Articles By: Alexandra Lerman

New York based filmmaker and artist Alexandra Lerman is the founder of SMAC, a video series about contemporary culture carried by leading online culture publications.
She graduated from Cooper Union School of Art in New York City.
Before producing SMAC, she worked on 3 feature length documentaries as an associate producer: The Ballad of Greenwich Village - a documentary by Karen Kramer about the revolutionary history of the famous New York neighborhood, Déjà Vu Vietnam - a film by Thi Thanh Nga exploring the parallels of the war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq and Russia! The Drama of Art in 12 Episodes - a TV film by Nina Zaretskaya about the retrospective of Russian art at the Guggenheim Museum.
Alexandra’s work has been shown in New York at the Chelsea Art Museum, Artists Space, Janos Gat Gallery and Anthology Film Archives and at Hermitage Museum in St-Petersburg, Russia. Alexandra’s latest project is a documentary about architecture of Central Asia produced with Kyong Park. It will be shown at his exhibition New Silk Roads at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León in July 2009 curated by Octavio Zaya.
Suppressing Nationality at the Giardini.

Suppressing Nationality at the Giardini.

In the midst of the Venice Biennale media crush, openings and general party reverie, walking into and through the Czech/Slovak pavilion was a much needed respite and a literal breath of fresh air. Roman... 

The Europe of Strangers

The Europe of Strangers

Artists representing their countries at the Venice Biennale face the task of making their work fit into their country’s pavilion. Automatically, the work becomes site and situation specific. While... 

Cooper Union Interdisciplinary Seminar Archives Released

Cooper Union Interdisciplinary Seminar Archives Released

We are happy to announce that SMAC is starting a collaboration with the Cooper Union Interdisciplinary Seminar. The series organizers Doug Ashford and Walid Raad have chosen the best talks from their... 

Playground. Interview with the director Libby Spears

Playground. Interview with the director Libby Spears

Film still from "Playground" Wherever you can buy drugs in this country, you can buy children – American children – for sex. While it is not an easy film to watch, Playground is a must... 

Tribeca Film Festival Kicks Off

Tribeca Film Festival Kicks Off

Spike Lee, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro & Uma Thurman Kick off 2009 Tribeca Film Festival The TriBeca Film Festival starts tomorrow and will run for the next 12 days. Founded in 2002 to help revitalize... 

SMAC Video Honored by The 13th Annual Webby Awards

SMAC Video Honored by The 13th Annual Webby Awards

We are happy to announce that a SMAC video about a solar powered media wall in Beijing GreenPix: China’s Next Great Wall has been selected as an Official Honoree in The 13th Annual Webby Awards.  ...

Aimee Mullins TED talk about the poetics of design

Aimee Mullins TED talk about the poetics of design

Aimee Mullins, the star of Cremaster 3 by Matthew Barney spoke at TED conference in February 2009 about the poetics of design. The American athlete, actress, and fashion model Mullins is best known... 

Neon of the Last Century

Neon of the Last Century

Neon Traces by Anton Ginzburg. Photo by Maxime Dufour The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago! Lille, a city in the North of France is celebrating this anniversary with a 4 month long festival called Lille3000... 

City, Ecology, Mobility - With Mitch Joachim

City, Ecology, Mobility - With Mitch Joachim

Mitchell Joachim insists that his plans are not futuristic. As the Executive Director for  Terreform, a “philanthropic design collective,” he is responsible for progressive solutions for current... 

Data Visualization with Eric Rodenbeck

Data Visualization with Eric Rodenbeck

Eric Rodenbeck is in the business of finding new ways to depict data. He insists that data visualization is a medium, not a technology or methodology. Stamen, the technology and design studio he founded...