Andi Sutton
www.bittermelon.org
http://mit.edu/gcws/
Andi Sutton is an artist and curator living in Boston,
Massachusetts. Her work explores the potential of applied performance
methodology and dialogue-based practice to create alternative models
for community. She is currently pursuing this work through the
collectively produced National Bitter Melon Council project as the
Director of Public Relations for the NBMC. These and other
collaborative and solo works take the form of web, food, agriculture
and street intervention, video, performance, and installation, and also
through curatorial work with the Berwick Research Institute's Public
Art Incubator Program (co-curator 2004-2006.) Her work has been shown
in New York and Boston at such places as the Anthology Film Archives,
the Boston Center for the Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Tufts
and Harvard Universities among others, and also at CSA farms, in
gardens, on adventurous tongues and inside hungry bellies. Sutton
graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Tufts University and
the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. In addition to her art
practice, she is the Program Coordinator for the Graduate Consortium in
Women's Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Brecken Chinn Swartz
Dr. Brecken Chinn Swartz makes use of a
variety of research methods to explore processes of communication and
broadcast production, with a particular interest in how mediated
constructions of gender and culture impact social processes. Brecken
has spent a number of years in Asia and concentrates much of her work
on cross-Pacific research and dialogue. She teaches courses in
Communication Theory, Intercultural Communication, and Gender and
Media, most recently for CCTV. She has a Ph.D. in International Broadcasting from the University of
Maryland and a Masters in Human Development and Psychology from the
Harvard Graduate School of Education.
James Nadeau
James Nadeau is an independent curator, video artist and writer based
in Boston. He is a contributor to the online arts journal Big, Red and
Shiny. He is a recent graduate of the Comparative Media Studies
department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His essay
“Smile for the Camera” will be included in the anthology “The Inner
History of Devices” edited by Sherry Turkle (MIT Press, Spring 2007).
His videos have been screened in festivals internationally and
installations/performances have been presented at the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston and the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle. He has
curated film and video programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the
Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Provincetown I
nternational Film Festival, the Brattle Theatre and at art spaces and
galleries in the Boston area.
Lisa Henderson
Lisa Henderson is Associate Professor of Communication and Faculty Affiliate in American Studies
at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and director of CISA, the
Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas.
Henderson is the author of essays in sexual representation, cultural
production, feminist media studies, and cultural studies of social class
in a number of collections and such journals as Signs, Journal
of Communication, Feminist Media Studies, Screen, and
Journal of Homosexuality.
As ethnographer of cultural production, her research has addressed filmmaking,
film school, literary reception, public photography and National Public
Radio; as cultural critic she has written on sexuality and popular celebrity,
lesbian pornography, queer visibility and social class, lesbian and
transgender cinema, the queerness of televised sport, the politics of
pedagogy, and queer theory in communication. She has also appeared
as featured critic in Off the Straight and Narrow
(Sender, Media Education Foundation, 1998), Class Dismissed: How
Television Portrays the Working Class
(Alper, Media Education Foundation, 2005) and Further Off the Straight
and Narrow: New Gay Visibility on Television 1998-2006
(Sender, Media Education Foundation, 2006). Her current book project
is titled Love and Money: Queers, Class and Cultural Production.
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