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2005 Residencies

Alex Gibney: "The New Documentary: From White Elephants to Termite Art"

An Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and director, Alex Gibney recently produced Lightning in a Bottle a film directed by Antoine Fuqua, which premiered in 2004 at the Berlin Film Festival and which was released by Sony Classics last October. Gibney is executive producing "Exiles on Main Street," a series of short films directed by Wayne Wang, Mira Nair, Sherman Alexie, among others.

In 2003, Gibney served as the series producer for The Blues, an Emmy-nominated series of seven films in association with executive producer Martin Scorsese. The directors for The Blues were: Charles Burnett, Clint Eastwood, Mike Figgis, Marc Levin, Richard Pearce, Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders. Gibney also produced The Soul of a Man, Wim Wenders' entry in that series (also an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival), and was awarded a Grammy for producing the 5-CD box set based on the series.

His recent credits include the theatrical documentary for the BBC and First Run Features The Trials of Henry Kissinger (writer/producer); Jimi Hendrix and the Blues (director/producer); the HBO documentary, Soldiers in the Army of God, (senior producer), about the radical fringe of the anti-abortion movement; Speak Truth to Power (producer), a PBS special about human rights defenders starring Alec Baldwin, Sigourney Weaver, John Malkovich and Kevin Kline; Brooklyn Babylon, (executive producer) a feature film directed by Marc Levin and featuring the Grammy Award-winning, hip-hop group The Roots; The Huntress (executive producer) a TV movie written by Bruno Heller (HBO's Rome) and, subsequently, a TV series for the USA Network; Sexual Century, (writer, director, series producer), a six-part documentary series for ITV and the CBC; The Fifties (writer/director/producer), an 8-hour documentary mini-series based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam; and The Pacific Century (writer/director/producer), a 10-hour documentary series that was honored with an Emmy, two Emmy nominations and the prestigious DuPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. His work has also appeared on the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series ESPN's Sports Century, and the Emmy Award-winning series Frontline, for PBS. A member of WGA and DGA, Gibney is a graduate of Yale University (B.A.), and also attended the UCLA Graduate School of Film and Television.

Dave Hickey: "Neo-Con-ceptualism: The Post Modern Right."

Dave Hickey is a free-lance writer of fiction and cultural criticism. He has served as owner-director of A Clean Well-Lighted Place gallery in Austin, Texas, as director of the Reese Palley Gallery in New York City, as Executive Editor of Art in America Magazine in New York City, and as Contributing Editor to The Texas Observer, The Village Voice, Art Issues, Parkett and Context. He has written for most major American cultural publications including The Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Interview, Harper's Magazine, Vanity Fair, Nest, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has published a volume of short fiction, Prior Convictions, with the SMU Press. His critical essays on art have been collected in two volumes published by Art Issues Press, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993), which is in its sixth printing, and Air Guitar, Essays on Art and Democracy (1998), now in its fourth printing. His most recent book, Stardumb (Artspace Press, 1999), is a collection of stories with drawings by artist John DeFazio. He has written numerous exhibition catalogue monographs on contemporary artists including Anthony Caro, Ann Hamilton, Lari Pittman, Richard Serra, Robert Gober, Edward Ruscha, Terry Allen, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Tom Wesselmann, Vija Celmins, Vernon Fisher, Luis Jimenez, Sol Lewitt, Sharon Ellis, and Michaelangelo Pisteletto. He has two books in production at the University of Chicago Press: Connoisseur of Waves, More Essays on Art and Democracy (2006) and Feint of Heart: Essays on Individual Artists (two volumes) (2008).

Hickey has lectured extensively at universities and institutions in America and abroad. These include Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Brown, Stanford, the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Texas at Austin, Art Center in Pasadena, Otis Institute in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Dia Center for the Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, and the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth in the United States, as well as the Tate Modern, The Royal College of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. He has served as a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including the University of Texas at Austin, The University of California, Santa Barbara, the Otis Parsons Institute, Los Angeles, The Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Cambridge, and Rice University, Houston. He has received assorted grants and fellowships. Hickey has organized numerous exhibitions for the Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Texas Gallery in Houston, Diverse Works in Houston, and the Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida. He was the curator of the international exhibition "Beau Monde," the fourth Site Santa Fe biennial held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2001-January 6 2002, which won the 2001-2002 Best Show in a Kunsthalle Award from the Association of International Critics of Art.

Hickey presently holds the position of Schaeffer Professor of Modern Letters at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He will also serve as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles from 2004 to 2006. In 1992, he presented The Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series on architecture theory at Cornell University; he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art or Architectural Criticism for the Year 1993, presented by the College Art Association in 1994; in 1997 he served as the Cullinan Chair of Architecture at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Profiles of Hickey have appeared in Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, The Economist, Flaunt, Spirit, Texas Monthly and other publications. Interviews with Hickey have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Bomb, New Art Examiner, Public and other newspapers and journals. He has been interviewed on PBS television and National Public Radio programs. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for 2002-2007. In May 2003, he received an honorary degree from The Rhode Island School of Design.

Libby Lumpkin is an art historian, critic and curator who serves as Director of the Museum Studies Program at California State University and Assistant Professor of Art History, Long Beach. She was the founding curator of the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art in Las Vegas, and has served as Visiting Professor of Art Theory at Yale University, Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Professor of Theory and Aesthetics at the University of California Santa Barbara, and Visiting Lecturer at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden. She also served as Assistant Professor of Art History and Curator of the Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she organized exhibitions of one-person shows by Amy Adler, Tim Gardner, Bart Exposito, and other contemporary artists. Lumpkin is the author of the books, Deep Design: Nine Little Art Histories, Ingrid Calame, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, War Paint. She edited and produced the catalogs for the Bellagio Collection, and has authored numerous critical essays on contemporary art and design. Dr. Lumpkin was a contributing editor of Art Issues magazine of Los Angeles, and is a regular contributor to Artforum of New York. She earned the Bachelor of Arts in Art History degree at the University of Houston, the Master of Arts in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Doctor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. In Spring 2005, she will found and direct a design institute for the Institute of Modern Letters at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Paul Chan is an artist in New York. His installation and video work can be currently seen at the 54th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh (up until March 2005). In January 2005, the Museum of Modern Art in New York premiered his new single channel video "Now Promise Now Threat". In March 2005 he will be featured at P.S.1's Greater New York Show, and his work will be exhibited at the Lyon Biennale in France, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin in the fall and winter of 2005.

Chan has worked with the Teamsters, Indymedia, and most recently, the Nobel peace prized nominated group Voices in the Wilderness and their campaign against the war (and now occupation) in Iraq. In December 2002 he traveled to Baghdad as a member of Voices. His video "Baghdad in no particular order" is based on footage he gathered while in Baghdad. More recently, Chan collaborated with the collective Friends of William Blake to produce The People's guide to the Republican National Convention, a free foldout map detailing everything a protester needed to get in or out of the way during the RNC in New York.

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ica home exhibitions programs + events about ica visit media center support facility rental education news shop join our mailing list	Spiegel Fund Events and Programs > 2005 Residencies Alex Gibney: "The New Documentary: From White Elephants to Termite Art" An Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and director, Alex Gibney recently produced Lightning in a Bottle a film directed by Antoine Fuqua, which premiered in 2004 at the Berlin Film Festival and which was released by Sony Classics last October. Gibney is executive producing "Exiles on Main Street," a series of short films directed by Wayne Wang, Mira Nair, Sherman Alexie, among others. In 2003, Gibney served as the series producer for The Blues, an Emmy-nominated series of seven films in association with executive producer Martin Scorsese. The directors for The Blues were: Charles Burnett, Clint Eastwood, Mike Figgis, Marc Levin, Richard Pearce, Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders. Gibney also produced The Soul of a Man, Wim Wenders' entry in that series (also an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival), and was awarded a Grammy for producing the 5-CD box set based on the series. His recent credits include the theatrical documentary for the BBC and First Run Features The Trials of Henry Kissinger (writer/producer); Jimi Hendrix and the Blues (director/producer); the HBO documentary, Soldiers in the Army of God, (senior producer), about the radical fringe of the anti-abortion movement; Speak Truth to Power (producer), a PBS special about human rights defenders starring Alec Baldwin, Sigourney Weaver, John Malkovich and Kevin Kline; Brooklyn Babylon, (executive producer) a feature film directed by Marc Levin and featuring the Grammy Award-winning, hip-hop group The Roots; The Huntress (executive producer) a TV movie written by Bruno Heller (HBO's Rome) and, subsequently, a TV series for the USA Network; Sexual Century, (writer, director, series producer), a six-part documentary series for ITV and the CBC; The Fifties (writer/director/producer), an 8-hour documentary mini-series based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam; and The Pacific Century (writer/director/producer), a 10-hour documentary series that was honored with an Emmy, two Emmy nominations and the prestigious DuPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. His work has also appeared on the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series ESPN's Sports Century, and the Emmy Award-winning series Frontline, for PBS. A member of WGA and DGA, Gibney is a graduate of Yale University (B.A.), and also attended the UCLA Graduate School of Film and Television. Dave Hickey: "Neo-Con-ceptualism: The Post Modern Right." Dave Hickey is a free-lance writer of fiction and cultural criticism. He has served as owner-director of A Clean Well-Lighted Place gallery in Austin, Texas, as director of the Reese Palley Gallery in New York City, as Executive Editor of Art in America Magazine in New York City, and as Contributing Editor to The Texas Observer, The Village Voice, Art Issues, Parkett and Context. He has written for most major American cultural publications including The Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Interview, Harper's Magazine, Vanity Fair, Nest, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has published a volume of short fiction, Prior Convictions, with the SMU Press. His critical essays on art have been collected in two volumes published by Art Issues Press, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993), which is in its sixth printing, and Air Guitar, Essays on Art and Democracy (1998), now in its fourth printing. His most recent book, Stardumb (Artspace Press, 1999), is a collection of stories with drawings by artist John DeFazio. He has written numerous exhibition catalogue monographs on contemporary artists including Anthony Caro, Ann Hamilton, Lari Pittman, Richard Serra, Robert Gober, Edward Ruscha, Terry Allen, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Tom Wesselmann, Vija Celmins, Vernon Fisher, Luis Jimenez, Sol Lewitt, Sharon Ellis, and Michaelangelo Pisteletto. He has two books in production at the University of Chicago Press: Connoisseur of Waves, More Essays on Art and Democracy (2006) and Feint of Heart: Essays on Individual Artists (two volumes) (2008). Hickey has lectured extensively at universities and institutions in America and abroad. These include Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Brown, Stanford, the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Texas at Austin, Art Center in Pasadena, Otis Institute in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Dia Center for the Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, and the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth in the United States, as well as the Tate Modern, The Royal College of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. He has served as a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including the University of Texas at Austin, The University of California, Santa Barbara, the Otis Parsons Institute, Los Angeles, The Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Cambridge, and Rice University, Houston. He has received assorted grants and fellowships. Hickey has organized numerous exhibitions for the Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Texas Gallery in Houston, Diverse Works in Houston, and the Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida. He was the curator of the international exhibition "Beau Monde," the fourth Site Santa Fe biennial held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2001-January 6 2002, which won the 2001-2002 Best Show in a Kunsthalle Award from the Association of International Critics of Art. Hickey presently holds the position of Schaeffer Professor of Modern Letters at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He will also serve as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles from 2004 to 2006. In 1992, he presented The Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series on architecture theory at Cornell University; he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art or Architectural Criticism for the Year 1993, presented by the College Art Association in 1994; in 1997 he served as the Cullinan Chair of Architecture at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Profiles of Hickey have appeared in Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, The Economist, Flaunt, Spirit, Texas Monthly and other publications. Interviews with Hickey have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Bomb, New Art Examiner, Public and other newspapers and journals. He has been interviewed on PBS television and National Public Radio programs. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for 2002-2007. In May 2003, he received an honorary degree from The Rhode Island School of Design. Libby Lumpkin is an art historian, critic and curator who serves as Director of the Museum Studies Program at California State University and Assistant Professor of Art History, Long Beach. She was the founding curator of the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art in Las Vegas, and has served as Visiting Professor of Art Theory at Yale University, Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Professor of Theory and Aesthetics at the University of California Santa Barbara, and Visiting Lecturer at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden. She also served as Assistant Professor of Art History and Curator of the Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she organized exhibitions of one-person shows by Amy Adler, Tim Gardner, Bart Exposito, and other contemporary artists. Lumpkin is the author of the books, Deep Design: Nine Little Art Histories, Ingrid Calame, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, War Paint. She edited and produced the catalogs for the Bellagio Collection, and has authored numerous critical essays on contemporary art and design. Dr. Lumpkin was a contributing editor of Art Issues magazine of Los Angeles, and is a regular contributor to Artforum of New York. She earned the Bachelor of Arts in Art History degree at the University of Houston, the Master of Arts in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Doctor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. In Spring 2005, she will found and direct a design institute for the Institute of Modern Letters at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Paul Chan is an artist in New York. His installation and video work can be currently seen at the 54th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh (up until March 2005). In January 2005, the Museum of Modern Art in New York premiered his new single channel video "Now Promise Now Threat". In March 2005 he will be featured at P.S.1's Greater New York Show, and his work will be exhibited at the Lyon Biennale in France, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin in the fall and winter of 2005. Chan has worked with the Teamsters, Indymedia, and most recently, the Nobel peace prized nominated group Voices in the Wilderness and their campaign against the war (and now occupation) in Iraq. In December 2002 he traveled to Baghdad as a member of Voices. His video "Baghdad in no particular order" is based on footage he gathered while in Baghdad. More recently, Chan collaborated with the collective Friends of William Blake to produce The People's guide to the Republican National Convention, a free foldout map detailing everything a protester needed to get in or out of the way during the RNC in New York. 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