Exhibition Information

Celebrating Local NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship Recipients
March 5 - April 13

Monteith McCollum and Ariana Gerstein have worked both independently and collaboratively in the areas of film, video, installation, performance, sound and sculpture. They share an interest in the use and reconsideration of older technologies to explore various histories, memory, and time. McCollum’s videos in this exhibition express these concepts through visual and sonic landscapes and include Listen, Soundprint, and In a Free Sound Field. Gerstein’s videos shown in this exhibition do so while exploring the common desktop scanner as an alternative to a digital or film camera. These works include Close the Lid Gently, Performance for Perfection, and In Glass Houses. One of McCollum’s videos and one of Gerstein’s shown here share a common subject, Don Boros.

Ariana Gerstein
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Computer Arts ‘10
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Film ’09 and ‘15

Ariana Gerstein is Associate Professor at Cinema Department, SUNY Binghamton Her independent productions have included digital video, sculpture, installation and performance. Her films have been screened at festivals worldwide including International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, London International, European Media Arts Festival in Osnabrueck, Germany, Media City in Canada, New York Film Festival, SXSW, and others. She has had shows at MOMA, San Francisco Cinematheque, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Deutsches Filmmueseum, Frankfort, Pacific Film Archives in Berkley, and other locations. Awards include the Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film from Ann Arbor Film Festival, Golden Gate Award from San Francisco International FIlm Festival, Special Jury Award for Artistry in Documentary at Atlanta Film Festival, Truer Than Fiction/Independent Spirit Award with Monteith McCollum.

Monteith McCollum
NYSCA/NYFA Prize ‘01, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Film ‘08
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Sound ‘15

Assistant Professor Monteith McCollum teaches at Cinema department, SUNY Binghamton. He is an independent filmmaker, musician and educator who has taught at various schools in Chicago, Illinois and upstate New York such as Columbia College, Broome Community College and Ithaca College. He has been a visiting artist at colleges including Boston Museum School, Art Institute of Chicago and University of Iowa.  As director of the award-winning feature documentary Hybrid, Monteith has traveled extensively showing his work and speaking about film. In 2002, he was selected to tour on the Southern Circuit where he showed work and toured to Universities and high schools in the South. Monteith has served as a juror at various film festivals including the Bermuda International Film Festival, Slamdance, Ann Arbor, and Big Muddy at the University of Illinois. Since 2002 he has served as an advisory board member in film for the New York Foundation for the Arts. Hybrid was broadcast nationally on PBS and Arte in France. It premiered in New York at MOMA's New Directors/New Films. It also garnered many awards, including the IFP/Direct TV truer than fiction Independent Spirit Award in Los Angeles California.

With Ariana Gerstein, he was named a Rockefeller Fellow for their collaborative work in documentary. Other honors include over a dozen best of festival awards at San Francisco International, Amsterdam Documentary Festival, Slamdance, Ann Arbor, Bermuda, Nashville, South by Southwest, and Amsterdam International Documentary Festival to name a few. His short films Lawn and Milk in the Land were shown on PBS as part of the P.O.V. series.