Faculty

Friedling is a media artist, writer, and educator interested in the mediated jumble of all matter.  Much of her work begins with found or ‘happened upon’ media that prompts an excavation of the marginalized and sometimes metaphysical narratives contained within them. Her films and videos have been exhibited internationally at venues including the Barbican Center (London, UK) Tribeca Film Festival (NY), PS1 MoMA (NY), Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA), Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (Buffalo), Art Space (New Haven), Microscope Gallery (NY); New Orleans International Film Festival, Ann Arbor (MI), Atlanta Film Fest. Select honors include grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts, a Fulbright Award, and residency fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and International Studio and Curatorial Program.  In 2006, she also founded the web video production company, Slouch Productions. In addition, her writing on film, art, and culture has been published widely including essays in Flash Art International, Afterimage, and Discourse and a book, Recovering Women: Rhetoric, Feminisms, and Addiction (Westview Press, 2000). She has been teaching courses in film and video production and media studies at the New School since 2004. Overall, she teaches with an eye towards a reflective media artist who is not just trained to perform a series of technical skills, but who can also see the big picture, use techniques and tools critically and purposefully, and is appreciative of a wide range of film traditions and modes.

Ph.D.  Rhetorical Studies.  University of Iowa.

Friedling, M. and Lin, L. (2024), "Pareidolic Cinemas," Portable Gray, 7(1), pp. 81 - 97.

Friedling, M. (2023), “The feral film habit of OJOBOCA,” Journal of Environmental Media, Special Issue: ‘Cinezoonosis’, 4(1), pp. 187–212.

Friedling, M. (2022), "Gestational Filmmaking with ART:  An Odd Pair," Portable Gray, 5(2), pp. 278 - 291.