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Jeanne Liotta (artist/filmmaker) makes films, moving image installations, projector performances, photographs and sound operating at a lively intersection of art, science,& natural philosophy.  Her last solo show The World is a Picture of the World played notions of the cosmic imagination as determined by NASA imagery. . She has been making work for over 3 decades, including early works in film and performance with Bradley Eros among other East Village underground art projects, bands and collaborations. Her signature 16mm film of the night skies, Observando El Cielo (2007) received  the Tiger Award  for Short Film at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and her works can been seen at film festivals, micro cinemas, museums, galleries, observatories and basements worldwide. Liotta organized a community garden event called Firefly Cinema for 15 years in collaboration with NYPL, was a researcher at Anthology Film Archives Joseph Cornell Film Collection, and recently published an essay in Millennium Film Journal “Enter Germs, Enter the World: Hand processing artists films in the AIDS era”. Co-currently she is a Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder where she directs the graduate program in Arts Practices/Film and has been mentoring graduate students in the Bard MFA program since 2004 . Her films are distributed by Lightcone, Paris and she is represented by Microscope Gallery NY.