
Ben Coonley, a special guest at the 2009 Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival, is a video and new media artist who uses documentary, narrative, and pedagogical modes of address to explore aspects of media culture and film history. His films, installations, and live performances are exhibited at film festivals, museums, underground performance venues, and on the Internet. With a degree in Semiotics from Brown University and an MFA from Bard College, he has taught video and media production at Princeton University, the New School Media Studies Masters Program, and Parsons the New School for Design.