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BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
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New York/ *UK 1958
Zoe Beloff was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1980, she moved to New York, where she received an M.FA. in Film from Columbia University. Her work has been exhibited internationally. Venues include: MOMA, The New York Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives and the Centre Georges Pompidou.
Zoe works with a variety of cinematic imagery: film, stereoscopic projection performance, and interactive media. Her projects are philosophical toys, objects to think with. More and more, she finds herself fascinated by phantoms, by images that "are not there". She would like to think of herself as an heir to 19th century mediums whose materialization séances conjured up unconscious desires in the most theatrical fashion. Though lacking psychic abilities, she confesses to relying on cinematic illusion, one could say the cinematic "medium".
Zoe has also worked with artists from other disciplines. She collaborated with Composer John Cale on "Life underwater" which combined film, stereo slides and live music performance. She was invited by the Wooster Group theater company to create the CD-ROM "Where There There There Where", inspired by Gertrude Stein's play "Doctor Faustus lights the Lights". More recently, she has been working with sound artist Ken Montgomery.
This spring, Zoe presented "A Mechanical Medium", a projection performance inspired by Thomas Edison's search for an apparatus to communicate with the dead, and "Shadow Land or Light from the other Side", a stereoscopic film based on the life of the 19th century medium Elizabeth d'Espérance, at the 2002 Whitney Museum Biennial.
Her first interactive video installation, "The Influencing Machine of Miss Natalija A." will be exhibited in Düsseldorf in September 2002.
Zoe teaches film and digital media at City College in New York.
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