Stefani Bardin is a media maker whose work situates itself between video, film, installation and performance. She has presented her work nationally and internationally at venues including the University of Technology Sydney, UCLA Hammar Museum, The Slade School of Art, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center and Alfred University. Having spent many years on projects revolving around the writings of the German cultural critic Walter Benjamin, she is now working on a body of work on the subject of food entitled Chemical Proust: Remembrance of Things Pastiche. Great taste, less theory. She received a Finishing Funds award in 2009 from the Experimental TV Center. She is currently a Visiting Artist in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo. http://www.petrifiedunrest.net