John Di Stefano
Associate Professor
MFA (University of California)
BFA (Concordia University)
Specialist knowledge in video art, experimental cinema, time-based art, photography, installation, documentary, film theory, queer theory, contemporary art history and theory, transnationalism.
John Di Stefano is a visual artist, video maker, writer and curator. His studio work is focused primarily in video, installation, photo-based and time-based media, and has also included performance, bookwork, site-specific and public art projects. His recent works deal with issues of identity, displacement and transnationalism as they relate to concepts of space/place, time and perceptions of memory and articulation of subjectivities. Di Stefano’s video work has won several awards, including the New Vision Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and has been broadcast on American public television. In 2001, his work ‘HUB’ was cited as one of the best of the year by Artforum (New York). Di Stefano’s curatorial projects include, Satellite (Shanghai), Open Cities (Hong Kong), and Not On Any Map (Chicago). He is New Zealand editor of Art Asia Pacific magazine, and Itinerant Curator of Time-based and New Media for the Museum of Contemporary Art- China. He was formerly the Chair of the Video Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a faculty member California Institute of the Arts (CALARTS), and University of California.
Research Highlights: Practice
2006 OFF LOOP Festival. Barcelona, Spain
2005 The Pasolini Project. Articule Gallery, Montreal; A-Space, Toronto; New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington; Moving Image Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
2004 Break/Shift: New Zealand Bienial of Contemporary Art. Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2002 Transmediale. International Media Arts Festival, Berlin, Germany
2002 Cool Vibes: Politics, Resistance & Musical Subculture. Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain
2001 Kassel Documentary Film Festival. Kassell, Germany.
1996 Day Without Art. Museum of Contemporary Art & Hammer Museums, Los Angeles, United States of America
1994 Into The Lapse. Karsten Schubert, London; Bruno Brunnet, Berlin; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Demark
1992 European Media Festival (EMAF). Osnabrueck, Germany
Research Highlights: Publications
Di Stefano, J. (2008). You Are Here: Moving Image + Documentary Paradigm + Performativity. In Performance: Design, Roskilde, University Press, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Di Stefano, J. (2004). Ice and Space. Art AsiaPacific 41, New York, United States of America .
Di Stefano, J. (2002). Moving Images of Home. Art Journal 61 (4), New York, United States of America.
Di Stefano, J. (2001). Peter Greenaway and the Failure of Cinema in Peter Greenaway’s Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema, Scarecrow Press, United States of America.
Contact details
Phone: +64 4 801 5799 extn 6638
Email: j.j.distefano@massey.ac.nz
Address: Private Box 756, Wellington, 6140
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