SKIP BLUMBERG - CURATOR




"I want to warm up the cool medium of television."

Curator Skip Blumberg is one of the original video artists and one of the first camcorder journalists. Beginning in the late 1960s, Blumberg participated in the earliest video production groups (including Videofreex, Ant Farm, Paper Tiger TV and TVTV) and in many collaborative projects including with the premier video artist Nam June Paik.

Blumberg's TV programs have appeared on PBS, Showtime, Disney Channel, The Learning Channel, USA Cable Network, and other networks. His works screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the International Center of Photography, the Berlin Film Festival, the NY Video Festival and are in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Museum of TV and Radio, and others.

His documentary video "Pick Up Your Feet: the Double Dutch Show" is considered a classic. Blumberg won many awards including 3 NYC Emmy's and was selected for the Esquire Magazine 1984 Register of Outstanding Young Americans.

Blumberg taught production and interviewing techniques at the University of Hawaii, the Ohio Arts Council Summer Media Institute and in four Balkan countries with the MY HERO Global Exchange Project. He was the keynote speaker at the 1992 Louisiana Media Rendezvous and the 2003 Videomaker Magazine Expo.

He is currently Artistic Director of the MY HERO Global Exchange Project and has 8 short videos on the MY HERO Screening Room. He is producing shorts for Sesame Street as well as independent productions; including the recently released DVD "Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master."



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