Courtlin Byrd is a filmmaker and media artist. Her work has been shown at New Filmmakers New York, Public Works Administration, and The Film and Video Poetry Symposium, and has been published in Moving Image Artists, OEI, and Venti. She is a co-founder of Ecopoetics Workshop.
Her films and videos utilize found footage, word play, and associative editing to consider themes of cultural consumption, existentialism, and desire.
Her recent interactive works have ecological issues at the forefront and include visual programming and sonic responses to European bird song and Alaskan brown bear movement.
Originally from East Tennessee, she attended Vanderbilt University, USC School of Cinematic Arts, and is a Media Study PhD candidate at the University at Buffalo. She currently works as an Associate Media Producer at The Frick Collection and resides in Ridgewood, Queens.
contact: courtlin.byrd@gmail.com home