 Ben Coonley is a Brooklyn-based video, performance and new media artist who uses pedagogical modes of address and direct audience confrontation to explore aspects of media culture and film history. For this event, Coonley presents Remapping the Apparatus: Cinematographic Specificity and Hybrid Media, a PowerPoint presentation that dissects and re-contextualizes the film theory of Jean-Louis Baudry. Accompanying his lecture will be a selection of short videos and internet curiosities. Coonley's videos employ a unique approach to deconstructing the canons and conventions of the avant-garde and are characterized by their use of humour and pop culture references - from talking toy ponies to Jar Jar Binks at Christo's Gates.
Ben Coonley studied Art Semiotics at Brown University and received an MFA from Bard College in 2002. His works have been screened extensively at international festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Underground Film Festival, Cinematexas, Pacific Film Archive, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. He has taught video and media production at Princeton and The New School.
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