BIO
Alice Arnold is a nonfiction filmmaker and an educator. In 2002 she was awarded a NYFA Fellowship for her photographic work, which examines city life and explores urban cultural forms and experiences. 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, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in October 2006 and is distributed by Icarus Films. Her second film, TEETH, also distributed by Icarus films, premiered at the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight (February 2008). In 2007 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Filmmaking (Hong Kong) for ELECTRIC SIGNS, a documentary about signs and screens. In addition to making media she also teaches media studies and media production and is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Parsons, the New School for Design.

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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