive Project. Multi-media speculative archive (2012, ongoing at valacoarchive.com)
La-di-dah. HD video, color, sound. 3:39 min. (2012)

WRITTEN WORD
“f32 1/8s”. Experimental prose poem. Anti- #13 (December 2013)
“Necrologisms” i, iii, v. Experimental prose poems. E•ratio #15 (2012)
“Rooms”; “Gnossienne”; “Zion.” Poems. Dudley Review (Harvard University, 2003)
“Madrid: A Fragmentary.” Bi-lingual poem (Spanish-English). Annetna Nepo 1 (2002)

LANGUAGES
SPANISH: bi-lingual proficiency
PORTUGUESE: high-working proficiency
FRENCH: high-working proficiency
GERMAN: working proficiency