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Julia Meltzer

Born 1968 - Los Angeles

Julia Meltzer is a media artist and executive director of Clockshop, a non-profit production company based in Los Angeles. Her works are realized in video, installation, and performance presentations. Her video works include State of Emergency: Inside the L.A.P.D. (with Elizabeth Canner, 30:00,1993), Room Service (15:00, 1994), Conversation Piece (20:00, 1997), and It's not my memory of it (with David Thorne, 25:00, 2003). Installations include <chatlandia> (with Amanda Ramos, 1995-97) and Baggage Claim (1997-98). 

Her work has been exhibited and broadcast at venues including Creative Time's Art in the Anchorage, The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), Mass MOCA (West Adams, Massachusetts), Forum Stadtpark (Graz, Austria), the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and on selected PBS television stations.  She has taught video and digital media at Hampshire College and UC Irvine.


Available Titles by Julia Meltzer

Title Year Runtime Collection
(chatlandia) 2000 00:03:00 Single Titles
It's not my memory of it: three recollected documents 2003 00:25:00 Single Titles
not a matter of if but when: brief records of a time in which expectations... 2006 00:17:33 Single Titles
State of Emergency 1993 00:28:00 Single Titles
Take into the air my quiet breath 2007 00:16:22 Single Titles
we will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass 2007 00:47:04 Single Titles
Julia Meltzer

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