I am a curator, writer, researcher, and performer devoted to supporting experimental film/video and unconventional media through public presentations, archival work, and research.
Currently, I am the Project Manager for the Historic Media Collection at the Seattle Art Museum.
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Recent graduate from the Preservation & Presentation of the Moving Image MA program at the University of Amsterdam.
Long time co-director of Cinema Project, a volunteer-run collective that curates and produces public screenings of artists’ moving-image work and experimental film/video in a variety of venues in Portland, Oregon.
Independent curatorial projects presented at the Northwest Film Center in Portland, at BOZAR in Brussels, Belgium, Anthology Film Archives in New York City, and online through the Echo Park Film Center’s Marvelous Movie Mondays blog.
Recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellowship (2014) to research artist-run film labs in France, Germany, and Belgium.
Previously the Education Programs Manager at the Northwest Film Center.
Occasional guest lecturer on experimental film at Portland State University.
Previous academic degrees: BA in Film Production and History from UC San Diego, and an MA in Cinema Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
*photo above by Annalise Reinhardt for PICA.
Mia C Ferm 