Board of Advisers

Jonas Mekas, Anthology, a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called “the godfather of American avant-garde cinema. His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America.

Philip Glass is an American composer. One of the highest profile composers writing “classical” music today, he is often said to be one of the most influential musicians of the late 20th century. Beyond his operas, symphonies, and compositions, Glass has had a long standing interest in the “mating of sound and vision”. He has collaborated with numerous artists and film-makers, writing music for experimental theater and for Academy Award-winning motion pictures.

Ken and Florance Jacobs, are both artists. Florance is a painter and collaborator with Ken, who has been making avant-garde films since the mid fifties. Ken is the director of Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son (1969, USA),and Star Spangled to Death (2004, USA), a nearly seven hour film consisting largely of found footage.

Jim Hubbard is an experimental filmmaker and the founder and president of MIX – the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival. Under the auspices of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, he created the Royal S. Marks AIDS Activist Video Collection at the New York Public Library. He coordinates the ACT UP Oral History Project, funded by the Ford Foundation and by grants from the Gesso Foundation, the Gill Foundation, the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and the Phil Zwickler Memorial & Charitable Trust. The project is a collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.

Bill Morrison is a New York-based filmmaker and artist, best known for his experimental collage film Decasia (2002). He is a member of Ridge Theater and the founder of Hypnotic Pictures. He attended Reed College 1983-85, and graduated from Cooper Union School of Art in 1989.

Carolee Schneemann is a multidisciplinary artist. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body.

Jeffrey Deitch is a dealer in modern and contemporary art and an art advisor to private and institutional art collectors. He is also an art writer and exhibition organizer. Prior to opening his own art advisory firm in 1988, Mr. Deitch was a Vice President of Citibank where he spent nine years developing and managing the bank’s art advisory and art finance businesses.

Board of Advisers biographies last updated November 9th, 2011.