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Douglas
Rosenberg
Professor
UW–Madison Department of Art,
since 2006
Video, Performance, Installation
1985 Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute
Recent achievements
(Forthcoming) The International Handbook of Screendance Studies,
edited by Douglas Rosenberg (Oxford University Press)
2015 Chapter, Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance,
edited by Vicky Hunter (Routledge Press)
2014 Here Now With Sally Gross and CIRCLING, two films directed
by Douglas Rosenberg, shown at Light Moves Festival of Screendance, Limerick, Ireland; InShadow, International Festival of
Video, Performance and Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal,
nominated for Best Documentary; Cinedans, Lumière Maastricht,
the Netherlands, curated by Marion Poeth; Circuit Est, Montreal,
screening curated by Priscilla Guy; Agite y Sirva, Festival Itinerante de Videodanza, Puebla, Mexico
2013 Kellett Mid-Career Award, UW–Madison
2012 Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image, by Douglas
Rosenberg (Oxford University Press)
Artist’s statement
Douglas Rosenberg is Chair of the Art Department and the director
of the Conney Project on Jewish Arts at the Mosse/Weinstein Center
for Jewish Studies at UW–Madison. He is an artist and a theorist and
a founding editor of The International Journal of Screendance. His work
for the screen has been exhibited internationally for over twenty-five
years. He has been a long-time advocate of screendance as a curator
of the International Screendance Festival at the American Dance
Festival, as a speaker and organizer of symposia and international
workshops. His most recent screendance is CIRCLING, a collaboration
for the screen with Sally Gross, an original member of The Judson
Dance Theater Group, which has screened internationally at numerous festivals and other venues.
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Recent exhibition of his work (juried or curated) include: Lincoln
Center, NY, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, Manipur, India, Findhorn, Scotland, São Paulo, Brazil,
London, England, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Kowloon, Hong Kong,
Guangzhou, China and Kowloon, Hong Kong. He has received the
James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, an Emmy Award nomination
(National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences), for his Five Dance
Films About Place, two nominations and one Isadora Duncan Dance
Award (Izzie) for Singing Myself a Lullaby, San Francisco Bay Area
Dance Coalition. At the university and local level, he has received
2011 and 2012 Virginia Horne Henry Fund awards, numerous grants
from the UW–Graduate School, an Emily Meade Baldwin-Bascom
award, Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, Vilas Associate Award and a
Kellett Mid-Career Award. At the international level, his research has
been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Southeast
Media Fellowship, The Zellerbach Family Fund, Arts and Humanities
Research Council, and other such institutions.
Work in the show
Doug Rosenberg (American, b. 1956)
Lift/Carry/Hold, 2016
Video installation
70 x 36 in. (Illustrated)