Education
Cooperative Leadership Intensive
Master of Fine Arts, Integrated Media Arts
Bachelor of Arts, Double Major in Film and Political Science, Magna Cum Laude
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 & Screenings
Resistance is Fertile: the story of the 45th Street Green Space (feature documentary, in production)
- Community Film Showcase, Centro Corona, Nov 2024
- Seeds Exhibition, 45th Stree Green Space, May 2024
Lobster Liberation Report IV (00:05:10, documentary, Co-directed w/Luke Crane, 2024)
Lobster Liberation Report III (00:05:48, documentary, Co-directed w/Luke Crane, 2023)
Lobster Liberation Report II (00:08:34, documentary, Co-directed w/Luke Crane, 2022)
- Community Film Showcase, Centro Corona, Dec 2022
Lobster Liberation Report (00:10:59, documentary, Co-directed w/Luke Crane, 2021)
Portal 2020 (00:15:00, collaborative & experimental film by the Roominator Collective, 2020)
- Community Film Showcase, Centro Corona, Oct 2021
Brujeria (00:05:27, animated documentary, 2016)
- Community Film Showcase, Centro Corona, Oct 2021
YES I RODE HERE (00:10:00, documentary, 2015)
- Museum of the Moving Image, May 2023
- The Queens Drive-In, Queens, NY, September 5, 2020
- Bike Shorts on Tour, short film programme throughout Europe, 2017-2020
- 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
High Heaven (00:04:17, music video, 2013)
Cycles of Significance (00:06:30, documentary, 2012)
El Alto Rising: A Story of Youth & Activism in Bolivia, (00:19:28, documentary, 2012)
My Commuted Commute (00:05:00, documentary, 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, comedy, 2010)
Non-Profit (00:08:29, documentary, 2009)
negative space > positive space (00:06:00, documentary, 2009)
- Contact Dance International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, June 13, 2013
Kenneth (00:05:00, documentary, 2009)
Brakes (00:05:00, documentary, 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
Publications
- Brown, Rachel. “The Political Power of the Insider Collective Voice: Through the Revolutions of The Battle of Chile and Tongues Untied.” El Cine Documental Histórico De Patricio Guzmán, 1st ed., vol. 1, Peter Lang, Bruxelles, Belgique, 2022, pp. 17–26.
- Brown, Rachel. “DISORDERED: Conversations about Mental Health and Society.” ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, June 2019, https://analytic-room.com/art/rachel-brown.
- Horwatt, Eli & The Illuminator Collective. “All of our grievances are connected: An Interview with The Illuminator Collective.” World Records, Vol I, Article 8. February 2018. Web.
- Brown, Rachel, "Disordered: Conversations about Mental Health and Society" (2018). CUNY Academic Works. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/256
- The Illuminator. “All of Our Grievances Are Connected.” Public Arts Dialog 5.2, 2015: 162-69. Print.
- Brown, Rachel. “Metal Visual (Sub)Culture: A basic guide to the visual and sonic aesthetics of the metal musical sub-genres.” Print and Web. December 2014.
- Brown, Rachel. Wrote three articles related to environment, education and transportation for the Hunts Point Express and Mott Haven Herald, two South Bronx newspapers. September-December 2014.