Education
2009-10 Fulbright Full Grant: Sweden; Filmmaking
2006 Syracuse University MFA in Filmmaking
1996 Allegheny College BFA in Philosophy and English Literature
Teaching Experience
Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2008-2009)
FM 310: Junior Major Studio (includes advising of film majors)
FM 332: Script to Screen (16mm sync sound production)
FM 333: Documentary Film/Video Production: Personal and Political
Independent Studies:
Non-Fiction Video, Scriptwriting, Documentary, Experimental 16mm and Super 8
FM 211: Digital Video for Non-Majors (2 sections)
FM 180: Introduction to Film and Video (2 sections)
Emerson College (2007-8)
VM 240: Introduction to Video Field Production (4 sections)
VM 230: Introduction to Film Production (4 sections)
VM 330: Digital Filmmaking
Syracuse University (2004-6)
Film 222: 16mm Narrative Film Production Workshop
Art History 250: “Ways of Seeing International Cinematic Avant-garde” (2 sections)
Film 690: Graduate Independent Study, “Underground Cinema”
“Time Arts,” Summer College for High School Students (2 summers)
Film 360: Topics in Film Culture, “Assimilation and Rebellion”
Foundations 111: Time Arts
Niagara County Community College (2003)
DIG 101: Digital Media Production
SUNY at Buffalo (1998-2000)
DMS 101: Basic Filmmaking (five semesters)
Guest Lecturer and Visiting Artist
2010 Internationella Engelska Gymnasiet (High School) Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden:
Visiting Artist and
Documentary Filmmaking Lecture
Stockholm University: "Documentary and visual power issues in international relations"
2008 Mass College of Art: Guest Critic, Junior and Sophomore Film/Video Review Boards
Syracuse University: Visiting Artist
2007 Community Art Center, Cambridge, MA: Present and lead discussion
about film, Born into Brothels
2006 Maine College of Art, Portland, ME: Visiting artist
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY: “Truth and Documentary”
2005 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY: “Auteur Theory”
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY: “Film at the Bauhaus”
Awards and Honors
Full Fulbright Grant to Sweden, 2009-10
Syracuse University
Philip K. Davis Award in Film, 2006
Outstanding Teaching Assistant, 2006
Creative Research Grant, 2005
Travel Grant (Sweden), 2005
Teaching Assistantship, 2003-2006
Graduate Tuition Scholarship, 2004
SUNY at Buffalo
Full Teaching Assistantship, 1998-2002
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
First Works Grant, 1998
Works Exhibited
2009
Is everybody else alright?
Godine Family Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
On a Train
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio
I am Hearing the Last Bird
SPECULATION(ELATION)2 Parsons Hall Project Space, Holyoke, MA
2008
To give is to receive is to give
Outpost 186, Cambridge, MA
One Longfellow Square, Portland, ME
Funk n Waffles (presented by Dropped Frames), Syracuse, NY
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
Radio Radio, Indianapolis, IN
Elastic Revolution, Chicago, IL
Bohemian National Home, Detroit, MI
The Infantree Gallery, Lancaster, PA
Giving Voice
Palace Theater, Syracuse, NY
2007
I am Hearing the Last Bird
Cambridge Community TV, “Art Central Live Screening,”
Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Australia
Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
EXiS Experimental Film + Video Festival, Seoul, South Korea
Hardacre Film and Cinema Festival, Tipton, IA
Rome International Film Festival, Rome, GA
Strawberry Super 8 Festival, Cambridge, England
Artsfest Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio
Hi/Lo Film Festival, San Francisco
Resolutions 07, Hallwalls: Buffalo, NY
2006
I am Hearing the Last Bird
Zero Station, Portland, ME
Ryan Tebo’s MFA Thesis Screening
Thursday Screeners: Syracuse, NY
Working Vacation: India
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Lowe Art Gallery: Syracuse, NY
2005
“The Barber,” from Working Vacation: India
The Da Vinci Gallery, NYC: Best in Show
to be cool, from ryan tebo is 29 years old
Syracuse International Film and Video Festival
5 photographs and ryan tebo is 29 years old
WelcomGallery, Baroda, India
2004
harpo (Feb.)and first take (Nov.), from ryan tebo is 29 years old
Spark Video: Syracuse, NY
“Confession and Penance” (performance)
Den of Confession exhibition at Spark Art Space: Syracuse, NY
to be cool, from ryan tebo is 29 years old
Video Now, Everson Art Museum: Syracuse, NY
Breaking the Ice exhibitions: Ithaca and Syracuse, NY
Narcissus and Echo
Diversity In the Arts festival, Syracuse, NY
Damocles, from ryan tebo is 29 years old
Den of Confession exhibition: Buffalo, NY
2003
to be cool, from ryan tebo is 29 years old
Spark Video: Syracuse, NY (best home video, Dec.)
Solo film screening at Rust Belt Books Theater: Buffalo, NY
2001
multi-monitor installation, collaboration with Lake Effect ensemble
Murder the Word 4 exhibition/event: Buffalo, NY
Editor
2008 Giving Voice: Singing for Peace and Justice (HDV documentary)
2005 The Road from Alfedena (digital video documentary)
2003 Dido and Aeneas (digital video documentary)
2001 Mozart in the Middle (digital video documentary)
Feature Film Experience
2001 The Falls (digital video: Gaffer)
2000 Manna From Heaven (35mm: Camera Assistant / Intern Coordinator)
Director of Photography
2008 Bridges (16mm: 6 min)
2005 Draupadi (16mm: 5 min)
2001 Should’ve Been (music video: 4 min)
Corned (16mm: 10 min)
2000 Morning Dew (16mm: B&W: 15 min)
1999 The Darker the Berry… (16mm: B&W: 50 min)
The Hunter (16mm: B&W, silent: 10 min)
Curating
2007
Performing Bio: 50 Years of Swedish Experimental Film and Video
I curated a program of Swedish experimental film and video art focused on the theme of performance. In collaboration with FilmForm in Stockholm.
2006
Thursday Screeners (advisor and curator, 2005-2006)
Weekly experimental, foreign, and independent 16mm film screening program at Syracuse University. I presented Peter Kubelka, Scott MacDonald, Richard Kerr, Bill Daniel, Brett Kashmere, and Yuganaut (free-jazz trio) as visiting artists.
Black Maria Film and Video Festival Screening at Syracuse University (curator and organizer for local screening, 2005 and 2006)
2005
Lawrence Brose and Stephanie Maxwell (organizer and presenter, 2005)
Visiting Filmmakers in my “Ways of Seeing Avant-Garde Cinema” class.
Erstquake Tour at Syracuse University (organizer and presenter, 2005)
Performance of experimental electronic sound art by quintet from Japan, Switzerland, and NYC.
2004
Dragons 1976 and Heath Hanlin at Spark Art Space (curator and organizer)
Free-jazz trio (from Chicago) and improvised video projection simultaneous performance.
Den Of Confession II at Spark Art Space (curator and organizer)
Show of painting, video, photography, sculpture, drawing, sound art, and performance; all different work than Buffalo show.
Ken Raume (Toronto), Vox Humana (Buffalo), HRT (Syracuse): Westcott Community Center
Indie-folk musicians and free-jazz trio performance.
A Night of Avant-Garde Sound/Image at DIA festival, Spark Art Space (curator and organizer)
Music Now Trio (NYC, free-jazz), Wago Kreider (Philadelphia, video performance), and experimental 16mm films.
Den Of Confession at Access Gallery, Buffalo (curator and organizer, 2004)
Show of painting, video, photography, sound art, and music performance from Buffalo and Syracuse.
Bibliography
2010
Tebo, Ryan. “WHAT IS AN ARCHIVE, What Does It Do, and What/Who Is It Good For?” INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics Issue #2, Spring 2010 (forthcoming).
2008
Tebo, Ryan. “RAMers generation manifest,” INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics Issue #1, Fall 2008. http://www.incite-online.net/ryantebo.html.
2007
Kashmere, Brett. “Free Associating Around Whoever Fights Monsters: Semi-Random Thoughts about Improvisation, Jazz, and/or (a) Film in No Real Particular Order (Then Again, Maybe So)” OFFSCREEN :: Vol. 11, Nos. 8-9, Aug/Sept 2007. http://www.brettkashmere.com/tebo.htm