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Barbara
Sternberg Biography
Toronto filmmaker Barbara Sternberg has been making films since
the mid-seventies. Her films have been screened widely across Canada
as well as internationally at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Kino
Arsenal in Berlin, The Museum of Modern Art and Millennium Workshop
in New York, and the Ontario Cinematheque, Toronto. Her work is
in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National
Gallery of Canada. She has been a visiting artist at a number of
Canadian universities and galleries including the University of
Guelph, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Dunlop Art Gallery,
as well as the Universite d'Avignon, and the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. In 2011, Sternberg
was made a Laureate of the Governor General’s Award in
Visual and Media Arts.
Sternberg’s
film work combines reflections on the medium itself with social
issues and universal questions of how we experience reality,
how we as humans are situated in the world. Films are themselves
experiences, realities. Her films
work at the intersection of film and life- questions of vision,
perception, motion and temporality. Although her main practice
is film, Sternberg has worked in other media including performance,
installation and video.
Sternberg has been
active in a number of fronts in Toronto, teaching at York University,
working for Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre, serving
on Toronto and Ontario Arts Council juries and committees, helping
to organize the International Experimental Film Congress (May
1989), and was a founding member of Pleasure Dome, artists' film
and video exhibition group. She wrote a handbook and conducted
workshops on Media Literacy for high school teachers. She recently
organized the "Association
for Film Art" (AFFA)
to actively support and promote awareness and appreciation of film
art. While living in the Maritimes, Sternberg co-founded Struts,
an artist-run centre in Sackville, New Brunswick.
Sternberg wrote
a column, "On (experimental) Film" for
several years for Cinema Canada, and has written essays on artists
and on filmmakers. As well, she has written on the status of film
art in galleries and museums—an issue on which she has conducted
symposia and lobbied vigorously.
Links
Moments of Perception Book
York University Archive
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Artexte
Vimeo
Canada Council
for the Arts
Governor
General's Award in Visual & Media Arts
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