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John Knecht, Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Art & Art History and Film & Media Studies

Contact Information
Mail: 301 Little Hall
Office: Art & Art History
Phone: 315 2287636
Email: jknecht@colgate.edu

Department Affiliation
Art & Art History Office

Teaching & Research

Title
Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Art & Art History and Film & Media Studies

Degree
BSA University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh 1971, MFA Idaho State University 1974

Teaching Experience
University of Oklahoma School of Art 1974-78; Hunter College Department of Theater and Cinema 1980; Brown University Semiotics Program Spring 1981

Specialities
Video and film production, history and theory of cinema, issues in contemporary art and mass media

Interests
Experimental video and film, digital animation, film and television history and theory

Distinctions
Member, Board of Governors, National Council for Undergraduate Research; member, Artists Advisory Committee, New York Foundation for the Arts; grant awards: New Forms, Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts; Jerome Foundation; New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists Fellowship

Group Exhibitions
European Media Arts Festival; World Wide Video Festival; American Film Institute Video Festival; The Lucerne Film and Video Festival; International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Rotterdam

One Person Exhibitions
Castellani Museum of Art (fall 1997), Museum of Modern Art, The Alternative Museum, California Institute for the Arts