Biography
Biography
Reggie Woolery is a visual artist and writer based in New York City.
His videoworks CONVERSE, PLAYING IN THE LIGHT, and THIRTY-EIGHTH
PARALLEL have screened at colleges, libraries, museums and festivals
in the U.S., Europe, and Canada. Woolery's CD-ROM WORLD WIDE WEB/MILLION
MAN MARCH, a meditation on identity and community, premiered as part
of "Translocations" an exhibition of new media photography, installation,
and computer art at The Photographers Gallery, London. His work in progress,
KEEP YOUR HANDSA OFF THE PARK: A Roleplaying Game in Real and Virtual
Worlds is an Internet/Board Game which brings participants into a fun
yet critical engagement with democracy, identity, and the public sphere.
He is currently doing research on the HANDSA as a fellow at the Society
for the Humanities at Cornell University, 1998-99.
Reggie's writing on media art as been featured in {TRANS}: art.culture.media,
Bomb, Black Film Review, and FUSE, an arts and culture journal
based in Toronto, Canada, where he is currently a contributing editor. Articles
on his work can be found in PARACHUTE, THE INDEPENDENT, and
AFTERIMAGE. Reggie has taught film/video production and history at
New York University, Rutgers University, Long Island University, and The
New School for Social Research. He has done arts-in-education work for youth
programs at School of Visual Arts and Cooper Union College of Art. He received
his BFA from Parsons School of Design and a masters from New York
University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Reggie has worked for three historic non-profit arts and educational media distributors, Black Filmmaker Foundation, Third World Newsreel and New American Cinema Group. During this time, he organized social issue and experimental video exhibitions for Artists Space, American Film Institute, The Brooklyn Museum, Bard College, and The Images Festival, Toronto, among others. Reggie Woolery has received arts development support from The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Sidney Poitier Foundation, The Lew Wasserman Foundation, Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Art Matters, Banff Centre for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, and the Independent Television Service.
Conceptual Description
A meditation on the paranoia and utopia of identity and community.