Rachel Brown: CV

Education

Cooperative Leadership Intensive

Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City

Master of Fine Arts, Integrated Media Arts

Hunter College of the City University of New York

Bachelor of Arts, Double Major in Film and Political Science, Magna Cum Laude

Hunter College of the City University of New York

Work Experience

2024-present: Producer, Synch.Live, New York City
2023-present: Operations, Events, & Video, Burning Wheel, Queens
2023, 2022: Projectionist, DOC NYC Film Festival, New York City
2023: Mentor, Program X: Cultural Activism and Media, Museum of the Moving Image, Queens
2014-2023: Member-Owner, The Illuminator, New York City
2022-2023: Artist-Mentor, Vermont College of Fine Arts, New York
2019-2021: Co-Director of Youth Documentary Workshop, Educational Video Center, Manhattan
2019: Program Manager, Beam Center, New York City
2018-2019: Adjunct Professor, New York University, Manhattan
2010-2019: Learning Design Manager, Mouse, New York City
2015-2016: Adjunct Professor, Hunter College (CUNY), Manhattan
2010-2014: Teaching Artist (documentary video production), various organizations and schools, New York City

Exhibitions and Social Practice

2020: All of a Sudden (interactive website), 2nd Annual Integrated Channels Exhibition, online
2019: Border Blaster (interactive installation by The Illuminator), Encuentro: The World Inside Out, Mexico City
2017-2019: Disordered: Conversations about mental health and society (Participatory installations, metal street signs, mural and stickers), Queens & Brooklyn, NY and Mexico City, Mexico
2017: Wall, Street. (Solo show for The Illuminator), Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
2017: Superorganism (interactive dual channel installation), Flux Factory / ABC No Rio, Long Island City, NY
2016: Unsolicited (interactive installation), collaboration with Noa Ginzburg, iArt Show, Hunter College (CUNY), New York City, NY
2016: Where in Brooklyn do Vultures Roost? (video installation by The Illuminator), AgitProp!, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Filmography

Brujeria (00:05:27, animated documentary, 2016)

  • Community Film Showcase, Centro Corona, Oct 2021

YES I RODE HERE (00:10:00, documentary film, 2015)

  • Museum of the Moving Image, May 2023
  • The Queens Drive-In, Queens, NY, September 5, 2020
  • International Short Film Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany, November 14-20, 2016
  • Portland Oregon Women's Film Festival, Portland, OR, March 3-6, 2016
  • Bicycle Film Festival, New York City, NY, June 24-28, 2015

Cycles of Significance (00:06:30, documentary film, 2012)

My Commuted Commute (00:05:00, documentary film, 2010)

  • Bicycle Film Festival, New York City, NY, June 22-26, 2011
  • Audience Award at 13th Bike Shorts screening, New York, NY, Sept 2010

Pedal Away From Global Decay (00:02:03, 2010)

negative space > positive space (00:06:00, documentary film, 2009)

  • Contact Dance International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, June 13, 2013

Brakes (00:05:00, documentary film, 2009)

  • Audience Award at 8th Bike Shorts screening, New York, NY, Jan 2009

Panels, Presentations and Workshops

2021: Media Literacy + Social Justice Conference, NAMLE, Washington, DC/online
2019: ORD Camp, Google, Chicago
2018: All Our Grievances Are Connected, Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
2018: How We Create and How We Cope, Laguardia Performing Arts Center, Queens, NY
2017: El cine documental de Patricio Guzmán, Université d'Artois, Arras, France
2016: Artist in Residence Talk, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York, NY
2016: Encuentro eXcentrico, Santiago, Chile
2016: International Critical Studies Research Group Conference, University of Brighton, Brighton, England
2015: Allied Media Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2015: Open Engagement, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2014: Re-Fest: Hybrid Performance and New Media Festival, CultureHub, New York, NY