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Nick Fortunato

Nick Fortunato is a video, installation and electronic artist who strives to explore America's visual history. His work has been exhibited at Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA), Exit Art, The Kitchen (NYC), Not Still Art Festival, Princeton University, Bard College, and the Columbia County Film festival to name a few. He designed the video and still images for STREB's internationally touring shows 'Action Heroes' and 'GO!'.

He has performed video with STREB at Central Park Summerstage, Singapore Arts Festival and Teatro Municipal de Santiago (Chile) to name a few. He launched VisualLiving.com - an affordable, royalty-free stock image website that allows non-professional image-makers to distribute their work professionally. He co-founded 10 Gallon Productions with the mission to enable clients to communicate with their customers using the latest digital technologies in the most creative ways.

He was the Associate Director of Electronic Music Foundation, helping to launch that organization. He was a frequent guest performer (Live Video ((a.k.a., VJ))) with the musical group INTERFACE. He contributed several compositions to the Frog Peak / Chris Mann CD "Collaborations Project". https://10gallon.com/

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"Nick Fortunato." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/nick-fortunato.

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Nick Fortunato is a video, installation, and electronic artist whose work has been exhibited at Mass MoCA, Exit Art and The Kitchen; he designed video and still images for STREB's internationally touring shows Action Heroes and GO! and performed with STREB at Central Park Summerstage, Singapore Arts Festival and Teatro Municipal de Santiago (Chile). He launched VisualLiving.com, co-founded 10 Gallon Productions and was Associate Director of the Electronic Music Foundation. He performed live video with INTERFACE and contributed compositions to the Frog Peak / Chris Mann CD Collaborations Project.

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