LAUREN AMAZEEN - EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Lauren Amazeen formed Vanguard Visions Inc. in 1997 in New York City. She has spent the past 20 years working with and writing about visionary artists and creative thinkers whose work transforms the way we perceive culture and the human experience.

Since 2000, she has been based in Stockholm where she is an art critic and freelance writer, as well as executive producer of Vanguard Visions.  She is the Stockholm correspondent for tema celeste contemporary arts magazine and arts and culture contributor to The Swedish Bulletin.  She is a member of the Swedish Society of Art Critics.

She is a Board member of the New York City multi media group Ridge Theater, and serves on the Advisory Board of the NYC Tribeca Partnership, and served as a member of the NYC Mayor's subcommittee on Digital Arts and Culture. She has served as an Executive Board member of the Stockholm International Women’s Club and is a member of the British Commonwealth Association.

In the 90's, as Executive Director of The Kitchen in New York City, she worked with artists to develop their work for larger and more diverse audiences: Kitchenette - a video annex in SoHo to exhibit video art and installations; The American Laboratory - a residency program at Bennington College for the creation of collaborative multi disciplinary work for the 21st Century; New Media - international collaborations using new technologies, in particular ISDN technology and multi media (including world premier of the Virtual Abbey - a multi-site collaboration between New York and Thoronet Abbey in France featuring David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir, as well as a multi-site concert with the band Future Sound of London); New Opera - commissioned and developed multi media works for the 21st Century; Kitchen Residency - program individually tailored for select artists to create, develop and present new works for larger audiences. Director's Projects -- developed a multi media studio theater, with an installation gallery and video editing suite; produced a series of high profile benefit concerts throughout city featuring artists Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich, Allen Ginsberg, Eric Bogosian, Suzanne Vega, Kronos Quartet, John Cale, Ron Vawter, David Hykes, Glenn Branca and Meredith Monk.

Published :

The Kitchen Video Collection: Two decades of the Video Vanguard and The Kitchen Turns 20.

In the 1980's she worked with the founders of the ZKM (center for art and media technology) in Karlsruhe, Germany designing a model to bring artists and technologies together. She curated the first video exhibition Soul Search for the Multimediale 1 in 1989 and served as a consultant for the initial purchases of the ZKM's video art collection.

She received her MFA from Columbia University, did post-graduate studies at Radcliffe College and Bennington College.  She also attended the School of International Studies, Vermont.

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