Gene Gort is a visual artist, video producer, media programmer, and educator. His artwork and videotapes have been shown internationally, including at Dark Music Days Festival at Harpa, Reykjavik, Iceland; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Pacific Film Archive/Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; TheVideoArtFoundation, Barcelona, Spain; Cyberarts Festival, Boston, MA; University of Rochester; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts; Vtape Salon and the Art Gallery of York University/Prefix Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto; Black Maria Film and Video Festival, touring; Athens Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio.
Gort has collaborated with composer and sound artist Ken Steen, e-Cellist Jeffrey Krieger, choreographers and dancers Stephen Pier and Miki Orihara, composers and musicians Bent Duo (Bill Solomon and David Friend) and Sarah Hennies, double bassist Robert Black, creative programmer Timothy Lawless, pianist Megumi Masaki, composers and musicians Quey Percussion Duo (Gene Koshinski and Tim Broscious), and artist/designer Patrick Kennedy.
He has been twice recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation with nominations in the Film/Video/New Media categories for individual fellowships. He has received grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts; Pollack-Krasner Foundation; LEF Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts, "New Forms": National Endowment for the Arts Regional Artists Projects and has been awarded two residencies at MacDowell and at I-Park. He currently holds the position of professor of integrated media arts at Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, a program he designed and directs, and is a core faculty member of the interdisciplinary M.F.A. program, Nomad/9.
