Recent Curatorship

Rachel Lin Weaver is a visual arts curator and film festival programmer. Their expertise is thematically focused on the intersections of moving image, emerging technology, and immersive/experimental storytelling. Weaver specializes in exhibitions of media installation, and works spanning interactivity, XR, video, sound, performance, and projection. Weaver also provides new media/digital media curatorial and exhibition consultation for museums, festivals, and galleries.

Weaver is currently the Curator of Cinema Reset, the new and emerging media program of the New Orleans Film Festival. Cinema Reset is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

2019 CINEMA RESET
INSTALLATIONS

Pieced Vessels, Rachel de Cuba
I Hope I Thank You Enough by Rachel de Cuba
Dwelling Growth by Rachel de Cuba

They_Sing_About_The_Long_Crawl by matthew anthony batty
the delicate leaps between… by matthew anthony batty
wading of the chorus after the refrain by matthew anthony batty

Sea Pastures by Cristina Molina
Ice of the World [from the Matriarchs series] by Cristina Molina

VR

Accused #2: Walter Sisulu by Nicolas Champeaux, Giles Porte
All on a Mardi Gras Day by Biliana Grozdanova
Children do not Play War by Fabiano Mixo
Goodbye Paradise by Scott E. Schimmel
Legendary Cyphers by Omotola Omoloyole
Tower of Babel by the Sea by Feng-Wei Jung
Another Dream by Tamara Shogaolu
Home With America by Alvaro Morales
Traveling While Black by Roger Ross Williams

MICROCINEMA

Block I: Passages
Relic 2 dir. Larry Achiampong
I Snuck Off the Slave Ship dir. Lonnie Holley, Cyrus Moussavi

Block II: Declarations
Two Parts Black dir. Cleon Arrey
Get off the Paper dir. Sabrina Cates

Block III: Vibrations
Just a Small dir. Na Kyung Kim
Displace dir. Carter Eggleston, David Franusich, Tacie Jones, Vasia Ampatzi
Palace of Pope dir. Stephanie Barber

Block IV: Exchanges
Shalva (Tranquility) dir. Danna Grace Windsor
My Mother Resents Me (Mi Madre Me Tiene Rabia) dir. Victoria Linares Villegas
Discovery Settings dir. Kat Vivaldi

Block V: Ecologies
Esplanade dir. David Gamble, Jonathan Freilich
E-TICKET dir. Simon Liu
Kopacabana dir. Marcos Bonisson, Kahlil Charif

Block VI: Commissioned Artist Showcase
Works by Rachel de Cuba, matthew anthony batty, Cristina Molina

Special Screening
Everything’s For Sale, dir. Gina Gammel, Riley Keough, Malcolm Washington

PAST EXHIBITIONS

2018 CINEMA RESET
Video/Installation Works
6: An Unbirth, by Liana Cockfield, Milo Daemgen, Riley Tehan, Natalita
The Bottom: A Noise Opera by Chris Berntsen, Sarrah Danziger, Damien Moreau, Lucia Honey
Archive by Adam Forrester
Drift by Carter Eggleston
Mahogany Too by Akosua Adoma Owusu
Groundwater, Vol I. and II by Kameron Neal
Octane by Jeron Braxton
WATERSHED by Thomas Tucker, Lesley Duffield, with: Sofia Chu, Jasmine Edison, Carter Eggleston, David Franusich, John Hamilton, Xindi Liu, Kat Vivaldi

VR Works
1000 Cut Journey, dir. Courtney Cogburn, Elise Ogle
Authentically Us: Voices from the Transgender Community, dir. Jesse “Jesus” Alaya
Meeting a Monster, dir. Gabriela Arp
Biidaaban: First Light, dir. Lisa Jackson
Pacific Gateway: Angel Island, dir. Felicia Lowe
Grandma’s New Year, dir. Matthew Hashiguchi

2017 CINEMA RESET
Eagle Bone (Ch’aak S’aagi), virtual reality work by Tracy Rector
Traces virtual reality work by Gabriela Arp
Highview by Simon Liu
Interactive VR Showcase: Your Place in the Narrative

2016 CINEMA RESET
Collisions, virtual reality documentary by Lynette Wallworth
Land's End, interactive multi-channel media installation by Anndunham and Chris Givens
Beware, New Orleans!, immersive transmedia + live cinema experience by Sex Lab, Inc. 
The Virtual Kewe of Vaporwave, projection mapping featuring New Orleans' only virtual Mardi Gras krewe
In Memoriam: Trevor Alan Taylor, projection mapping of moving image works by the late, beloved Trevor Alan Taylor

2015 CINEMA RESET
Paisajes de mi Abuela (My Grandmother's Landscapes), augmented reality film by Julian Yuri Rodriguez
Music for Cars at Night on Country Roads, audiovisual installation by Jane Cassidy
16mm Etching and Digital Manipulation Workshop by Russell Sheaffer and Aaron Michael Smith

2014 CINEMA RESET
Contemporary Art Center New Orleans
The Year We Make Contact & A Weak Force That Binds by Blake Carrington
Cinema Reset Microcinema featuring works by experimental filmmakers Jodie Mack, Matjaž Ivanišin, Russell Sheaffer, Adan Jodorowsky, Max Bernstein, Lucas Leyva, and Luigi Campi
16mm Film Manipulation Workshops by Mono No Aware + Russell Sheaffer

WAVEFORMS
The Grunwald Gallery
Featuring work by new media artists Carrie Bodle, Jacob C. Hammes, Norbert Herber + Rowland Ricketts, Tesia Kosmalski, Lou Mallozzi, Shannon McMullen + Fabian Winkler, Stephanie Rowden, and Jesse Seay
Grunwald Gallery of Art - Waveforms
Waveforms Gallery Catalog available for purchase
Waveforms Documentation