Ardele Lister is an artist working in time-based media. From 1991 to the present, Lister has taught media production and critical studies at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

, where she is currently Graduate Director of Visual Arts. She has also taught at

Montclair State University Montclair State University (MSU) is a Public university, public research university in Montclair, New Jersey, with parts of the campus extending into Little Falls, New Jersey, Little Falls. As of fall 2018, Montclair State was, by enrollment, ...

in New Jersey,

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, and Center for Media Arts, both in New York City. Lister's works have been shown internationally in festivals, galleries, museums, and on television, and are in the permanent collections of the

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(New York),

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(Paris), the

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(Amsterdam), Academie der Kunst (Berlin), and the

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(Ottawa). She also has written for and edited art and media publications and founded the magazines Criteria and The Independent. She is the mother of actress

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and the former wife of the American photographer and media artist Bill Jones.

Art

Lister began making films in the early 1970s. Her films include ''So Where's My Prince Already?'' (1976), ''Spilt'' (1980), ''Hello'' (1984), ''Behold the Promised Land'', and ''Conditional Love (See Under: Nationalism–Canada)'' (1997). She also worked on avant-garde television projects such as ''

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'' (CBS) for which she produced the 'Connect the Dots' segments.

Publishing work

Lister founded and edited the journal CRITERIA, a Quarterly Review of the Arts, in 1974 in Vancouver. It was initially published under the auspices of the Vancouver Art Gallery, where she produced a weekly television show on the gallery's events and exhibitions, but by 1977 had dis-affiliated. Volumes 1-4 were published until Fall 1978, Volume 4, Number 2. CRITERIA published art projects and writings by

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, and Ardele Lister; and interviews with

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, and

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. In 1977, while working for the Associated of Independent Video and Film Makers, facilitating an innovative project funded by the

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entitled "Short Film Showcase," Ardele Lister created and edited "The Independent," the first magazine devoted to the needs of independent video and film makers. The magazine is still published by the Foundation for Independent Video and Film, in New York, today as a blog. Additionally, Lister has written articles for AfterImage, Felix, Collapse, and Heresies.

Personal life

Lister is the daughter of Rose (Bercovice) and Jack Lister. She is

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

, and her husband

converted to Judaism Conversion to Judaism ( he, גיור, ''giyur'') is the process by which non-Jews adopt the Jewish religion and become members of the Jewish ethnoreligious community. It thus resembles both conversion to other religions and naturalization. " ...

upon their marriage.

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References

* Tonkonow, Leslie, “Leslie Tonkonow Interviews Ardele Lister,” ''Collapse,'' Vol. 3, December 1997. pp. 154–169. * McCoy, Pat, “A Brief Conversation Between Ardele Lister and Pat McCoy,” ''Felix,'' vol. 1, no. 3. 1997. pp. 79–83.

External links

Official Website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lister, Ardele Living people Rutgers University faculty American artists Year of birth missing (living people)

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