Lisa Seidenberg began professional life working with video pioneers Nam June Paik & Ant Farm. then
broadcast television in New York City for ABC News, WPIX , WTN, REUTERS, BBC & PBS
. War zones & international locales - Lebanon, Syria, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mongolia and Haiti. Sent to Russia to
film the end of Communism.
Director of photography on "Lifestyles of the Rich
and Famous", "Trauma:Life in the E.R.", "Good Morning America",
"The Newshour with Jim Lehrer".
Industrial videos for PepsiCo
and Stolichnaya in Siberia and Kazakhstan... the fall of the Berlin Wall... the Gobi Desert for "Mongolia
on the Edge of Time".
Recipient of several grants & commissions & film festival awards
inc two-time winner of the Artist Fellowship Award in Film/Video from the Connecticut Commission
on Culture & Tourism.
"The Road Taken...The Merritt Parkway"
was selected for Systems/Fictions, displayed in the Gallery of the Connecticut Commission in Hartford .
Her films screen internationally in Film Festivals and other venues inc. the Soros Foundation
and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the American Humanist Association and
the Tully Center for Free Speech.
Seidenberg herself is profiled in the 2007 film, "Women
Behind The Camera" (2007) a feature film by Alexis Krasilovsky . http://www.womenbehindthecamera.com/index.html
She is currently a contributing writer for VENÜ Magazine
In the past year, her focus has shifted to experimental works intended for gallery or
art spaces."Mermaid re-Mix" and "Cold War Film Clips" were shown
at NESTArtsFactory in Bridgeport, CT fall/2011.
She is currently curator of "Cold War
in our Backyard" at the Westport Historical Society, an exhibit and installation.