21st Annual Virginia Film Festival

Aliens! 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2008


EDDO STERN

eddostern.gifEddo Stern is an artist and independent computer game developer who operates in the disputed borderlands between fantasy and reality, exploring the uneasy and otherwise unconscious connections between physical existence and electronic simulation. He was born in Tel Aviv and currently lives in Los Angeles. Since 1998, his work has been shown at The Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, The Walker Art Center, The Ludwig Museum, ARGOS in Brussels, and The Tate Gallery Liverpool. His interests are in new modes of narrative and documentary, and cross-cultural and cross-media representation in film, computer games, and the Internet. He works in various media including computer software/game design, sculpture, performance, and film and video production. He is a founder of C-level, a cooperative media lab in LA’s Chinatown, where he co-produced the physical computer gaming projects “Tekken Torture Tournament”, “Cockfight Arena”, “Waco Resurrection” and the internet meme conference “C-level Memefest”. Stern is on the visiting faculty on the Graduate School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California and CalArts. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Art and Integrated Media from California Institute for the Arts in 2000.

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