Peter Freund  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Education:

• PhD University at Buffalo
  Dissertation: poetics of image-word art
• MA University at Buffalo
  William Blake, politics of 'style,' modernism
• BA University of California Berkeley
  Magna cum laude
• American University in Cairo

Teaching Experience:

• Associate Professor - Saint Mary's College of California (July 2010 - Present)
• Assistant Professor - Saint Mary's College of California (July 2007 - June 2010)
• Lecturer - California State University, East Bay (January 2007 - June 2007)
  Graduate Program in Multimedia, Department of Electronic Arts
• Tenured Faculty - Berkeley City College (2001 - 2007)
  Co-Founder & Department Chair, Multimedia Arts Program
• Lecturer - California College of the Arts (1993 - 1995)

Research Experience:

• Visiting Artist/Scholar - Hong Kong Society of Psychoanalysis (January 2012 - June 2012)
• Artist in Residence - Venue 9, San Francisco (1998 - 1999)
• Post-Doctoral Fellow - University of California, Santa Cruz (1995 - 1997)
  Center for Cultural Studies

Professional Experience:

• Chair, Art & Art History Department - Saint Mary's College of California (July 2008 - June 2011)

Presentations:

Recent Presentations

• 'The Gaze, the Image, and the Objet Petit a.'. Freund, Peter (talk, speech or lecture)
  Hong Kong Society of Psychoanalysis (via Skype)
  (November 10, 2012)
• "Art, or the Perverse Ethics of the Lapse". Freund, Peter (talk, speech or lecture, paper, primary presenter)
  Trauma, Desire, Otherness: 2012 Symposium of the Hong Kong Society of Psychoanalysis
  City University of Hong Kong
  (April 2012)
• "CAMP" a film by Peter Freund. Freund, Peter (talk, speech or lecture, other-film screening)
  Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference
  Hong Kong University
  (March 2012)
• The Poetics of the Foreign in Language. (talk, speech or lecture)
  Foreign Language Association of Northern California
  UC Berkeley
  (November 2010)
• Fraudulence: the Critical Ethics of Radical Filmmaking. (paper)
  Cultural Studies Association
  UC Berkeley
  (March 2010)
• Critical Cinema. (panel or forum member, panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
  Cultural Studies Association
  (March 2010)
• The Experimentalist's Dilemma: Can Montage Break Bricks?. (paper)
  University Film and Video Association Annual Conference
  University of New Orleans
  (August 2009)
• Remaining Experimental: Decoding & Embracing the Politics of the Avant-Garde. (panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
  University Film and Video Association Annual Conference
  (August 2009)
• "Giri Chit Ginza". (talk, speech or lecture)
  University Film and Video Association Annual Conference
  Formal Respondent to Film
  (August 2009)
• The Gestural Impulse in the Medium. (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  Multimedia Graduate Forum
  CSU-East Bay
  (October 2008)
• Digital Interference: the Indelicate Incompleteness of Media. (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  Museo de Arte, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango
  Bogota, Colombia
  (November 2007)
• From Montage to Media Art. (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  University of Magdalena
  Santa Marta, Colombia
  (November 2007)
• 'The Gaze, the Image, and the Objet Petit a.'. Freund, Peter
  Hong Kong Society of Psychoanalysis

Publications:

• Freund, Peter. January 2013. Art, or the Perverse Ethics of the Lapse, Trauma Desire Otherness, ed. Freund, Peter, Hong Kong Society of Psychoanalysis
• Freund, Peter (ed.). January 2013. Trauma Desire Otherness, ed. Freund, Peter, Hong Kong Society of Psychoanalysis
• Freund, Peter. January 2013. The Failure of Shared Inquiry, Trauma Desire Otherness, Hong Kong Society of Psychoanalysis
• Freund, Peter. November 2012. Film and the Problem of Witnessing, Latin American Perspectives, vol. 39, issue 6
• Freund, Peter. April 2012. Selected Works in Video, The Israeli Center for Digital Art
• Freund, Peter. 2012. CAMP, The Journal of Short Film, vol. 26
• Freund, Peter. 2012. CAMP, Shoah Film Collection, VideoChannel, Köln
• Freund, Peter. 2011. CAMP, ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, vol. Vol. 3: txt+img, ASPECT Magazine
• Freund, Peter. September 2010. Review of "Giri Chit Ginza", Journal of Film and Video, vol. 62, issue 3, ed. Tropiano, Stephen, University of Illinois Press

Performances:

Recent Exhibits

• XFILM. TVS, Sydney, Australia. (August 2012)
• Cologne Experimental Documentary Film Festival. Cologne, Germany. (August 2012)
• MENA Experimental. Experimental Film and New Media from the Middle East, North Africa and Diasporas. (April 2012)
  ATA, San Francisco
• Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference. Hong Kong University, Hong Kong. (March 2012)
• Festival of (In)appropriation. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston, MA. (March 2012)
• Berlin International Directors Lounge. Berlin, Germany. (February 2012)
• Festival of (In)appropriation. Carsey-Wolf Center, Pollock Theater, UC Santa Barbara.. (November 2011)
• Videonale. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.. (October 2011)
• Festival of (In)appropriation. Egyptian Theater, Los Angeles Filmforum. (September 2011)
• Antimatter Film Festival. Victoria BC, Canada. (September 2011)
• Panoptic: New Media. Camden Internat'l Film Festival. (September 2011)
• Sydney Underground Film Festival. Sydney, Australia. (August 2011)
• Ars Cameralis. Katoce, Poland. (May 2011)
• Videonale.13. Kunstmuseum Bonn. (April 2011)
• Australian International Experimental Film Festival. Melbourne, Australia. (April 2011)
• {SonikFest} Synthetic Zero. BronxSpace, New York, NY.. (April 2011)
• The Silence of Politics. BAck doOR Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. (March 2011)
• UFVA conference. Champlain College, Burlington, VT. (August 2010)
• UFVA conference. University of New Orleans. (August 2009)
• Invited Exhibition. Universidad de los Andes. (April 2008)
  (Solo Exhibition)
• Invited Exhibition. Museo de Arte, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia. (November 2007)
  (Solo Exhibition)
• Invited Exhibition. Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia. (November 2007)
  (Solo Exhibition)
• Open Cinema Internat'l Short Film Festiva. St Petersburg, Russia. (August 2007)
  {Experimental Film Prize}
• DO Gallery. St Petersburg, Russia. (June 2007)
  (Solo Exhibition)