Jason Livingston is a media artist and filmmaker, film programmer, and writer.  His award-winning work has screened widely, including Sheffield, Camden, Rotterdam, Anthology, the Austrian Museum, UnionDocs, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. His major installation, In the Sun’s Absence, made in collaboration with Professor of Geosciences Phoebe A. Cohen and funded by the Simons Foundation, debuted at the Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center in 2024. Under Foot & Overstory is distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, and Lake Affect is available through EAI’s Experimental Television Center collection. Awarded residencies include the Millay Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He has received project support from the New York State Council on the Arts, amongst others, and actively maintains a freelance career offering story notes on films and creative nonfiction and poetry manuscripts.

Jason is pursuing a practice-based PhD as a Presidential Fellow with the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo while holding down a full-time job as a Project Coordinator with the Just Buffalo Literary Center and teaching writing to incarcerated folks in Western New York.  He holds a B.A in Philosophy from Cornell University, and a M.A. and M.F.A. in Cinema from the University of Iowa.  He served as a Trustee with the Flaherty organization from 2017 to 2023.

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