Almudena Escobar López is a Ph.D. student in Visual and Culture Studies at the University of Rochester. Her dissertation explores the notion of collaborative aesthetics in relation to ideas of artistic cooperativism, paying particular attention to the filmmaker’s cooperatives founded in the 1960s in New York, San Francisco, and London. Almudena’s fellowship project will explore the New York Filmmakers’ Cooperative (NYFC) and its collectivist spirit in relation to the current collaborative global tendency in community cultural development. The project involves facilitating the public access of the NYFC archive, and a screening series that will function as open inter-generational spaces of self-analysis that mediate between different communities, inside and outside academia.
