BIO
Alice Arnold is a photographer, a filmmaker and an educator. The broad themes of her work revolve around visual perception and urban culture. Her portrait and reportage photography has been widely published and exhibited and she is the recipient of a NYFA Photography Fellowship. Her first film, TO BE SEEN, a documentary about street art, public space and the urban environment was broadcast in July 2006 on REEL/NY (WNET/PBS), screened at the Museum of Modern Art in October 2006 and is distributed by First Run Icarus Films. Her second film, TEETH, also distributed by First Run Icarus films, was premiered at the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight, an annual showcase of nonfiction film and video (February 2008). In 2007 she was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Filmmaking (Hong Kong). Her fellowship project is a nonfiction film, ELECTRIC SIGNS, which is about signs and screens. In addition to making media she also teaches media studies and media production and has taught at Hunter College (CUNY), Hollins University, Parsons, the College of Staten Island (CUNY) and Polytechnic University (Brooklyn).

ARTIST STATEMENT
The broad themes of my work revolve around visual perception and urban culture. The cultural, social and economic forces of modernity connect these two disciplines. The rise of cities in the early 20th century led to new forms of visual stimulus, such as billboards, movies, crowds of people, advertising images, and display windows, which impacted people's perceptions and shifted cultural and social values. In the early 21st century cities are still cultural forces that are capable of re-ordering our senses and providing us with new ways of seeing. My work examines city life and explores urban cultural forms and experiences, and seeks to contextualize these images of urban experience as a form of social history.

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