26 Facts About Joan Braderman

Joan Braderman is an American video artist, director, performer, and writer.

Joan Braderman was born in Washington, DC, to parents Betty and Eugene Braderman.

Joan Braderman was taught by friends, comerades, and by herself at the free Media Access Centers which could be found in New York state at this time.

Joan Braderman received her MA from New York University in 1973, and a Masters of Philosophy in 1976.

Joan Braderman was first married to her work partner, Manuel DeLanda in 1980.

Joan Braderman was then married to Robert C Reckman in 1996.

Joan Braderman hoped to convince her to remain in Northampton, where he was part of building the town's renaissance.

Joan Braderman left New York City and accepted a job at Hampshire College in the well-known Film, Video and Photo Program there.

Joan Braderman is a Professor Emerita of Video, Film and Media Studies at Hampshire College.

Joan Braderman has taught internationally at institutions such as The School of Visual Arts in New York City, School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The Hartford University Art School, The Media School at The University of the Arts, London, and the Universidad catolica portuguesa in Porto, Portugal.

Joan Braderman has served on the board of directors of Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts as well as other feminist organizations such as the Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse, NYC.

Joan Braderman served on the boards of film and television organizations including the Association of Independent Film and Videomakers, publisher of The Independent; The Independent Television Service, and others.

Joan Braderman worked with several mass organizations for coalition building and shared electoral work for local progressive politicians such as Jose Rivera.

Joan Braderman is a founding member of Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, a magazine produced by a collective of feminist artists and writers to publish work by women in the arts.

Joan Braderman wrote and directed her film, The Heretics, about the collective in which 24 artists spoke about the times they shared challenging established notions of gender and power.

One male reviewer criticized Joan Braderman's direction, claiming the documentary makes "vague" statements about inequality.

Joan Braderman includes a facilities cooperative and a screening space, as well as community outreach programming.

Joan Braderman's work engages with feminist art histories of collage, combining the medium with irony and black humour.

Joan Braderman's work invests in producing a record of a women's movement that threatens, via a variety of forms of backlash against it, to disappear from history.

Joan Braderman was a founding member of the Heresies Collective, which published from 1977 to 1992, during the second wave of feminism.

Joan Braderman has written original scripts for all of her own produced works.

Joan Braderman wrote script materials for Manuel DeLanda's experimental works in film such as, "Raw Nerves; A Lacanian Thriller".

Joan Braderman has written critically about issues of representation in film and video, popular vs "high" art, ideas of utopia, critique and redefinition of the so-called "documentary" film as well as women in film, feminism and the Women's movement and popular, avant-garde and non-fiction films and videos.

Joan Braderman's essays include Feminism and Video: A View From The Village,"Camera Obscura; Archive for the Future", The First International Festival of Films by Women, Artforum, September 1972.

Joan Braderman's work is currently distributed by: The Video Data Bank at the Art Institute of Chicago; Women Make Movies; LUX; and The Danish Broadcasting Corporation.

Joan Braderman was previously distributed by Paper Tiger Television until its archives were donated to Deep Dish Television and the NYU Libraries.