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1 GREG D. COHEN ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS LECTURER, Dept. Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, January June, 2009; January present LECTURER, Dept. Film, Television, & Digital Media, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, January June 2015 TEACHING FELLOW, Dept. Visual & Environmental Studies, Harvard University, TEACHING FELLOW, Dept. Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University, 2007; EDUCATION PH.D., ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, Concentration: Latin American Visual and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, June 2008 A.M., ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, Harvard University, March 2003 M.A., SPANISH, Middlebury College International Institute Madrid, Spain, May 2001 B.A. (W/ DISTINCTION), GERMAN, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 1993 SELECT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS Documentary in/and the Hospitable Common? Invited guest lecture/discussion, UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative. May 11, Festival of (In)appropriation #8 Traveling Show. Invited public presentation, screening, and televised discussion with film scholar Constance Penley, Carsey-Wolf Center/Pollock Theater, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 27, Of Speculation and Experimental Accumulation: Notes on the Valaco Archive. Invited lecture. Information Studies Colloquium Series. UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. May 5, Selections from the Valaco Archive (Featured Artist). The Total Archive, ed. Stephen J. Collier, Christopher M. Kelty, Andrew Lakoff. Special issue of Limn 6 (Winter 2016): The Revolution Must (Not) Be Advertised: The Players vs. Ángeles Caídos, the Discourse of Advertising, and the Limits of Political Modernism. Jump Cut 56 (Winter ): The Valaco Archive Project: The Speculative Archive as Machine for Visual Thinking. Artist talk/presentation. Radical Archives: Conference organized by Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani, Artists-in-Residence, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University, April 11-12, Spot Radical: From the Discourse of Political Modernism to the Aesthetics of Advertising in Films of the Argentine Underground. Panel paper. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA, March 17-21, 2010.

2 Brasília and the End(s) of Modernity: Cinematic Space, Urban Design, and the Distant Horizon in a Forgotten Film by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade. Open call paper. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Tokyo, Japan, May 21-24, Long Live My All-Time Favorite Latin American Film. Film review of Idade da Terra, dir. Glauber Rocha (Brazil, 1970). ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America 8.3 (Fall 2009/Winter 2010): 27. City of the Planalto: The Filmic Brasília and the Nature of Late-Modern Spatiality. Panel paper. Transnational Space and the Politics of Place: Third Annual Conference of the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities Program. UCLA, May 8-9, New Takes on the New: The Cinemas of 1960s Latin America. ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America 8.2. The 60s in Latin America, Glimpses of an Era (Winter 2009): Cinema, Spatial Thought, and the Ends of Modernity. Argentina and Brazil in the Sixties. Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award, UCLA, for innovative undergraduate curriculum development in Latin American experimental cinema, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, Academic Year Artist in Residence, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, July 11 August 1, 2016 Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award, UCLA, for innovative undergraduate curriculum design in documentary film theory and production, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese), Academic Year Visualist in Residence, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, October April 2013 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, UCLA, July June 2010 Andrew W. Mellon/Harvard Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University, Academic Year Presidential Instructional Technology Fellow, Harvard University, for undergraduate curriculum design, directed by Prof. Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard English Dept.), Summer, 2007 U.S. Dept. of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), for preliminary dissertation research in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Academic Year U.S. Dept. of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), for dissertation research in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Academic Year Writing in the Americas Summer Institute Fellow, Boston University, June, Nancy Clark Smith Summer Fellowship, language study and research in Brazil (2003) Nancy Clark Smith Summer Fellowship, language study and research in Portugal (2002) SELECT UNIVERSITY TEACHING GRADUATE SEMINARS Global Political Modernisms, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Winter quarter; 2014, Fall quarter 2012 G. D. COHEN - CV: 2

3 Experimental Cinema and Landscape, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Fall quarter 2013; Winter quarters 2013, 2011 Exit Utopias: Cinema, Visionary Architecture, Radical Urbanism, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Spring quarter, 2010; Fall quarter, 2010 Theories of Space and the Moving Image, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Winter quarter 2012 New Cinemas in the Latin American Sixties, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Winter quarter, 2010; Fall quarter, 2010 Bibliographies and Methods of Research, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Fall quarter, 2011 Cinema, Space, Theory: Reading the Spatial Turn through Argentine and Brazilian Film in the 1960s and 70s, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Spring quarter, 2009 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES The Art of Revolution and the Politics of Art in Latin America. Seminar, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Fall quarter History, Memory, Truth, Fiction: Documentary Practices in Latin America. Seminar, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Fall quarter Living Cinema: An Urban-Latino Humanities Workshop, Seminar-Studio, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Spring quarter, New Cinemas in the Latin America Sixties, Seminar, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Winter quarter, 2009; Spring quarter 2015, Winter quarter 2016 Liquid Modernities: Latin American Cinema and the Global Urban Imaginary, Seminar, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA, Winter quarter 2015, Fall quarters 2015, Film & Social Change: Cinema and Political Agency, from the Global Sixties to the Globalized Present, Lecture Course, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Spring quarter The Art of Revolution: Cinema and Politics in the Global Sixties, Lecture Course, Dept. of Film, Television & Digital Media, UCLA, Spring quarters CURATORIAL/ARTS PROGRAMMING CURATORIAL POSITIONS Associate Programmer, Los Angeles Filmforum, longest-running organization in Southern California dedicated to exhibition of experimental and alternative film, video, and media art, 2012-present. Co-Curator, Festival of (In)Appropriation, annual showcase of experimental foundfootage film/video, sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, 2012-present Steering Committee Member, Latin American Film and Media Project, Latin American Institute, UCLA, Initiative aimed at fostering research, teaching, and programming of Latin American audio-visual production. Activities include screenings, lectures, course development, film and video acquisition, and formation of electronic database of Latin American media, Los Angeles, G. D. COHEN - CV: 3

4 Inaugural Member, Committee on Ibero-American Cinema, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Harvard Film Archive, initiative aimed at promoting exhibition of Iberian, Lusophone and Latin American film at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, CURATED SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS The End(s) of Remembrance: Two Films on Holocaust Memory by Sergei Loznitsa. James Bridges Theater, UCLA, Co-sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum, UCLA Dept. of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, UCLA Department of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, International Documentary Association. Los Angeles, February 27, The Early Films of Phill Niblock. Los Angeles LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), February 8, Landscape and the Body at Work and Play, featuring works by Phill Niblock, Francis Alÿs, and Sharon Lockhart. Los Angeles Filmforum, October 18, The Thoughts That Once We Had by Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Filmforum, April 19, Experimental Cinema and Landscape, weekly screening series in conjunction with eponymous graduate seminar, UCLA, James Bridges Theater, Winter 2013 Fata Morgana 1(Guest Curator), inaugural session of monthly series on collaborative visual research, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, February 20, 2013 The Indian Boundary Line by Thomas Comerford, Los Angeles Premier, Melnitz Movies Film Series, UCLA, April 7, 2011 The Experimental Landscape Films of Thomas Comerford (Guest Curator), Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, April 7, 2011 PROJECTS/PRACTICE EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS Intra-. Infra-. Ultra-. Auto-. Four Short Video Works. Solo screening, followed by discussion with Phillip John Usher, Associate Professor of French, NYU, Columbia Global Centers- Paris (Reid Hall), Paris, France, July 12, Portrait: (Auto-)biography of a Way of Seeing, solo multi-media installation (Iteration IV of With Everything but the Monkey Head project), Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, July 30, Second Annual Art Exhibition, group show, Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, 28 April 21 May, A New History of the Photographic Science and Treatise on its Potential for the Enhancement of Mechanical Vision, solo archival installation, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, February-March th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt, 8-20 November Electron Salon, invitational group exhibition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), October th Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria, 1-7 August G. D. COHEN - CV: 4

5 Ten New Artists to Watch, group exhibition, curated by Holly Harrison (LACMA) and Peter Frank (Huffington Post), Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), September- October Valaco in Babel, solo installation and artist talk, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, April VISUAL & MULTI- MEDIA WORKS Orchid/Sound (working title). HD video project in progress (with Christian Zorka). Foundation. HD video, color, sound. 39:00 min (2017) Self-Portrait with Mother, circa HD video, color, sound. 17:00 min (2016). Self-Portrait (with Mother) Single-channel HD video loop, color, silent. 16:04 min (2016) Alyce K, circa 1962?. 2D mixed-media work (scavenged photographs, ink-jet prints on vellum, corrugated, cardboard), 3 panels, 48 in. x 48 in. each (2016) H-E-T-E-R-O-N-Y-M. Word diagram, inkjet print on transparencey film affixed to butcher paper, approx. 110 in. x 36 in. (2016) Glitchfields. iphone Panorama Subversions. ( , ongoing) Intra-spherical projections. Google Street View Subversions. ( , ongoing) 41 Hologrammata (with Christian Zorka). Multi-media project and artist s book Seven Marseille Morning Minutes. HD video, color, sound. 10:00 min. (2014) Seven Marseille Morning Minutes (Abridged version). HD video, color, sound. 3:32 min (2014) Metaphorical Voids. Experimental Analog-Digital Photography series. Archival Inkjet prints from analog negatives, 14.5 in. x 14.5 in. each (2013, ongoing) The Valaco Archive Project. Multi-media speculative archive (2012, ongoing at valacoarchive.com) La-di-dah. HD video, color, sound. 3:39 min. (2012) WRITTEN WORD f32 1/8s. Experimental prose poem. Anti- #13 (December 2013) Necrologisms i, iii, v. Experimental prose poems. E ratio #15 (2012) Rooms ; Gnossienne ; Zion. Poems. Dudley Review (Harvard University, 2003) Madrid: A Fragmentary. Bi-lingual poem (Spanish-English). Annetna Nepo 1 (2002) LANGUAGES SPANISH: bi-lingual proficiency FRENCH: high-working proficiency PORTUGUESE: high-working proficiency GERMAN: working proficiency G. D. COHEN - CV: 5

6 ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND TRAINING ARCHIVAL RESEARCH GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, Los Angeles, CA, Fall, 2010-Winter, 2011 MUSEO DEL CINE PABLO DUCRÓS HICKENS, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September, 2009 BIBLIOTECA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DEL CINE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September, 2009 CINEMATECA, MUSEU DE ARTE MODERNO, Rio de Janeiro, April-May, 2006 CENTRO TÉCNICO AUDIOVISUAL (CTAV), Rio de Janeiro, May, 2006 VIDEOTECA, CENTRO CULTURAL DO BANCO DO BRASIL, Rio de Janeiro, April-May, 2006 CENTRO CULTURAL ITAÚ, São Paulo, November, 2005 ESCOLA DE COMUNICAÇÃO E ARTES, Universidade de São Paulo, November, 2005 BIBLIOTHEQUE NACIONALE DE FRANCE, Paris, France, BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA, Buenos Aires, FILMOTECA ESPAÑOLA, Madrid, Spain, RELEVANT GRADUATE COURSEWORK FILM ARCHITECTURES, Prof. Giuliana Bruno, Harvard University, Fall 2004 AESTHETICS FROM THE MARGINS, Prof. Doris Sommer, Harvard University, Spring 2003 SPATIAL TEXTURES OF CRITICAL THEORY, Prof. Tom Conley, Harvard University, Fall 2002 HISPANIC POETRY AND THE VISUAL ARTS, Prof. Antonio Monegal, Harvard University, Spring 2002 VELAZQUEZ, GOYA, PICASSO, Prof. Alfredo Ramón, Middlebury College Madrid, Spain, Fall 2000 WORKSHOPS/TRAINING 8MM FILM PRODUCTION/HAND-PROCESSING WORKSHOP: Echo Park Film Center, June 2012 BLACK & WHITE DARKROOM INTENSIVE: Julia Dean Photography Workshops, Fall 2011 COMPUTING SKILLS: FINAL CUT PRO; ADOBE PHOTOSHOP; MS OFFICE SUITE; WORDPRESS References upon request G. D. COHEN - CV: 6

EDUCATION. Dept. of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Awarded distinction

EDUCATION. Dept. of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Awarded distinction Oksana Chefranova Lecturer in Film & Media Studies; Director of Film Programming Film & Media Studies Program, Yale University 53 Wall Street, Rm. 213, New Haven CT 06511 oksana.chefranova@yale.edu EDUCATION