Videoart.net Team

 

Dan Fine Director Dan Fine is an award-winning artist who lives and works in New York City. He received an MFA degree at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1997 and his video installations have been shown in USA, Germany, and Israel. As the founder and Director of Videoart.net and the VideoArt & Experimental Film Festival in NYC, he has devoted himself in the last several years in to creating an equal opportunity for artists around the world to showcase their work regardless of their physical location or status.   Brittany Stanley Editor-in-Chief Brittany Stanley is a videoartist living in Jersey City. She received her bachelor’s at Carnegie Mellon University where she completed a dual degree in Electronic and Time-based Fine Art and International Relations. Her work deals primarily with the effect of banal civilized society on the primal psyche of contemporary human beings.   Mark Alpert Editorial Adviser and Board Member Mark Alpert is the author of the international bestselling novel Final Theory and its sequel, The Omega Theory. A longtime journalist who has worked for newspapers, magazines and television, he focuses his writing on the connections between science and art. He is a graduate of Princeton and Columbia and currently a contributing editor at Scientific American. His books have been published in more than twenty languages.     Matthew Ishida Co-Executive Editor Matthew Ishida is a writer living in New York City. He studied philosophy at Princeton and the University of Chicago.   Courtney Noel Coordinator Courtney Noel received a dual bachelor’s of arts in International Affairs and English, with a concentration in Film and Media Studies, from George Mason University, where she served as the President and Founder of the George Mason Film Society. She is presently working on her master’s degree in Cinema Studies at New York University.  Much of her current research engages with the history of the cinema, and its recent shift from a photographic medium to a digital medium, as well as the new aesthetic and temporal conditions that accompany this shift. Her work is particularly concerned with how this recent mutation affects the representation of sexuality, gender, and the heter/homo-normative body. She is intrigued by the capabilities of the digital over film in opening up new spaces of representation through video   Videoart.net team with festival artists Bil Thompson, and Marco Castro.