San Francisco, California, United States
Clark Buckner is a Cultural Producer with more than twenty-years of professional experience, curating exhibitions and screenings; producing film and video projects; publishing books and articles; advising collectors; and teaching courses on art, philosophy, film-video, curatorial practice, and cultural criticism. He currently serves as Director / Curator at Telematic Media Arts in San Francisco's SoMa District, where he focuses specifically on time-based arts, screen culture, and art’s intersection with technology. His recent curatorial and production projects include: When Dreams Are Realty, A sound-art installation by leading Indigenous-American artist, Cristobal Martinez; The Friend, a 9-channel video installation by 2nd-generation video artist John Sanborn, featuring actor John Cameron Mitchell; and The Archive to Come, a group show of time-based works by more than 50 international artists, co-curated w/ new media powerhouse Carla Gannis in response to Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, and the crisis of the republic. In recent years, he has contributed in diverse capacities to exhibitions, screenings, and events at Gray Area (SF), ONX Studio (Onassis Foundation/New Museum, NY), Perez Art Museum (Miami), Minnesota Street Foundation (SF), Videoformes (Clermont-Ferrand), and ZKM (Karlsruhe). Along with perennial catalog essays - on Carla Gannis, Peter Burr, Orphan Drift, and Contemporary Chinese Video Art, among others - his publications on art, philosophy, film, video, and curatorial practice include Apropos of Nothing: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Coen Brothers (SUNY U.P.), and the co-authored collection Styles of Piety: Practicing Philosophy After the Death of God (Fordham, U.P.), along with articles in Afterimage; Art Journal; Culture, Theory, Critique; Art Review; Bomb Magazine; NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art; Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; and SFMoMA’s Open Space. For many years, he taught philosophy, art history, and cultural criticism in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. Before that, he taught in the Philosophy Departments at Mills College and UC Santa Cruz. He co-founded The Blue Studio, an arts community and workspace; and he served as Director/Curator of the project space, Mission 17. He plays bass guitar in the power-pop trio, Super Fragile California, and composes sound scores for the dance company, Jennifer Perfilio Movement Works. He has a PhD in Continental Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Critical Theory from Vanderbilt University.
www.tttelematiccc.com
Authored a peer-reviewed book for the Insinuations Series on SUNY, U.P.. Reviewed books for potential publication on topics in film and philosophy.
Set up and ran a 20,000 square foot workspace for artists and artisans in San Francisco's Mission District.
Wrote and published regular art reviews in popular magazines and peer-reviewed journals, including Afterimage; Art Journal; Culture, Theory, Critique; Art Review; Artweek; Bomb Magazine; Stretcher; NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art; Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; and SFMoMA’s Open Space.