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Education
Born in Bobruisk, Belarus
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
2020–	PhD candidate, Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
2013	MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio, University of California, Los Angeles
2009–10	Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2005	BFA, Cooper Union, New York
2004	HFBK Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Selected Exhibitions
2025	Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin Video Library, Paris, France
	Sonic Nomads, TILT, Seoul, South Korea
	SPAM New Media Festival, Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle, WA
	Sound + Environment, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
	Radiant Center, Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Nida, Lithuania
	Radiophrenia, Glasgow, Scotland
	Three Transmissions from a Carceral State, WGXC 90.7 FM, Hudson Valley, NY
2024	Three Transmissions from a Carceral State, WGXC Catskill Studio, Catskill, NY
	Three Transmissions from a Carceral State, WGXC 90.7 FM, Hudson Valley, NY
	NIDA: Meeting Photography, Lithuanian Photographers Association and Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Nida, Lithuania
	Campbient, Sunday Mornings: Live, Radio Brennpunkt
2021	Kindred Solidarities: Queer Community and Chosen Families, The 8th Floor, Rubin Foundation, New York, NY
2021	SOMA Summer Program Exhibition, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
2015	Memories of Underdevelopment, Temporary Agency, Brooklyn, NY
2014	Dreaming Wildly, Fighting to Win, Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2013	Writing with the Other Hand is Imagining, Beirut, Cairo, Egypt
2013	MFA Thesis Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2012	MFA 2013 Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2012	BOOM Los Angeles, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2010	Queer Pier: 40 Years, FIERCE, New York, NY
	A Public Hearing, Not an Alternative/No-Space, Brooklyn, NY
	Riptide, The Kitchen, New York, NY
	Whitney Independent Study Program Exhibition, Art in General, New York, NY
2009	Wildness, Los Angeles, CA
2008	Friday Nights, Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, New York, NY
2007	Qurash, AS220, Providence, RI
2006	video_dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
2006	Translations Film Festival, Seattle, WA
2005	Flaming Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN
2005	Untitled: "Justice Through Science," Residence, New York, NY
Awards, Residencies, and Fellowships
2025	Arts Prize Honorable Mention, Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)
	Artist Residency, Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Nida, Lithuania
	Ken Corday GROW PhD Dissertation Summer Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
	Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence and Equity, UC Santa Cruz
	Graduate Dean's Travel Grant, Division of Graduate Studies, UC Santa Cruz
	Florence French Scholarship, Film and Digital Media Department, UC Santa Cruz
	Travel Award, Film and Digital Media Department, UC Santa Cruz
2024	Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures, Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz
	Artist Residency, Wave Farm, Acra, NY
	Artist Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
	Artist Residency, The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
	Artist Residency, Campbient, Olympia, WA
	Florence French Scholarship, Film and Digital Media Department, UC Santa Cruz
	Research/Travel Grant, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz
2023	Institute for Critical Social Inquiry Fellowship, The New School, New York, NY
	Art Research Institute Graduate Student Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, CA
	Summer Research Fellowship, Film and Digital Media Department, UC Santa Cruz
2022	STAR Re-entry Scholarship, UC Santa Cruz
2022	Travel Award, Film and Digital Media Department, UC Santa Cruz
2021	Artist Residency, SOMA Summer, San Rafael, Veracruz, Mexico
	Florence French Scholarship, Film and Digital Media Department, UC Santa Cruz
	Summer Research Fellowship, Film and Digital Media Department, UC Santa Cruz
2020	Chancellor's Fellowship, Division of Graduate Studies, UC Santa Cruz
	Arts Education Fellowship, Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
	Regent's Fellowship, Film and Digital Media Department, UC Santa Cruz
2013	Research Travel Grant, Art Department, UCLA
2012	Lilian Levinson Foundation Scholarship, Art Department, UCLA
2012	University Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA
2011	Resnick Scholarship, Art Department, UCLA
	Art Council Award, UCLA
	Graduate Award, Art Department, UCLA
2007	Multimedia Residency, BCAT/Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Bibliography
2025	Afroditi Psarra, "SPAM Festival Special." Transmission Ecologies, ep. 40. Stegi Radio, October 30, 2025.
2024	Galen Joseph-Hunter, "Keith Sanborn and Hans Kuzmich." Afternoon Show, WGXC, October 16, 2024.
	The Daily Gazette, "Wave Farm and WGXC to Present 'Three Transmissions from a Carceral State.'" October 17, 2024.
	Mary Kelly, "Formations in the Studio" and "Archive (Part One): Attendant Course Schedules/Handwritten Course Notes and Charts." In Mary Kelly's Concentric Pedagogy: Selected Writings, edited by Juli Carson, 79–92 and 47–64. New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024.
2021	Amber Jamilla Musser, "Solidarity: In and Through the Work of Kinship." In Kindred Solidarities: Queer Community and Chosen Families, edited by George Bolster and Anjuli Nanda Diamond, 1-13. New York: Rubin Foundation, 2021.
2017	Jessica Del Vecchio, "There Is Always Room for Cream." Brooklyn Rail, October 5, 2017.
2016	John Tain, "Wildness Los Angeles." Flash Art International 49, no. 311 (November/December 2016): 88.
2016	Jessica Del Vecchio, "Straddling Feminisms: Post-Wave Pop Politics and Experimental Performance." PhD diss., CUNY Graduate Center, 2016.
2013	David P. Stein, "'To Propel the Movement Forward': Interview with Organizer-Artists of Critical Resistance." The Abolitionist, no. 21 (2013): 9–11.
2010	Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, "Parallel Lines: A Project on NYC's High Line." Clancco, 2010.
Lectures, Conferences, and Symposia
2026	"Electromagnetic Specters: Trans Experiments on the Edges of Perceptibility," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March 26–29.
2025	"Radiant Center: Border Infrastructure and Aeolian Drift," Sound + Environment Symposium, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, September 4.
	"Radiant Center: Border Infrastructure and Aeolian Drift," Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Seattle, WA, September 3.
	"Radiant Center: Border Infrastructure and Aeolian Drift," Migration and Technologies of Un/Bordering Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, June 6.
	"Three Transmissions from a Carceral State," Signals from the Edge: Land-Based "Pirate Radio" Conference, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK, March 1.
2022	"Visuality Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex," The Afterlife of Slavery: A Graduate Research Symposium, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, June 6.
2017	"Non-Binary Gender Identity and Social Groups," Annual Meeting of GREX: An Institute for the Study of Authority and Leadership in Groups, Los Angeles, CA, December 9.
2015	"Abolition as Critical Pedagogy," MLA Subconference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, January 7.
2014	"Presentation and Workshop with Critical Resistance Los Angeles, Andrea Fraser, Rachel Herzing, and Ashley Hunt," MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, April 27.
2013	"Introduction to the Prison Industrial Complex and Abolition," A Free School, Los Angeles, CA, December 1.
2013	"How to be in a Group: A Group Relations Approach," Collectivity: Utopia as Critique, Concord, Los Angeles, CA, June 29.
2012	"Residues of a Dream World," Urban Speculation and Contested Geographies, University of California, Irvine, CA, October 19. "Horsexe and the Question of Transsexual Jouissance," Psychoanalysis and Feminism Symposium, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, June 6.
2010	"Documentary Strategies Workshop," FIERCE, New York, NY, December 15.
Publications as Author
2025	"Of the Welding Sky" (with Ian Mann, Joni Mueller, Liz Baxmeyer, Steve Ashby, and Winston McDirt). Track 3 on Campbient 5. 12" vinyl and digital album. Seattle: RealMoreReal, 2025.
2020	"Brief History of Critical Resistance," "Statement on Visual Politics," and "'No Bars Unless Being Broken:' A Letter to Collaborators" (with Jess Heaney). In Imagine Freedom: Art Works for Abolition, 1, 85–87. Oakland, CA: Critical Resistance, 2020
2014	"On Intimacy with Crisis." In Compassion Fatigue: New Wight Biennial 2014, edited by Damir Avdagic and Abigail Collins, 103–5. Los Angeles: University of California, 2014.
2013	"Queer Pier: 40 Years" (with Michael Cataldi, David Kelley, Jens Maier-Rothe, and Jeannine Tang). Art Journal 72, no. 2 (2013): 106–13.
2012	"Collective Listening." In Sharon Hayes: There's So Much I Want to Say to You, edited by Chrissie Iles, 28. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2012.
2011	"Residues of a Dream World: The High Line, 2011" (with Michael Cataldi, David Kelley, Jens Maier-Rothe, and Jeannine Tang). Theory, Culture & Society 28, nos. 7–8 (December 2011): 358–89.
2011	"Tactical Abjection: On the Drag of Alice Cunt and Kale Likover." Native Strategies, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2011): 8–15.
Teaching Experience
2024–25	Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz
2021–25	Teaching Assistant, Department of Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz
2015–16	Adjunct Instructor, Program in Photography and Media, California Institute of the Arts
2010–13	Teaching Assistant, Department of Art History, UCLA

CV

Education

Selected Exhibitions

Awards, Residencies, and Fellowships

Selected Bibliography

Lectures, Conferences, and Symposia

Publications as Author

Teaching Experience