Ben Russell (b.1976, USA) is a media artist and curator whose films, installations, and performances foster a deep engagement with the history and semiotics of the moving image. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2010 FIPRESCI award recipient, Ben has had solo screenings and exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Viennale, and the Museum of Modern Art NY. He began the Magic Lantern screening series in Providence, Rhode Island; he was co-director of the artist-run space BEN RUSSELL in Chicago, IL; he has curated kinetic multi-part programs for PS1, the Ambulante Film Festival, the Berlin Documentary Forum, CPH:DOX, and more; and he has toured worldwide with film/ video/ performance programs.  Ben currently lives in Los Angeles, USA.