Todd Chandler CV
Collectives and Collaborations
Empire Drive-In, 01SJ Biennial, 2010
A large scale multimedia installation and platform built out of salvaged materials, Empire Drive-In is a drive-in movie theater made out of wrecked cars. A series of film programs (including Flood Tide: Remixed) screened in the Drive-In throughout the Zero1 festival including short films, features, revivals and unusual live-film events.[see photos]
Swimming Cities, 2006-2009
Co-creator of the Miss Rockaway Armada, a collective art project that built and navigated junk rafts down the Mississippi River and gave performances during the summers of 2006-07. The voyage led to two more raft projects: the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Swimming Cities of Serenissima (Venice, 2009).
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Being Here Is Better than Wishing We’d Stayed, MASS MoCA, April 2008-09: Installation with members of the Miss Rockaway Armada.
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Stories from the Upper Mississippi, 2006-08: Oral history web project. In the summers of 2006 and 2007 oral histories were collected in small towns along the Upper Mississippi River and archived in a web-based map of the region through which viewers/listeners can navigate. [view site]
Selected Screenings, Awards, Exhibitions
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, December 2010: Screening of Flood Tide: Remixed with live score by Dark Dark Dark.
Hammer Museum, September 2010: Screening of Flood Tide: Remixed with live score by Dark Dark Dark.
Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts (CMKY), April 2011: Screening of Flood Tide: Remixed with live score by Dark Dark Dark.
New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) / free103point9 2010 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists
Wexner Center for the Arts, Artist in residence November 2009.
Experimental Television Center/NYSCA, Finishing Funds Grant 2009.
Venice Biennale, June 2009: Nightly screenings of Flood Tide selections with live musical score aboard the Swimming Cities of Serenissima rafts as they 'crashed' the Venice Biennale.
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Rensselaer Integrated Electronic Arts Fellowship, 2008-09.
Deitch Studios, September 2008: Screening of Flood Tide (selections) with live soundtrack by Fall Harbor.
Van Abbe Museum/Mu Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands, November 2008: Flood Tide (selections) screening.
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MOMA PS1, New York, 2006: Artists' talk on the Miss Rockaway Armada art-boat collective.
Chicago Underground Film Festival, August 2006: The Road Becomes What You Leave, official festival selection.
United Nations, African Issues Screening, March 2006: WITNESS screening and dialogue session Between Two Fires, Torture and Displacement in Northern Uganda.
Abbilidungszentrum Experimental Film Collective, Hamburg Germany, 2004: Guest Filmmaker in residence, sponsored by the Hamburg Kulturbehörde.
Arab American Film Festival, San Francisco, 2002: Living in Two Worlds.
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, New York, 2001: Living in Two Worlds.
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival High School Program, New York, 2001: Living in Two Worlds.
Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
Integrated Electronic Arts, MFA, December 2009.
Columbia University, New York, New York
Literature and Film Studies. Bachelor of Arts received May, 1997.