CU@Lunch with Amy Reid A'09

Tuesday, September 21, 2021, 12 - 2pm

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CU@Lunch Amy Reid

CU @ Lunch with Cooper Union Alumni Amy Reid A'09 

Tuesday, September 21 

12:00 PM ET 

Virtual 

Please join us! 

Amy Reid is an artist whose work examines the intersections between gender, national identities, and labor. By exploring observational approaches and expanding upon formal cinematic notions of time, structure, and narrative, Reid’s work questions how labor is constructed in the filmic form through feature length films, video installations, and texts. These multi-year projects, often working closely with a group—long haul female truckers, quilters, e-commerce sellers—premise upon collaboration, performance, and experimentation. 

Reid has also spent time as an organizer and film programmer including such projects as Films on Film, Las Chicas Presents, and Kino Club, in spaces such as The Sunview Luncheonette in Brooklyn, and UC San Diego’s Experimental Media Lab.  

Reid received their MFA in 2017 from the University of California, San Diego and is an alum of the Whitney Independent Study Program. Currently they are pursuing a doctoral degree in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz where they have been awarded a multi-year fellowship through the Feminist Media Histories Initiative. 

Zoom: https://cooper.zoom.us/j/98671254110?pwd=V3lyWmhzazUwUGtWRW9oZ1RxRFpudz09

Meeting ID: 986 7125 4110 │ Passcode: 585712 

Sponsored by the Center for Career Development and Alumni Affairs & Development 

For an archive of posters of past presentations, please see: 

https://cooper.edu/students/student-affairs/careers/students/programs/cu-lunch

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