Kenneth White

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Kenneth White is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. White is currently a graduate student in the Art History / Film Studies Ph.D. Program at Stanford University. He received his B.F.A. in film production from Syracuse University in 2005.

While a student at Syracuse University White was a curator of the Thursday Screeners weekly repertory cinematheque. He created the Thursday Screeners Visiting Artist Program which included appearances by Michael Snow, Carolee Schneemann, and Su Friedrich. White also co-presented artist talks by Martina Kudlácek and Peter Kubelka, and 16 mm film retrospectives of Kubelka, Marie Menken, and Maya Deren. In addition, White was a curator of the Spark Video Program, a monthly exhibition of local and international video art, and educational outreach director of the Syracuse International Film Festival.

White's films and videos have screened at such venues as Anthology Film Archives; Hong Kong University; University of Lima, Peru; the Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival; The Tank - New York Experimental; and the Northampton Independent Film Festival; among others. 

His writing is published or forthcoming in The Symptom: Jacques Lacan in the U.S., Quarterly Review of Film and Video, INCITE!: Journal of Experimental Media + Radical Aesthetics, Millennium Film Journal, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, History and Theory: Protocols, Super 8 Today Magazine, and The Bollard. White has presented writing in academic conferences at the University of California - Riverside, West Virginia University, San Francisco State University, Plymouth State University, University of California - Irvine, and the University of Southern California.

In July 2006, with a small group of media artists and professionals, White founded the Portland Film + Video Artists Collective. PFVAC has presented five events thus far: 007: Acts and Actions, a juried program of experimental film and video (7 June 2008, Zero Station); Dan Graham visiting artist (11 October 2007, One Longfellow Square), PFVAC + SPACE: New Projections + Installations (5 – 27 September 2007, SPACE Gallery), Portland - Syracuse One Take Super 8 Event with visiting artist Brett Kashmere (13 April 2007, Zero Station), Peter Gruner Shellenberger Retrospective (3 March 2007, Zero Station), and Premiere Showcase (October 2006, Zero Station).  006: Fresh Works, a DVD compilation of new video by PFVAC members, is forthcoming in early 2010.

White has taught media production and aesthetics at Syracuse University and the Maine College of Art. He has received support for his work and programming from Maine Arts Commission, Maine Humanities Council, Syracuse University, Maine College of Art, and Eastman-Kodak. Forthcoming projects include Just look around this place, an international program of new works in video to premiere at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions of San Francisco on 22 January 2010.