Edin Velez Explained

Edin Velez
Birth Place:	Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Known For:	Video Art, Director

Edin Velez is a Puerto Rican video artist, director and professor.^{[1] [2]} He is best known for his work on the documentary films State of Rest and Motion and Dance of Darkness.^{[3] [4]}

Life and career

Edin was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is currently based in New York. He studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.^[5] He moved to the US in the early 1970s and became part of the first generation of video artists working in SoHo, Manhattan.^{[6] [7]} His directorial debut documentary film on Japanese Butoh, Dance of Darkness, was broadcast nationally in the US by PBS.^[8] He is a professor and coordinator of the video program at Rutgers University–Newark.^[9]

Edin has received numerous award, including American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S./Japan Friendship Commission, the Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.^{[10] [11] [12]}

Selected exhibitions

Edin's work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, documenta 8, American Film Institute National Video Festival, Museum of Modern Art and International Center of Photography.^{[13] [14] [15]}

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Cinematographer	Notes
2017	State of Rest and Motion			Editor and producer
2012	My Brooklyn
2009	Never Enough
2009	RFK in the Land of Apartheid
2007	A Certain Foolish Consistency			Producer
2002	This and That, and other Minor Misunderstandings			Editor and producer
1995	Memory of Fire
1992	Art on Film, Program 3: Form
1990	A Mosque in Time			^[16]
1989	Dance of Darkness			Museum of Modern Art
1987	Meaning of the Interval			Museum of Modern Art^[17]
1984	AS IS
1984	Oblique Strategist
1981	Meta Mayan II			Museum of Modern Art
1978	TULE			Museum of Modern Art

Notes and References

1. Web site: Edin Velez interview Puerto Rican video artist. ejumpcut.org. 2019-02-16.
2. Web site: Edin Velez, Rutgers Professor, has film premiere at Museum of Modern Art. acm.newark.rutgers.edu. 2019-02-16.
3. Web site: NEW DOCUMENTARY TURNS NEW YORK'S SUBWAYS INTO A DREAMLAND. pdnonline.com. 2019-02-16.
4. Web site: Dance of Darkness. eai.org. 2019-02-16.
5. Book: Edin Vélez papers and videos, 1970-1994. searchworks.stanford.edu. 2019-02-16.
6. Web site: VIDEO PRODUCTION FACULTY. acm.newark.rutgers.edu. 2019-02-16.
7. Book: Edin Vélez papers and videos, 1970-1994. searchworks.stanford.edu. 2019-02-22.
8. Web site: New Television; New Television, Episode 508; Dance of Darkness. openvault.wgbh.org. 2019-02-16.
9. Web site: Edin Velez . sasn.rutgers.edu. 2019-02-16.
10. Web site: Underground Film History: AFI's Maya Deren Award. undergroundfilmjournal.com. 2019-02-16.
11. Web site: EDIN VELEZ. gf.org. 2019-02-16.
12. Web site: Edin Vélez . archive.jeromefdn.org. 2019-02-16.
13. Web site: New EAI Releases. vasulka.org. 2019-02-16.
14. Web site: Edin Vélez. moma.org. 2019-02-16.
15. Web site: ABOUT JAPAN. icp.org. 23 February 2016 . 2019-02-16.
16. Web site: MOSQUE IN TIME, A. artfilm.org. 2019-02-16.
17. Web site: Meaning of the Interval. moma.org. 2019-02-22.