Diane Teramana is an active presence behind the video camera. She is both outside the visual image, sequestered as director of the framed space, and inside the total product as one of the necessary voices in dialogue . . . What appears to be a neglect of the body's expression in the highly mechanized activity of contemporary video art is not found in Teramana's work . . . She seems concerned with the physical, and in this unlikely medium she has accomplished an unlikely task - the human being uses, rather than is submerged by the computer, hence celebrating humanity. NEW ART EXAMINER One of the most complex videos, showcasing special effects and editing, is Diane Teramana's sophisticated Bare Canvas, Blank Mind. Teramana segues between black and white and color, through photos, home movies and altered video shots to present another image of family and home . . . (It) is poetic and evocative, yet speaks even more in the fragmented imagistic language of dreams. With its varied soundtrack and haunting yet evasive meaning, Teramana's work reveals an accomplished artist with an established working knowledge of the medium. ACE MAGAZINE As a Video Artist, Diane Teramana has received numerous Fellowships, Grants and Awards for her work, most notable, a major media fellowship, a ten thousand dollar award for her work in video in 1999. In 1993, she presented her video work in a one-woman show at The Knitting Factory, NYC (curator, Stephen Vitiello), and in 1995, she screened her work and was a panelist for the show, Internal Clatter: Women's Video Art in the Seventies, at the Contemporary Arts Center. She has had numerous other one-woman shows including C.A.G.E. Gallery, the Cincinnati Film Society, the 1989 Athens International Film & Video Festival where she also served as juror, the Dayton Visual Art Center, and Prince Ubu Gallery (Columbus). Her work was selected for a group show by John Hanhardt, then film & video curator at the Whitney Museum, (currently at the Guggenheim). She has completed six residencies at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York. Her decision to create her first performance work was inspired by her collaboration with Performance Artists Pauline Oliveros (Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 1988), and Kiken Chin (C.A.G.E. Gallery, Cincinnati, 1989). She received grants from the Cincinnati Arts Allocation and the Ohio Arts Council for her 1992 performance, Mickey Dipped in the Black Stream featuring Poet/Dancer Michele Morgan. In a review of the performance Jud Yalkut states: "Teramana's search for a collective catharsis through the multi-media juxtaposition of audio, video, poetry and dance has reached a new apotheosis with this collaborative work. It is an effective integration of the video medium in both its composed and spontaneous forms." (Dialogue, October, 1992) Subsequent performances include: The Cleveland Performance Art Festival; C.A.G.E. Gallery; Base Art Gallery, Cincinnati; N.A.I.V.E.'s Karnivale Arts Festival, Columbus. She affirms: "my work is the most and least significant thing about me." GRANTS/RECOGNITION RETROSPECTIVE. VideoVanitas, program of videoworks, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, '01 MAJOR FELLOWSHIP Individual Artists' Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, '99 JUROR Acme Gallery Selection Committee, '97 FELLOWSHIP Individual Artists' Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, FY96 RESIDENCIES Experimental Television Center ('96, '95, '90, '89, '88, '87) PANELIST/PRESENTER Internal Clatter, Women's Video Art in the 70's, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, '95 GUEST PRESENTER Aronoff Center for the Arts. Opening Celebration, '95 CURATOR/DIRECTOR First Annual Fringe Film & Video Festival, Sponsored by the Cincinnati Film Society, '94 SELECTION COMMITTEE Louis Rockwood Memorial Grant, a funding source for selected film & video students, University of Cincinnati, ('94, '93, '92, '91, '90) FEATURED ARTIST in the video cable series, Radical Eyes: "The Video Art of Diane Teramana" hosted and produced by Jud Yalkut (FINALIST 1993 Hometown USA Video Festival, TX) FELLOWSHIP Individual Artists' Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, FY92 GRANT Ohio Arts Council Interdisciplinary Project Grant, FY91 GRANT Ohio Arts Council Media Project Grant, FY91 GRANT Cincinnati Arts Allocation Project Grant, FY91 PANELIST Discovering Support Opportunities, sponsored by C.A.G.E., '91 FELLOWSHIP Individual Artists' Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, FY90 GRANT Ohio Arts Council Media Projects Grant, FY89 GUEST PRESENTER/JUROR Athens International Film & Video Festival, '89 PANELIST Chidlaw Art Salon, Cincinnati Art Museum, '89 FELLOWSHIP Individual Artists' Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, FY88 PERFORMANCES STORIES I NEVER TOLD DEANNA Cleveland Performance Art Festival, '97, and the Performance and Time Arts Series, Cincinnati, '97 BETWEEN THE FRAME 2 (featured Leni Anderson) C.A.G.E. Gallery, '94, the second performance (featured Michele Morgan & Aaron Graham) Cleveland Performance Art Festival, '94 BETWEEN THE FRAME 1 (featured Michele Morgan) Base Art Gallery, '93 MICKEY DIPPED IN THE BLACK STREAM a full-length performance/theater piece that featured Michele Morgan, three nights at the Contemporary Dance Theater, Cincinnati, '92 INSTALLATIONS R G B Wright State University, Video 2000, Dayton, '00. RGB, commissioned as part of the National Cable Conference, Omni Netherland, Cincinnati, '99 Mere Coincidence? a video installation. Acme Gallery, Columbus, '97, C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, '92 AWARDS AND SELECTED SCREENINGS PREMIER OF DOPE at Intermedia 2001, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, '01 VIDEO VANITAS a retrospective screening of my videotapes at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, '01 Film & Video Screening, Dileia Contemporary (cultural machine complex), Cincinnati, '97 MEMBER'S AWARD, Ohio Art League, Fall Juried Exhibition '96 Without Shame, A Summer Fair of the Erotic, Toronto, Ontario, '96 Avant Garde Dinner Theater, presented by N.I.A.V.E. Productions, Columbus, '96 Creative Process: Theory of Conflict and Resolution (Twenty-four Hour Retrospective); presented 24 hours of videowork produced between 1985-1995, Columbus, '96 (post) MODERN LOVE (Selected Works), Elm Street Arts, Manchester Center, VT, '95 Selected Works (one woman show), The Knitting Factory, '93 Selected Works (one woman show), Dayton Visual Arts Center, '93 Sixth Annual Women's Film & Video Festival at the WOW Cafe, NYC, '93 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, '93 20th Athens International Film & Video Festival, '93 Beyond the Soaps: Reel Images of Real Women, University of Cincinnati, '93 Morlan Gallery Video Festival, Lexington, KY, '93 Fifth Annual Women's Film & Video Festival at the WOW Cafe, '92 WINNER Experimental Narrative Video, Athens International Film & Video Festival, '91 New Angle International Video Festival, Collective for Living Cinema, NY, '91 FIRST PLACE Cincinnati Blue Chip Award for Music Video, '91 10th International Women's Film & Video Festival, Chicago, '91 Fourth Annual Women's Film and Video Festival at the WOW Cafe, '91 Best of the WOW Festival, Hallwalls, Buffalo, '91 Selected Works (one woman show), Cincinnati Film Society, '90 New Directions, New Media, Northern Indiana Arts Commission, '90 FINALIST N.F.L.C.P. Regional Awards for Art/Culture, KY, '90 9th International Women's Film & Video Festival, '90 Art and Controversy, The Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, '90 On Camera Spring, Broadcast/Public Television WQEX-TV, '90 8th International Women's Film & Video Festival, '89 Videogram: Image and Voice in Video, Evanston Art Center, IL, '89 New Angle Intenational Video Festival, Collective for Living Cinema, '89 Edinburgh Fringe Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, '89 FIRST PLACE Hometown USA, Video Festival for Video Art, '89 FINALIST NFCLP Regional Award for Music Video, '89 FINALIST Hometown USA, Video Festival for Music Video, '89 FIRST PLACE NFLCP Regional Awards for Video Art, '88 FIRST PLACE Cincinnati Blue Chip Award for Video Art, '88 FIRST PLACE Cincinnati Blue Chip Award for Music Video, '88 FIRST PLACE Cincinnati Blue Chip Award for Arts, '88 Arts '88 Arise, Contemporary Arts Center Three Rivers Arts Festival, '88 CERTIFICATE OF MERIT Oswego International Film Festival, NY '88 THIRD PLACE The Video Medium, Geoffrey Taber Gallery, Columbus, '88 SEMI-FINALIST Independent Focus, NYC, '88 FIRST PLACE NFLCP Regional Award for Music Video, '88 RED RIBBON Arts Award, The Columbus Video Festival, '87 FIRST PLACE Cincinnati Blue Chip Award for Arts, '87 FIRST PLACE Cincinnati Blue Chip Award for Documentary, '87 FIRST PLACE C.A.G.E. Makes Waves, Cincinnati Artists' Group Effort, '85 WORKS DISTRIBUTED BY: Art Metropole Facets Video