BIO : Brian Karl

Brian Karl has worked as curator and arts administrator at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Kitchen, Harvestworks Media Arts, and Headlands Center for the Arts, and also consulted as curator, technician and/or guest speaker at Art-in-General, California College of Art, Creative Time, Composers Forum, Kadist Foundation, San Francisco Art Institute, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Mabou Mines, Squat and Wooster Group theater companies, along with serving as editor for Tellus, the Audio Art Magazine.
He received a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at Columbia University after conducting research in Morocco, Spain and the U.S. He has taught widely in cultural anthropology and music, while producing a series of experimental video documentaries, several of which have received awards, and have been screened, exhibited, and purchased for collections and/or commissioned by galleries and museums internationally.