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Les LeVeque  Film/Video

Co-Chair
Les LeVeque is an artist who works with digital and analog electronic technology. His projects include single and multi-channel videos and video/computer based installations. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University with a concentration in Video. He has received numerous awards including: The inVisible art_science International Media Award organized by Südwestrundfunk SWR, Baden-Baden and the ZKM in cooperation with Swiss Television SF DRS and Arte; The Audience Award at Transmediale in Berlin and the Silver Spire award at the San Francisco Film Festival. His work has been exhibited and screened internationally including: The Whitney Biennial, New York; Georges Pompidou Center, Paris; Museum fur Neue Kunst ZKM, Karlsruhe; Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires; Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; Centre Culturel et de Cooperation Linguistique Bilbao; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Austrian Film Museum, Vienna; Museo Nacional Center de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Anthology Film Archive, New York; REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles; Hong Kong Cultural Art Center; Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; The Wexner Center, Columbus; The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; Image-Movement Cinematheque, Taipei; The Ottawa Art Gallery; Pleasure Dome, Toronto; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Bucharest and The Other Cinema, San Francisco.

Festival screenings of his work include: Transmediale, Berlin; San Francisco International Film Festival; Sundance Film Festival, Park City; Viennale International Film Festival, Vienna; Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid; New York Underground Film Festival; Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto; Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival; Leeds International Film Festival; Images du Nouveau Monde, Montreal, ARS Electronica, Linz; Pandemonium Festival of Moving Images, London; International Audio Visual Experimental Festival, Arnhem; Filmothek Oberhausen; Seoul Net Festival. The Video Data Bank distributes his single channel video work. His work is also represented by KS Art in New York City.

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