Creative Capital

Jeanne Finley

Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse have worked collaboratively on numerous experimental documentaries and multi-channel video installations since 1988. These works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, at festivals and galleries, including the San Francisco International Film Festival, Berlin Video Festival, Toronto, and World Wide Video Festival. They served as Artists in Residence at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from 1995 to 1996 and published an essay detailing their experience at Xerox PARC in Art and Innovation (MIT Press, 1998).

Finley and Muse’s film, video, and installation credits include: The Trial of Harmony and Invention, (2000); The Adventures of Blacky, (1999); and O Night Without Objects, (1998). These works have won awards at festivals such as the International Jewish Festival, the Charlotte Film Festival, and the Black Maria Film & Video Festival.

Jeanne C. Finley, a Guggenheim Fellow and CalArts Alpert Award winner, is a professor of media studies at the California College of Arts and Crafts. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter.