I am the lead programmer for the VSW Salon series, a bi-monthly engagement in the VSW microcinema featuring film screenings, artist talks, Community Curator events, performances, photo presentations and conversations. VSW Salon showcases the work of local and national artists, and invites them to present their work in an intimate “microcinema” equipped to show 16mm, Super 8, digital photography and video on state of the art equipment.

VSW Salon events generally take place the second and fourth Thursday of the month in the VSW Microcinema. Most VSW Salon events begin at 6pm with a 1 hour Open Studio with the current VSW Residents, followed by the featured event at 7 pm. All events are in-person unless otherwise indicated, with limited seating.

An interview with me about the book and my relationship with artist Luther Price.

A profile of my intersectional practice between art, activism and archives. Written by artist Frankie Symonds for the Boston Hassle

Since 2015, Tara Merenda Nelson has been the lead programmer for the VSW Film Series.

Published in Cornelia magazine, Fall 2019

Editor of Bouquets 11-20: Notebooks by Rose Lowder (VSW Press 2018)
Editions 1&2
Sold Out

Published in Afterimage, Vol. 43, no. 1 & 2
Written by Almudena Escobar Lopez

Review of my solo exhibition, Light Sensitive, at the Visual Studies Workshop, November-December 2014.

Written by Rebecca Rafferty of the Rochester City Paper.

Published in Essay|Afterimage Vol. 43 no. 1&2, June 2015

In this essay, I discuss the notebooks of French experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder as documentation of research conducted by an artist. This essay previews my forthcoming book on the Notebooks of Rose Lowder.

Interview with Bill Daniel in OtherZine, March 2016

An excerpt from my ongoing interview with artist Victor Faccinto, published in Issue #27 of OtherZine, September 11, 2014.

OtherZine is the semi-annual ‘zine of Other Cinema, the long-standing bastion of experimental film, video, and performance in San Francisco’s Mission District.

Website for Victor Faccinto

An interview with filmmaker and artist Luther Price, published in Volume 2, Issue 1 of Boston's BIG RED & SHINY, online Journal of Contemporary Art and Events, October 2012

Issue Number Four: Exhibition Guide
INCITE's Issue Four is a comprehensive survey of the contemporary Micro-cinema movement in North America. It also features an interview I conducted with filmmaker Saul Levine, curator of the MassArt Film Society, as well as a memoir by my husband Gordon Nelson on his 10-years as curator for Pittsburgh's Jefferson Presents.

Big Red & Shiny, Volume 2: Issue #7

he idea to discuss and document a discourse around New Media began with an innocent admonition of a field that seemed to both encompass and abandon our own practices as filmmakers. The discussion began with a telephone conversation and grew into an ongoing debate between two friends and fellow artists working in moving-image territories that include Super 8, 16mm, and video. Does New Media include us? Is our work relevant in the context of New Media? Are there underlying concepts that carry through to moving-image work made with increasingly obsolete mediums?

Even if You Can’t Pronounce the Name, the Dallas Medianale Demands to Be Seen
A review of our multimedia installation, End of Empire, at the Dallas Medianale

My latest cinema sculpture, End of Empire, will be featured at the 2014 Mono No Aware festival in Brooklyn, NYC.

This annual exhibition is held to give open forum to work that, because of its transient nature, might not otherwise find a venue in a traditional movie theater, gallery or stage. Inherent in the work is a sense of connectivity and shared viewer experience. The curated program focuses on live projected elements as part of sculpture, installation and performance.

2012 Flaherty Seminar
OPEN WOUNDS

June 16 – 22, 2012
Colgate University, Hamilton, New York

I will be attending the Flaherty Film Seminar from June 15-22 on an emerging filmmaker fellowship from the LEF Foundation

French experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder lectured and screened recent and older work in Boston, Milwaukee, Chicago and New York February 7th-19th, 2011. Generous support provided by MassArt Curatorial and the French Cultural Embassy's Cine 2000 program.

Tour curated by Tara Merenda Nelson.

A web blog on 16mm film production written and updated by my husband, Gordon Nelson.

An article I wrote on the films of Rose Lowder, published on the website PaulSharits.com.

I am curating a show of Super 8 films from the 1980's, followed by a Super 80's Dance Party!