Visual Arts + Media Curation

Weaver is an award-winning visual arts curator and film festival programmer, leading exhibitions within a wide range of venues, with varied audiences. They sometimes serve as a juror for arts and film festival programs. Weaver has unique expertise integrating moving image, emerging technology, performance, and immersive/experimental storytelling into exhibitions.

Beyond formal, traditional exhibition curation, Weaver leads art/media pop-ups and interventions with local community and student groups as a way to activate under-utilized or blighted urban and rural spaces for exhibition, as well as in effort to generate energized, collaborative creative community. Additionally, within Tiger Strikes Asteroid Weaver occasionally contributes to curation and coordination of exhibitions hosted by the collective.

The tabs to the right, organized by year, reflect the range of Weaver’s curatorial experience and trajectory.

Film Festivals + Screening Programs

Film festival programming at its best is a collaborative process. For many years Weaver has led teams of screeners contributing to the selection process for the New Orleans Film Festival Experimental Shorts program. There they also serve as the curator for Cinema Reset, a unique exhibition program of the film festival that highlights work at the intersections of cinematic storytelling, visual art, and emerging technology. Weaver has additionally curated thematic screening programs for universities, conferences, and events.

As a former film archivist, Weaver is committed to working with moving image collections to develop screening programs. Weaver believes that curation and exhibition of moving image archive content is a key strategy to ensuring the survival of such collections. Through thoughtful, curated screenings, collections build new stakeholders and reach audiences who otherwise may not otherwise recognize the value and necessity of moving image archives.

Consulting

Weaver has helped facilitate many time-based media and media installation works for public view, with experience leading coordination, install, and exhibition of projects integrating interactivity, sensing systems, robotics, VR/XR, video, sound, light, projection mapping, games, and other hybrid technical approaches. They are available to consult on exhibitions that integrate these media within gallery, museum, and festival contexts.

Coyotol and Xochipitzahuatl-Nova by Federico Cuatlacuatl, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, 2024.

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Sweet Sampled LeftOva Loner (Live Session 2020) by Kalup Linzy, commissioned by the Cinema Reset program at New Orleans Film Festival, 2020.

I Hope I Thank You Enough by Rachel de Cuba at the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, 2019.

The Year We Make Contact by Blake Marques Carrington at the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, 2014.