EXPERIENCE
2022
Teaching Assistant. DOCST 236S: Color Photography. Duke University. Durham, North Carolina.
2021
Teaching Assistant. DOCST 480S: Capstone Seminar in Documentary Studies. Duke University. Durham, North Carolina.
2017
Tech Lab for Film Festivals. Mexico City, Mexico.
PHILOSOPHY & METODOLOGY
My motivation as a teacher is to share knowledge, with the understanding that learning is a two-way process: from/of both students and instructor. Knowledge comes not only from text and theory, this being what strengthens it, but what nurtures and expands it is the experience that is gained thorough risk, experimentation and even failure. In the lens-based visual arts, it is essential to find a balance between the comprehension of technique, from using technology as a tool, and the personal search of a creative voice, congruent with each individuals concerns and interests. Information must be a motivator and a trigger to stimulate ideas that through application will reinforce and direct an ever-evolving artistic practice in my students.
My approach to teaching is based on accountability, for each student to work in a methodological manner. To achieve this, context and third-person experience is taught with the intention of building the fundamentals of a technical background and to generate critical and productive decision-making. By laying the constitutive bases of lens-based artwork in both still and moving images I aim to guide my students through scenarios that are presented in the professional environment of the audiovisual practice. When each student is able to personalizes their goals I can involve them in the improvement of their skills. By selecting their priorities, on a project oriented course, students can additionally optimize the management of their time to be able to dedicate less to the tedious stages of conclusion and more to the exploration of ideas through the execution and experimentation with multiple means of audiovisual expression.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Spatiality and temporality in exhibition design and installation practices for audiovisual media.
- Color perception and mediation through manufactured mechanisms and technologies.
- Photographic practices & processing, analog image imprint and digital manipulation.
- Experimentation and convergence of stillness / movement recording methods in film practices.
TEACHING INTERESTS
- Contemporary Documentary Films.
- Cinematography for experimental and documentary films.
- Post-production and editorial strategies for still & moving image.
- Color Photography.
