CalArts Exp. Animation AD Pia Borg Awarded with the Guggenheim Fellowship
The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved on April 8 the award of the Guggenheim Scholarships to a diverse group of 175 writers, scholars, artists and scientists, including Pia borg, associate director of the Experimental Animation Program at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), who was awarded a film and video scholarship.
Appointed on the basis of previous results and exceptional promises, the selected candidates were chosen through a rigorous peer review process by almost 3.000 candidates in the 95th competition of the Foundation.
The wide variety of backgrounds, fields of study and achievements of Guggenheim Fellows is a unique feature of the Fellowship program. In all, 53 academic disciplines and arts fields, 75 different academic institutions, 31 states and the District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces are represented in this year's class of Fellows, ranging from 29 to 82 years. Nearly 60 have no full-time college or university affiliation.
Pia borg (born 1977) is an Australian filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Working with archival footage, CGI animation and performed reenactments, Borg's films depict historical and cultural events, recounting psychological phenomena such as the false memory syndrome, collective hysteria and opal fever that surrounds mining industries.
He has received numerous awards including the Golden Leopard for the best international short film (Locarno Film Festival 2014) for the documentary Abandoned goods. His latest short film, demonic, it was first presented at Cannes Critics' Week in 2019 and was recently nominated for an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award. His film Silica it was installed in the Maltese pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale (May-November 2017) and was awarded at the AFI festival, Ann Arbor, 25 FPS and Tacoma Film Festival.
His animated works Note (2004) and Through Hawthorne (2014; commissioned by Wellcome Trust) they have been selected for prestigious festivals including Cannes, Annecy, SXSW, ITFS, Ottawa Int Anim Festival, Hiroshima Animation Festival, Animafest, Clermont-Ferrand, Fantoche and more.
In 2015, Borg was named one of the 25 new faces of the independent film in filmmaker magazine. He recently had personal screenings of his films at REDCAT, Los Angeles, Museum of Moving Image, New York, ICA, London and Cineteca, Mexico City. In 2014, she joined the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts, where she is currently associate director of the Experimental Animation Program.
This year's Film and Video Fellows also include the digital media theorist and game designer Patrick Yagoda, co-founder of the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and of the Transmedia Story Lab; Jeffrey Sconce, Assoc. Professor in the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University (author - Infested media: electronic presence from telegraphy to television, Technical disappointment: electronics, power, madness); and Pamela Wojcik, Professor of Film, TV and Theater at Notre Dame University and former president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (author - Guilty pleasure: feminist camp from Mae West to Madonna; The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945-1975; Fantasies of abandonment: imagining the urban child in American film and fiction).
CalArts School of Art Alumni J. Stoner Blackwell, Cammie Staros e Valerie Tiberas well as a recent visiting artist and winner of the Herb Alpert in the Arts award Lloyd suh, also received scholarships.
Since its founding in 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded over $ 375 million in scholarships to over 18.000 people, including dozens of Nobel Laureates, Fields Medals, Poet Graduates, National Academies, Pulitzer Winners Prize, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award and other internationally recognized awards. Created by Senator Simon and Olga Guggenheim in memory of their son, the Foundation has sought from the beginning to "promote the development of scholars and artists by helping them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the conditions as free as possible. "
After 95 years, the Guggenheim Fellowship program remains a significant source of support for artists, humanities and social scientists, and scientific researchers. In addition to the generous support of Senator Simon and Ms. Olga Guggenheim, new and continuing donations from friends, trustees, former colleagues and other foundations have ensured that the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation will maintain its historic mission. An exceptionally generous legacy in 2019 from the estate of the great American novelist Philip Roth, a colleague in 1959, is providing partial support for the wide variety of writers supported by the Foundation.
For more information on the 2020 Fellows, visit the Foundation's website at http://www.gf.org.
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