Department Member, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies and Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Thesis Title: Third, Now: Contemporary Re-Assemblages of the Cinematic Apparatus
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Trinh T. Minh-ha
Nelson Maldonado-Torres Laura E. Pérez Deniz Gökturk |
About
Dalida María Benfield is an artist and scholar whose work addresses questions of technology, gender, history, colonialism, and decoloniality. Situated amidst feminist performance and media, Third Cinema, and grassroots organizing, her work includes film, video, and creating independent activist organizations and flexible, open platforms for media production, exhibition, distribution and research. From 1994 – 2007, her work was carried out with the Chicago-based artists’ collective that she co-founded, Video Machete. Her films, videos, and installations have exhibited internationally, and she has published on transnational media, U.S. Latina/o cultural politics, feminist film and video, and media education, including recent chapters in Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere (Hampton Press, 2009) and Culture as Commons (Routledge, forthcoming). She is also the organizer of the on-line Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise dossier, “Digital Decolonizations/Decolonizing the Digital” (2009). She has taught film, video, performance, art education and public art practice at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is now completing a Ph.D. at the University of California-Berkeley in Ethnic Studies with Designated Emphasis in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies.
