John Orentlicher

John Orentlicher

Biography:

John Orentlicher was born in Roanoke, Virginia in 1943. He grew up in the Washington, DC area. In 1964, he joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in Chile. Orentlicher received a Bachelor of Arts from Goddard College and a Master of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago. In the late sixties and early seventies, he began to work in video.

His range of work has developed around critical reflections on the interrelationships between technologies and culture. His experimental and documentary videos have dealt with medical, visual, and communication technologies as well as those of commodity exchange, sexuality and pleasure. In 1991, Orentlicher began a series of tapes about Chile that explore the development of modern transportation and communication systems in its rural areas, the relation of landscape to history, personal histories, and Chile’s political transformations.

John Orentlicher’s work has been screened throughout North and South America as well as Europe and Japan. He has been Fulbright Scholar twice, and has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts. He has served as juror for the Bienal of International Electronic Arts, Santiago, Chile, and the Biannual International Video Festival, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, Colombia. Orentlicher is currently Chair and Professor in the Department of Art Media Studies, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, New York.

His work is distributed through V Tape (Toronto), Montevideo (Amsterdam), London Video Arts (England), The Kitchen (New York), and The National Gallery, Ottawa.

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		John Orentlicher Biography: John Orentlicher was born in Roanoke, Virginia in 1943. He grew up in the Washington, DC area. In 1964, he joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in Chile. Orentlicher received a Bachelor of Arts from Goddard College and a Master of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago. In the late sixties and early seventies, he began to work in video. His range of work has developed around critical reflections on the interrelationships between technologies and culture. His experimental and documentary videos have dealt with medical, visual, and communication technologies as well as those of commodity exchange, sexuality and pleasure. In 1991, Orentlicher began a series of tapes about Chile that explore the development of modern transportation and communication systems in its rural areas, the relation of landscape to history, personal histories, and Chile’s political transformations. John Orentlicher’s work has been screened throughout North and South America as well as Europe and Japan. He has been Fulbright Scholar twice, and has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts. He has served as juror for the Bienal of International Electronic Arts, Santiago, Chile, and the Biannual International Video Festival, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, Colombia. Orentlicher is currently Chair and Professor in the Department of Art Media Studies, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, New York. His work is distributed through V Tape (Toronto), Montevideo (Amsterdam), London Video Arts (England), The Kitchen (New York), and The National Gallery, Ottawa. John Orentlicher's Videography John Orentlicher's Vitae