KeithSanborn
Video Production
Lecturer in the Center for the Creative
and Performing Arts
Campus Address:
185 Nassau Street, Room 315
Campus Phone: (609) 258-6922
Office Hours: T & W, 10:00 a.m.-noon
> ksanborn@princeton.edu
Keith Sanborn has taught Video Production in
the Program in Visual Arts for the past three Fall semesters.
In 2005, he taught a new theory course, VIS 344: From Montage
to Game Hacks: Strategies of Cultural Critique. His long-term
interest is in media critique through his theoretical writings
as well as through the application of critical strategies of
cultural critique in his media work. He has continued to pursue
both his artistic and theoretical interests over the past few
years.
His video work appeared in numerous festivals and museum shows,
including the 2003, 2004, and 2005 International Film Festival,
Rotterdam; CinemaTexas (2003); Açucar Invertido at Res
do Chão, Rio (Satellite show in Brooklyn) (2004); the
Seventh Annual 12 to 12 Video Marathon, Art In General, New York
(2004); "Créateur 1, auteur 0" Lecture by Yann
Beauvais at the Institut Franco-japonais, Tokyo, the Alliance
Française d'Osaka, Osaka, Japan (2004); the DUMBO Art
Under the Bridge Festival, "Short film/video festival" (2003
and 2004); "Slowness," curated by Mercedes Vicente
at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
(2004); and at Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY (2003); "Politik
der Sichtbarkeit | Fakes & Fakten," organized by Florian
Wuest for Landesvertretung Niedersachsen in Berlin in collaboration
with Transmediale 3. Berlin (2003); "Rencontres Internationales
Paris/Berlin," Paris and Berlin (2003); and "In media
res: information, contre-information," at the Gallerie art
et essai, Université Rennes 2, Rennes, France (2003).
His video work was also featured on thing.net as streaming video
in 2003 and 2004. In 2006, he had one-person shows at the École
nationale superieure des beaux arts in Paris and the École.de
beaux arts in Mulhouse and the University of Illinois, Chicago.
In 2005, he had one-person shows at the Millennium Film Workshop
in New York and the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung,
in Karlsruhe.
In the theoretical realm, he was one of the conference co-organizers
(along with Visual Arts colleagues Su Friedrich and P. Adams
Sitney) of Gloria! The Legacy of Hollis Frampton, which took
place in November of 2004 at Princeton University and the Anthology
Film Archives in New York. At the conference, he also presented
a lecture entitled "Hollis Frampton's Algorithmic Aesthetic" concerning
the digital work of Hollis Frampton. Sanborn studied digital
media and film theory with Frampton in the early 1980s when Frampton
was in the early phase of his work in digital media. In 2005,
he was invited to the "Refresh!" Conference in Banff,
Canada where he presented an updated version of that essay. The
essay will in appear in Leonardo this next year.
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Sanborn
is also a translator and is recognized for his critical research
on the work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International.
He has presented Situationist films at various times and places,
including lectures in 2004 at SUNY/Buffalo and Hamilton College,
where he presented his translations of the film version of Guy
Debord's Society of the Spectacle and of Debord's film Refutation
of All Judgments. He also presented classroom lectures at both
schools. At Hamilton, he spoke on further aspects of the Situationist
International and at SUNY/Buffalo he screened and spoke about
his own work in film and video. The past year, he reviewed the
first edition of Guy Debord's films on DVD for Artforum and was
a panelist at "Film as Critical Practice: The Cinema of
Guy Debord and the Spectre of the Situationist International," organized
by Thomas Y. Levin and Aaron Levy at the Slought Foundation in
Philadelphia. A letter to the Editors of Artforum to be published
in September will review the 2nd Gaumont DVD edition of the films
of Debord.
In 2003, he was invited
to be a panelist for a public discussion of the historical and
cultural significance of the assassination
of John F. Kennedy in conjunction with the exhibition "November
22, 1963: Image, Memory, Myth," at the Andy Warhol Museum
in Pittsburgh. At the panel, he presented his video remix of the
celebrated home movie of the assassination called "The Zapruder
footage: an investigation of consensual hallucination."
This year, his essay on the work of Toni Serra called "Istishara" will
be featured in a catalogue published by the Kunststiftung NRW in
connection with an exhibition of work by nominees for the Nam June
Paik Award at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne.
His essay "Remember, Remember, 11th September" will appear
in a collection of writings published in conjunction with the exhibition "IN
THE POEM ABOUT LOVE, YOU DON'T WRITE THE WORD LOVE" organized
by Tanya Leighton for the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow
in which his video "Operation Double Trouble" appeared.
In 2005, He contributed a short essay, entitled "The Jewel
is indeed within the Lotus," on Anne Severson's Near the Big
Chakra to the catalogue for an exhibition on the history of the
Canyon Cinema Coop organized by the Pacific Film Archive. His essay, "This
text which is not one," on Yann Beauvais's Tu, sempre, commissioned
for "Tu, Sempre #5" at Éspace Garner, Paris appeared
in the catalogue for that show. His collage essay, "Un abecedario
Valdezano," appeared on the cover of Valdez, number 5, published
in Bogotá and Geneva.
Sanborn's essay "Untitled," on Wolfgang Staehle's net
installation 2001 was re-published in English as part of the exhibition
catalogue for "Critical Conditions," Wood Street Galleries,
Pittsburgh. The essay was written in 2001 and originally published
in German in 2002 by Dumont Verlag in Kunst nach Ground Zero. Sanborn's "Forward" to "Tribulation
99"(a "translation" into book form of the film by
the same name) was reprinted in Science in Action! a monograph
on Craig Baldwin published by the San Francisco Cinematheque.
Sanborn also published several previews for Artforum as well as reviews
for the on-line Reviews Section of Thing.net. Among them "Being
Here," an historiographic reflection on "Shoot! Shoot!
Shoot!" (an exhibition of films from the British Film Avant-Garde
of the 1960s and 70s) and "Being There, (or a few of my personal
obsessions superimposed on 'closerthantherealthing,'” curated
by Caspar Stracke at the Thing offices (January 31 to February 7,
2003).
works of art represented: to come
links
> www.panix.com
> http://bbs.thing.net/
communicator.thing
(see "Operation
Double Trouble")
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