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Kevin McGarry

Kevin McGarry came to Rhizome after graduating New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. At NYU he studied Film/Video production and Art History and interned with Electronic Arts Intermix, New York Underground Film Festival, and the Ocularis microcinema in Brooklyn. Digital literacy, along with an early onset love for role-playing, cartography, and atypical communities, are significant factors in Kevin's interest in new media.

He has taught video to students in New York and his native New Hampshire and participates in making his own work and collaborations on Sundays.

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"Kevin McGarry." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/kevin-mcgarry.

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Kevin McGarry joined Rhizome after graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts; at NYU he studied Film/Video production and Art History and held internships with Electronic Arts Intermix, the New York Underground Film Festival, and the Ocularis microcinema in Brooklyn. His interest in new media is linked to digital literacy and a stated affinity for role-playing, cartography, and atypical communities; he has taught video in New York and New Hampshire and produces his own work and collaborations on Sundays.

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