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Lea Rokow

As founding director of Gigantic ArtSpace, Lea is active in all aspects of curating, publishing and programming. She works exhaustively in film, video and interactive multimedia, and for the last decade has lived and traveled extensively in over 50 developing countries, shooting film and still photography. From this material she has produced a number of ethnographic projects which have been shown internationally.

Lea was previously director of Harmonic Ranch, a new media studio in TriBeCa, and director of media programs at the Center for Peace and Human Security. She has taught as a professor of video at Pratt Institute in Manhattan, performed with Emergency Broadcast Network, and was a producer of new media for Simon and Schuster Interactive. Lea holds a Master's degree in film and digital media. www.learekow.com.

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Lea Rokow is founding director of Gigantic ArtSpace and is active in curating, publishing and programming; she works in film, video and interactive multimedia and spent the last decade living and traveling in over 50 developing countries shooting film and still photography, from which she produced ethnographic projects shown internationally. She was previously director of Harmonic Ranch, a new media studio in TriBeCa, and director of media programs at the Center for Peace and Human Security; she has taught video at Pratt Institute in Manhattan, performed with Emergency Broadcast Network, and produced new media for Simon and Schuster Interactive. She holds a Master's degree in film and digital media; www.learekow.com.

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