Vic Brooks is a curator and creative producer who develops exhibitions, films, performances, and programs. Her research centers on the production and presentation of time-based visual art and moving image, with particular focus on the technological infrastructures and architectural acoustics of the institutions that support them. She currently works with the Calder Foundation, Aspen Art Museum, and Doris Duke Foundation on new initiatives, is developing feature films with Ephraim Asili, Aria Dean, Sierra Pettengill, and Martine Syms, and is editing the book Tuning Calder’s Clouds (Athénée Press: Bogotá, 2024) on Alexander Calder’s Acoustic Ceiling at the Central University of Venezuela’s Aula Magna.
A nominee for the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards for The African Desperate by Martine Syms, she is also a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Curatorial Research Fellowship and Teiger Foundation’s curatorial grant for Shifting Center, co-curated with Nida Ghouse in 2023. Brooks was associate director for the arts and senior curator of time-based visual art at EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at RPI for over a decade, and was visiting faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College from 2018-2023, and co-chair of the Contemporary Curatorial Workshop at Williams Grad Art, 2016-2022.
