Emily Zimmerman

Former Associate Curator

Emily Zimmerman has worked extensively in the context of universities, most recently as the Associate Curator of Programs at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, and, prior to that, as the Associate Curator at the Experimental Media and Performing Art Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During her time at EMPAC, Zimmerman commissioned new pieces from artists such as Melvin Moti, Gordon Hall, and Marie Sester, and she curated the exhibitions Uncertain Spectator (2010) and Slow Wave: Seeing Sleep (2009). Zimmerman received the 2011-2012 Lori Ledis Curatorial Fellowship at BRIC Contemporary Art and served as a 2013 curator-in-residence at Residency Unlimited. Her writings have appeared in BOMBBig, Red & Shiny, and Contemporary Performance. She has served on a number of review panels including the New York State Council on the Arts and the Herb Alpert Awards. She is a board member for the Wave Farm.

Zimmerman holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BA (focus on Art History) from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.

Events and Residencies

2015

April 7, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Talk
Changing the World by Mining the Materials Genome
March 9, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Talk
Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media
March 9, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Series

2014

December 10, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Talk
Dust to Digital: Loose Remarks on the Economy of Craft
December 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Talk
The Spread Mind
December 4–6, 2014
Time-Based Visual Art, Installation, Commission, Exhibition
Melvin Moti
December 3, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Talk
On the Notion of ‘Capture’: arché, techné, epistemé
November 18, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Talk
Physics in reduced dimensions: nano-science for mega-impact
November 5, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Talk
Why Does Consciousness Dissolve in Chloroform? The Story of an Enduring Mystery
October 28, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Talk
Histories of Now: Time Diffractions, Virtuality, and Material Imaginings
October 15, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Talk
Johannes Goebel
October 10, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Godfrey Reggio
October 6, 2014 at 7:15 pm
Performance, Commission
Anthony Marcellini
October 6, 2014 at 4:30 pm
Performance, Commission
Anthony Marcellini
October 4, 2014 at 4:22 pm
Festival
September 21–October 6, 2014
Commission, Residency
Anthony Marcellini
September 4–November 13, 2014
Film/Video, Series
September 4, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
August 28–December 12, 2014
Season
May 7, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Talk
The Test Drive
April 23, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Talk, Commission
New Media, New Documents: On Images, Examples, and Evidence
April 1, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Performance, Commission
“Read me that part a-gain, where I disin-herit everybody”
March 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Music/Sound, Talk
The Next Acoustic Architecture
February 25, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Talk
Touching Words & Images
February 19, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Talk
Programming the Universe
January 30–April 3, 2014
Film/Video, Series
January 21–May 8, 2014
Season

2013

December 5, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by David Lynch
November 21, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Wong Kar Wai
November 12, 2013–April 2, 2014
Commission, Residency
Gordon Hall
October 9, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Dance/Theater, Talk, Commission
Dance and Finance—Social Kinesthetics and Derivative Logics
October 2, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Alan Schneider
September 25, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Talk, Commission
Deconstructing Perception
September 24, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Talk, Commission
How a Sausage Dog Works
September 24, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Talk
The Design of Nanoscale Therapeutics and Nanostructured Materials
September 11, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Talk, Commission
The Beautiful Violent Futures of J.G. Ballard
September 11, 2013–May 7, 2014
Series
July 15, 2013–May 2, 2014
Talk, Series
May 10, 2013–December 6, 2014
Film/Video, Commission, Residency
Melvin Moti
May 9, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Carol Reed
May 1, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Software Archaeology. On the Resurrection of Programs for the Mark 1, 1948–58
April 18, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art
Selections from Phantom Museums
April 17, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Performing Technogenesis: The Affective Power of Digital Media
March 28, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
March 27, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Talk
See Me if You Can! Art and the Limits of Neuroscience
March 6, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Experience and Experiment in Early Modern Europe
February 21, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
February 12, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Philosophy and the Art of Dying
January 29, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Talk
New Frontiers in Glycoscience and Glycoengineering
January 29, 2013–March 3, 2015
Talk, Series
Campus Perspectives
January 25–May 25, 2013
Season

2012

November 25–December 7, 2012
Residency
HAND2MOUTH
November 15, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Film/Video
Code Warriors and Future Cities
November 8, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Tarsem Singh
November 7, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Session: The Power of Networks
October 25, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
October 15–26, 2012
Film/Video, Residency
Deville Cohen
October 11, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
October 11, 2012–May 9, 2013
Film/Video, Series
Between Reality and Illusion
October 11, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Talk
To Infinity and Beyond!
October 10, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Art Fraud: Recognizing Authenticity in Art
September 19, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Film/Video, Talk
The Eye As I Can See
August 20–December 16, 2012
Season
July 9–15, 2012
Film/Video, Music/Sound, Residency
Ed Osborn
June 11–29, 2012
Film/Video, Residency
Freya Olafson
May 3, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Richard Linklater
May 2, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy
April 25, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Bitten: Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People and not Others
April 19, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
April 18, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Talk, Commission
April 12, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Talk
Zbigniew Oksiuta
March 7, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Talk
MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour
February 23, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Alain Resnais
February 21–May 31, 2012
Commission, Exhibition
Ryan + Trevor Oakes
February 18, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Dance/Theater, Performance
Annie Dorsen
February 8, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Better Than a Thousand Words
January 26–May 3, 2012
Film/Video, Series
January 26–May 13, 2012
Season
January 16, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Time-Based Visual Art, Film/Video
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
January 15, 2012–December 31, 2013
Series
Conversations on Art + Science
January 5–February 5, 2012
Commission, Residency
Ryan and Trevor Oakes

2011

December 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Wim Wenders
December 7, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process
November 17, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Terry Gilliam
October 6, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
La Jetée & The Eternal Recurrence
September 28, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Visual Practices Across the University
August 29–December 9, 2011
Season
May 4, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Dance/Theater, Talk
Movement and Mirror Neurons: A Challenging and Choice Conversation
April 7, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Michael Powell + Emeric Pressburger
April 6, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Splashing Around in Art and Science from the Renaissance to Now
March 2, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Talk
February 10, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art
Directed by Peter Greenaway
January 18–May 12, 2011
Season

2010

November 18, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Lars von Trier
November 18, 2010–January 29, 2011
Exhibition
October 28, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Directed by Alexander Sokurov
October 28, 2010–April 7, 2011
Film/Video, Series
October 1–3, 2010
Exhibition
October 1–3, 2010
Festival
October 1–3, 2010
Dance/Theater, Film/Video, Music/Sound
September 10–December 4, 2010
Season
August 1–9, 2010
Residency
Annie Dorsen
March 3–12, 2010
Talk, Installation, Exhibition
Chris Salter
February 10, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Talk
Margaret Wertheim
February 4, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
January 28–May 28, 2010
Season

2009

December 10, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Time-Based Visual Art, Film/Video
December 9, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Talk
November 19, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art
October 28, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
Art21
October 8, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
September 26, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Film/Video
September 26, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Performance
Alvin Lucier
September 26, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Performance
Alvin Lucier
September 26, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Talk, Workshop
September 25–27, 2009
Series, Exhibition
Seeing Sleep
September 16, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Performance
September 3–December 10, 2009
Season
May 13, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Film/Video
April 8, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Film/Video
February 17, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Talk
Johannes Goebel
January 16–May 30, 2009
Season

2008

December 11, 2008–May 13, 2010
Film/Video, Series
November 6, 2008–April 2, 2009
Film/Video, Series
October 3–19, 2008
Festival
October 2008
September 1–December 15, 2008
Season
January 23–May 1, 2008
Season